ShutterProf: Stories in Analog

A couple of weeks ago, I went on a walk around the neighborhood, and I took two cameras, the Nikon N80 with the 50mm, f/1.9 lens, loaded with Arista EDU Ultra 400 B&W film, and the Canon Sure Shot Supreme loaded with Kodak Gold.

This past weekend, I visited a friend's antique store to see if I could help repair an old typewriter. Unfortunately, what was needed was outside the scope of my abilities. While I was there, however, the owners showed me a box of old cameras they had gotten in and asked me what I could learn about them. There were a lot of Polaroid Land cameras, a broken Rolleiflex, an Instamatic, and lots of old Kodaks -- Bakelite Brownies, folders, and box cameras. I went through each one

I have memories of using film cameras when I was small, mainly a Baby Brownie Special (a 127 Bakelite box camera) and some sort of camera with a waist-level viewfinder. I think we also had an Instamatic that took 126 film . We didn’t take a lot of photographs because that cost money, and money was not something we had much of.