Hi: I'm an old-timer... seen a lot of changes
Sep 17, 2017 09:31:37 #
ChackbayGuy
Loc: South Louisiana
SquantoWV -- Ever since reading your story (inspiring to me at my age and background), I've been re-visiting my film days in my mind. Just bought a D7500 and Sigma FX 100-400 to use as ground to air at air shows (light enough to tote around all day even for me) to complement my D750 with a the 24-120, 70-200 and 105 macro lenses.
NOW, you have me thinking seriously about sending my Mom's F2 back for refurbish (still have two lenses with it) and getting back into film. My wife is already upset with the latest purchase, but at least now, if I start back into film, I can "Blame it" on YOU! LOL.
Know any places that work on cameras as old as us? Have fun and keep on shooting.... John
NOW, you have me thinking seriously about sending my Mom's F2 back for refurbish (still have two lenses with it) and getting back into film. My wife is already upset with the latest purchase, but at least now, if I start back into film, I can "Blame it" on YOU! LOL.
Know any places that work on cameras as old as us? Have fun and keep on shooting.... John
Sep 17, 2017 18:28:07 #
Sep 18, 2017 22:42:37 #
Welcome! Looking forward to your posts and pictures. Happy shooting!
Sep 19, 2017 20:48:02 #
Oct 10, 2017 07:22:54 #
Oct 16, 2017 13:08:28 #
SquantoWV
Loc: Born in Iowa
Sorry for such a late reply. I really had a lot more to add to my original post, but I thought it got too long. My original post was meant to show how much cameras (photography) has changed since the 1930s. Actually I did experiment with a home-made pin-hole camera before I got the Brownie. Now the cameras seem to have many more features than one would normally use. I thought it was nice, almost indispensable, to have 5 or 6 features, but ten or fifty options is almost mind boggling. Here is a slightly larger version of my original post which will probably make the 'youngsters' laugh. But we did make nice images with those early cameras.
My father was a portrait photographer for a studio. I helped him in his home darkroom, and i developed and printed my own negatives when I was four years old (1938). I’ve seen a lot of changes over the years.
Before I went to kindergarten I was using a Kodak Brownie camera with a lens, two viewing sites (one for horizontal and one for vertical orientation), a film winding nob, and two levers (one to choose one of two f/stops, and one to choose one of two shutter speeds). The meniscus lens was permanently focused at the hyperfocal distance of the f/stop - about 8’ to infinity. There was a red-filtered hole on the side of the camera which showed which frame number was ready for exposure. I had to load the film in the camera using a very dark room or a photographic black-bag.
Since then I have had several used cameras, each of which added at least one new feature, usually added one feature at a time: focusing, range finder, choose ISO, set f/stop, set shutter speed, meter, interchangeable lens, mount filters, ...
I bought my first new camera in 1959, a Minolta SLR.
My current top camera has a 36.8 megapixel sensor,27 buttons, mic, speaker, 4 levers, 3 dials, 7/8” thick manual, ISO range 100-6400 normal extending to 25,600 with exposure compensation, 4 custom settings with combinations of 54 items, 4 file formats, 2 card slots, still and 2 video formats, ... A recent independent feature film was shot entirely with this camera.
My small-size camera has a 20 megapixel sensor, 3 video modes, and a lot of the above features, and costs less than some smartphones.
My father was a portrait photographer for a studio. I helped him in his home darkroom, and i developed and printed my own negatives when I was four years old (1938). I’ve seen a lot of changes over the years.
Before I went to kindergarten I was using a Kodak Brownie camera with a lens, two viewing sites (one for horizontal and one for vertical orientation), a film winding nob, and two levers (one to choose one of two f/stops, and one to choose one of two shutter speeds). The meniscus lens was permanently focused at the hyperfocal distance of the f/stop - about 8’ to infinity. There was a red-filtered hole on the side of the camera which showed which frame number was ready for exposure. I had to load the film in the camera using a very dark room or a photographic black-bag.
Since then I have had several used cameras, each of which added at least one new feature, usually added one feature at a time: focusing, range finder, choose ISO, set f/stop, set shutter speed, meter, interchangeable lens, mount filters, ...
I bought my first new camera in 1959, a Minolta SLR.
My current top camera has a 36.8 megapixel sensor,27 buttons, mic, speaker, 4 levers, 3 dials, 7/8” thick manual, ISO range 100-6400 normal extending to 25,600 with exposure compensation, 4 custom settings with combinations of 54 items, 4 file formats, 2 card slots, still and 2 video formats, ... A recent independent feature film was shot entirely with this camera.
My small-size camera has a 20 megapixel sensor, 3 video modes, and a lot of the above features, and costs less than some smartphones.
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