I Dream of Cameras #25 Where have all the cameras gone?

<ul><li>The mailbag!</li> <li>It's a New Year — once again, check your batteries and exercise your cameras!</li> <li>As of October 2021, <a href='https://paulbg.com/Nikon_F_meter_batteries.htm'>Paul BG</a> is no longer making The Thingy, so how do we replace the discontinued mercury 625 battery? The 675 hearing-aid battery plus either a #9 rubber O-ring or a #10 split lock washer</li> <li>Time for more controversy: do you use the self-timer?</li> <li>Jeff's Electro Spotmatic meter has failed, and when a camera isn’t working, he cannot have it in the house</li> <li>Our thrift-store odyssey: Where are all the film cameras? They’ve been camer-raptured!</li> <li>Where to sell stuff, other than eBay? OfferUp, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, ShopGoodwill, Etsy...</li> <li>Jeff’s hunt for an XPan / Fujifilm TX</li> <li>Are digicams the new film? (see <a href='https://casualphotophile.com/2022/01/04/digicams-are-the-new-film/'>this Casual Photophile article</a>)</li> <li>Books: <a href='https://www.artsy.net/artwork/pentti-sammallahti-here-far-away'>Pentti Sammallahti’s Here, Far Away</a></li> <li>Finally: Gabe’s annual report from the IDOC corporate retreat</li> </ul>