revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

"Ah, yes, I remember it well."

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

My family had an old Kodak box camera. Every time they wanted to use it, they had to bring it to the film store to have the guy open it. I recently bought one online, and I had to Google how to open it. I plan to use it as part of a table lamp one of these days.

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

i'm 76, my first, a brownie bullseye 620 film. bought my trays and chemicals from Dodd's camera store in Cleveland ohio in 1957. they are still there.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

My first camera cost 98 cents at a local drug store. It was a half frame camera, so I'd get 16 pictures from an 8-exposure roll of 127. Push the shutter release down, advance the film, and then push it up. Tow pictures on one frame. Before long, the shutter lever stopped working, but by then, I was hooked on photography.

coyotecall Loc: New Mexico

I'd guess that every 80+ "wisdom keeper" would allow that 70 year olds are welcome in this club as well. The 6 decade folks will have to wait for "graduation" however. (We have to draw the line SOMEWHERE or we'll be letting 50's in too! Gotta pay more "dues" than that.)

studavis

I am new to photography compared to you I started with a Argus C3 in Libya (working for my Uncle Sam) and taking slides with 10 ASA got excited when it went all the way up to 25ASA. It's been a great run in photography.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I think that's why there's a minimum age to join.

prayingmantis

I am 65 years old and started working in the darkroom at age 12. At that time I had a Kodak Motormatic 35mm camera with a spring driven wind-up knob that advanced the film after the pic. By age 17 I was using a Yashica SLR, a Calumet 4x5 view camera and a Crown Graphic 4x5 press camera. I collect cameras of historical interest with a collection of about 45 cameras from ultra-miniature such as the Minox B to 4x5 view cameras. In the darkroom during the mid to late 1960's I was push processing Tri-X (ASA 400) to 1600 with Diafine developer. Did that primarily for live music performances without flash (Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Muddy Waters, BB King, Canned Heat, Jethro Tull etc.) My favorite BW film however was Panatomic-X which I used very infrequently because with an ASA of 32 it was too slow for most situations. I was using Vivitar strobes when I was 14 and used to do the calculations in my head to determine the f-stop using the guide number for the film I was using and dividing the distance into the guide number. Of course there was a dial on the back of the strobe to determine the f-stop but since I can multiply and divide in my head I didn't use the dial. I shot film through 2004, now just digital. I have been toying with the idea about shooting Omni-directional panos with a Mamiya RZ67 that I own, having the transparencies scanned and then stitching them myself.

prayingmantis

I forgot to mention the crappiest film I ever used. It was a color transparency film called Dynachrome 10. It had an ASA of 10 and everything came out blue. Flesh tones were very blue, even green grass and green colored Midwestern lakes were blue. I couldn't afford Kodachrome at that time and if I recall correctly the Dynachrome 10 sold for about $2.50 and that price included the film and a mailer for the processing!! That was in 1964.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Never had a Brownie, but grew up with ansco. Started my darkroom with a Spotmatic. Used panX souped in Diafine pushed 4 stops. Move twice since then but I still miss the smell of the chemicals and the peace of my darkroom, where no one inrerrupted me for hours.

cbtsam Loc: Monkton, MD

Sure: my first camera was a Brownie Hawkeye. For my first roll of film in the darkroom, I developed the protective paper backing and left the film itself on the darkroom (i.e., closet under the basement steps) floor! :oops:

MacMom Loc: San Francisco southern peninsula

At 88 I too remember. My father gave me a camera when I was about 10. I've no idea what cameras I had. It was taking the pictures that I loved.

I am reminded it was a box camera as it looked up at subjects. Here is one of my first pictures.

MacMom Loc: San Francisco southern peninsula

I am 88. My father gave me my first camera when I was about 10. I've no recollection of the kinds of cameras I had back then. It was taking the pictures that I loved. Seeing people from one's waist certainly reminds me that it was a box camera.

My cousin

MacMom Loc: San Francisco southern peninsula

My apologies for this unintended duplication.

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

Oh yes. We were poor when I was young, but my mother had an old Kodak Autograph (Folding camera with a slot where you could write on the neg.) It made postcard size images on A-116 roll film. It was pre-depression camera that they hung onto through the bankruptcy.) But I also had box cameras that used 620 film.