Re: What was your first camera?
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Brownie Starflash. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What was your first camera?
Agfa Clack 1960. Later a Regula King (1970) with coupled meter. Even later - in 1981 - I gotr my first Pentax - a MX - still got a black one :-) MZ-S was my last film camera (still got one). First digtal was Sony 700 something. Later I got the *ist D, *ist DL andf a K10. I still got the K20D (lovely, capable camera - and a K-5 (sold my K-7 to a friend recently). And I have a Pentacon Six with many lenses and I recently got a Pentax 67 with 4 lenses, a Pentax ES and a LX :-) Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Apr 12, 2011 15:32 Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Apr 14, 2011, at 20:36 , Rob Studdert wrote: On 15 April 2011 13:29, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: Prints were your only option! I have Kodachrome slides shot using my Pentax 110 SLR ;-) So do I. But I'll bet you don't have the Kodak 110 Carousel projector, do you! With several trays? A baggie with a dozen rolls of Kodacolor still in the freezer. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus... http://tinyurl.com/ndmfhb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Indeed! Some day I'll do a MX GESO--pictures from several hundered years past :-) Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 6:55 AM Subject: Re: What was your first camera? The MX was a great camera. Alas, I could only really get one many years later from KEH. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: My 1st camera was Kodak instamatic at the age of 10. I took lots of pictures with it, but I was always so disappointed with them. They seldom matched the image I had visualized. This led to frustration, and I really didn't know how to learn about what I wanted to do. But the love of photographs always stayed with me, then I got my second camera--the Pentax MX when I was about 20 and took a photography class. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com To: pdml pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:32 AM Subject: What was your first camera? In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What was your first camera?
Good decision. On 4/12/2011 8:17 PM, Steve Sharpe wrote: A hand-me-down Brownie from my parents. I still have it. It still works. My second was a hand-me-down Instamatic from my parents. I think I still have it, too. After that I bought a Miranda dx-3 SLR. It was either that, or wait until my parents finished with their Kodak disc camera. -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Aaaargh - trust Bob to turn it around! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia somebody has to do it... B -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 4:59 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: What was your first camera? John Coyle ... and the second was a Pentax SV. Beautiful camera, stolen in 1975 I didn't have the balls to steal mine. I had to save up for it: a little Agfa of some sort, bought when I was 13 or 14. and replaced a few years ago with a second-hand but much-loved and well-maintained one. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What was your first camera?
The MX was a great camera. Alas, I could only really get one many years later from KEH. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: My 1st camera was Kodak instamatic at the age of 10. I took lots of pictures with it, but I was always so disappointed with them. They seldom matched the image I had visualized. This led to frustration, and I really didn't know how to learn about what I wanted to do. But the love of photographs always stayed with me, then I got my second camera--the Pentax MX when I was about 20 and took a photography class. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com To: pdml pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:32 AM Subject: What was your first camera? In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What was your first camera?
On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:55, Steven Desjardins wrote: The MX was a great camera. Alas, I could only really get one many years later from KEH. If I'd have had an MX instead of the K1000 in High School... man, that would have been a dream setup. Small, light I went to so many concerts in Germany where I had to smuggle my camera in. The MX would have been a hell of a lot easier to conceal. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 4/12/11 3:32 PM, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Mine was a KODAK pocket B-1 camera. - This is exactly what it says on its label - I have it right in front of me as I type this :-) - Toralf Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first was a Kodak 110 camera. I was a kid, and I took happy snaps of random things. Funny thing is I have more prints from that camera than I do from my K100DS. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Apr 14, 2011, at 19:34, David Parsons wrote: My first was a Kodak 110 camera. I was a kid, and I took happy snaps of random things. Funny thing is I have more prints from that camera than I do from my K100DS. Prints were your only option! