items - My First Camera
During my first year at the High School of Art & Design, they made us sample a few months of each course of study offered at the school. Despite the fact I was accepted on the basis of my sculpture portfolio (an EJ Korvettes shopping bag filled with clay heads), I had a go at technical illustration (nope), fine-art painting (nope), graphic design (nope), fashion design (double nope), and photography (Hmmmmmm...). Before long it was bye-bye clay heads, hello Tri-X.
The camera I used that year was an Agfa Isoflash-Rapid, a simple point-and-shoot camera that despite the 'Made in Germany' stamped along the bottom of the camera's f/8.2 Isinar Lens (Hoo-hah!), was as basic as plastic point-and-shoot cameras get. Introduced sometime around 1966, the Isoflash-Rapid made use of a proprietary, 35mm-based, dual-cartridge imaging system that captured 24x24 mm images while transporting the film from one canister to another. While somewhat goofy, the rational for the system was that if you accidentally opened the film door you'd only fog the exposed frame, since the previous and following frame were safely tucked away in one of the 2 canisters. Pretty slick, huh?
The Isoflash Rapid had 2 shutter speeds - 'Sunny' (1/80-second) and 'Shady/Cloudy (1/40-second) and made use of flashbulbs (AG-1 Clear bulbs for Agfapan black & white film and AG-1 Blue for Agfacolor negative and Agfachrome slide film) when shooting indoors. The small curved chrome flash reflector that popped up from the camera's top-plate also prevented singed eyebrows. An update of the camera - the Agfa Isoflash Rapid 'C' - was introduced when flashcubes were introduced to the marketplace.
And with the exception of a small battery tucked behind the camera's baseplate that triggered the flashbulb, the camera was purely mechanical.
As a photo major at 'A&D' we were taught the basics of picture-taking using 4x5" Orbit monorail cameras along with a few classic Deardorfs. It would be a full year before we were allowed to shoot assignments with 35mm cameras, and when we did I purchased a Minolta SR3, which was the poor man's SRT-101, which my friend-to-this-day Sharon Newborn owned. I soon switched to a black enamal Pentax H3V, which was a poor man's Pentax Spotmatic, which despite it's name had an averaging meter, not a spot meter.
By the time I went pro, I shot on a succession of Nikon FMs, FM2s, and F3s, a tough-as-nails camera that was produced for 26 years. My last film assignment (August, 2001) was shot using a Nikon N90, which now sits on a shelf alongside my Agfa Isoflash Rapid. Since then I've used a number of digital cameras - mostly Nikons and Canons - but every now and then I dust off these relics of my past and marvel about how far we've come in such a short time.
Tell us about your first camera.
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03/03/2010 - 15:33.
I was 12 years old and an aunt bought me a Kodak X-15 instamatic for a birthday present. That camera got me hooked on taking pictures and I used it in high school when i first developed my own pictures. That led to the Konica Auto S-2, then the Canon FTB and Canon F1. Thirty-eight years later, i'm still involved in the photographic industry.
03/03/2010 - 17:07.
It wasn't my personal camera, but my family had a Polaroid SX-70 instamatic camera when I was a little kid. It's the first camera I can remember. My sister and I were really into it. What's not love about a Polaroid instamatic? Even when that camera was put away, my sister and I would pretend we were using it by taking imaginary pictures. It was fun to mimic the sounds it made. Chhhk Zzzzzzzzzzzzz! Chhhk Zzzzzzzzzz!
03/03/2010 - 17:52.
Polaroid cameras, including the SX-70 played a minor, yet important role in the development of ever-faster and ever stealthier aircraft during the Cold War. A real chestnut of a story was related in a book called 'Skunk Works: My Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed' by Ben Rich and Leo Janus.
Since they couldn't document the aircraft on film for security reasons, the designers and engineers documented most of their work onto Polariod film, which didn't need outside processing. Well, one day an engineer came into the author's office claiming the Polaroid SX-70 he was using wasn't focusing correctly. The author, acting on a hunch, took the camera back to the hanger where the 1st B2 'Blackbird' bomber was being assembled and tried to photograph it. The camera worked perfectly fine... except when he tried to photograph the new bomber.
He returned to the engineer and told him the camera was fine. He also told him the radar-evading coatings they applied to the aircraft's outer surfaces also worked fine as it rendered the camera's Sonar-based focusing system useless when aimed at the aircraft's 'invisable' surfaces. So thanks to the SX-70, they were able to determine the stealthiness of the fabled Blackbird before it ever took to the skies.
