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I wonder how many of the old timers here have kept the first camera they ever owned.
In the late 1960's my father, who was a keen amateur tog when I was growing up, gave me a Kodak Hawkeye Model B as my first camera. It was quite old even then (manufactured between 1926 and 1933) but was common and cheap so he thought it would be a good place for me to start. It took 120 roll film which we would process in the loft which my dad had converted into a darkroom. The prints were pretty crummy really but the satisfaction was huge, I just wish I'd kept some of my first prints even if they were bad... Mind you, my photo's aren't much better now ...!
My Hawkeye is one of the very few mementoes of my youth that I still have today, one day I'll stick another roll of film in and see what comes out!
Anybody else start with a relic like this or am I the most ancient one here?
Flashy
In the late 1960's my father, who was a keen amateur tog when I was growing up, gave me a Kodak Hawkeye Model B as my first camera. It was quite old even then (manufactured between 1926 and 1933) but was common and cheap so he thought it would be a good place for me to start. It took 120 roll film which we would process in the loft which my dad had converted into a darkroom. The prints were pretty crummy really but the satisfaction was huge, I just wish I'd kept some of my first prints even if they were bad... Mind you, my photo's aren't much better now ...!
My Hawkeye is one of the very few mementoes of my youth that I still have today, one day I'll stick another roll of film in and see what comes out!
Anybody else start with a relic like this or am I the most ancient one here?
Flashy