 1914 Auto Graflex Jr. 6cm x 9cm |
1914
- 24 Auto
Graflex Junior is a 2 1/4 X 3 1/4 SLR with a
rollfilm back for 120 film. This camera was found at a yard
sale by my wife and
was given to me. I managed to revive it
for a short while (until a spring broke) just for the fun of
it. Slide Show |
I
purchased the OM-2 in 1975 at the Rhein-Main Airbase PX
and used
it until I swtiched to digital . A great camera - light, rugged, and
verstile. Slide Show 1 Slide Show 2 |
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My
wife and I bought this camera
late in 1951 on a working student
budget. It was one of our
first purchases after our marriage (a bottle of Dry Sack sherry was
the first). It was in continuous use until 1974 when I purchased
the Mamiyaflex. Slide Show 1 Slide Show 2 |
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I bought
it in 1976 at 47th. Street Photo in New York and only
parted with it when I went completely digital. Slide Show |
 1956 Canon VT 35mm |
I
bought the
camera in 1956 at the US Air base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to replace
the Leica II(d) which died a natural death. The Leica lens fit the
Canon. I continued to use it until 1974, when it suffered a
cat-tastrophy - the cat knocked it off the mantel. Slide show 1 Slide Show 2 |
 1974 Zorki 4K 35mm |
In 1974 I bought the
Zorki at the Soviet
Trade Mission Store in Brussels,
Belgium, to replace the cat-demised Canon VT. It was somewhat of a
clunker, but it accepted my Leica and Canon Lenses. Slide Show |
 1954 Kodak Retina IIIc 35mm |
The
Retina was purchased in 1954 at Sarrafian's in Beirut , Lebanon,
primarily for my wife's use. It was a remarkably good camera, small,
lightweight, with changeable lens elements which gave it wide angle,
normal and telephoto capabilities. Slide show |
 1938 Leica II(D) 35mm |
While
I was in college, one of
the GI Bill students was complaining that he could get better pictures
with a Brownie Box Camera than with the Leica he had "liberated" in
Germany at the end of the war. I offered to trade him my
brownie
box for the Leica and, to my great surprise, he accepted. I
got the
camera and three lenses - Elmars 35, 50 and 90mm. Slide Show |
