usually black metal or imitation leather, gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:02 AM, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > Is that the one that looks like a blue brick? > jco > > > > On 8/3/2014 9:52 AM, George Sinos wrote: >> >> I think a lot of us started with the Argus C-3. I wrote this about it >> in 2010 <http://georgesinos.com/blog/first-camera> >> >> It would be hard to imagine a more basic design. >> >> gs >> George Sinos >> -------------------- >> www.GeorgesPhotos.net >> www.GeorgeSinos.com >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I just found something scarier than agreeing with Godfrey, having him >>> start >>> a reply almost word for word with what I was about to write. >>> >>> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>>> >>>> It depends on the child. >>>> >>>> When I was 12, my mom gave me her Argus C3 (my father bought her a new >>>> Kodak Retina IIIc). When I was 13, my grandfather loaned me his >>>> Rolleiflex >>>> Automat. That was at the start of High School. The following Summer, I >>>> took >>>> all the money I'd saved over the course of the year and my uncle >>>> supplemented it to help me buy a Nikon F. Later that same Summer, I'd >>>> saved >>>> up another $100 and bought a pair of decrepit Leica II cameras at one of >>>> the >>>> big camera shops in Manhattan. >>> >>> >>> When I was 12, I took a photography class in summer school, and my first >>> camera was an Argus C3. My bar mitzvah present three months later >>> was a Minolta SRT-101. >>> >>> I did not find the SLR to be at all daunting. Granted >>> The first camera I remember using was my dad's spotty II >>> which he had taught me to use one afternoon right after he >>> bought it a few months previous to that. >>> >>> Could you spend a couple hours with the girl, or girls, showing her, >>> or them, how to use your SLR, and showing them what they can do in >>> manual mode, and see how well they take to it? >>> >>> -- >>> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > > -- > J.C. O'Connell > [email protected] > -- > > > > -- > 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.