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03/03/2010 - 17:55.
Polaroid cameras, including the SX-70 played a minor, yet important role in the development of ever-faster and ever stealthier aircraft during the Cold War. A real chestnut of a story was related in a book called 'Skunk Works: My Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed' by Ben Rich and Leo Janus.
Since they couldn't document the aircraft on film for security reasons, the designers and engineers documented most of their work onto Polariod film, which didn't need outside processing. Well, one day an engineer came into the author's office claiming the Polaroid SX-70 he was using wasn't focusing correctly. The author, acting on a hunch, took the camera back to the hanger where the 1st B2 'Blackbird' bomber was being assembled and tried to photograph it. The camera worked perfectly fine... except when he tried to photograph the new bomber.
He returned to the engineer and told him the camera was fine. He also told him the radar-evading coatings they applied to the aircraft's outer surfaces also worked fine as it rendered the camera's Sonar-based focusing system useless when aimed at the aircraft's 'invisable' surfaces. So thanks to the SX-70, they were able to determine the stealthiness of the fabled Blackbird before it ever took to the skies.
Great Story!
03/04/2010 - 10:07.
A Pentax K1000 given to me by my grandfather for a high school photography class. Really sturdy camera, but absolutely no automatic features of any kind. I still like quite a few of the photos that came from it though.
03/04/2010 - 10:09.
Nikon F-series with a 55mm 1.2 lens. And I still love it. Here are some shots I took with it just a few weeks back. I'm not shooting with a nikon d700, and wish I could use that old clunker of a 1.2, but still find myself an aperature junky, shooting almost exclusively with the 50 1.4
03/04/2010 - 10:25.
Well only being 25, and not really getting into photography until college, my first camera was a Canon Digital Rebel. I had the pleasure to shoot film in college though. I now shoot with a Nikon d300.
03/04/2010 - 10:30.
I received a Kodak Instamatic for Christmas when I was 8 years old or so. I used my Dad's Canon SLR through Jr and Sr High School until graduation when he gave me my own Canon - an AE-1 Program.
I used the AE-1 on and off until around 2002 when I sold it so I could buy my first digital camera - a Canon Powershot G2.
I used Canon P&S cameras until last year when I bought my first DSLR - a Nikon D90. The weight, feel and most especially the autofocus on the Nikon won me over.
03/04/2010 - 10:53.
As a present for my sixth birthday I was given a Polariod SX-70. It very well could be the best birthday gift I've ever received.
03/04/2010 - 11:02.
A Pentax K1000 given to me by my grandfather for a high school photography class. Really sturdy camera, but absolutely no automatic features of any kind. I still like quite a few of the photos that came from it though.
The K-1000 was/is a terrific camera. It was the bayonet-mount successor to my screw-mount Pentax H3V, and for the record, had TTL metering and an auto-aperture viewing system, which back in the day qualified the K-1000 as an 'advanced SLR' with 'automatic' features.
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03/04/2010 - 11:04.
As far back as I can remember, I think my first was a disposable when I first went to camp.
let's not discuss how the pics looked after it was developed....
03/04/2010 - 11:16.
It seems like ages ago, but at age 22, my first SLR was a Yashica FX-3. Good learning camera, except the one time the crank did not engage the film spool properly - 36 clicks later, nothing. At Universal Studios in Florida. : p
03/04/2010 - 11:27.
Nikon F-series with a 55mm 1.2 lens. And I still love it. Here are some shots I took with it just a few weeks back. I'm not shooting with a nikon d700, and wish I could use that old clunker of a 1.2, but still find myself an aperature junky, shooting almost exclusively with the 50 1.4
There's something to be said for shooting wide aperture, especially when your definition of wide aperture is f/1.2. Nikon made several shadow-piercing 50s over the years, including the Noct-Nikkor 58/1.2, which was Nikon's answer to Leica's venerable 50mm Noctilux, which depending on make and model, has been available with maximum apertures of f/1 and f/0.95 .
It's worth noting when these these extreme-aperture optics are used wide-open, the resulting images often emulate the way our eyes see on the world, which focus-wise is only at approximately a half-degree at a time.
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03/04/2010 - 11:35.
Well only being 25, and not really getting into photography until college, my first camera was a Canon Digital Rebel. I had the pleasure to shoot film in college though. I now shoot with a Nikon d300.
