Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, It will be really interesting see what this camera can do now on your experienced good hands, why not? My first camera, or more exactly the first camera I've used was a Kodak Baby from my mother, sometime later a bigger one, Kodak too from my fatyher, this was I think 6x9 negatives!, I still have both, this was on the early fifties, one dfay my father leave to try his Contax IIIA, you can still see some of my really early work here. included a self portrait of me whren I was 14 or 15... http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=888059 Unfortunately this Contax was left and after my father and me we have shared a Voigtl?nder Prominent. I've stopped to shoot and during some years what I was doing was cinema in 8mm, on the later sixties I used a Braun Paxette, after a Pentax....Leica R...M That's all! Saludos Lluis El 08/11/2009, a las 23:47, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > 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/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.425 / Virus Database: 270.14.55/2489 - Release Date: > 11/08/09 07:37:00 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information