Before we get started, a quick note about sounds in this video: Two of my favorite electro-mechanical sounds are made by film cameras - the film advance sound, and the shutter release sound. Both of those sounds can be heard here several times each. They were a bit sharp and forward in the raw audio, and I reduced the volume on all of them, but if you’re using this video for sleep (vs. just chilling), it is possible that they are still sudden enough to wake you up. To be on the safe side, I invite you to listen to a couple of them first, and then proceed as you like. They first occur at 17:45.

A second note about sounds: As has been pointed out in the comments, this camera unfortunately suffers from a “shutter squeak”, which is typical of A-series cameras of this age that need to be serviced. I didn’t know this going in to the video, of course, since I was firing it up for the first time live on the video. If I ever work up the guts to try to lubricate that bit myself, I may do a follow-up video showing the way the shutter is SUPPOSED to sound. :-) But since this camera isn’t really used any more, that repair is somewhat low on the priority list.

I was never a professional photographer, or even a serious hobbyist. But for a time, we did have a “nice” 35mm SLR that was our main camera - a Canon AE-1 Program. That model was first made in 1981, although I don’t know exactly how old ours is. Until we got our first digital point-and-shoot camera, the AE-1 was our go-to. I recently found it on the top shelf in a closet, lonely and collecting dust, and I thought it might be nice to tinker with it a bit, installing a new battery and a new roll of film.

I’ve been musing lately on the saying “if these walls could talk, what stories they would tell”. It seems to me that this thought applies exceedingly well to old cameras. With their big lenses for eyes, they were witness to events large and small, historic and forgotten. The cameras remain long after the film they exposed has been developed, seen, stored and forgotten. Do you have an old camera in a closet? If it could speak, what stories would it tell?

This video includes the following triggers: soft speaking, tinkering, detailed hand movements, mechanical sounds, and metal and plastic sounds.

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