Old new guy, new old camera.
Jun 26, 2017 03:30:57 #
Ikonta531
Loc: Minneapolis
First post, glad to find this site. I'm generally interested in photographic history, and have welcomed digital as a milestone breakthrough after spending all night inhaling fixer over thirty years ago. I believe my first photograph was made on a No. 2 Brownie box camera which I recall taking apart when I was five. My first 35mm was an Argus 21 Markfinder in the US Navy during Vietnam Era which was soaked with salt water from being caught topside during heavy seas on my Fleet Tug. I took that one apart too. Once a civilian, I found another Argus, a C-3 "brick" which someone else had taken apart. Once repaired, I took some of my first B&W images which I developed and printed, referring to those all-night pursuits of perfection, and being into computer technology, couldn't wait for digital to arrive. It took only another twenty years. Now I'm enjoying both worlds by using several models of ancient film cameras and developing the film, then scanning the results on my Epson Perfection V700. I enjoy the pure engineering excellence of my collection of Zeiss Ikon roll-film cameras, and my collection of Nikons and Leicas. The lesser-known quirks of Exactas, Voigtlanders, Rolleis, and Retinas are fun as well, and I once rebuilt several Compur shutters to get those 1/2 and 1 second slow speeds to work. Having studied the masters; Eisenstadt, Steichen, Stieglitz, Adams, Bourke-White, et al, I do have an appreciation of what to aspire to, and realize my limitations. So enough blah-blah, I'm posting a great tree on an obscure road several miles from home where my G-G Grandfather began his journey with the MN 7th. Vol. Infantry in 1862 during the U.S. - Dakota War. The small lake there was one of the first encampments, and it may have served as shade for them 155 years ago. I shot this with the first Kodak Retina model 017, a 1934 Nagel product, and it was at least ten years ago, but I was pleased with the final result.
Jun 26, 2017 04:52:26 #
Ikonta531 wrote:
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Welcome to UHH! I really am intrigued by your B&W, and I'll be anticipating your posts to come. It sounds like you have some great technical and mechanical skills.
Jun 26, 2017 06:56:33 #
Welcome to UHH. I am fairly new here too. It seems we have similar backgrounds with film and developing B&W. You found a great forum. I still love shooting film although I don't do the processing any more.
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Very interesting and excellent photo. Welcome to UHH.
Mark
Mark
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Jun 27, 2017 13:20:16 #
oregonfrank
Loc: Astoria, Oregon
Along with your other attributes you also write well. Did you major in English? Love your B/W image. Welcome from another newbie.
Jun 27, 2017 17:14:27 #
Ikonta531
Loc: Minneapolis
I actually majored in Architecture. Realizing how long that would take, and due to the pressures of the draft, lack of finances, uncertain relationships and general first year baby-boomer angst, I tried many subjects pivoting around technology / art / psychology / history but in early 1966 I pulled out of the maelstrom of multidirectionalism and joined the Navy. Four years of propulsion engineering and all over the fleet, I decided that the emerging IC electronics and computer technology would provide a more sound foundation. I went into radiologic technology and trained with a few inspired Raytheon engineers. After a few years and renewed confidence in a field I was getting to know, I co-founded a new company which grew into several markets during the time of major imaging transition from x-ray to CT to NMR (now MRI) and research into molecular imaging. After 9/11 I contracted with a small innovative start-up and landed a series of contracts with Lockheed Martin and NASA. I started a metrology and radiation shielding concern a few years later as a consultant to most of the Medical Alley concers in the upper Midwest, and now into my 70's am doing a lot of work with independent photographers (as well as major labs such as IMAX) building and refurbishing QC densitometry instrumentation. There is always something new to learn here and ways of making money doing it.
Writing is something one has to learn to communicate, and I admit I'm still learning it. Imaging is a universal language, and its importance is profound. It has the ability to both inspire and ground us. I believe some of the most influential artists in this medium have yet to be discovered, as well as the communications and media technologies that will help us to achieve our ambitions.
Writing is something one has to learn to communicate, and I admit I'm still learning it. Imaging is a universal language, and its importance is profound. It has the ability to both inspire and ground us. I believe some of the most influential artists in this medium have yet to be discovered, as well as the communications and media technologies that will help us to achieve our ambitions.
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