What Was Your First Camera and When
Dec 6, 2011 18:02:03 #
plieber wrote:
That's a great pair of pictures. I really enjoyed the concept and execution. Thanks for posting. I think I might steal your idea.
ahanonymous wrote:
A Voightlander Vittorette DR I still have it today, see photo below. I took the photograph in the bathroom mirror when I was 13. 46 years later via Photoshop I put myself back into the mirror with the same camera.
That's a great pair of pictures. I really enjoyed the concept and execution. Thanks for posting. I think I might steal your idea.
Thanks, glad you like the concept. Now go to my website..
http://www.alanabriss.com
to see how these images were used.
Thanks again, Alan
Dec 6, 2011 18:04:58 #
A great resourse for looking up old cameras or lenses and even to see photos taken by them is pbase.com. Specifically go to [http://www.pbase.com/cameras]
Dec 6, 2011 18:34:05 #
naturalite
Loc: Up state NY
plieber wrote:
My first camera was an Argus C3. I got it in 1957 to go to a summer camp. It was great camera on which to learn. I had to estimate speed and f-stop. Still have the photos taken back then.
My first real camera, besides my Brownie P&S. Was one I found in a phone booth in San Fransisco near China town back in '71. It was an old Argus as well. Full manual. I went to the art museum and took a bunch of photos, all by guess work. And no kidding, they turned out great.
Later I traded it for a 1959 Buick to get me around town.
Dec 6, 2011 18:49:19 #
first slr 1972 minolta srt, on sale at the PX. Still have it, still shoot it, manual SLR a brick with a lens.
Dec 6, 2011 18:54:02 #
ahanonymous wrote:
quote=plieber quote=ahanonymous A Voightlander V... (show quote)
I enjoyed your website. I especially liked the B&W haze-filled industrial scene. I'm impressed that you worked along side Arnold Newman.
Dec 6, 2011 18:55:31 #
naturalite wrote:
quote=plieber My first camera was an Argus C3. I ... (show quote)
Great story. Wished I could have traded in my old Argus for a Buick.
Dec 6, 2011 19:01:09 #
My first camera was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, in 1958. I took a beginning photography class in college with it. Everyone else had 35mm cameras. My teacher was going to give me an 'F' in the class, as my pictures turned out better than the others. A friend convinced the teacher that it was indeed pictures taken with my camera. The teacher said it was very unusual that a camera like mine could have such a good lens. I still have the camera, but haven't used it for a long time. I am sure it would still work...but would have to find some 620 film.
Dec 6, 2011 19:09:53 #
It would be neat if some enterprising soul could come up with a self-contained sensor/electronics package where the sensor would be full-frame 35mm size yet fit within the film guides and be thin enough to fit underneath the film pressure plate of a 35mm film camera and the attached electronics package would be the the size and shape of a 35mm cartridge. Thus turning any old 35mm into a full frame digital.
Dec 6, 2011 19:30:54 #
I am truly ashamed to admit it, but my very first camera was the Poloroid. That is why I have very few pictures left of my youth and friends.
Dec 6, 2011 19:32:28 #
ahanonymous wrote:
A Voightlander Vittorette DR I still have it today, see photo below. I took the photograph in the bathroom mirror when I was 13. 46 years later via Photoshop I put myself back into the mirror with the same camera.
You have not changed a bit, except your glasses are different! Good job.
Dec 6, 2011 19:38:23 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
ahanonymous wrote:
A Voightlander Vittorette DR I still have it today, see photo below. I took the photograph in the bathroom mirror when I was 13. 46 years later via Photoshop I put myself back into the mirror with the same camera.
damn! you haven't changed a bit!
Dec 6, 2011 19:39:10 #
Forgot to add, my Dad, the navy man, brought me a Greek camera from when he was stationed over there. The name was BOY and I think it took 620 film. I still have it packed somewhere. The pictures too. That was in 1952-53.
Dec 7, 2011 06:10:07 #
That is great! Ya gotta love technology.
ahanonymous wrote:
A Voightlander Vittorette DR I still have it today, see photo below. I took the photograph in the bathroom mirror when I was 13. 46 years later via Photoshop I put myself back into the mirror with the same camera.
Dec 7, 2011 06:22:57 #
Dec 7, 2011 06:26:54 #
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