{"id":82,"date":"2006-08-19T21:40:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T03:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-12-25T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:29:34","slug":"thrifting-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Thrifting is fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Contax Zeiss Ikon Camera\" id=\"image81\" alt=\"Contax Zeiss Ikon Camera\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/contax.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>I used to thrift a lot, but over the course of the past few years I&#8217;ve sort of let my habit dwindle, only stopping once in awhile to see if I can find a decent pair of pants, a dress shirt, or a vintage tie. I usually scan the book shelves, spin through the electronics isle, and look at what&#8217;s usually a sad and discarded pile of CDs.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, I was at a local thrift store when I saw an old camera laying in a bin of stuff that still needed to be put out on the floor. At first I thought it might be another cheap clunker knockoff, but after checking it out a bit more, I realized that it was the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>So, for $3.99 I got myself a vintage 50s Zeiss Ikon Contax camera. It&#8217;s one of the most solid 35mm cameras I&#8217;ve hoisted in my hands, blowing away my already nice Canon AE-1. It has a built-in light meter and lots of other neat little features. The best part of the whole deal is that it looks like it&#8217;s barely been used at all. The shutter works like a charm at all speeds, the lens doesn&#8217;t have a single scratch on it, and it doesn&#8217;t seem to have any issues at all. As a photo major in college, I was more than a little bit giddy to run across such a nice find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to thrift a lot, but over the course of the past few years I&#8217;ve sort of let my habit dwindle, only stopping once in awhile to see if I can find a decent pair of pants, a dress shirt, or a vintage tie. I usually scan the book shelves, spin through the electronics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}