What Was Your First Camera and When
Dec 7, 2011 15:30:06 #
Kathy--There is a 13 p. article called "Respooling 120 film onto 620 spools for use in older cameras" that I got off the web. Looks like it is from: http://www.inficad.com/~gstewart/respool.htm
Maybe you can use your oldie again after all! I have some of those and I want to use mine too. Lucky--found the article. Let me know if this is any good for you. Good Luck
Maybe you can use your oldie again after all! I have some of those and I want to use mine too. Lucky--found the article. Let me know if this is any good for you. Good Luck
Dec 7, 2011 15:35:43 #
sorry, forgot to finish spelling-- What is sensor? I think I don't know that..........
Dec 7, 2011 15:38:18 #
RonaldLewis
Loc: Chicago, Illinois
A sensor is what the image is put on when you take a picture with a digital camera. It has taken the place of film. I can't tell you the technical jargon but that is basically what it is. I has taken the place of film. The sensor has different ISO's (ASA'S) for the sensitivity of the sensor. Instead of using different ASA'S of film you can change the sensitivity but changing your ISO on the camera such as ISO 100, 200, 400, etc.
Dec 7, 2011 15:54:48 #
plieber wrote:
My first camera was an Argus C3. I got it in 1957 to go to a summer camp. It was great camera on which to learn. I had to estimate speed and f-stop. Still have the photos taken back then.
My first camera was a Brownie Hawkeye when I was a kid. My first real camera was a Zeis Contaflex SLR in 1952. I still have the Contaflex but don't use it anymore. Now I'm having fun with my new D7000 and enjoying reading all the posts on here!
Dec 7, 2011 16:12:21 #
frasher101
Loc: Houndsfield N.Y.
Hmmm USCG (uncle sams confused group) I attended Cool Cape May Spring 1960 class of Sierra 42, Ended up at Staten Island on a Bouy Tender Arbutis, as a Fireman
Dec 7, 2011 16:12:56 #
My first SLR was a Ricoh purchased in the early seventies. Shortly thereafter I bought a Nikkormat, which I still have. I think my first camera ever was a Polaroid Swinger.
Dec 7, 2011 16:29:51 #
Thanks for the website! My photography class did include darkroom use, so I know what it's like to work in the dark!
Dec 7, 2011 16:53:35 #
Dec 7, 2011 17:38:43 #
my first camera was an ansco 110 ,film,worked at the plant in 1957,got the camera at a discount with film ..,plant switched the name to general anoline and film later,in the sixties
Dec 7, 2011 17:59:54 #
I started out with an old box camera. I can't even remember who made it. I still have some pix from it. It wasn't all that bad.That could be because some guy in Kodak"s film lab really knew his stuff. I still have an Instamatic and a few flash cubes. The Instamatic is still in the original box. My first really good camera Was a Yashicamat.
Dec 7, 2011 18:05:35 #
frasher101 wrote:
Hmmm USCG (uncle sams confused group) I attended Cool Cape May Spring 1960 class of Sierra 42, Ended up at Staten Island on a Bouy Tender Arbutis, as a Fireman
Government Island Alemeda, California, November 25.
USCG Cutter Sedge, Cordova, Alaska, and USCG Cutter Wachusett out of Seattle.
Dec 7, 2011 18:06:44 #
1eyedjack wrote:
I got a "PAX" Japaneese 35mm ,manual settings,used a light
meter to tell me what to set. Took slides in those days,
1953 in Tokyo,I should convert them to digital, some day I hope.
meter to tell me what to set. Took slides in those days,
1953 in Tokyo,I should convert them to digital, some day I hope.
I thought I was the only person in the world who had a Pax. Mine was the Pax Ruby, a 35 mm rangefinder I got in 1962 to take to Europe for a year's study in Germany. Before that I had a Brownie Hawkeye that I got for Christmas in 1953. I eventually traded the Pax in on a Pentax H1A in 1967. Here's a scan of a surviving slide from those days.
Schloss Meersburg, overlooking the Bodensee (Lake Constance) Aug 62
Dec 7, 2011 18:10:15 #
I saved boxtops in the early sixties and got a basic "brownie" camera. In high school they gave me a Speed Graphic to use and later a Yashica 2 1/4 square (120 file), and in college I purchased a Beasler(sp) Topcon which had a iris shutter and not a focal plane shutter. I always chuckle when some complains that their camera needs to do more frames a minute.... considering a Speed Graphic does one frame every minute or two. My first slr digital was a Canon XT. Nice little camera but not the same as my 5dmii. But I'll remember all of my old cameras with a fondness that I doubt I'll ever have for a digital.
Dec 7, 2011 18:11:54 #
In the late 60's I purchased a Browning Box Camera, but never used it. A few years later I started using a Kodak Pony 135 35mm. Moved to a Pentak K1000, then bought the original Canon EOS, the 650. Sealed my fate, as I am firmly bedded in the Canon camp with a serious "L" lens addiction.
Dec 7, 2011 18:35:35 #
Ricontech
Loc: Colorado
My first camera was a Brownie Hawkeye back in about 1956 and the town drugstore was the place to get the film developed and prints made. The first 35mm I owned was a Bolsey Jubilee which was very small and had a very light blonde colored leather case to protect it.
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