Just think... you belong to the last generation of picture-takers who will be able to tell their grandchildren they shot with film.
I'm wondering if Ken Burns is planning on shooting a PBS special on you guys?
Regardless, you should start writing down your memories of the days when people 'took' pictures rather than 'capture' them.
Boy, those were the days...
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03/04/2010 - 11:38.
As a present for my sixth birthday I was given a Polariod SX-70. It very well could be the best birthday gift I've ever received.
Was it the original brushed-chrome with tan leather trim SX-70 or one of the later satin black models?
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03/04/2010 - 11:44.
It seems like ages ago, but at age 22, my first SLR was a Yashica FX-3. Good learning camera, except the one time the crank did not engage the film spool properly - 36 clicks later, nothing. At Universal Studios in Florida. : p
Did you know Yashica also packaged the FX-3 with a close-up lens and a ringflash and sold these kits to dentists and orthodontists?
They sold a boat load of these kits and made a tidy profit along the way.
BTW, were you at the B&H Manhattanhenge gathering last July?
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03/04/2010 - 11:54.
As far back as I can remember, I think my first was a disposable when I first went to camp.
let's not discuss how the pics looked after it was developed....
Well, since you brought it up... how did they look and why do you choose to avoid the subject?
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03/04/2010 - 13:00.
As far back as I can remember, I think my first was a disposable when I first went to camp.
let's not discuss how the pics looked after it was developed....
Well, since you brought it up... how did they look and why do you choose to avoid the subject?
Dark, Red eye and blurry...
03/04/2010 - 13:13.
As far back as I can remember, I think my first was a disposable when I first went to camp.
let's not discuss how the pics looked after it was developed....
Well, since you brought it up... how did they look and why do you choose to avoid the subject?
Dark, Red eye and blurry...
Say no more. We understand. And please forgive us for forcing you to recall these dark, red-eyed, and blurry traumatic memories of summer camp.
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03/04/2010 - 13:46.
As a present for my sixth birthday I was given a Polariod SX-70. It very well could be the best birthday gift I've ever received.
Was it the original brushed-chrome with tan leather trim SX-70 or one of the later satin black models?
Satin black. The original was a before my time, a great looking camera.though.
03/04/2010 - 15:08.
My first camera my parents bought me while we were in Japan about 1959 was a Richo 35 mm rangefinder camera which I used many years, it was replaced with a Petri 7. I also acquired a Minolta 16 (spy camera) for those special times. The next addition was a Polaroid 80-B in the early 60's. About 1967 while I was overseas in the military I bought a Pentax Spotmatic, an outstanding 35 mm SLR. I still have three bodies and a full line of interchangable lenses. Those were used until about 2000 when I bought a Mamiya C-330 Pro S and the interchangable lenses for it. I love the large format 6 X 6, etc. After that I bought Mamiya Super Press Camera (it has shifts and tilts!). Sometime around that time I bought my first digital camera, a Sony MVC-350 (pictures on a CD). My latest camera acquisition was my Pentax K20d last summer along with two zoom lenses that cover from 18-300 mm.
I have used every camera I have bought. I usually go out on a shot with at least two cameras. Now I take the K20d and usually the Mamiya twin-lens. Sometimes you cannot beat the large 6 X 6 square format! And I still have a freezer full of black & white, color print, color transparency films for all the film cameras. I also still have my father's Kodak 35, his first camera! And I have my grandmother's old Kodak with bellows! Love 'em all, the big and the small!!!!
03/04/2010 - 21:21.
I can't remember what make my first camera was but it was one of the little 110's.
My first 35m camera was a Minolta and my first digital camera was a Fuji.
I am currently looking to buy my first D-SLR
03/05/2010 - 10:14.
My first camera was a polaroid sun 600 camera. I was 6 or 7 and the film was wayyyyyyy out of my meager allowance budget. I valued every shot and took them with care. I think I made 20 exposures in one year and that was a lot. My poodle, Michelle ma Bell was my primary model.
03/05/2010 - 11:55.
I had a little 110 that my mom bought for me at the Dollar General store. It got lost along the way, sadly. My dad was shooting professionally when I was growing up, and I would spend time at his studio after school, in the darkroom, or playing with whatever equipment he felt I wouldn't break. :)
I clearly remember being fascinated by his Hasselblad waist-level finder. Slide the silver catch to the left and it opened up, seemingly magically. For a child of six, it was a little difficult to get the thing closed back up correctly!
