Posts: PhotoMan1929 | Ugly Hedgehog

phlash46 wrote:

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :) :) :)

Thumbs up for you, too.

Aug 24, 2015 12:27:40 #

Golan wrote:

It matters a lot that someone would embrace a relatively new technology and grow as it grew. You've seen more from behind a camera than most will see in a lifetime. Congratulations!

For the most part, it has been a great joy, but it has had its share of disappointments and frustrations.

Aug 24, 2015 12:23:20 #

joehel2 wrote:

Congratulations on your anniversary.😊😊😊

Thanks, great anniversary - should we make it a legal holiday?

Aug 24, 2015 12:19:44 #

lone ranger wrote:

Well thank you....

Thank you, too.

Aug 24, 2015 12:16:52 #

Treepusher wrote:

An enviable anniversary that I'm sure many of us would hope to match! Congratulations on a long life if photographic fun!

Thanks so much for your comments. Photography has never been an obsession for me, but it has been a great deterrent to boredom.

Aug 24, 2015 12:13:50 #

lone ranger wrote:

Wow thats terrific, As i too have been bitten by the photo bug long ago as well, but you have me beat in years, for me it was 62 years ago, that I received my first camera, somewhat similar to yours!.for my 8th birthday, i got a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera, which took 620 roll film.and the rest is history.....

Thanks for the comment. I remember the Hawkeye quite well. I gave several of them to children as Christmas or birthday gifts.

Aug 24, 2015 12:08:51 #

MTG44 wrote:

Congratulations! Great story.

Thank you. Have a great day.

Aug 24, 2015 12:03:03 #

jerryc41 wrote:

Congratulations! My first camera also cost ninety-eight cents, but it wasn't a Kodak, and the year was about 1955.

Thank you so much. It is nice to hear from one of UHH's premier members. Always active, always informative and helpful. Never rude or condescending. Thanks.

Aug 24, 2015 11:54:07 #

rrm_imagry wrote:

Congratulations, that is wonderful! there is hope for me to last a while yet too!

Thanks a lot. Hang in there.

Aug 24, 2015 11:50:00 #

Doddy wrote:

well done Photoman..here's to the next 20 years.

Thanks. Best wishes to you.

Aug 24, 2015 00:19:39 #

lighthouse wrote:

Thank you for the wonderful heart warming story.

Thanks for the kind comment. The memories come flooding back.

Aug 24, 2015 00:12:17 #

FairwayPhotos wrote:

Wonderful story and a lifetime passion

Thanks for the comment. Memories, memories.

Aug 23, 2015 20:25:09 #

Ol' Frank wrote:

Now that is a great story from another "old timer" in the art. I wish you many more years of continued success with your hopefully updated camera.

Thanks for your kind comments. Yes, cameras are somewhat like people - some become friends, others remain as mere acquaintances. I still keep my first, second and fourth cameras from the distant past. All are in working order, but I keep them as treasured mementos of a time long past, when all was new and exciting.

Aug 23, 2015 17:28:08 #

kavner58 wrote:

What a great story - I wish you many more years clicking these shutters :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

-AK

Many thanks for your kind comments.

Aug 23, 2015 16:29:51 #

Nikonista wrote:

Well done Sir. Long may you continue, although I suspect the photo world them was WAY different from anything from anything you may recognise now!!

Thanks for the kind comment. Yes, things were very different then. My first roll of film was Kodak Verichrome, an orthochromatic emulsion (not red sensitive). The film was rated at Weston 12, equivalent to ISO 16 today. The film cost 25 cents a roll, and 50 cents to develop and make eight little contact prints, 1 5/8 x 2 1/8 inches. The little Brownie camera had a single element meniscus lens, f/11 and a single fixed shutter speed, 1/25 second. So, it was not an action camera, it was suited only for bright sunlight.