Re: Your first camera

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Hi Pini,

Is that the condition of the camera today? If so you’ve kept it in top notch condition!!
I think probably most of us were flattered by comments made by viewers and that gave 
us the impetus to keep going. 

For me that was the case but also that I found I could make pocket money with the photographs 
I made of tourists to my town … in areas where the “pros” did not visit. I could not develop and print my negs 
but we had the local “chemist” or pharmacist who ran a processing service and I relied on him for that.

But eventually I made horizontal enlarger out of a couple of nesting cardboard boxes and made small 
enlargements from my 35 (828) negatives in a closet under a red safelight. I don’t remember what kind of lens I 
used on this makeshift enlarger!

Andy


> On Jul 29, 2021, at 5:25 PM, Pini Vollach <pinimage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I got my first (used) camera at age Ten.
> It is unbelievable, my first was a Large Format 6x7 ! - An Agfa Box.
> Prints usually where the same size as the film itself.
> <image001.png>
> The roll of film was of two layers, The film and a black paper to protect it from rear lights.
> The roll was of about 7 or 10 frames.
> With this "machine" I took a very well composed tree image during a school journey. This image was liked by the adults around me (No FB those  days.. J ) 
> This response maybe caused me to continue love photography till today.
> With this camera you had to shoot from a waist level and it had two "windows" as viewfinders, one for horizontal frame and one for vertical.
> You could use an aperture of two positions by pulling a built in piece of metal sheet with tiny holes in it. 
> <image002.png>
>  
> To advance the film you had to rotate a handle until a new frame number appear through a little new red window on rear back of the camera.
> <image003.png>
>  
> Those were the days of magic !
>  
> Pini





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