I've related many of my photographic memories here before. But since
we're waxing nostalgic on this Christmas Eve, I'd like to say that my
first camera was a little plastic box that I bought for $2 at Cash
Erler's Cameras on 83rd and Harper in Chicago. It was September of
1958, and those two bucks represented eight weeks of allowance. The
camera took 610 film and had no stops, focus or shutter speeds. A few
days later I took this picture of my sister on her birthday. I don't
think I ever considered shooting color film. BW was what I could
afford, and Mr. Erler developed and printed it quite nicely in the back
of his store. Before long I took to developing it myself and making
contact prints. But this was one of the first frames on the very first
roll. (My sister, who is now 58, is still camera shy :-)
Paul
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2982686&size=lg
