{"id":1679,"date":"2009-12-11T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2009-12-11T01:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:56:34","slug":"1999-my-first-slr-was-pretty-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"1999: My First SLR was Pretty Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1680\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/june1999.jpg\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1680\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=1680\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/june1999.jpg?fit=590%2C417\" data-orig-size=\"590,417\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"june1999\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This was taken June 1999 accpording to a note i made on te back of oen of the prints I developed.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/june1999.jpg?fit=590%2C417\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/june1999.jpg?fit=590%2C417\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1680\" title=\"june1999\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/june1999.jpg?resize=590%2C417\" alt=\"This was taken June 1999 accpording to a note i made on te back of oen of the prints I developed.\" width=\"590\" height=\"417\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was taken June 1999 according to a note i made on the back of one of the prints I developed. Most of the pictures from this period were taken with a cheap plastic SLR that  fell apart a year later. But by then I had gotten hold of a Canon A-1. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1679\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portrait","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/june1999.jpg?fit=590%2C417","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1220,"url":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1220","url_meta":{"origin":1679,"position":0},"title":"A Family Wedding","date":"25 May \u201909","format":false,"excerpt":"In my time shooting seriously. i went from a really cheap film point an shoot to Canon A-1 and Canon Rebel 2000, then to SLR digital. so i missed the whole point and shoot developments. 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