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 15 April 2011 13:29, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: Prints were your only option! I have Kodachrome slides shot using my Pentax 110 SLR ;-) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Apr 14, 2011, at 22:36, Rob Studdert wrote: On 15 April 2011 13:29, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: Prints were your only option! I have Kodachrome slides shot using my Pentax 110 SLR ;-) OK.. prints were one of your two only options! Funny, I never shot slide film in the Instamatic 126 that my brother and I shared. But then I borrowed my dad's Kodak Retina III to bring to school (at 12 years old) and I'm using... Kodachrome 64? -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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John Coyle ... and the second was a Pentax SV. Beautiful camera, stolen in 1975 I didn't have the balls to steal mine. I had to save up for it: a little Agfa of some sort, bought when I was 13 or 14. and replaced a few years ago with a second-hand but much-loved and well-maintained one. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Phil Northeast wrote: Kodak Instamatic Phil Brownie. Second one was a Retina I. :-) keith -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first was a Argus 126 plastic wonder: http://junkstorecameras.com/jscimages/Argus126.jpg My first 'real' camera was a Pentax ME Super, which I still have and will never let go. -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodiversions/ Blog: http://photodiversions.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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This stupid thread might cost me money. I got curious, looked for pictures of the Duaflex on the web, and found then on eBay for $22. http://tinyurl.com/3kww67e It could sit proudly on my shelf. ;-) On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Chris Sheppard chris.sheppard...@gmail.com wrote: My first was a Argus 126 plastic wonder: http://junkstorecameras.com/jscimages/Argus126.jpg My first 'real' camera was a Pentax ME Super, which I still have and will never let go. -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodiversions/ Blog: http://photodiversions.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: In 1966, I purchased a brand new Pentax Spotmatic, and my fate was sealed. A year later I bought a black Spotty, a couple more M-42 lenses. Had not realized that it was a mental ailment yet. And here I am. Black Spotmatic with it's ƒ1.4 50mm in the drawer next to my desk. Along with the three LXen. Joseph, It's not an ailment, it's just a little peculiarity. We all have it. Regards, Bob S. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Voigtlander Bessamatic with a 50mm lens. SLR with leaf shutter. Learned a lot in a hurry. I was 15. Back to Lurking. G. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Now THAT was funny, Bob. I think I like how your brain works. : ) On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: John Coyle ... and the second was a Pentax SV. Beautiful camera, stolen in 1975 I didn't have the balls to steal mine. I had to save up for it: a little Agfa of some sort, bought when I was 13 or 14. and replaced a few years ago with a second-hand but much-loved and well-maintained one. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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When I was growing up, my dad was (and remains) an enthusiastic amateur photographer. He shot Canon FD equipment; a TLb and AE-1. He also shot weddings for a little while with a Hasselblad, but I never touched that. I took pictures with the AE-1 now and then, like when we were on vacation and he wanted a shot of himself with Mom. Mostly, though, I had a succession of random cheap 35mm fixed-focus cameras through my youth and childhood. When I started grad school in 1998, I told my dad I was interested in buying a SLR, and he gave me his TLb, with a few prime lenses. He kept the AE-1 and his Vivitar Series 1 28-90 and 70-210 zooms. My favorite lens that I got was the Vivitar Series 1 135mm f/2.3, which had a nice close focus and beautiful bokeh. A very nice flower and portrait lens. (The TLb is roughly a K1000-equivalent, with metered manual exposure.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:18, Chris Sheppard wrote: My first was a Argus 126 plastic wonder: http://junkstorecameras.com/jscimages/Argus126.jpg My first 'real' camera was a Pentax ME Super, which I still have and will never let go. LOVE the ME Super. Even though I don't shoot with it anymore, I'll just keep it in the bag in the closet... no sense in getting rid of it. Every once in a while I'll do something silly like put the 16-50 on there and look through the HUGE viewfinder. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I don't quite remember how old I was (most likely between 10 and 12), when I was given a Smena-7. It looked like this guy's: http://www.nightphoto.com/smena7.html I was happy to use my older brother's Fed-2: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/FED_2 on a few occasions (like my brother's wedding). My second camera was an SLR, Kiev-19, (with Nikon mount): http://www.ussrphoto.com/wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=79ParentID=1ContentID=278 which I purchased when I was a college student in Moscow in ~1989 or 1990. For that camera my brother and I (we both bought that camera then) had to wake up at or before 5pm, and to take the first subway train, to be at the store before its opening. That was the day when the store was expecting the delivery of