Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Baseball Brownie Diamond format 1964 http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Home+Plate+Jul+64+Oxford2.jpg.htm l 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 -------------------- 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information