This is Samantha. I took this photo when I was sent by the Leisure Times to photograph the gallery at Alliance Francaise in Colombo last October. He wanted to sell me his Nikon F5 along with a flash gun for ten thousand rupees. Unfortunately I didn’t have that kind of cash on me so I had to decline, but I did promise him I’d send anyone who wanted a film camera his way. Though it has been close to seven months since I met him and I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have had much trouble selling it for such a low price.
BTW, I did some checking up on the F5 on eBay and Amazon, and the cheapest I could find cost 40k with shipping to Sri Lanka. Hmm, may be I should have borrowed the 10k from a friend. But, given the cost of film, I never would have used it.
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