My first digital camera was a Canon digital Elph, bought after college. 2 megapixels and compact flash. As I got more interested in shooting, I "borrowed" my father's Pentax KX bodies and lenses (he still hasn't gotten them back), and added the first DSLR -- the *ist DL -- right after I moved to the NYC area.
I also stole Dad's Hasselblad (500C) a few years later... but I made it up to him, he now has a D50 and a few lenses thanks to Christmases and birthdays.
03/05/2010 - 12:05.
The first camera I remember was my family's Kodak box camera. They were good for cutting off heads... :) My personal camera, which came much later, was one of the ones that you had to set the "f" stop and distance manualy. I don't remembver the name.
03/08/2010 - 09:19.
I went to A&D .. and I fell in love with photography there .. I have been sitting here trying to remember the teacher's name, I think it was Santos, or something like Santos.. anyway a whole new world opened to me and I stopped trying to draw/paint exactly what I saw - mainly because I was never that good .. but I am now .. my photos are awesome, modesty aside, and my new D90 (bought at B&H) helps...
My first camera was my dad's Rolieflex (possibly misspelled) and my first photos were of the recently dug hole that became the Cross Bronx Expressway ...
03/08/2010 - 12:31.
My first camera was a polaroid sun 600 camera. I was 6 or 7 and the film was wayyyyyyy out of my meager allowance budget. I valued every shot and took them with care. I think I made 20 exposures in one year and that was a lot. My poodle, Michelle ma Bell was my primary model.
I sure hope there's a special place in heaven for poodles. Between the poofy hairdoos and poopsie names they're branded with throughout their lifetimes - and remember a year in our life drags on for 7 in theirs - I can only hope the good Lord has mercy on their souls when they part from this cruel world.
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03/08/2010 - 12:23.
The first camera I remember was my family's Kodak box camera. They were good for cutting off heads... :) My personal camera, which came much later, was one of the ones that you had to set the "f" stop and distance manualy. I don't remembver the name.
I always considered the old Kodak box cameras to better used for bludgeoning heads as opposed to cutting them off. While the corners are sharp, the sides are too flat and blunt to make a clean cut without having to resort to multiple swings.
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03/08/2010 - 12:28.
I went to A&D .. and I fell in love with photography there .. I have been sitting here trying to remember the teacher's name, I think it was Santos, or something like Santos.. anyway a whole new world opened to me and I stopped trying to draw/paint exactly what I saw - mainly because I was never that good .. but I am now .. my photos are awesome, modesty aside, and my new D90 (bought at B&H) helps...
My first camera was my dad's Rolieflex (possibly misspelled) and my first photos were of the recently dug hole that became the Cross Bronx Expressway ...
His name was Mr. Santos, and I had him too, along with Ms. Blake and Mr. Rosenfeld, who was never able to figure out who was swiping his stash of Diet Cokes from the small fridge he kept in the equipment locker. All I'll say is it wasn't me and I ain't telling who it was.
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03/08/2010 - 12:32.
I believe I was given my first camera when I was 9 years old. It was a skinny 110 - I loved those little cartridges and how easily you could change the film. My mother's 35mm scared me for just that reason - the film seemed like it was so hard to change, at least for a 9 year old. Lining up the squares in the film with the notches on the reel was too imtimidating for me. With the 110 I used to photograph everything and everyone I could get to stand still. I would line my family up against blank walls and make them pose for me - which I'm sure they loved - but they tolerated it and encouraged me. Somewhere, in a dark basement, in a decrepit box, I have horrible head shots of my entire family from about 2 feet away. I never threw anything away - so the evidence still lives - bad eighties hair and all.
03/08/2010 - 12:43.
I believe I was given my first camera when I was 9 years old. It was a skinny 110 - I loved those little cartridges and how easily you could change the film. My mother's 35mm scared me for just that reason - the film seemed like it was so hard to change, at least for a 9 year old. Lining up the squares in the film with the notches on the reel was too imtimidating for me. With the 110 I used to photograph everything and everyone I could get to stand still. I would line my family up against blank walls and make them pose for me - which I'm sure they loved - but they tolerated it and encouraged me. Somewhere, in a dark basement, in a decrepit box, I have horrible head shots of my entire family from about 2 feet away. I never threw anything away - so the evidence still lives - bad eighties hair and all.
Some day the threat of going public with those pictures might prove more valuable than you think. The only thing more frightening than 80s haircuts are 70s haircuts, which can prove priceless in terms of bargaining power. Just keep them safely tucked away because there'll come a time you might need them as leverage for settling a family squabble.
