I think I was given my first camera when I was around 7 or 8: a Kodak Brownie Starflash. I know my mother still has photos around somewhere that I took at Expo 67 and at a summer camp I went to that same summer, when I was ten.
I have no idea what my first ever photo was. I have a very vague recollection of my dad setting up his old Yashica A, putting the strap around my neck and letting me look down at the focusing screen and snapping. I have no idea how old I was, what the photo was or what may have happened to it. No doubt it was blurry, tilted and of an uninteresting subject. ;-) The point of all the foregoing is that I really envy that you know ~exactly~ what your first photo was, what camera it was taken with and even more important, you still have a print (even if only a contact) of it! Cool. Not a bad pic, either. Indeed, one to treasure! cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> Sent: December 16, 2011 12/16/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO: A photograph off a contact sheet Very cute, Larry! Your 1st shot's a winner! Cheers, Christine On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Doug Brewer wrote: > On 12/14/11 4:16 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> There's a photo that I've been looking for, for a while. I haven't been >> able to find the photo, but I did find a proof sheet of it. >> The quality is therefore just about as bad as it gets, being a photo of a >> decades old proof, that wasn't actually even exposed properly in the >> darkroom. >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6509771275/ >> >> The photo however has a lot of personal significance to me. It is of my >> sister, at age 7. It is even "on topic" as it was taken with my Dad's >> Spotmatic II. But the detail that makes this important to me, is that it is >> the first photograph that I ever took. When my dad got the spotty, he >> taught me how to use it. I set up this photo, just as practice, and was >> quite surprised when Dad said that I could actually take the picture! >> >> I'd like to think that my skill has improved a bit in the intervening 38 >> years, but even so I've taken much worse, much more recently. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> > > Nothing wrong with that, Larry. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
