Do you remember
Jan 17, 2015 08:39:30 #
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
Jan 17, 2015 08:43:12 #
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
Box Cameras no, But Verichrome, and hundreds of contact prints - yes
Jan 17, 2015 08:46:05 #
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
Box Camera (Ansco), VP120, D76?, Dektol?, Edwal and FR developers, not sure the names, BTW any body deep tank sheet film under red light, did x-rays that way when the PACO went down, Bob.
Jan 17, 2015 08:57:29 #
Jan 17, 2015 09:03:22 #
I remember. I also remember my first Kodak Brownie Movie Camera. I got it as a gift but it had only a fixed lens, and I wanted the turret model with the Wide angle (2x), regular, and Telephoto (3x) Lens. So I took the camera back to the dealer and exchanged it, and $15.00, for the turret model.
Jan 17, 2015 09:22:38 #
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
Never have used a box camera, Verichrome or 116. I have used 35mm, 120 and 4x5. I've develop b&w and color film and have a full darkroom. I'll be 25 in two months. It is still a great medium to work with. I started with a Canon AE-1 at twelve.
Jan 17, 2015 11:23:39 #
I had a Kodak 127 film camera and develop kit that came together when I was 8 or 10 years old and got the bug for photography, been hooked ever sense. The bathroom was my darkroom one night a week per my mom.
Jan 17, 2015 16:00:24 #
Beowulf
Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI
Yes, had an extended family that lived in three separate "apartments" in an old RI farmhouse on a working dairy and vegetable fARM. There must have been five or six early box cameras, as well as an Agfa folder that my father brought back from service in WWII.
From those, I graduated to several bakelite models using 127 and 120 Verichrome Pan. From there to several Minoltas and Nikons.
From those, I graduated to several bakelite models using 127 and 120 Verichrome Pan. From there to several Minoltas and Nikons.
Jan 17, 2015 22:20:41 #
My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 100. My father-in-law got it for me in 1965 when I got married. I still have it (the camera and the wife). I guess it qualifies as a sort-of box camera. Later when I got seriously into photography I never got into developing my own film, and I seldom shot B&W. The few times I did I shot Tri-X.
Jan 17, 2015 23:28:48 #
My first experience with Verichrome Pan was with my first camera, a Brownie that used 127 film.
I eventually moved up to the Mamiya C330 and RB 67.
Shot a lot of different types of film but Verichrome always held a sweet spot.
I liked the way it printed better than Plus-X.
But remember it seemed to curl more and the anti-halation backing turned the developer purple.
I eventually moved up to the Mamiya C330 and RB 67.
Shot a lot of different types of film but Verichrome always held a sweet spot.
I liked the way it printed better than Plus-X.
But remember it seemed to curl more and the anti-halation backing turned the developer purple.
Jan 17, 2015 23:33:12 #
Cut my teeth on a box camera and in later years had my own small darkroom -- wish there was some way to copy all those negatives with my D80 or D700 ----
Jan 18, 2015 05:43:11 #
melismus
Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country
I'm only 86; first camera was a folding Kodak 116 with the lovely Kodak Anastigmat 152 f/7.7. Darkroom came later.
Jan 18, 2015 06:56:18 #
insman1132 wrote:
I remember. I also remember my first Kodak Brownie Movie Camera. I got it as a gift but it had only a fixed lens, and I wanted the turret model with the Wide angle (2x), regular, and Telephoto (3x) Lens. So I took the camera back to the dealer and exchanged it, and $15.00, for the turret model.
Us old timers are coming out of the woodwork on this one. Nostalgia, what wonderful memories, bathroom set up in place of real darkroom. Turret movie camera, I still have my Tower (Sears) three turret one, plus other relics from years past. 88 and counting.
Jan 18, 2015 07:52:12 #
coyotecall
Loc: New Mexico
Wonderful to hear from we 8-decaders (there's hope huh?).
127 film, drug store processing, "Brownies", b&w prints with "pinking" edges....a tremendous thrill to pick 'em up a week later. And what an evolution since then.
Yes it was wonderful to watch a pic develop in a tank right before your eyes....and then move on to 35mm and slides to project on a wall (or a good screen....I still have one) and variations on that theme with 3-D (I still have some boxed away.)
But really, nothing beats having a "darkroom" in a computer. Using Photoshop, Topaz Labs "stuff", Elements....who could have dreamed? And the quality of lenses around today....amazing! Of course the fact remains, as Eisenstadt said; "It's never the equipment, it's the eye behind the camera." as he wielded his old Leica to make history over and over. For me, I'll settle for a coyote, or one of my daughters looking straight into the lens for a soul-to-soul portrait. These are good times.
127 film, drug store processing, "Brownies", b&w prints with "pinking" edges....a tremendous thrill to pick 'em up a week later. And what an evolution since then.
Yes it was wonderful to watch a pic develop in a tank right before your eyes....and then move on to 35mm and slides to project on a wall (or a good screen....I still have one) and variations on that theme with 3-D (I still have some boxed away.)
But really, nothing beats having a "darkroom" in a computer. Using Photoshop, Topaz Labs "stuff", Elements....who could have dreamed? And the quality of lenses around today....amazing! Of course the fact remains, as Eisenstadt said; "It's never the equipment, it's the eye behind the camera." as he wielded his old Leica to make history over and over. For me, I'll settle for a coyote, or one of my daughters looking straight into the lens for a soul-to-soul portrait. These are good times.
phillsam wrote:
We old timers are coming out of the woodwork on this one. Nostalgia, what wonderful memories, bathroom set up in place of real darkroom. Turret movie camera, I still have my Tower (Sears) three turret one, plus other relics from years past. 88 and counting.
Jan 18, 2015 08:53:45 #
I am 70 years old and started out when I was 7 years old, and yes I remember all of that and in some ways miss it, but I wouldn't give up my DSLR for it.
elwynn wrote:
Does anyone remember box cameras, 116 verichrome pan film, MQ developer, tray processing, and contact prints? I'm 87 years old now and started out with the above when I was twelve. It has been a great hobby.
Me and my first camera.
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