Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Ted, Wonderful words and experiences!, it will be nice if you can edit - I don't want to say "memories" - but your experiences, this will be really interesting for us. You say "sixty years later", this could be a nice title for new images with an older camera, maybe one day I'll take again my mother's first camera with I shot my first pictures, a "Kodak Baby", I tink from the 30's... and try what's happen. Cheers Lluis El 09/11/2009, a las 4:49, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > Oh dear me Lluis, :-) > > A kind of challenge for a long gone times and memories! :-) Not to > mention lacking in knowledge and talent of the first moments of > Happy Snapping! :-) > > I have to confess right up front my earliest rolls of film would > never have matched yours. I shot Stock Car racing on a dirt 1/4 mile > track, scenics and people of no consequence. Then during our moves > from home to home, several over the years, many of the earliest > rolls of film were "unfortunately thrown away" because the rolls > weren't cut, but rolled with an elastic band around the roll to hold > it in place in 1 dozen paper egg carton containers! Man that was > such a long time ago! :-) My God, 60 years ago! :-) I am getting > old! :-( > > Anyway I am looking forward to taking some pictures with this first > ever camera from May 27 1950. Many years ago to see if it still > works? :-) And if I can capture a few interesting images with it > without all the fancy techie things of today, sixty years later. :-) > Certainly when I've said so often, "the camera doesn't mean much, > it's the human holding the camera that makes the difference between, > Good, Bad and Ugly photographs." :-) We shall see! :-) > cheers, > Dr. ted > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lluis Ripoll Querol" > <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com > > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 4:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I > have anidea. > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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