Post by George C. on Jun 10, 2011 19:16:07 GMT -5
For the sake of etiquette, I will introduce myself here as I see no other place labeled for the introduction.
My mother started me in photography in the early 1950s by placing a Kodak Brownie (116) in my hands and sending me out the door. I still have that camera and value it dearly, mostly because of the memories. It is probably so filthy inside that any pictures taken with it would be a loss.
Then about 1956, I bought an Ansco Regent and started taking pictures like crazy. I carried that camera and took pictures all over the U.S. and literally wore it out. I still have that camera and am in the process of finding a parts camera (I think I found one) and then to a rebuild. Not long after I got the Regent, I started doing darkroom work, which I did for several years and have done, off and on, since.
In college, as well as the Regent, I used the college's Century Graphic with a roll-film back for annual pictures. I did some darkroom work there, too. However, the lack of available funds kept me from doing too much that was not school business.
During the 1970s, I shot many pictures with a Kodak Instamatic Reflex that had a 1.9 Schneider Xenon lens. It was one of the very early auto-exposure cameras and one could not defeat the fully auto function. Still, the very sharp Schneider lens was wonderfully crisp, even with the fabled problems the cassettes had with film plane flatness.
During the 1980, I bought a Canon F1-n and many accessories. I used it while I lived on an Indian reservation and took hundreds of slides there. While I was there, I helped to teach a beginning photography course at the local junior college. I still used the Regent occasionally, but it was mostly redundant by then.
On the reservation, I experimented with a couple of 4x5s: a Zone VI and a Sinar Alpina. Although I loved the wonderful quality photos that I got, large format photography can be a hassle. Yes, I still that the LF equipment.
At some time in the 1990s, I think, I gave my Canon set to my bother-in-law and bought a Nikon N90/F90 and a bunch of stuff to go with it. I liked it, but eventually gave it to my brother-in-law and bought a Nikon F100 when they came out. F100s are not now very exciting, but it was functionally an excellent camera. I still have it.
These days, my life-long hobby has turned into a really bad case of G.A.S.! I have started collecting TLRs and now have six, with two of them in the process of being brought up to spec. I bought a little Leica X1: hardly a collector's camera, but a joy to carry and shoot. My Contax G1 gets some exercise, now and then, too.
I joined this forum because I think that I saw others afflicted with the same malady and that I might find a sympathetic ear here.(My wife is gradually losing tolerance,)
Best regards,
My mother started me in photography in the early 1950s by placing a Kodak Brownie (116) in my hands and sending me out the door. I still have that camera and value it dearly, mostly because of the memories. It is probably so filthy inside that any pictures taken with it would be a loss.
Then about 1956, I bought an Ansco Regent and started taking pictures like crazy. I carried that camera and took pictures all over the U.S. and literally wore it out. I still have that camera and am in the process of finding a parts camera (I think I found one) and then to a rebuild. Not long after I got the Regent, I started doing darkroom work, which I did for several years and have done, off and on, since.
In college, as well as the Regent, I used the college's Century Graphic with a roll-film back for annual pictures. I did some darkroom work there, too. However, the lack of available funds kept me from doing too much that was not school business.
During the 1970s, I shot many pictures with a Kodak Instamatic Reflex that had a 1.9 Schneider Xenon lens. It was one of the very early auto-exposure cameras and one could not defeat the fully auto function. Still, the very sharp Schneider lens was wonderfully crisp, even with the fabled problems the cassettes had with film plane flatness.
During the 1980, I bought a Canon F1-n and many accessories. I used it while I lived on an Indian reservation and took hundreds of slides there. While I was there, I helped to teach a beginning photography course at the local junior college. I still used the Regent occasionally, but it was mostly redundant by then.
On the reservation, I experimented with a couple of 4x5s: a Zone VI and a Sinar Alpina. Although I loved the wonderful quality photos that I got, large format photography can be a hassle. Yes, I still that the LF equipment.
At some time in the 1990s, I think, I gave my Canon set to my bother-in-law and bought a Nikon N90/F90 and a bunch of stuff to go with it. I liked it, but eventually gave it to my brother-in-law and bought a Nikon F100 when they came out. F100s are not now very exciting, but it was functionally an excellent camera. I still have it.
These days, my life-long hobby has turned into a really bad case of G.A.S.! I have started collecting TLRs and now have six, with two of them in the process of being brought up to spec. I bought a little Leica X1: hardly a collector's camera, but a joy to carry and shoot. My Contax G1 gets some exercise, now and then, too.
I joined this forum because I think that I saw others afflicted with the same malady and that I might find a sympathetic ear here.(My wife is gradually losing tolerance,)
Best regards,