these cameras (limited quantities). We managed to buy decent ones (the QC was not good, so the variation in quality was huge). I've been using Kiev-19 until I got my Pentax ZX-5n in 1997. Igor On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:18, Chris Sheppard wrote: My first was a Argus 126 plastic wonder: http://junkstorecameras.com/jscimages/Argus126.jpg My first 'real' camera was a Pentax ME Super, which I still have and will never let go. LOVE the ME Super. Even though I don't shoot with it anymore, I'll just keep it in the bag in the closet... no sense in getting rid of it. Every once in a while I'll do something silly like put the 16-50 on there and look through the HUGE viewfinder. Ha! That's exactly what I do every now and then to remind me how wonderful is the view through a good viewfinder. -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodiversions/ Blog: http://photodiversions.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Brownie Hawkeye (flash was long gone before I got it) ... a gift from my grandmother, it was her old camera. After that I had a number of Kodak cartridge film cameras in 126 110, until the first SLR I bought during my first attempt at college (1968 or so) - a Praktika, I don't remember the model. Wore the shutter out took it to the recommended repairman who closed up shop with no warning. One day he was there, and the next he was gone along with my camera. After that, I had a number of SX series Polaroid cameras until I got an A3000 some time in the mid 80s. It was Pentax's latest greatest at the time, and more importantly they had it in stock at the PX. Kept it about 3 months before trading it in on a used Super Program. And the rest is, as they say, history ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I used several cameras belonging to my parents and grandparents, but the first that was actually mine was a Minute 16 that used a tiny cassette loaded with 16mm film. My first serious camera was an Argus C-3, purchased in 1962 for $25. Next was a Honeywell Pentax H1a. Cost was $150 paid off at $10/month. -p On 4/13/2011 8:52 AM, Morris Galloway wrote: Voigtlander Bessamatic with a 50mm lens. SLR with leaf shutter. Learned a lot in a hurry. I was 15. Back to Lurking. G. -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first was a Kodak Brownie Holiday. Received it for Christmas in 1954-1955 timeframe. In 61-62 timeframe I upgraded to a Kodak Brownie Super 27. Shot a lot of Super slides with that one. '69 brought my first Pentax, H1a. Later added an SPII, then a PZ1p, a 645, *istD and most recently K20d. jm -Original Message- From: Bill Owens Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:32 AM To: pdml Subject: What was your first camera? In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Zeiss Ikonta C 521/2 :) I still love that 'pocket camera' :D .t On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 09:32 -0400, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-04-13 16:49, Peter Zalabai wrote: Zeiss Ikonta C 521/2 :) I still love that 'pocket camera' :D .t On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 09:32 -0400, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs My mom's Kodak Instamatic with 126 film. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-04-12 12:31 , they whom i call myself wrote: despite hanging around my father's darkroom when i was very young, i got a late start; the first i owned was a K1000 my stepfather gave me when i was about 15, but because i couldn't afford film he eventually gave it to someone else all the talk of Kodak Brownies dredged up an incomplete memory of a Brownie that was definitely my own, in a setting which puts it between 4 and 9 years old -- i remember the object, and using a reference i see it was a Hawkeye; i remember advancing the film and the little red window; but i do not remember taking any photos, so it's possible it was just given to me as an inert plaything -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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An awful Zenit E(T?) at age 12. I had loads of fun but I also abandoned photography for ten years after just one year with the Zenit. Good times. kris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:52 -0500, Morris Galloway morris-gallo...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Voigtlander Bessamatic with a 50mm lens. SLR with leaf shutter. Learned a lot in a hurry. I was 15. A Bessamatic at the age of 15! Did you have a fairy godmother?? In my manic collecting phase a few years ago I decided I just had to have a Bessamatic. Got one with the 2.8 50mm and the Super-Dynarex 1:4 135mm. It's certainly a beautiful piece of machinery. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ Back to Lurking. G. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:19 -0500, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: In 1966, I purchased a brand new Pentax Spotmatic, and my fate was sealed. A year later I bought a black Spotty, a couple more M-42 lenses. Had not realized that it was a mental ailment yet. And here I am. Black Spotmatic with it's ƒ1.4 50mm in the drawer next to my desk. Along with the three LXen. Joseph, It's not an ailment, it's just a little peculiarity. We all have it. Some a little more than others. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Aaaargh - trust Bob to turn it around! