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Had a guy come into my shop in Cleveland back in 2005
He brought in this beat up Nikon FM2 that looked like it had been through a war. The shutter was completely stuck, mirror was locked up, and there was dust all through the viewfinder. I told him it'd be around $250 to fix and he just nodded and said he'd pay whatever it took because it was his dad's camera from the 80s. While I was working on it he told me about how his dad documented their whole family road trips with that thing. I got it running again after 2 days of cleaning and adjusting the curtain tension. When he picked it up he took a photo of me in the shop and said he'd send me a print. He actually did about 3 weeks later. Anyone else had a customer bring in something that was more about the memories than the camera itself?
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gracej9918d ago
It's funny how the stuff we keep says more about who we were than who we are now.
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the_laura18d ago
Caught a podcast about this the other day where someone was talking about how the stuff we hold onto is basically a time capsule of our past decisions. Like I still have a stack of CDs from 20 years ago that I dont even own a player for anymore, but I cant bring myself to toss them. Theyre not really about me now, theyre about who I was when I actually cared about having the full discography.
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