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I need a minute to photo dork in annoyance
i keep seeing these hamilton promo pics that are carefully labeled “photo taken with a mid-1800s camera lens”
and I’m like
the thing is the lens is like the very least interesting part of the whole historic photo rig
and why are you so careful to put it in fucking sepia tone when you took it with a fucking DSLR or whatever you used, you’d’ve mentioned if you used something cool, I know you would have
ugh okay i once paid a man with a schoolbus darkroom $100 to take a tintype of me
and he used the whole mid-1800s camera okay
not to be all photo dorky and like one-uppy but that was so fucking fascinating
the lens is like whatever, we have better lenses now but we got shitty ones too big whoop
the process is what’s fascinating
(also the mid-1800s is not when hamilton is set so like maybe i’m just being pedantic but seriously how is it relevant let alone interesting and also the costumes are like, well, stage costumes, so like, rhinestones and polyester all right, that’s fine, they’re fine costumes, but like, best at a distance)
give me tintypes, give me daguerreotypes, give me the fascinating weird artifacts the archaic processes give rise to, fucking wet plate negatives okay, toxic chemicals and time-sensitive shit and you gotta sit still for a minute and a half all right and then develop it right away
i don’t give a fuck how old your lens is, we got shitty new lenses too, get off me with your monochrome instagram filters i could not give less of a fuck
you know what’s cool, the dude with the antique camera who shoots civil war re-enactments and you can’t tell his photos from the real antiques, right, i have a friend with a photo of himself that’s like that, he told me it was his ancestor who fought in the civil war and i almost believed him until i noticed that it was definitely him down to the broken nose, i was like nice try bud– THAT is worth showing me
get off me with your nyc hipster antique camera lens okay and call me back when you can actually develop a fucking photo
i am not fooled by your fucking instagram filter
i’m not even drunk, I’m just having a hard night of it
I need a minute to photo dork in annoyance
i keep seeing these hamilton promo pics that are carefully labeled “photo taken with a mid-1800s camera lens”
and I’m like
the thing is the lens is like the very least interesting part of the whole historic photo rig
and why are you so careful to put it in fucking sepia tone when you took it with a fucking DSLR or whatever you used, you’d’ve mentioned if you used something cool, I know you would have
ugh okay i once paid a man with a schoolbus darkroom $100 to take a tintype of me
and he used the whole mid-1800s camera okay
not to be all photo dorky and like one-uppy but that was so fucking fascinating
the lens is like whatever, we have better lenses now but we got shitty ones too big whoop
the process is what’s fascinating
(also the mid-1800s is not when hamilton is set so like maybe i’m just being pedantic but seriously how is it relevant let alone interesting and also the costumes are like, well, stage costumes, so like, rhinestones and polyester all right, that’s fine, they’re fine costumes, but like, best at a distance)
give me tintypes, give me daguerreotypes, give me the fascinating weird artifacts the archaic processes give rise to, fucking wet plate negatives okay, toxic chemicals and time-sensitive shit and you gotta sit still for a minute and a half all right and then develop it right away
i don’t give a fuck how old your lens is, we got shitty new lenses too, get off me with your monochrome instagram filters i could not give less of a fuck
you know what’s cool, the dude with the antique camera who shoots civil war re-enactments and you can’t tell his photos from the real antiques, right, i have a friend with a photo of himself that’s like that, he told me it was his ancestor who fought in the civil war and i almost believed him until i noticed that it was definitely him down to the broken nose, i was like nice try bud– THAT is worth showing me
get off me with your nyc hipster antique camera lens okay and call me back when you can actually develop a fucking photo
i am not fooled by your fucking instagram filter
i’m not even drunk, I’m just having a hard night of it