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 4:59 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: What was your first camera? John Coyle ... and the second was a Pentax SV. Beautiful camera, stolen in 1975 I didn't have the balls to steal mine. I had to save up for it: a little Agfa of some sort, bought when I was 13 or 14. and replaced a few years ago with a second-hand but much-loved and well-maintained one. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My 1st camera was Kodak instamatic at the age of 10. I took lots of pictures with it, but I was always so disappointed with them. They seldom matched the image I had visualized. This led to frustration, and I really didn't know how to learn about what I wanted to do. But the love of photographs always stayed with me, then I got my second camera--the Pentax MX when I was about 20 and took a photography class. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com To: pdml pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:32 AM Subject: What was your first camera? In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first camera was a Bakelite Baby Brownie on permanent loan from my Grandmother sometime before 1964. I'm not sure what happened to it, though I remember coming across it after she died, and feeling more than a little saddened. My first real camera was an Ansco Speedex 4.5 folder that my father gave me when he decided to shoot Polaroid instant photographs. I still have that camera somewhere though it needs a new bellows and the lubricant used in the focusing mechanism has turned into glue.. I bought my first Pentax in 1974, a Spotmatic It came with a SMC 55mm f1.8 with an accessory Super Takumar 150mm f4.0, both New old stock, from a local camera store.. I got quite the deal on them IIRC. On 4/12/2011 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I'm going to skip the box cameras from my childhood. They were given to me and my parents were quite generous with the cost of film and developing. The first camera that was mine, that I bought for myself, was c. 1978, a Canon G-III QL17. A wonderful camera. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 12/04/2011 7:32 AM, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Fujica ML 35. It is within arms reach of me right now. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:32 -0400, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs A Voigtlander rangefinder or viewfinder - but I can't recall the model. That one was given to me. The first one I paid for was a second hand Pentax S1a. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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2011/4/12 Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs The first camera I used was a compact camera which I can't remember the name of. My first own camera was a Canon Ixus 430 years later. When I was young I wanted an SLR camera but I never got one. Thomas P.S. I couldn't even get the Minolta 303 of my father's, because you couldn't get new batteries for the camera. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Mine was a hand me down from Dad in or around 1965 or 1966. it was a Kodak box camera, model does not come to mind. My first I own it camera was an SP500 bought new in 1971. Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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How come no one ever asks what was the second camera we owned.:-) Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Mine was a hand me down from Dad in or around 1965 or 1966. it was a Kodak box camera, model does not come to mind. My first I own it camera was an SP500 bought new in 1971. Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Okay, what was the second one you owned? Bill On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: How come no one ever asks what was the second camera we owned.:-) Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Mine was a hand me down from Dad in or around 1965 or 1966. it was a Kodak box camera, model does not come to mind. My first I own it camera was an SP500 bought new in 1971. Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Boots Beirette BL, a re-branded East German camera http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Boots_Beirette_BL I /might/ even still have it somewhere. On 12 April 2011 14:54, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: How come no one ever asks what was the second camera we owned.:-) Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Mine was a hand me down from Dad in or around 1965 or 1966. it was a Kodak box camera, model does not come to mind. My first I own it camera was an SP500 bought new in 1971. Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- Eric -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, what was the second one you owned? Bill LOL, K1000 Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: How come no one ever asks what was the second camera we owned.:-) Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Mine was a hand me down from Dad in or around 1965 or 1966. it was a Kodak box camera, model does not come to mind. My first I own it camera was an SP500 bought new in 1971. Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Apr 12, 2011, at 8:32, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs I believe mine was a Canonet rangefinder - a Christmas gift in 1979. About a half-year later, I found a wallet full of money (and no ID) during my morning paper route and after turning it into the police and having it not be claimed, I was able to buy my Pentax K-1000. I have NO idea what happened to the Canonet - wish I still had it! The K-1000 stuck with me until I upgraded to a SuperProgram in 1984. Which got stolen a year later. Then I got an ME-Super (which I liked much better) and that was my camera until I bought my ist-DS right when it was released. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Kodak Baby Brownie. Bought new in the early 40's by my parents. Probably cost all of $3.00. Took it to school (against my parent's advice) and, sure enough, it got stolen. Last I ever saw of it. Still feel the pain. :(( Jack --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com Subject: What was your first camera? To: pdml pdml@pdml.net Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6:32 AM In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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After a Brownie like yours, I bought a Polaroid. Then, in 1966, my beloved Asahi Spotmatic. Dan -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first was a folding camera, I think it was 645, but I can't recall the brand. My first 135 was a Arette 1a http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Arette -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2011/4/12 Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com: Kodak Baby Brownie. Bought new in the early 40's by my parents. Probably cost all of $3.00. Took it to school (against my parent's advice) and, sure enough, it got stolen. Last I ever saw of it. Still feel the pain. :(( Jack --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com Subject: What was your first camera? To: pdml pdml@pdml.net Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6:32 AM In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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minolta himatic f -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Join the CD PLAYER DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Brian Walters Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:46 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: What was your first camera? On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:32 -0400, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs A Voigtlander rangefinder or viewfinder - but I can't recall the model. That one was given to me. The first one I paid for was a second hand Pentax S1a. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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The first camera that my parents bought 'for me' was a Werlisa. Infinity focus and three positions: sunny, cloudy, flash. (I founs some pictures here: http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/fotografia-quimica/265873-articulo-camara-werlisa-led.html) The first camera bought by me, back in 1997, was a Cosina E1 solar, an all-manual SLR with the meter powered by solar energy (like some calculators) whose K mount led me to Pentax. (I found some pictures here: http://www.dirapon.be/cosina.html) Regards, Jaume - Mensaje original De: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com Para: pdml pdml@pdml.net Enviado: mar,12 abril, 2011 15:32 Asunto: What was your first camera? In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first one was an Instamatic like this one: http://www.nwmangum.com/Kodak/I36-1.html But the first I bought for myself was a Practica B200: http://praktica-users.com/cams/bfirst/b200.html a terrible camera which was replaced by a Pentax one year later. SV -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Collin Brendemuehl Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:37 PM To: pdml Subject: Re: What was your first camera? I'm going to skip the box cameras from my childhood. They were given to me and my parents were quite generous with the cost of film and developing. The first camera that was mine, that I bought for myself, was c. 1978, a Canon G-III QL17. A wonderful camera. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first camera was a small square box camera that took 610 film. It had three f stops and a fixed focus and shutter speed. I don't remember the brand, but I know that I bought it for $2 at Erler's Camera Store on 83rd Street and Stony Island Ave. in Chicago in 1958. I was ten years old. In April of that year, i took a picture of my sister, Sylvia, twirling in front of our house at 8222 Dorchester. I think the film was Verichrome Pan. Cash Erler, who owned the store, developed the film and made me some 4 x 4 prints. I still have some of them, including the picture of my sister. Her's a scan of it that I made a few years back: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12947312 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Lovely photo. The first pictures I remember making was of my light Labrador Peggy and my sister Cathrine in the garden. They should be somewhere in my house. -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2011/4/12 Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: My first camera was a small square box camera that took 610 film. It had three f stops and a fixed focus and shutter speed. I don't remember the brand, but I know that I bought it for $2 at Erler's Camera Store on 83rd Street and Stony Island Ave. in Chicago in 1958. I was ten years old. In April of that year, i took a picture of my sister, Sylvia, twirling in front of our house at 8222 Dorchester. I think the film was Verichrome Pan. Cash Erler, who owned the store, developed the film and made me some 4 x 4 prints. I still have some of them, including the picture of my sister. Her's a scan of it that I made a few years back: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12947312 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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A Kodak Instamatic 100, when I was 11 or 12, for $13 (new). That was a whole summer's lawn mowing income. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com Subject: What was your first camera? To: pdml pdml@pdml.net Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 9:32 AM In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first camera was purchased, on a whim, at a household auction and paid for with paper route money. I must have been 11 or so. It was a Kodak 828 Bantam exactly like this one: http://www.shuttersniped.com/2011/03/14/vintage-kodak-bantam-folding-camera-nice-828-1938-exc/ This would have been around 1970, and 828 film was still available in my hometown but only one place would order it... the downtown Rexall Drug Store. Eventually they told me they couldn't get it anymore. I wonder if it is still at the old homestead somewhere. I'd love to find it and put it on a shelf. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I had a brownie as a teenager in the 1950's - no real camera until mid 1960's first one that was mine all mine was a Ricoh.. in the mid 70's I got two KX's ann Jack Davis wrote: Kodak Baby Brownie. Bought new in the early 40's by my parents. Probably cost all of $3.00. Took it to school (against my parent's advice) and, sure enough, it got stolen. Last I ever saw of it. Still feel the pain. :(( Jack --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com Subject: What was your first camera? To: pdml pdml@pdml.net Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6:32 AM In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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First camera (and the only one my parents purchased): A Brownie 127. That was when I was around 7. Five years later I accquired a 35mm from a schoolmate (which probably involved some parental funding). This was a cheap-and-cheerful Hanimex-branded rangefinder, but it was a reasonable camera; max aperture f/2.8, four shutter speeds, and a built-in (but not coupled) meter. I believe the model was a Duomatic, but I'm not 100% certain. That (an an Olympus Pen half-frame) saw me through college. Then (with my first pay check from my first full-time job) I moved up to a Spotmatic II with the magnificent f/1.4 lens. Of course as soon as I had done this the Spotmatic-F came along (with full-aperture metering), and the seeds of enablement were sown. I resisted for a while, but in 1976 I succumbed to the temptation of an MX. I've still got that camera; the last roll of film I shot went through it (Royal Gold 25, in Yosemite). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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The first cameras I used were bought for me by my parents: a Kodak 127 format Brownie Starmite, then a Kodak 126 format Instamatic 300. After that I started acquiring my own cameras ... The first one I purchased for myself was a Minolta 16-Ps. It was cheap, small, and had just enough adjustability for me to begin the learning process (fixed focus, two shutter speeds, a range of apertures and suggestions of which aperture to use at what film speed ...). About that time, I entered high school and became adept at borrowing cameras: my grandfather's 1949 Rolleiflex and 1953 Linhof Technika 23, my mother's Argus C3, various Minolta Hi-Matics and the 4x5 Speed Graphic from the Photo Staff at school. The next camera I purchased for myself (with my uncle's help) was a Nikon F Photomic FTn with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. My other uncle loaned me his Nikkor 21/4 and Nikkor 85/1.8 lenses. That was my kit for a long while. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I think the first one was an Agfa Autostar x-126 Instamatic, or something similar, in 1974. Then Olympus 35RC in 1977 and a black Pentax ME with M50mm f/1.7 in 1979, bought for my own money when I was 16. :-) DagT http://www.thrane.name Den 12. apr. 2011 kl. 15.32 skrev Bill Owens: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Nice image Paul! When you said she was twirling, I imagined here with a baton. I took many imaging of my sister practicing twirling the baton. You are six or seven yeasr older than I am, so perhaps the craze had died our by them. Dan On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: My first camera was a small square box camera that took 610 film. It had three f stops and a fixed focus and shutter speed. I don't remember the brand, but I know that I bought it for $2 at Erler's Camera Store on 83rd Street and Stony Island Ave. in Chicago in 1958. I was ten years old. In April of that year, i took a picture of my sister, Sylvia, twirling in front of our house at 8222 Dorchester. I think the film was Verichrome Pan. Cash Erler, who owned the store, developed the film and made me some 4 x 4 prints. I still have some of them, including the picture of my sister. Her's a scan of it that I made a few years back: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12947312 