{"id":4813,"date":"2009-10-18T23:21:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2009-10-26T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T23:09:03","slug":"she-says-im-boring-her-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/she-says-im-boring-her-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"she says I&#8217;m boring her camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00024-20091018-1318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4814 aligncenter\" title=\"pentax mx + 40mm f\/2.8 pancake\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00024-20091018-1318-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"pentax mx + 40mm f\/2.8 pancake\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00024-20091018-1318-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00024-20091018-1318.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I missed my old Pentax MX. Of <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/all-the-cameras-ive-ever-owned\/\">all of the cameras I&#8217;ve ever owned<\/a>, it was probably the one with the most charm &#8211; and I don&#8217;t mean that in the same way that former Eastern bloc cameras were &#8220;charmingly&#8221; unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>The MX doesn&#8217;t do much, but does all you need. It is <em>tiny<\/em>, but it&#8217;s a very solid chunk of metal. The shutter\/mirror makes a very civilized little <em>klipp!<\/em> when fired. All the controls are where you&#8217;d expect them. The pancake 40mm lens gives my MX a snub-nosed appearance. I used to have the bigger and heavier 50mm f\/1.4, which some lens nerds consider to be one of the finest lenses ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it has its faults. The advance lever will poke you in the eye if you change shutter speed on the fly. And, well, y&#8217;know, <em>film<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed my old Pentax MX. Of all of the cameras I&#8217;ve ever owned, it was probably the one with the most charm &#8211; and I don&#8217;t mean that in the same way that former Eastern bloc cameras were &#8220;charmingly&#8221; unreliable. The MX doesn&#8217;t do much, but does all you need. It is tiny, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,432,393],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-pentax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1fD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}