I always thought that calling the Argus C-3 the brick was an insult to
bricks...
On 8/3/2014 12:02 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
Is that the one that looks like a blue brick?
jco
On 8/3/2014 9:52 AM, George Sinos wrote:
I think a lot of us started with the Argus C-3. I wrote this about it
in 2010 <http://georgesinos.com/blog/first-camera>
It would be hard to imagine a more basic design.
gs
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On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
I just found something scarier than agreeing with Godfrey, having
him start
a reply almost word for word with what I was about to write.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
It depends on the child.
When I was 12, my mom gave me her Argus C3 (my father bought her a new
Kodak Retina IIIc). When I was 13, my grandfather loaned me his
Rolleiflex
Automat. That was at the start of High School. The following
Summer, I took
all the money I'd saved over the course of the year and my uncle
supplemented it to help me buy a Nikon F. Later that same Summer,
I'd saved
up another $100 and bought a pair of decrepit Leica II cameras at
one of the
big camera shops in Manhattan.
When I was 12, I took a photography class in summer school, and my
first
camera was an Argus C3. My bar mitzvah present three months later
was a Minolta SRT-101.
I did not find the SLR to be at all daunting. Granted
The first camera I remember using was my dad's spotty II
which he had taught me to use one afternoon right after he
bought it a few months previous to that.
Could you spend a couple hours with the girl, or girls, showing her,
or them, how to use your SLR, and showing them what they can do in
manual mode, and see how well they take to it?
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