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03/09/2010 - 11:11.
My first camera was a hot pink Kodak 110 that my parents bought me when I was about 8 years old. They gave it me for my trip to Florida where I was expected to take photographs of my grandparents and the beach, but instead I came home with pictures of my stuffed animals taken in the back seat of a car.
03/09/2010 - 12:54.
My first camera was a hot pink Kodak 110 that my parents bought me when I was about 8 years old. They gave it me for my trip to Florida where I was expected to take photographs of my grandparents and the beach, but instead I came home with pictures of my stuffed animals taken in the back seat of a car.
When's the show?
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05/25/2010 - 12:07.
My first camera was a Polaroid Swinger were you had to coat the picture with a sponge wand after it came out of the camera
05/25/2010 - 12:14.
My first camera was a 35mm Voightlander my dad gave me for my 12th birthday (1963). I loved it and learned a lot since I had to use my brain to figure out the exposure settings myself. Nothing was automatic those days. I then went to the School of Visual Arts and studied photography. I bought myself a Minolta...heavy thing...and when I moved to Florida bought the Olympus OM1 and eventually the 2. Great cameras and lotsa good photos came out of them. Now I'm all digital however, I do miss the smell and feel of the chemicals in the darkroom.
05/25/2010 - 12:19.
My first 35mm was a Canon Canonet G-III QL 19. Fine little camera. Wish I still had it. Of course as a teenager wanting "better" gear, I traded it for an SLR.
05/25/2010 - 12:20.
What? No pictures of yours to show us from this little gem?
05/25/2010 - 12:34.
My first camera, Kodak Starmite. Little plastic camera that used 127 film, and had a built in flash for AG-1 bulbs. It actually took some nice photos. Next, a neighbor loaned me his Ricohflex twin lens, which took great photos, and had an interesting focusing feature, you used your thumbs on levers each side of the camera, and I found this a lot better than yashicas and rollies that I used later on. Still have it (the neighbor ended up giving it to me a few years later, he wasn't using it anymore).
First SLR, Miranda G, the shutter jammed on several occasions. Then a Nikon F2, meter problems were common. But, the camera I used most back then was the Nikkormat EL, auto exposure, and much lighter than the F2, I used it for years, and it's a bit beat up but still works.
I now use a Nikon coolpix for a small point and shoot, and a Sony a100 for a DSLR, which takes all my old minolta lenses. I also shoot wet plate using an old Ansco 8x10 field view camera, and still use my own darkroom for black and white, shooting anything from minox 9.5 mm up to 4x5 Graflex Speeds and a series B SLR (a very heavy and bulky single lens reflex that takes a 4x5 negative).
05/25/2010 - 12:41.
Pop gave me the first "real" camera -- his Kodak Retina IIIc -- when I started to get serious about shooting 35mm. Talk about sturdy! Bumped, dropped, misted, and twisted, it still works just fine.
05/25/2010 - 12:57.
My first camerawas a Miranda Sensorex. I was 12 and had the bug. I saved m\y paper route money and plunked down an outrageous $179.00 for this beauty. I used it for a couple of years and then moved up to a Nikormat Ftn. That beauty lasted me 10+ years ans then bought a Canon F-1 and was hooked on Canon forever.
05/25/2010 - 13:11.
First cameras were various Brownies (or similar to them). First "real" camera was an Exakta VXIIa when I was a high school photographer. I loaded with bulk film and could get ~40 shots on a roll. Used it for sports a lot, the film wound into an empty cassette and a film knife cut it when all the shots were used. Then you could reload with another two cassettes and away you went. Great camera. It needed some work and I left it with a shop which promptly went out of business and never did get the camera back.
Speaking of lost photos when I was a photographer in Vietnam I had several rolls of film from the trip over (went over on a troop ship) in a coffee can in a footlocker waiting to get processed. While I was out in the boonies with the infantry someone stole the whole footlocker. I have always wondered where the photos wound up.
Now days I use a Canon 30D, but still have a couple of Nikon Fs and an old Leica IIIf. But more an more I use an Olympus 6000 because its easy to carry.
05/25/2010 - 13:22.
