When I first got into photography in the mid 1960's, my father owned some really nice cameras, but didn't let me use them. He had a 6x9 Zeiss Super Ikonta, Kodak Retina IIIc, and a Voigtlander Vito. I purchased a used "Bakelite" plastic camera called the "Brownie" that shot 620 (*edit-127 was wrong) film at a garage sale for about 25 cents, and 100 rolls of expired Agfa 120 film for one dollar from a neighborhood camera store. I would then transfer the 120 film to the 127 reels in the dark, shoot in the brownie and soup them in a stainless steel daylight tank in the bathroom. Initially all I could do was contact prints between a big piece of window glass and some tempered Masonite. (I think they were about 6 x 4.5cm prints). I financed my photography and optic hobbies through multiple lawn jobs. After a few years, at about age ten, my father bought me my first "real" camera as a birthday or Christmas present. It was made in Ann Arbor Michigan, and affectionately called "the brick" by it's literally millions of owners. It featured a die-cast metal body with heavily chromed accents and edges. It seemed that it's primary purpose was to survive a fall, but the optics were actually pretty good. I was more determined than ever to get a more elegant, better quality camera after his gift.
Meet the Argus C3 (well over two million units of this model were sold)
All photos are shot with the 5DS-R and Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens
When I first got into photography in the mid 1960's, my father owned some really nice cameras, but didn't let me use them. He had a 6x9 Zeiss Super Ikonta, Kodak Retina IIIc, and a Voigtlander Vito. I purchased a used "Bakelite" plastic camera called the "Brownie" that shot 127 film at a garage sale for about 25 cents, and 100 rolls of expired Agfa 120 film for one dollar from a neighborhood camera store. I would then transfer the 120 film to the 127 reels in the dark, shoot in the brownie and soup them in a stainless steel daylight tank in the bathroom. Initially all I could do was contact prints between a big piece of window glass and some tempered Masonite. (I think they were about 6 x 4.5cm prints). I financed my photography and optic hobbies through multiple lawn jobs. After a few years, at about age ten, my father bought me my first "real" camera as a birthday or Christmas present. It was made in Ann Arbor Michigan, and affectionately called "the brick" by it's literally millions of owners. It featured a die-cast metal body with heavily chromed accents and edges. It seemed that it's primary purpose was to survive a fall, but the optics were actually pretty good. I was more determined than ever to get a more elegant, better quality camera after his gift.
Meet the Argus C3 (well over two million units of this model were sold)
All photos are shot with the 5DS-R and Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens
Mar 20, 2022 at 01:47 PM
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