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It all started with a Kodak Cub Scout Box Camera. That's when I took my first photos back around 1950. I graduated incrementally, and these are the cameras that stand as milestones in my journey. 2.25 x 3.25 Crown Graphic. Yashica 44A twin lens reflex. And then there's my collection of my last film cameras. The Nikon F. A Polaroid. The Olympus OM1 is the first to reach America. I was editing instruction manuals and promotional literature for Olympus at the time. After I finished with the publications for the new OM1, the product manager told me to keep it. It was too much trouble putting it back on the books. The light meters are the Sekonic Studiomaster and the Weston Master IV. I used to teach photography with the Weston. Yes, I taught taking pictures with a light meter. After all, photography is the art of capturing light.
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A used Petri 35mm rangefinder with screw-on telephoto and wide-angle lenses. The money I earned with it in high school at Tachikawa AFB paid for many a beer off-base....
Later, a Minolta SRT-101, a Pentax K, a Minolta 9000, finally a SONY Alpha 33.
Later, a Minolta SRT-101, a Pentax K, a Minolta 9000, finally a SONY Alpha 33.
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My 1st was a Yashica GT 35MM range finder it was a good 1st camera. I want though A Canon F1, a Nikon F, a Minolta SRT 100, a 4X5 Super Speed, a Yashica twin lens. The camera I carried though 20 years in the Army was an Olympus OM1 I must have went though 5 of those, I was kinda ruff on them. I also had an OM2 but never liked the automatic camera. The benefit of the OM1 was if your battery went south on you the only thing affected was the light meter and you still had a full range of shutter speed and all the F stops. went to the Joint Services Photo School at Lowry AFB was awarded 84B still photographer the MOS later became combat photo I taught photo at the school at Lowry and retired as a 25V3H. The H identifier is Insturctor I Beleave the H was because I went though the USAF instructors course. Now I shoot with a Canon digital. Army Photographer best job ever.
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Finally, a question I am truly excited about. My first "real" camera was a Canon AE-1, 35mm film, and I still own it. I shot feet and feet of film through it and developed nearly all of it myself. I love that camera.
I discovered a passion for photography when I first received the AE-1 and it wasn't long before I invested in several more. I now have 30+ cameras in various styles and formats, large format, medium format, instant, 35mm, 15 mm, and pinhole. My undergrad is in photography and I spent the majority of my time in a dark room developing out large format, 4x5 or 8x10, negatives and then printing from them on various styles. I concentrated on the alternative processes and produced a lot of work using techniques that were in use prior to the invention of film. My favorite medium to work in was tintypes, civil war photography, where an unreproducible image is transferred to a piece of tin.
I discovered a passion for photography when I first received the AE-1 and it wasn't long before I invested in several more. I now have 30+ cameras in various styles and formats, large format, medium format, instant, 35mm, 15 mm, and pinhole. My undergrad is in photography and I spent the majority of my time in a dark room developing out large format, 4x5 or 8x10, negatives and then printing from them on various styles. I concentrated on the alternative processes and produced a lot of work using techniques that were in use prior to the invention of film. My favorite medium to work in was tintypes, civil war photography, where an unreproducible image is transferred to a piece of tin.
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CPT Jack Durish
I love the darkroom too. It was a magical place. Watching an image appear never grew old. Did you study the Daguerreotype? Infinite resolution because there was no grain. The entire sheet of copper was sensitized and the "grain" occurred at the molecular level
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CPT Jack Durish - I never delved into daguerreotypes. The idea of working with liquid mercury worried me and I definitely did not like the idea of accidently poisoning myself.
Tintypes, or ambrotypes when printed on glass, also do not contain grain. I would emulsify glass and shoot to it as I would with tin (trophy plate actually works best in today's metals) and rather than painting the back black and converting it to a positive, I would set in the glass in an enlarger and print from it. I have never seen cleaner images printed in a darkroom. I ran out of paper sizes and lift on my enlargers before I ran out of quality imagery from an ambrotype.
Tintypes, or ambrotypes when printed on glass, also do not contain grain. I would emulsify glass and shoot to it as I would with tin (trophy plate actually works best in today's metals) and rather than painting the back black and converting it to a positive, I would set in the glass in an enlarger and print from it. I have never seen cleaner images printed in a darkroom. I ran out of paper sizes and lift on my enlargers before I ran out of quality imagery from an ambrotype.
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SSG Byron Howard Sr - I thought it was all really cool and would continue to complete much of it if I had the time and the money. Unfortunately each and everything I mentioned above require copious amounts of both and my resources are positioned into other interests these days.
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