What did your grandfather take pictures with?
Aug 25, 2012 01:11:15 #
So my dad passed away this winter :(. He took a lot of photos. So I have been cleaning out my his slides. I bet I gone through tens of thousands of slides! I have filled up three large garbage cans with discarded slides. I'm saving some, mostly pictures of our family. Any ways, I came across this picture of my grandfather and my sister. He had a camera and was shooting their reflection off a mirror. I took a closer look at the camera he was using and it was a ...
Nikon! Gramps was part of The Nikon Nation just as I am today!
Nikon! Gramps was part of The Nikon Nation just as I am today!
Aug 25, 2012 01:12:45 #
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Aug 25, 2012 01:31:18 #
FilmFanatic
Loc: Waikato, New Zealand
I don't think my grandfather was allowed a camera in Nazi occupied Denmark. After the war I think he was too busy blowing sh*t up (demolition contractor) to take photos. Grandma had a 110 Hanimex that I remember in the 70s. One of those long skinny ones that took awful photos
Aug 25, 2012 13:02:07 #
NiceShot wrote:
So my dad passed away this winter :(. He took a l... (show quote)
None of my Grandparents could afford cameras.
It's a shame because I'd love to have some old photos.
Aug 25, 2012 13:24:30 #
My grandfather? I have no idea if he even used a camera.
But I think my parents probably used a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye like the one in the bottom right section of this article ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(camera)
It's the first camera I remember seeing as a little kid.
But I think my parents probably used a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye like the one in the bottom right section of this article ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(camera)
It's the first camera I remember seeing as a little kid.
Aug 25, 2012 13:30:56 #
My mother just died a few months ago, and I'm now the keeper of all the family photos accumulated since back in the 30's and 40's. Soon I'll start scanning them into a digital format.
That task will keep me busy for a long time. But if I don't do it, nobody else will.
That task will keep me busy for a long time. But if I don't do it, nobody else will.
Aug 26, 2012 05:52:16 #
sdixon2380
Loc: Pamber Heath, UK
He used a Kodak Pocket 1A, which certainly wasn't pocket sized. It took a 116 film and i recently found a place in the US that managed to supply a film for $25 then I had to pay another $25 for postage.......then I was charged by customs a further £20 for inport duty......all for a B&W 8 exposure film. However it was great fun using it and I got results just like my Father did back in the 40s. Except I forgot to wind it on for the first 4 exposures...doh!
Aug 26, 2012 06:48:56 #
My old Latvian grandy came to Aust in 1912 & had the foresight to take pic's of, amongst other interesting things,the development of a small farm [25 acres] of Jarrah forrest. Fantastic to be able to add them to his life story/ family history.His son, my dad, also took pic's thruogh all their travels.Enhances a family history. Planning on doing mine in the near future.
OOPS! forgot to mention. He used one of those slide out with bellows cameras, I think a Kodak. There has been similar cameras posted here back a bit.
OOPS! forgot to mention. He used one of those slide out with bellows cameras, I think a Kodak. There has been similar cameras posted here back a bit.
Aug 26, 2012 07:15:37 #
Aug 26, 2012 07:25:38 #
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Loc: S.W.Florida
Grandfather did not have one,father did.It was an "Autogrphic" Kodak with an opening in the back that allowed one to write picture descriptions on the negative with a little metal pointer..Big camera with a bellows.It used a Kodak B&W film that produced a postcard size negative.I used it for a while until film was no longer available.
Aug 26, 2012 07:44:45 #
Don't but my Mom used a Brownie Box she won some how. I still have the camera.Took 110 B&w.
Aug 26, 2012 07:58:43 #
if they could afford one, whatever they had between the "civil" and " spanish american" wars.
Aug 26, 2012 08:17:35 #
Kodak Medalist. And an Exacta when it first came out. I still have the Medalist. It still looks good and works.
Aug 26, 2012 08:50:24 #
Cameras were very important in my family. There was a Minolta 16 p that my grandmother gave me once.
The only camera that I can remember my grandfather using was a Canon AE 1. I always hoped to get that one as well, but he gave it to his son and it ended up at a pawn shop eventually.
The only camera that I can remember my grandfather using was a Canon AE 1. I always hoped to get that one as well, but he gave it to his son and it ended up at a pawn shop eventually.
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