The Brick

I just made the move from New Mexico to Arkansas, and right before I left I went to a bunch of the antique stores that I'd known of but never gone in. Among the things I purchased was this impressively heavy old camera in kind of bad condition:

Originally I got it so I could work on restoration and maybe get it to work (assuming it doesn't, I haven't tried yet). After a quick Google search I discovered that it is an Argus C2, produced from 1938-1942 and referred to as "The Brick". My grandfather, as it turns out, took my mom's prom photos with one of these and greeted it like an old friend.

Also, I am (in theory) receiving a new camera as a graduation present from my parents. I've narrowed it down to the Canon Eos Rebel series, and within that to either the T2i or T3i.

The Canon Eos T3 with a lens on it.

I have a Canon Powershot that works okay for what I want- the photos of the Brick were taken with it, but the little camera cannot do what I want it to do to the extent that I want it to do it. I generally have to go into photo editing software to get the images to come out the way I want them to, whereas if I had a camera capable of just taking the photos right it would save time and editing.

We will see how this works out. A storm arrived that's progressively getting nastier so I'm going to cut this blog short. I'll be back later but blogs will remain erratic for probably another week as I finish unpacking.