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It’s true I’ve had problems. And believe me I’m not happy about that, no more than when I had seemingly unfixable problems with cars I loved and had to get rid of. While some it has to with my own stupidity I’m not embarrassed telling readers abut what happened so perhaps it will hep with their own film related issues. Right now, I’m awaiting resolution of problems with my Seagull TLR and Hasselblad XPan, that were purchased new by me almost twenty years ago and spent the last 10 years, sitting in a camera bag.

In previous Film Friday videos I’ve danced around an issue— The Pros & Cons of Film Photography—that I do my darnedest to address in today’s vlog. While my approach references the Zen of Photography, it also features my typical not-so-serious look at four or five points, each one of which has it’s own pro or con.

The Society of Happy People founded Hunt for Happiness Week in 2001 to promote the pursuit of happiness across the country. During the third week in January, Hunt For Happiness Week encourages us to take a closer look at what we define as happiness and what it takes to achieve a satisfying level of this personal pleasure in our lives.

In addition to photography magazines and during their boom in I also wrote for several computer magazines before the Dot Com bust decimated them. Back when I was writing for ComputerUser magazine I came up with a series of “Farace’s Laws of the Computing Universe.” I figured if Murphy could have a law and Burke* (my original inspiration for the idea) there could be Farace’s Laws as well.

I only photographed Erin Valakari from October, 2017 until November, 2018, yet we literally made more than 4,000 images during that time and I had some of the most creative shoots and the most fun photographing a model in a long time.

Shooting the AV-1: If you read my recent post, my wide gave me a set of Canon AV-1 and AL-1 bodies as a Christmas gift. Because the eponymous AV-1 was Canon first Aperture Preferred auto exposure camera I decided to shoot if first and make sure everything worked the way it should. As I also mentioned in the same post, I replaced the A-1’s Winder A with an A2 model and move it onto the AV-1.