[Leica] first camera

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

My first camera was a Rolleiflex Automat 1950, handed down from my dad.  He
showed me how to load the film, set the lens, and use the big flashgun with
the 5B blubs (the thing bayoneted on the viewing lens.)

For my maiden photo session, my dad and I took the camera and flash to the
Central Park zoo.  We went into the Elephant house for a suitable subject.
After carefully transferring the distance to the flash calculator, setting
the lens, inserting the bulb, and positioning myself near the cage bars, I
snapped a picture.  The flashbulb exploded.  The poor elephant reared up on
its hind legs, roared, and sneezed all over me.

It was then that I discovered my abiding interest in natural light
photography.


Jim Shulman
Bryn Mawr, PA



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Subject: [Leica] first camera

My first real camera was used Exacta VX with a 50mm f 2.8 Tessar, a very 
good lens.  I loaned it years later to my niece and got it back in non 
working condition a while back.  Since I really do not want to use it, it 
sits as memento of the past on the book case.  My first Leica was purchased 
with money from selling blood in 1958, a black III with an f 3.5  50mm 
Elmar.  I loaned it to a friend who was going to Europe after she graduated 
and never got it back.  I could do this because I had obtained a IIIb in 
much better condition.  I still have this one and in fact, DAG did a CLA on 
it fairly recently.
        It has been interesting to read everyone's first camera story.

Lee