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Subject: [Leica] IMG: An Image from My First Camera
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:47:21 -0400

Baseball Brownie Diamond format 1964
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Home+Plate+Jul+64+Oxford2.jpg.htm
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Or
http://tinyurl.com/2763k9f

F 11 and be there it turns out.

Turn a square format camera on its edge and you get diamond format.
Perfect for shooting your friends playing baseball when you're 13.
They  was an Instamatic 100.
A gorgeous camera
Type: viewfinder film camera
Manufacturer: Kodak
Production Dates: March 1963 - 1966
Film: 126 film cartridge
Lens: 43mm f/11
Image: nominal 26?26mm (hence 126), actual 29?28mm, masked to 26??26?mm for
printing
Shutter: mechanical leaf, 1/90 sec. and 1/40 sec. with flash popped up
Price: $15.95
Designer: Frank A. Zagara




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instamatic
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Instamatic_100




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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:41:35 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: An Image from My First Camera
> 
> Thanks, Lluis.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lluis Ripoll Querol" <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 4:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: An Image from My First Camera
> 
> 
>> This a very good phot Jim!
>> 
>> Saludos
>> Lluis
>> 
>> El 17/09/2010, a las 4:58, Jim Nichols escribi?:
>> 
>>> As I mentioned earlier today, my first camera was a Kodak Brownie  Flash
>>> Six-20, received as a gift in 1951.  I haven't seen it in  years, so I
>>> suspect I passed it on to someone in the extended family.
>>> 
>>> I was able to scan an album page of drugstore prints and get an  example
>>> of the images from this camera.  This was made at the Dayton  Art
>>> Institute, Dayton, OH, in the Fall of 1951.  The camera was a  good
>>> beginning tool, and caused me to buy a used Leica IIIa the  following
>>> Summer.
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dayton+Art+Institute+1951.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>> 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> 
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