A blast from the past, or 'What a strange place the internet can be'

When I was a young man I developed a keen interest in things photographic. For younger readers I am of course referring to the heady days of manual exposure meters, f-stops and shutter speeds. All of which today's digital cameras hide so effectively from your minds. I remember saving my pocket money, earnt by doing two or three paper rounds, and buying one of these....

This is a Zenit E 35mm SLR camera, made in the USSR. The one pictured above is a posh one - the photo voltaic cells you can see on the pentaprism case are an (extremely basic) exposure meter - mine didn't have such luxury. I think I handed over the not inconsiderable (in those days) sum of £40 odd for my camera and it was a fantastic piece of kit. I don't know how many times I dropped it, left it in direct sunlight, got it wet and yet every time it came up trumps and went straight into battle again.

What has this nostalgia got to do with trading football? Absolutely nothing, or so you'd be forgiven for thinking. Yet, on casually glancing through my blogging stats I came across the following buried in the 'Search Keywords' section:

Somehow, people seeking how to correctly expose photographs using this antiquated bit of photographic equipment are ending up here reading about Scatter Guns and Correct Score trading.

To paraphrase a certain Mr Greaves, 'It's a funny old world'.