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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despite hanging around my father's darkroom when i was very young, i got a late start; the first i owned was a K1000 my stepfather gave me when i was about 15, but because i couldn't afford film he eventually gave it to someone else the first three cameras i ran film through were all found in the trash sometime in the 1980s: the first was nice Canon compact rangefinder, probably a Canonet, but i can't recall clearly; the next was a Mamiya SLR, model unknown, though my partner still had it in a closet as of a few years ago; and then a Minolta XD5, which i used for many years, and i still have -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first camera that was exclusively mine was an Olympus C-3030 3mp digital PS. Up until that point I had always used my parents' PS film cameras, most of which were Pentax (I don't know why but my dad liked the brand). After that, when I realized I wasn't learning anything from the Olympus, my first real camera was a Pentax ZX-30. Sadly, I sold it a few years ago with the bulk of my film equipment when I needed money more than stuff I'd never use again. I got thirty bucks for it from the guy who runs the OK1000 Pentax blog (which sadly now appears to be abandoned). John -- http://www.jacelio.com Original Message Subject: What was your first camera? From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com Date: Tue, April 12, 2011 6:32 am To: pdml pdml@pdml.net In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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A Certo-Certina followed by a Lubitel. Still keeping the latter! It reminds me of my deceased mother and my childhood... Bulent - http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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A Voigtlander Vito IIa. No metering, no rangefinder - just a distance scale on the focus ring. A fantastically sharp Color Skopar lens. I've still got it. Chris On 12 April 2011 14:32, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first camera was an old (even at the time) Kodak Duaflex. My first real camera was a Honeywell Pentax SP500. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 12 April 2011 23:32, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill My first camera was a Praktica L, with a 50mm f/1.8 lens - a 15th (I think...) birthday present from my parents. I flogged this until it seized up, and got another Praktica, which was stolen 6 weeks before my wedding. Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Apart from my Mum's Brownie, which I used occasionally, my first camera was a Voigtlander Vito CD, bought just one week before I left the UK for the first time to live overseas for two years. The fact that it took ten days to get there by ship gave me invaluable learning time, as I had never even used a camera with adjustable settings, let alone a light-meter, before.I kept it for some years, then I think I sold it to a friend: should have kept it, it was much better built than the Fed 4L I eventually bought as a replacement rangefinder camera ( those were the days when no serious amateur didn't own and use a 35mm SLR, a 35mm rangefinder and a 6x6 TLR!). John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bill Owens Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 11:32 PM To: pdml Subject: What was your first camera? In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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... and the second was a Pentax SV. Beautiful camera, stolen in 1975 and replaced a few years ago with a second-hand but much-loved and well-maintained one. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bill Owens Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 11:59 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: What was your first camera? Okay, what was the second one you owned? Bill On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: How come no one ever asks what was the second camera we owned.:-) Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:53 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Mine was a hand me down from Dad in or around 1965 or 1966. it was a Kodak box camera, model does not come to mind. My first I own it camera was an SP500 bought new in 1971. Dave On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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While I used alot of other people's cameras, My first - that I owned - was an Asahi Spotmatic with a 1.4 lens, bought by a friend for me while he was in Nam for $98 complete with leather case. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com Subject: What was your first camera? In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Olympus PEN EE-2; got it for my 10th birthday... On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Bill Owens wmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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A hand-me-down Brownie from my parents. I still have it. It still works. My second was a hand-me-down Instamatic from my parents. I think I still have it, too. After that I bought a Miranda dx-3 SLR. It was either that, or wait until my parents finished with their Kodak disc camera. -- Steve Sharpe d...