Does Brownie ring a bell? First camera I ever really notice was one of those old Argus's. Then about my jr year in high school I got to see a Rollx twin lens. Took quite a while to warn up to digital but cost of film and developing finally got to me. i still keep a few film cameras but don't shoot them a whole lot. I play with them. Really neat watching the way the shutter up works on my BR by taking off the back and working it!
Those at the newspaper when I got there told me about their days with the Speed Graphic camera, where you covered a sport event (eg. rugby) with 6 plates, meaning 12 frames or photos. Manual exposure, manual ASA (ISO) setting, manual focus, aim through a wire frame, not viewfinder... There you learn who is good, who not, by the amount of usable shots that came back.
What'd you use Dennis, charcoal and a piece of slate?
I started with film, still shoot film... I don't remember Brownies but have some; don't remember Speed Graphics first hand either but drool over them in the display cases at the camera swap.
icepics wrote: What'd you use Dennis, charcoal and a piece of slate?
I started with film, still shoot film... I don't remember Brownies but have some; don't remember Speed Graphics first hand either but drool over them in the display cases at the camera swap.
No a stone box with a bird in it with a chisel, and hammer.
Yeah I miss my Speed, that was my first MF camera. I got it at a garage sale for $40. It even had the flash for it, it was near the last day that they were selling, and they wanted more but all I had was the $40 so the lady sold it to me. Her father was a newspaper photog during the 50s& 60s. I sold it for $150 a while later.
My first camera was an Instamatic, it took 126 film cartridges. I bought a Nikon 8008s w/AF 50mm 1.8 in the summer of 1991, and still have it, never bought any other lenses and only shot about 12 rolls per year, if that. The 8008s has spent most of it's life in a closet. It wasn't until I bought a Nikon D70 about a year after they came out when I really started shooting a lot and taking photography seriously. This is why I tell people that I started in the digital era...
I don'tn have a photo of it but this thread reminded me I still have a Brownie Startflex. Still in the factory box with the flash and have 5 flash bulbs left. Wonder is they still work? It use's 127 film. I had one, don't remember the make. not much more than a box with a crummy lens, crummy view finder and shot 620 film!
think I have another old one some where. can't remember what it is or where it is. maybe one that use's flash cubes. So who remembers flash cubes?
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