Mike’s Nikon FE | Personal Branding
For a site dedicated to my narcissism, it seems odd that there are barely any pictures of me. Here’s one of those rare treats.
Mike invited us round to watch the footie. What a shite game. He did however, pull out his ultra old, yet extremely hip SLR; note the absence of a prep ended D. A Nikon FE. He loaded up a roll of Ilford FP4 and shot away.
I guarantee you, this will be in the next Vice.
What’s great is it made me remember that I’ve got an old Nikon SLR tucked away under the bed at home. I decided to blow off the dust and see what I actually had. Turns out it’s a Nikon FA with two prime lenses. A Nikkor AIS 50mm f/1.8 and a Nikkor AIS 28mm f/2.8. Not bad. A couple of batteries later and I was up.
I decided to go out for a drunken night the other week and take some shots with the 50mm. Problem is I was shooting during the day with some HP5, so just used that. I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be a blurry mess. I should have taken Mike’s advice and used some Delta 3200, with grain the size of your FIST.
I’m also investing in some personal branding. It’s twenty ten for christ sake. The first on my to do list were some business cards. A couple of clicks at moo.com gave me some cool results.
I lie. It took ages. You can knock some up, which look near identical to mine in next to no time. I instead, decided to upload PDF’s of each side, just so I could use futura. I like futura.
Moo is such a great company—but they’re also the reason why I can’t boycott israel—like any cool kid would. They’re based in Clarkenwell, but run these super cool Israeli made HP Indigo digital offsets. I’ll talk about them more some other time.
Did anyone notice the html em dash?
Steven laughs as someone reads his inane ramblings. He accidental stops time, but no one notices.