The local camera store

Here’s another shot from the poetry reading. This time, the person is, shall we say, less than enthusiastic. Actually, I believe that this was the reader’s daughter, so she’d probably heard a number of these poems before. Either that, it just didn’t thrill her. At least she didn’t have her iPod turned on, though it is sitting close by.

As I mentioned in my lessons learned post, it would have been nice to have some 400 speed film; however, my not having it was not for lack of trying. I looked online for camera stores in the Charleston, SC area. I found only a couple. One store didn’t carry B&W film, the other, a rather large national chain, Wolf Camera, had only two rolls available. One roll of Tri-X, 24 exposures, the other of some type that needs to be developed in C-41 chemistry. Mind you I didn’t say only two ‘types’, I said only two rolls! That’s it. The clerk said that they don’t carry much B&W film (that’s an understatement) and when they do, the only people who are interested in it are photography students, so the few rolls that they do get go quickly.

I remember when there was a camera store on most every corner, expired film was cheap and easy to get, and the variety was great. However, things change and it’s hard for a brick & mortar to compete with the likes of B&H. Well, I made it through with the FP4. The festival is finished now, but I still want to do more indoor type shooting. I have 5 rolls of Ilford HP-5 on the way from B&H. There are some historic churches that I’d like to visit in downtown.