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12/12/2013 02:21:43 PM · #51 |
I had a brownie too when I was very young.
The first "real" camera I owned was a Pentax Spotmatic, with a F1.8 50mm lens back in 1970 or so. When it was stolen out of my car some time later, I upgraded to a Pentax Spotmatic ES with a F1.4 50mm lens. I wish I still had that lens!
At that time (in high school), I was also using a variety of twin lens reflexes, like Rollei and Yashica.
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12/12/2013 04:23:26 PM · #52 |
And so did I. My very own Brownie Hawkeye, sans flash, that had that neat bulb option - pressing down on a button for the duration which I managed not badly. But I don't remember any of the pictures. After my older brother persuaded (euphemism) me to sacrifice the parts (lens) of the Hawkeye for higher purposes, like starting fires, burning holes in our hands, I co-opted his older smaller Baby Brownie which produced only 3 photos that I remember: a dog, a cat and a friend having Milton Berle, egregiously uncorseted, sign his photo for her.
I should stop there. And I pretty much did: adolescence followed, miserably and sans camera, as did early adulthood. But finally parenthood and a couple of weighty bequeathed rangefinders - one fell into the sea, the other was stolen, an ancient box camera, and finally an all purpose point and shoot.
But then I used a friend's Olympus Pen EE to good effect, and another friend's Nikon SLR with depth of field preview and I was never the same again.... |
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12/12/2013 07:31:14 PM · #53 |
| I'm an alumna of the Brownie Hawkeye, too. I took a lot of pictures of the cat and my mother with it. My first "good" camera was a Pentax H3v that I bought around 1966. I took a lot of pictures with the Pentax when I was a graduate student in Mexico in the late 1960's. Unfortunately, I threw out almost all of those negatives a couple of years before digital came on the horizon. As usual, my timing sucked... |
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12/12/2013 08:09:14 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
So what happened that you went to The Dark Side? |
Sold my gear when I sold my business to my assistant. |
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12/13/2013 08:09:39 AM · #55 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
So what happened that you went to The Dark Side? |
Sold my gear when I sold my business to my assistant. |
Nikon was pretty much the king of 35mm pro level gear. I rarely worked with a pro that used anything else. Canon managed to turn that around with digital, but I don't think they're as dominant as Nikon was.
When I first bought a DSLR, I would have bought a Nikon and used all of my old glass, but the D100 wouldn't work with older lenses. |
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12/13/2013 10:48:34 AM · #56 |
| I bought a Brownie Hawkeye at a garage sale -- I think I was about 7. I thought it was the coolest thing, but I never had much money for film and processing. Later I had a Kodak pocket camera. Then, when I was in about 8th grade my dad gave me an Argus C3 (my first 35mm camera) that he had bought when he was in the navy in the early 50's. I know just where it is in the basement -- makes me want to dig it up and shoot a roll of film. |
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12/13/2013 11:05:41 AM · #57 |
Originally posted by markwiley:
makes me want to dig it up and shoot a roll of film. |
Do it! |
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12/13/2013 11:21:15 AM · #58 |
Originally posted by Spork99:
When I first bought a DSLR, I would have bought a Nikon and used all of my old glass, but the D100 wouldn't work with older lenses. |
That's weird......as I understand it, all the old lenses work to varying degrees with pretty much all the DSLRs.
Unless all your lenses were pre-AI, they should have worked in a limited capacity.
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12/13/2013 11:34:15 AM · #59 |
In the 60's, my first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 100 that used those drop in 126 film cassettes. I got it to use for a summer photography class that was surprisingly advanced for a grade school. I made my own B&W prints with it, but remember in the darkroom having to break apart those darn film cassettes to get at the film (a pain!). A very simple camera, but I had fun with it.
I guess I can't post a photo as just a registered user these days, but here's a link to what I had-
Kodak Instamatic 100 |
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12/13/2013 12:23:18 PM · #60 |
Originally posted by Brent_S:
In the 60's, my first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 100 that used those drop in 126 film cassettes. I got it to use for a summer photography class that was surprisingly advanced for a grade school. I made my own B&W prints with it, but remember in the darkroom having to break apart those darn film cassettes to get at the film (a pain!). A very simple camera, but I had fun with it.
I guess I can't post a photo as just a registered user these days, but here's a link to what I had-
Kodak Instamatic 100 |
A significant percent of us started out with this humble little box :) |
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12/13/2013 12:46:14 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by Spork99:
When I first bought a DSLR, I would have bought a Nikon and used all of my old glass, but the D100 wouldn't work with older lenses. |
That's weird......as I understand it, all the old lenses work to varying degrees with pretty much all the DSLRs.
Unless all your lenses were pre-AI, they should have worked in a limited capacity. |
With the Nikon D100, which was Nikon's competitor to the Canon 10D, the manual focus AI, AI-S and E lenses would indeed mount, but the cameras meter would NOT function at all, requiring either an external meter or relying on the sunny/f16 rule. So perhaps the phrase "wouldn't work with older lenses" in my previous post should be replaced with "offered such limited functionality with older lenses as to render useless the high-tech metering system you just spent an arm and a leg to get".
That was a major issue for a lot of Nikon shooters in transitioning to digital and one that Nikon did later address, with the next generation DSLR, the D200. They did have the same kind of problem with the D50 and D70, but I suppose that the target market for those cameras was not concerned with using manual focus lenses. If I still had my same Nikon kit and were getting into digital now, there's no doubt I'd go Nikon.
Message edited by author 2013-12-13 15:24:30. |
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12/13/2013 01:38:39 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Originally posted by Brent_S:
In the 60's, my first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 100 that used those drop in 126 film cassettes. I got it to use for a summer photography class that was surprisingly advanced for a grade school. I made my own B&W prints with it, but remember in the darkroom having to break apart those darn film cassettes to get at the film (a pain!). A very simple camera, but I had fun with it.
I guess I can't post a photo as just a registered user these days, but here's a link to what I had-
Kodak Instamatic 100 |
A significant percent of us started out with this humble little box :) |
Looks like we may have started out with the very same model Johanna :) To be honest, I greatly envied most of the other kids with manually adjustable cameras in my photography class way back then. I didn't get a "good" camera until 1983 when I took my first trip to Europe (a Pentax ME Super 35mm SLR). |
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