After Sue completed her photo prompt (see yesterday's post), she did what she tends to do and kept on going and going with more photo ideas and layouts.
She found as photo of me and my mother at sometime close to when I might have first used her SIX-20. Then she included one of the current me with my Canon R, 70 years later and still into photography. She made many layouts, and I picked these two to post.
She then posed the old camera with two newish ones.
I wanted my own camera, and was gifted with a Kodak Starflash. It was cool, but it didn't hold up for long. After awhile, when I pressed the shutter, it would just stay open. This picture of me was taken by my friend at a summer camp called Wildwood, possibly in 1959 or 60.
On my 15th birthday, my dad passed on his Super Richoflex to me. I liked it and used it periodically until I got my first SLR, a Pentax Spotmatic ii with my income tax rebate in 1972. The Pentax is still in the house somewhere, but the Richoflex is long gone — to where and from when, I know not.
Great to see young you! The one in the hat shows your impish sense of humor! But young hockey player seemed to have a flash, I didn't know they were ever attached to a brownie! Great theme for a photographer to work with!
ReplyDeleteThese b&w images were fun to see your younger self and those great vintage cameras. My first 35mm SLR was also a Pentax Spotmatic with a 50mm lens and it was a favorite and only lens for several years. Unfortunately, that camera is long gone but it was great fun.
ReplyDeleteMy most prized camera was the Pentax K1000. I don't recall what my dad had but I got that film camera from my FIL who passed it on to me. I loved using that camera.
ReplyDeleteI love the images and especially looking at the old cameras. I'd collect them if I actually had room because they are so amazing!
I enjoyed this history of your photos and the cameras. I had my first Brownie for my 13th birthday. Dad was the camera guy in our family.
ReplyDeleteI just love vintage photos and cameras! There is something about black and white photos that really stretch the imagination.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute little boy you are! Were. The photos are all terrific -- old and new. And it was a really interesting post. My mom and dad were both photographers with the basement darkroom and all and I remember the magic of seeing those black and white photos appear on the plain white paper. I was hooked!
ReplyDeleteBeing of a different generation, my first camera was a Kodak compact camera that shot 110 cartridges. I've tried googling to see what the name was but have been unable to find one that gives me an "aha" moment.
ReplyDeleteI like the hockey photo, icy knees. I don't remember the kind, but I do remember the smell of that little developer/coater stick? that you to cover the photo with.
ReplyDeleteIt's a meaningful and beautiful rabbit hole to go down! My late husband's first good camera was a Pentax.
ReplyDeleteThat became a nice trip down memory lane for you.
ReplyDeleteVery nice photos! Do you still ever use real film in one of the old cameras anymore? I have my old Pentax K-1000 and my sister’s Canon and a friend gave me a beautiful screw mount Pentax Rangefinder camera….. plus I have two of my Dad’s flip open bellows style Kodaks. And I, long, long ago bought a really cool, Russian Zenit SLR that is beautifully rough hewend.
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I have my original Pentax and a later Canon,, but I have no interest in going back to film. Some love it, but I love digital. Oddly enough, people still have to digitize their film images to show their work.
DeleteIt would seem that even as a young man you had a thing for hats!
ReplyDeleteA history in cameras! Love it!
ReplyDeleteThese images beautifully capture not only how your cameras have changed over the decades, but also how your passion for photography has remained a constant companion throughout your life.
ReplyDeleteYou are one of those people who are identifiable throughout the different stages of life. I am not! You seem to have been born to take photos.
ReplyDeleteThe old photos are really interesting!
ReplyDeleteYou have photos of your old cameras? You still have your old cameras? Wow! That's amazing! I don't have any photos of my really old Instamatic camera from way back then. Then again, we were quite poor when we were young and I didn't have a decent camera. Art had a much better one, but I don't we have that either.
ReplyDeleteMade me think of the old cameras I've owned.
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