{"id":6802,"date":"2020-07-14T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2020-07-14T06:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:17:59","slug":"canon-814-autozoom-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/canon-814-autozoom-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon 814 Autozoom Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ingmar Bergman with a Canon 814 Autozoom &#8211; the camera of my youth! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whoa.!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/36976831_1802829093132861_2892399923959955456_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&amp;_nc_sid=8024bb&amp;_nc_ohc=XGBG-sxMuWcAX9mRrcA&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&amp;oh=68ec8dfd78635d8b3a60280b9e392a05&amp;oe=5F33BE9D\" alt=\"Image may contain: 1 person, camera, phone and closeup\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I put this camera on layaway for a year. Saved all my allowance money and from doing odd jobs. I only spent 29 cents all that year &#8211; for a bag of sunflower seeds &#8211; that&#8217;s how much I wanted that camera. And I got it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I loved that camera. The case it came in had a &#8220;new car&#8221; smell. I still have the camera and the case, and now, almost 45 years later, it still smells like that whenever I open it, and\u00a0it take me right back to the thrill of having such a wonderful camera and making all kinds of experimental films. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was so enraptured, that after I finally picked it up, I put its companion projector and audio recorder on layaway as well, and spent another year saving up for them. The recorder came in a brown leather carrying case, that also had that &#8220;new car&#8221; smell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was so proud and felt I could make the most wonderful movies ever committed to film. Perhaps, in my own artist&#8217;s heart, I did, though I&#8217;m likely the only audience that believed so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, I&#8217;m drawn back to the eager anticipation of the future or, as Tom Petty once sang, &#8220;The future was wide open.&#8221; Those were the days of dreams and surprises, of joyous motivation and unexpected pleasures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I shall pull out that old camera again this evening, or, as Elton John once sang, &#8220;Roy Rogers is riding tonight&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingmar Bergman with a Canon 814 Autozoom &#8211; the camera of my youth! Whoa.! I put this camera on layaway for a year. Saved all my allowance money and from doing odd jobs. I only spent 29 cents all that year &#8211; for a bag of sunflower seeds &#8211; that&#8217;s how much I wanted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-album"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-1LI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}