define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":776,"date":"2006-08-23T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T01:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T13:00:00","slug":"decisions-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/776\/","title":{"rendered":"decisions, decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/45300003\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/28\/45300003_9f4dad278c_t.jpg\" width=\"94\" height=\"100\" alt=\"entry2\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m kinda stuck as to what I should do&#8230; I&#8217;ve just found out that Polaroid will discontinue the film I need for my Holgaroid, which means I need to buy up as much film as I can before the end of the year (or as stocks last). Shipping usually costs the same (if not more) when I order small amount, so it&#8217;s wiser to buy in bulk. <\/p>\n<p>Not as easy as it sounds because we&#8217;re on a tight budget, and buying 15-20 packs of film + shipping will at least cost me AUS$400 or so &#8211; money that was supposed to go towards the mortgage and a bit for a ring flash I wanted or a new lens I was thinking of getting. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/29879024\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/23\/29879024_de37f56dbd_t.jpg\" width=\"94\" height=\"100\" alt=\"the passing car\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Poor me, right? haha. I know there are bigger things to think about right now &#8211; but I&#8217;ve been planning my big &#8216;spring\/summer&#8217; photographic adventures all year because I adore Sydney when it&#8217;s hot hot hot. There&#8217;s alot of life in the city usually, but I find that spring and summer offers alot more to me. <\/p>\n<p>I was really looking forward to using the holgaroid more in the sunshine &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t have everything I want so I&#8217;ve widdled it down to <br \/>\n&#8211; Allocating <i>some<\/i> money to get some polaroid film &#038; shoot as much as I can afford while it lasts. Shoot something really special with what I can get.  <br \/>\n&#8211; Forget about Holgaroid altogether and go with a new lens\/flash at the end of the year as planned. <br \/>\n&#8211; Forget about new gear altogether and just be happy.<\/p>\n<p>It would be really sad if I never got to use it again; but then again I might be better off buying more digital gear .. <\/p>\n<p>damn you Polaroid!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kinda stuck as to what I should do&#8230; I&#8217;ve just found out that Polaroid will discontinue the film I need for my Holgaroid, which means I need to buy up as much film as I can before the end of the year (or as stocks last). Shipping usually costs the same (if not more) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}