A recent comment made me realize we all got turned onto photography in a big way at a different point in time - when, for you?
Feb 28, 2018 03:49:02 #
Give your answer as an age, if you prefer, but, ideally - would be the year, you really got into it - in a BIG way ... that'd be most helpful ....
Feb 28, 2018 09:02:10 #
When I was 8 or 10 and got my first camera, a Hopalong Cassidy box camera, around 1950, and became the family photographer. I still have it and it still works, by the way.
Feb 28, 2018 09:19:58 #
Chris T wrote:
Give your answer as an age, if you prefer, but, ideally - would be the year, you really got into it - in a BIG way ... that'd be most helpful ....
It was around 1971 I bought a used Petri 35mm Rangefinder in a swap meet. It was just something I wanted to try. All the kool kids had nice cameras :b It actually took very sharp photos.
Feb 28, 2018 10:56:08 #
1971 for me. the year my daughter was born. got tired of pics with the 110 camera with the cube flash. (remember those)? bought a cheap Yashica and 50mm lens. gone thru a lot of equipment since.
Feb 28, 2018 11:51:37 #
jaymatt wrote:
When I was 8 or 10 and got my first camera, a Hopalong Cassidy box camera, around 1950, and became the family photographer. I still have it and it still works, by the way.
Good for you, Jay ... what does it take, though? ... 620?
Are there pics of Hopalong along the side?
Feb 28, 2018 11:53:34 #
waegwan wrote:
It was around 1971 I bought a used Petri 35mm Rangefinder in a swap meet. It was just something I wanted to try. All the kool kids had nice cameras :b It actually took very sharp photos.
What did you swap FOR the Petri, Waegwan? .... Do you remember?
Feb 28, 2018 11:57:25 #
3dees wrote:
1971 for me. the year my daughter was born. got tired of pics with the 110 camera with the cube flash. (remember those)? bought a cheap Yashica and 50mm lens. gone thru a lot of equipment since.
I do remember those 110 Instamatics with the cube flash ... but there were only eight cubes, and the rolls of film had 12 exposures ....
Belongs in the same category with hot dogs - 6 to a pack, and hot dog rolls - 8 in a package!!!!!
Feb 28, 2018 12:39:17 #
Chris T wrote:
Give your answer as an age, if you prefer, but, ideally - would be the year, you really got into it - in a BIG way ... that'd be most helpful ....
1962 (I was 17 or 18) when I took the first photograph I was happy with.
In 1971 I discovered, motorcycles, girls and sailing (in that order) so the only pics right through to 2006 were basically family stuff.
In 2006 I purchased my first DSLR and it was like comming home again (and I was now retired).
Feb 28, 2018 13:03:57 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
1962 (I was 17 or 18) when I took the first photograph I was happy with.
In 1971 I discovered, motorcycles, girls and sailing (in that order) so the only pics right through to 2006 were basically family stuff.
In 2006 I purchased my first DSLR and it was like comming home again (and I was now retired).
In 1971 I discovered, motorcycles, girls and sailing (in that order) so the only pics right through to 2006 were basically family stuff.
In 2006 I purchased my first DSLR and it was like comming home again (and I was now retired).
Was the subject a girl, Richard?
I mean - the first subject with which you were happy?
So you had a second Homecoming, then, Richard? .... upon the arrival of digital, I mean ....
Feb 28, 2018 13:07:21 #
Chris T wrote:
Good for you, Jay ... what does it take, though? ... 620?
Are there pics of Hopalong along the side?
Are there pics of Hopalong along the side?
I’ve always used 120 in it. I think that’s what it called for.
Feb 28, 2018 13:09:34 #
Chris T wrote:
Was the subject a girl, Richard?
I mean - the first subject with which you were happy?
So you had a second Homecoming, then, Richard? .... upon the arrival of digital, I mean ....
I mean - the first subject with which you were happy?
So you had a second Homecoming, then, Richard? .... upon the arrival of digital, I mean ....
Q1- No.
Q2- subject
Q3- Yes.
Feb 28, 2018 14:09:17 #
jaymatt wrote:
I’ve always used 120 in it. I think that’s what it called for.
So, then you got 12 6x6cm negs from it, or was it less (or more) Jay?
Feb 28, 2018 14:12:57 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
Q1- No.
Q2- subject
Q3- Yes.
Q2- subject
Q3- Yes.
Oh, nice, Richard ...
Was the steam loco shot in Oz, or is that in England, too?
Nice shot of the wife there, against the modern background of today's trains ... at Waterloo station, no less ....
Feb 28, 2018 14:26:21 #
Chris T wrote:
Oh, nice, Richard ...
Was the steam loco shot in Oz, or is that in England, too?
Nice shot of the wife there, against the modern background of today's trains ... at Waterloo station, no less ....
Was the steam loco shot in Oz, or is that in England, too?
Nice shot of the wife there, against the modern background of today's trains ... at Waterloo station, no less ....
It was shot in Australia, and I still like shooting trains.
Feb 28, 2018 16:00:42 #
Growing up, I had a series of point and shoot cameras, and was just a snapshooter, sending the film to the drugstore to be developed. In 1968 I was in college and decided to major in journalism. A photojournalism class was required, involving doing film development and darkroom printing. Finding out how much could be done with photography in the darkroom, along with being exposed to some of the great photographers of the past, made me want to concentrate on photography. The next year I took the best photos I had shot in the class and applied for the college photo center, which was a pool of student photographers who supplied all the campus publications. I got the job, along with the use of their equipment cabinet, which had the good stuff - Nikon Fs with motor drives, and a lot of the good Nikon lenses of the time.
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