My first camera and one of my first photos

[Mousetoescamper]

I took the photo of my paternal grandmother and father in 1962. Dad bought the camera when he was stationed in Germany with the Army during the Korean War. I was given the camera to use when I was five or six years old.

[niyad]

1. Nice photo, and what a lovely piece of family history!

Thank you for sharing!

[Mousetoescamper]

5. Thanks!

[multigraincracker]

2. Great photo and memory.

As a child in 62, I bought a very cheap photo developing kit. Went into a closet and loaded the plastic tank and ran the chemicals through it. I did everything wrong, but it worked. Wish I had saved those first contact photos.

[Mousetoescamper]

6. Thanks!

Processing one's own film was still a part of the job when I first started working for community newspapers. When I left the business, film had gone the way of the Linotype machine.

[multigraincracker]

9. Wasn't that long ago, you could

enjoy those smells in an X-ray lab.
A few years later when I was 15 I bought an enlarger and made money producing fake IDs for the local college kids.
Have a boring life now.

[justaprogressive]

14. hahaha

excellent use of photography skills!

[HAB911]

3. Beautiful!

[Mousetoescamper]

7. Thanks!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Beautiful bit of family history, my dear Mousetoescamper!

How lucky you saved all of that.

Thank you!

[Mousetoescamper]

10. Thanks and you're welcome!

Some of my family photos are more than 100 years old. I've photographed the oldest for preservation. In order to preserve all of the collection I'll need a scanner that will digitize prints, negatives, slides, and home movies.

[TeamProg]

8. Wow! Fun. nt

[Mousetoescamper]

11. Thanks!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

12. Wonderful photos, thanks for sharing.

Box cameras were great. Fixed focus, fixed aperture, fixed shutter speed, and B&W film with a lot of latitude. Just stand eight feed away from your subject and use a flash inside. That worked for everything.

[Mousetoescamper]

13. Thanks! If I could find 120 film I'd take it out of retirement. It's been more than 50 years.