The 50's
My earliest memories are of cameras. My father was always
repairing cameras at the kitchen table, or so it seemed. Tin
boxes full of tiny screws, cogs and springs, were kept in the
cupboard at the side of the fireplace along with his tools,
watchmakers tools, magnifing glasses, etc. which he used to
rebuild the shutter timing mechanisms or leaf shutters that
had jammed or were sticking for some reason. My father's camera
was either a Rolleiflex 80mm f2.8 Planar or a f3.5 Tessar, and
my own was a small metal cube just a little bigger than a 127
film that had two aperture settings, one speed and a fixed focal
length. I took more pics with my father's Rollei than with my
own little camera.
The 60's In the early 60's, my father sold his Rollei to
buy an SLR with a wide angle, a standard and a short telephoto
lens. It wasn't as good as this Olympus OM1, his last camera,
and the black and white results couldn't match his Rollei but
it was more versatile. He stopped producing exhibition work and
changed to colour slides. I was always too impatient to wait for
film to be processed so at the end of the 60's I bought a
Polaroid Instant camera.
The 70's
My next camera, at the end of the seventies, was an
Olympus compact followed by a Yashica 124g medium format camera,
which I still use occasionally when someone else pays for the
prints. Seventy-eight, I bought a Commodore VIC20, remember
those?
The 80's
On into the eighties
and a Praktica MTL3. This East German camera with a Carl Zeiss
Jenna f2.8 Tessar lens was one of the cheapest SLR's on the
market and very good value for money. The M42 Pentax screw lens
fitting enabled me to use my fathers old telephoto and wide
angle lenses and extension tubes for macro. From the VIC20 I
moved up to an Amiga 500 and then on to an Amiga 1200.
The 90's This decade saw my first
PC from Time computers and a cheap digital camera, a Jenoptic
like the one here though I am not sure this is the same model.
My earliest memories are of cameras. My father was always
repairing cameras at the kitchen table, or so it seemed. Tin
boxes full of tiny screws, cogs and springs, were kept in the
cupboard at the side of the fireplace along with his tools,
watchmakers tools, magnifing glasses, etc. which he used to
rebuild the shutter timing mechanisms or leaf shutters that
had jammed or were sticking for some reason. My father's camera
was either a Rolleiflex 80mm f2.8 Planar or a f3.5 Tessar, and
my own was a small metal cube just a little bigger than a 127
film that had two aperture settings, one speed and a fixed focal
length. I took more pics with my father's Rollei than with my
own little camera.
In the early 60's, my father sold his Rollei to
buy an SLR with a wide angle, a standard and a short telephoto
lens. It wasn't as good as this Olympus OM1, his last camera,
and the black and white results couldn't match his Rollei but
it was more versatile. He stopped producing exhibition work and
changed to colour slides. I was always too impatient to wait for
film to be processed so at the end of the 60's I bought a
Polaroid Instant camera.
My next camera, at the end of the seventies, was an
Olympus compact followed by a Yashica 124g medium format camera,
which I still use occasionally when someone else pays for the
prints. Seventy-eight, I bought a Commodore VIC20, remember
those?
On into the eighties
and a Praktica MTL3. This East German camera with a Carl Zeiss
Jenna f2.8 Tessar lens was one of the cheapest SLR's on the
market and very good value for money. The M42 Pentax screw lens
fitting enabled me to use my fathers old telephoto and wide
angle lenses and extension tubes for macro. From the VIC20 I
moved up to an Amiga 500 and then on to an Amiga 1200.
This decade saw my first
PC from Time computers and a cheap digital camera, a Jenoptic
like the one here though I am not sure this is the same model.
My new camera, a Fuji S5000 Zoom.