Giving my Nikon 35Ti some exercise

It’d been a year since I put any film through my Nikon 35Ti, so I loaded some of that expired Fujifilm Neopan 400 I’ve been shooting a lot of lately and took her out. My particular 35Ti works only in Program mode, and the dials up top don’t all work properly. (I knew that when I bought it, and the price reflected it.) But so what? Program mode will take you a long way with this camera. Honestly, if the camera’s other modes and features worked properly, I’d probably still shoot it in Program mode 99 percent of the time. I brought the 35Ti along with me pretty much everywhere I went for a few weeks. It’s small enough to do that comfortably. It’s not as small as, say, my Olympus Stylus — it doesn’t fit neatly into my back jeans pocket. But it doesn’t weigh very much dangling off my hand, so all’s well for a long day of carrying it. Everywhere I brought this camera and encountered people, such as sitting at the bar in the restaurant above, people commented. It really is an…