Your First Camera: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Sep 24, 2011 12:50:26 #
My first camera was a little brownie...used it for years..I called it my "white button" brownie...The "take" button was white...my Dad was fascinated with photography and had already gotten fairly heavy into it and had a repitoire of several different cameras, including one that was a box style with a flap on top that flipped up and one looked down into the camera at an upside down image...it took amazing pics...we took mostly slides with it and the slides resulting were the jumbo slides; much larger than the 35 mm...I was allowed to take it and my ever present brownie to Glorietta NM on a choir retreat my soph. yr in school and near the end of the trip, both were stolen off of the bus in Santa Fe...Sad day to have to tell my parents when I got home...never will forget...I haven't a clue what those cameras were called...could anybody happen to remember or know...? Thanks for the memories...Linda
Sep 24, 2011 12:51:06 #
I guess the young-un's just use their phones these days.......sigh :(
Sep 24, 2011 12:51:11 #
The Brick was a great camera. It was the most complicated camera in its day.
Sep 24, 2011 12:54:24 #
mortonfarm wrote:
Between both of yall...63 the 25th of this month..born in 48...
fivedawgz wrote:
Got you beat. 1947, 64 nearing 65 (ouch).
bobmielke wrote:
fivedawgz - I was born in 1949 - I'm 62.
Got you beat. 1947, 64 nearing 65 (ouch).
Between both of yall...63 the 25th of this month..born in 48...
Well, I think you look great.
Sep 24, 2011 12:56:59 #
The one with a flap or Chimney could have been a graflex it was very heavy and used 120 film.
Sep 24, 2011 13:01:00 #
turp77 wrote:
The Brick was a great camera. It was the most complicated camera in its day.
Are you refering to the Brownie as the Brick? Because I was in the 5th grade then and don't remember if it was complicated or not that was back in 1967, so I was either smart or I just don't remember and would say I don't remember!
Sep 24, 2011 13:10:42 #
Dyluck your right the Brownie wasn't very complicated but were a lot of fun. I was refering to rayford argus C3. This is a great topic so much fun reading.
Sep 24, 2011 13:22:41 #
turp77 wrote:
The one with a flap or Chimney could have been a graflex it was very heavy and used 120 film.
I don't remember it as being heavy...That name doesn't sound just right but is familiar sounding to me...Mom and I used it with the strap around our neck...Dad just free handed it cuz he was 6'4" and would have been looking down on everything...it did use a different size film from his others, but as I said we took mostly slides and he used a special kind of Kodak film for it...I think those slides were about 3.25 by 3.25... I know that I got a HP Scanjet Pro in 2001 and in about 2004 scanned over 1000 slides of family, school, and community events from the late 50's thru about 1966 when it was stolen...some really awesome slides and a veritable history book of our community in the 60's...! Linda
Sep 24, 2011 14:23:38 #
My first real camera was a sales rip off. It was a "Free" 35mm P&S that cost me hundreds of dollars for the lifetime supply of film and developing. It was 1975 at Fort Ord and it took horrible quality pictures and I stopped using the Free film and processing after a few months and bought a Kodak Instamatic 110.
Sep 24, 2011 14:33:30 #
The Polariod Land camera was my very first to try but it
belonged to Mom, it folded out and extented then locked down for manual focus with a brighter to normal to darker ring
around the lens. (pretty complicated for a 12 year old)
Later I got the close-up kit that snapped on so one could
get it down to around 12 inches? Then I could snap my
plastic models that made me proud.
belonged to Mom, it folded out and extented then locked down for manual focus with a brighter to normal to darker ring
around the lens. (pretty complicated for a 12 year old)
Later I got the close-up kit that snapped on so one could
get it down to around 12 inches? Then I could snap my
plastic models that made me proud.
Sep 24, 2011 14:39:35 #
My first camera was a kodak brownie, which i too a lot of photos from. my first 35mm was an Exacta split image camera. I thought I was in heaven with that camera, LOL
Sep 24, 2011 14:46:45 #
PhotoGeezer wrote:
I must be the oldest one here, I was born in 1946 and will be 65 this month. The first camera I used was my mother's Kodak, starting around 1955. She really retained ownership and actually the first camera I owned was a Zeiss Ikon, 35mm (still have it). I bought it and a Beseler motorized enlarger with a darkroom outfit when I was 16. $200 for the lot. The built in light meter still works. It is probably worth a little more than that today, but I doubt if I would sell it.
You are all children. I guess I just don't consider myself (or my wife - same age) old, but next to you babies, I guess I am.
Sep 24, 2011 15:06:14 #
Thanks Turp, I'm glad you cleared that up in two was, I didn't want to start calling the Brownie the Brick plus I thought it was a fairley easy camera to use as I don't even remember my Uncle even showing me how to work it. Yea this is great reading every ones expereinces and especially those that relate to me but I'm waiting for those related to my dad's camera that he had while he was in the Military.
Sep 24, 2011 15:09:43 #
Hey Poker, I gather your the same age as myself since you were in the Militatary the same time as me?
Sep 24, 2011 15:11:35 #
My first REAL camera was a Minolta 101 35mm. I got it when I was in graduate school in the 60's and almost had to put my first born into indentured servitude in order to get it. I actually got some good (relative to the times) spider and insect macros through the use of extension tubes.
I still have it by the way, but haven't used film in several years now.
I still have it by the way, but haven't used film in several years now.
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