Started with a sturdy Kodak Hawkeye Brownie, then moved up to a rangefinder 35mm. I have not seen a reference here to the old Argus C3 which may have been the best selling rangefinder 35mm camera from WW2 to the mid-60s. Mine was handed down to me in 1963 and I learned simple exposure settings and film stocks. First SLR was a Minolta in 1970 with a new-fangled electronic flash. Great for high school newspaper and yearbook uses, and an early stab at model composite work. I followed with 8 and 16mm film, open-reel portable video, compact VHS, Nikon SLRs and DSLRs, enough to open a small museum. Currently using a couple of Fujix S2s, plus a couple of small Canon wide angle pocket cams.
05/25/2010 - 13:26.
My first camera, when I was 8 or 9, I think, was a Brownie Hawkeye. ( I remember also loading the film in the little developing tank and pouring in the chemicals - very exciting!) After the Brownie, I went through a couple of instamatics and then got a Nikormat in the '70's - what a wonderful camera that was! Today I use an Olympus E-3 and Nikon D300s - both great cameras.
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05/25/2010 - 13:29.
First camera: A Brownie Bullet II. It took 127 film and we used to get free Orwo film from the Walgreens when I took the exposed film in for processing. I got that camera when I was 5 and in kindergarten. I quickly moved up to my dad's old Rolleiflex Automat that was hand-picked by Dave Eisendrath, a family friend who used to write for Modern Photography.
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05/25/2010 - 13:29.
My first camera was the Kodak instamatic around 1964. Then I got the Kodak 110. Around 1980 I purchased a Minolta SRT 201 (all manual) and I was hooked, Nerver left home without it. Purchased various lenses and filters, the purchased the Minolta XG-9, great cameras. Both cameras traveled to Hawaii with me in 1984 and got some real great shots. The SRT 201 still works, but the XG-9 doesn't.
Then I moved to the point and shoot 35mm with zoom capabilities. My first digital was a Cannon 4.0 mgpx. then a Kodak Easyshare. Last year I purchased a Nikon D5000 DSLR the day after a dinner cruise on the Hudson River. The Kodial Easyshare just didn't cut it for the great sights from the boat. I love the D5000 and take it most places I go. The only regret is that I did not take it into Times Square during Christmas time. Well there's always next Christmas.
05/25/2010 - 13:33.
First camera was one my dad handed down to me in 1975 or so: the Argus C-3 - already an antique at the time, I still have it in a box somewhere. Since it had no meter, I would rely on the info sheets which came inside the film boxes. One day in rural IL my uncles and grandpa took me to a steamshow - antique steam tractor demonstrations. I was out of film and since my dad always shot slides, I went to the small drugstore and bought the only roll of slide film they had - Ektrachrome 400! And the only info inside the box was exposure suggestions for night and other specialized situations. I just guessed, in the blazing sun (later someone taught me the f/16 rule) and most were overexposed. When I got home, even though I was only 10 years old, I wrote a letter to Kodak asking to know why they didn't include a full info sheet with that film and requesting my money back. I received a very nice reply which explained why they were doing away with the paper, and they included a softcover book with full info on every Kodak film made so this wouldn't bother me again, and a new roll of film! Now *that* was customer service! Great memories - both of the camera and film, and also how companies used to treat their customers! Thanks for the thread...
05/25/2010 - 13:49.
My first camera was a Voigtlander Bessamatic that I purchased as a teenager. I replaced it with a Minolta SRT 101 when I was returning from Vietnam. Both great cameras, but I am partial to the Bessamatic. I still have it after 47 years. I came across some slides that I took about 1965 and had 11"x14" prints made. They were fabulous. As information concerning previous posts about the B2 Bomber: The SR71 is the "Blackbird". The B2 Bomber is the "Spirit".
05/25/2010 - 14:08.
When I was around 8, I got a Kodak Instamatic 44 from my parents. The first pic I took was of the funky bright yellow box the set came in, which my mother still keeps in a family photo album. They got me a Minolta Hi-Matic AF in high school (1982) and then a Canon A-1 in college, which I used until around 1999. I still have all of them (in mint condition), but I now use a Nikon D90, which I'm in love with. Recently, I've found myself scouring ebay for older film cameras (Kodak Retinas in particular), and am obsessed with the Bell & Howell/Canon Dial 35's of the mid-60's. What a magnificent camera!
05/25/2010 - 14:09.
My first camera was a Speed-Graphic! Got 'cha all beat. My dad had a dark room in the basement, and I remember loading the sheet film in the carriers!
LONG time ago, LOL
05/25/2010 - 14:11.
Regarding the Speed-Graphic I just wrote about, I still have that camera.
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