[Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have an idea.

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Kyle a wonderful concept! Certainly for the times of today with all the 
techie stuff . :-)

Here you go:

May 27, 1950 my wife Irene gave me an Argus A2 35mm film camera on my first 
birthday after we were married in the previous year, 15th Oct. 1949. She 
knew I always wanted a camera and my parents could never afford to buy me 
one.

It's a sort of point and shoot of the day. A small plastic black machine and 
yes I still have the same camera, now in its' 60th year! I haven't used it 
in some time to put it mildly, but who knows? Maybe we can bring it back to 
life inserting a roll of film. We shall see? :-)

Dr. ted :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: [Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have an 
idea.


>I still have my first camera. It's a Petri 7s rangefinder and it's on my 
>bookshelf looking down at me right now.
>
> I think that some of you probably do as well.
>
> Here's what I'd like to do:
>
> Curate a gallery-show / web project / possibly more, that involves 
> interviews with photographers about their first cameras, how they got it, 
> what it means to them, and then to have them either
>
> a) give me a high res scan (and reprint rights) to a vintage photo they 
> took with that camera or
> b) take their first camera out and shoot at least three rolls with it and 
> give me a NEW photo (and reprint rights) taken with it (you can talk about 
> re-using your camera in the interview)
>
> as well as
>
> c) a photo of the camera and
> d) a portrait of the photographer
>
>
> it's still a bit up in the air but i've gone and registered: 
> http://www.myfirstcamera.org/ and as it grows I figure it'll take shape 
> and it'll become a beautiful thing. I'm going to leave a broad definition 
> for "first camera" -- it could either be the first camera you ever used, 
> the first you ever owned, or the first you bought for yourself or even the 
> first "real" camera you bought for yourself.
>
> Volunteers? Especially people who've had long and successful careers in 
> some aspect of photography, newspapers, commercial, etc.
>
> email me kyle at kylecassidy dot com or share your enthusiasm here, we'll 
> figure this out.
>
> thanks,
>
> kyle
>
> http://www.myfirstcamera.org/
>
>
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