Snow!

We're getting our first major snowstorm of the year and it's still coming down hard.

I had a nightmare about travelling with Nicole Kidman and woke up at 5am and there was actually lightning and thunder. Weird.

This is what it looked like at about 11am:





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Old cameras

In the late years of last century and the early years of this, I went though a phase where I purchased and used a lot of old cameras. Some high quality like the Super Ikonta folding cameras with amazing lenses and huge negatives. Some low quality like the plastic Diana and her clones. And a whole bunch of bakelite cameras that show the transition from box cameras to TLRs and to SLRs.

A couple of my favorites are the ones that are an evolutionary step up from box cameras towards extended lens cameras. These are fairly flat but have a single-element lens that unscrews out from the camera body to give it the right distance from the film. Here's nice one:



I bought all these cameras off of eBay and I'm going to keep a couple but get rid of the rest. They go for almost nothing on eBay but I don't want to toss them.

Any ideas?