Here’s something I’ve spoken about before: The value in using old camera equipment to learn various photographic ideas and techniques. I do think there are merits to experimenting with old equipment even if you don’t plan to use this kind of thing on a regular basis. That’s because there really is a lot to learn. There’s nothing like going out into the world with nothing more than a film SLR and a roll of 36 exposures just so that you can learn things like patience, and to really think and compose before you use one of those precious exposures...

This thought of mine is kind of a complex one, but as we go along, you’ll start to see what I mean. The first thing I want to express is that we are all human. As humans, innovation is a kind of our thing—it’s what we do. We’ve been innovating since the beginning, and that desire for innovation is responsible for almost every aspect of human life today—including the invention of cameras and all the rest of the photographic equipment that we use...