The Old Days...
There was a question not long ago about the first camera, etc... I was just a youngster, shoveling snow for neighbors, when I had enough money to purchase my first camera (I think it was 39 cents!). I then later graduated to a Kodak 126 instamatic, which I later gave to my grandmother. The next was the Kodak 110 Instamatic which was a good pocket sized camera. One of my colleagues in the mid 1970's introduced me to the Canon AT-1. The camera peaked my ambition into the realm of photography as art. I became enthralled with photography. Needless to say, over the years, with a wife and three kids, my love of photography did not suffer, but my activity in it did. I recently retired and am looking to be able to express my love of photography. On a cold, but sunny, day, I found a couple of books that inspired me in the 1970's in my love of photography--"The Joy of Photography" and "More Joy of Photography".
I was wondering how many of my fellow UHH followers were also inspired by these books from Eastman Kodak...
kodak used to publish a series of pamphlets on the various aspects (macro, flowers, portraits.etc..)
I wore mine to shreds as i tried out the suggestions but they were great.
The old days are always 'good' because we have a tendency to forget the bad.
'Hey' when I was ten I walked two miles in the snow to go to school. Reality check, I froze my butt legs and feet yet, it is the 'proof' that in the good old days' we were 'tough' and could 'hack it'. Yeah, right. We were forced to, given a choice, like kids today, we would have stayed home and pestered our parents.
Photography is the same way in so many instances it not even funny.
'Good old days' indeed...
I get inspiration from photos on flickr that I try to emulate.
oldtigger wrote:
kodak used to publish a series of pamphlets on the various aspects (macro, flowers, portraits.etc..)
I wore mine to shreds as i tried out the suggestions but they were great.
I devoured, learned much from and deeply enjoyed those same pamphlets - natural lighting, landscape photography, people photography, flowers. They were inexpensive and smartly designed by Kodak to encourage the sale of more 'little yellow boxes".
The old days were filled with failure. Black and white box cameras were just awful. I will stick with my modern DLSR thank you.
bdk
Loc: Sanibel Fl.
I have no idea what my first camera was. I do know I took 12 pictures the first day. Took the film to the drug store and the following week it was back.
I dug into my piggy bank and off to the drug store I went.
every pic I took inside was black, some of the outdoor pics were ok. Bought more film, tried again. This time all the photos taken indoors were ok and all the ones outdoors were over exposed .
tried again. This time nothing but 12 pictures all white. nothing,no image, nothing.
so much for photography, I didnt have enough allowance to keep buying film and having pix developed.
A few years later I got another camera, same problems, I was maybe 10 what did I know about film speed etc. There was no one to ask and not much info at the local library.
Then when the kids came along I tried again this time with a good nikon which I still have , a little bit of studying and I was getting great shots. The kids got older, we switched to a VHS camera, and we were in the movie business. That thing was immense , rested on your shoulder , and was quite heavy.
Im glad digital cameras came along cause I dont miss film one bit....
The breaktrough for me was getting a Kodak Pony 35mm slide camera at 13. It became easy to get good shots in beautiful Kodachrome.
Bobspez wrote:
The breaktrough for me was getting a Kodak Pony 35mm slide camera at 13. It became easy to get good shots in beautiful Kodachrome.
I had a Pony too.
The essential roll of film from an amateur camera would have a Christmas tree on each end, meaning they shot Christmas in one year, a few shots in between and shot the tree the next year. So went it for many home photographers. The revolutionary ability to acpture images for the non professional was just a miracle. And, then again, so was Kodachrome!
The irony is that most people today are more than happy to use their phones, to get pics similar to a brownie with film. I don't have any friends or relatives that use a dslr.
Photocraig wrote:
I had a Pony too.
The essential roll of film from an amateur camera would have a Christmas tree on each end, meaning they shot Christmas in one year, a few shots in between and shot the tree the next year. So went it for many home photographers. The revolutionary ability to acpture images for the non professional was just a miracle. And, then again, so was Kodachrome!
Bobspez wrote:
The irony is that most people today are more than happy to use their phones, to get pics similar to a brownie with film. I don't have any friends or relatives that use a dslr.
Pictures from cell phones are better than pics with brownie.
I took a photography class in high school (we had a wide curriculum for the mid 70's), though I did not own a camera. I retained what I learned and was gifted a Nikon FG some 10 years later. Enjoyed that camera for some 10 years or so, always mailing off my film to be developed. I remember how exciting it was when the "Clarke" envelopes arrived. Then I lost interest for the next 10 years. In 2005, after building a website for my business, a relative bought a Nikon D70 and told me "just keep shooting and shooting, and when you think you have enough photos, keep shooting". Four cameras later, I'm still shooting...
Mogul wrote:
Uphill both ways, right?
Of course...
Actually, it was, come to think of it...
Down from the house then up to the school and the reverse...
BHC
Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA
Rongnongno wrote:
Of course...
Actually, it was, come to think of it...
Down from the house then up to the school and the reverse...
Yeah, me too. It was a real bummer because I just HAD to wear loafers.
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