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Konica C35 - Shooting my father's old camera

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  Something you don’t know about me is that I got my start in photography when I was a kid with a cheap plastic point-and-shoot camera, a bright red Konica POP super, and it's been somewhere around 15 years since the last time I shot film and I was feeling the itch to get back to it. So I did.   A couple of years ago my father dug out his old camera, a Konica C35, and gave it to me, as it hasn't been used in like 20 or 30 years, something like that. He got it in the 70s and brought it with him in his most exciting travels, Paris and New York, and used it to document his life time and time again.  So I bought a couple rolls of film, Kodak color plus 200, the most basic film you can get, and started shooting. Too bad it took me more than a year to shoot 24 exposures, but eventually I managed to get through the roll get it developed. Then I had to scan it because, surprisingly, it costs way too much to digitalize pictures, it was way cheaper to just buy a scanner, a basic ...