@eastlink.ca http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 11-04-12 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill My mother gave me her Kodak Folding Hawkeye Six-20 Model C which takes 620 roll film. I took a few rolls with it and even developed those rolls myself. I was quite proud of that. Pics of one here ... (scroll about halfway down page) http://herron.50megs.com/kodak.htm After it appeared I was enjoying that, I was given a Praktica LTL for Christmas. Both of these high tech gadgets are here on my desk. I really like the simplicity of the Kodak, I must say. Wonder if they'll ever make a CCD back for it? :-) -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Kodak Instamatic Phil On 13/04/11 7:37 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: A Voigtlander Vito IIa. No metering, no rangefinder - just a distance scale on the focus ring. A fantastically sharp Color Skopar lens. I've still got it. Chris On 12 April 2011 14:32, Bill Owenswmbow...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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The first camera I owned was this 10 year old's birthday present in July 1952, a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye with Kodalite Flashholder, and a soft plastic Kodak Flashguard cover. In the late 90s I found a vintage adaptor that allows you to connect PC cords to this Bakelite Beast, allowing you to hook up your studio lights. Also found a Kodalite Flashholder with a spring loaded blue hard plastic Flashguard that flipped up out of the way while you popped a flashbulb out and loaded another. That camera sits on top of my refridgerator, dust, but loaded with Kodacolor, ready to go. First camera I was photographed holding was in 1953. I cannot discern if it is an early Polaroid, or some other horizontal folder. Even though I was small (and skinny) back in those days, it looks awfully large to be the Zeiss Ikon Nettar my dad brought back from Germany for me in 1953, a 120 folder. I still have a few of the Ektachrome 2 1/4 mounted slides I shot with that beauty, but not the camera. The first photographs I shot were with my father's unknown brand Japanese twin lens reflex. He replaced that with a German (not a Rollie) TLR in 1958. Still have that, somewhere. I also have the camera I used after graduating from Navy Photography School in Pensacola, Florida. A 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 Busch Pressman with several lenses mounted on Busch lens boards. The US Navy provided me with lots of film, after I cut down their 4 x 5 stock in the total darkness at NAS Miramar, loading up my collection of film holders. Thank you, taxpayers. Oh, thanks also for the use of your locked color darkroom only accessible by climbing over it's cinder block wall after pushing up the hung ceiling panels. Nitrogen burst film and paper lines; all the paper I needed to teach myself color printing. Eventually got caught when they seemed to use much more 8 x 10 paper than their jobs required, then noticing one gloomy day that my locker held all the scraps test prints. But I taught myself color processing and printing! Doesn't that count? I still have some of the prints I made back then. Looking at them in the past few years, I didn't do that good a job of teaching myself. In 1965, without much historical research, when the carrier docked in Yakusaka, I rode into Tokyo on the train and purchased two Zenza Bronica S2 bodies, three Nikkor and one Zenzanon lens, 4 interchangeable backs, and a bunch of accessories such as filters, a focusing lever for the helicoil mount, and a prism finder to supplement the waist lever folder that came with the bodies. Only afterward I was back in San Diego did I read somewhere that the gear train that advanced the film and cocked the shutter was crap. I never had the money after that to upgrade the bodies to the 1969 release of the S2a model with it's completely designed gearing. I never did have the S2 bodies fail on me, but I spent seven years being very careful as I cranked on that knob and listened to the gears gnashing while feeling the variable resistance that seemed to shout I'm going to break… I'm going to break… then ending in a loud ker-thunk as the mechanism became freewheeling once finished with it's task. In 1966, I purchased a brand new Pentax Spotmatic, and my fate was sealed. A year later I bought a black Spotty, a couple more M-42 lenses. Had not realized that it was a mental ailment yet. And here I am. Black Spotmatic with it's ƒ1.4 50mm in the drawer next to my desk. Along with the three LXen. On Apr 12, 2011, at 06:32 , Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug a camera.” –Lewis Hine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote: Olympus PEN EE-2; got it for my 10th birthday... Now that is a great choice. Twice the exposures on a roll of film and a quality camera. Perfect for a young person to learn on. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Bill Owens wrote: In my case, it was a Brownie Hawkeye with flash that used Press 25 bulbs Bill I used a few of my parents' or sibling's Brownies etc. as a youth, then a Kodak Turret-Lens 8mm movie camera in my early teens. First 35mm camera was a Kodak of some kind that I bought used for $10 in 1962. It didn't fold as I recall, so not a Retina? In the late 60's I moved to a Nikkormat, then in the mid to late 70's to a OM-1, then added a Minox 35mm (great camera!), then a ME-Super. No change/upgrade for 15 years until the PZ-1p, followed shortly by the MZ-S, the *ist-D, and on and on. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
