Photographic Memory

Also referred to as:    Memories of Photographic equipment.

I do not intentionally build collections, but prefer to use the term "accidental accumulation", since I never know which direction any acquired item will take me.  In this case my small digital camera brought me to the many cameras that Ed has accumulated throughout the past 40+ years.

 Ed is the "Artist-In-Residence" in our home. Here he is using his latest aquisition, a PanasonicLUMIX digital camera with a Leica lens. He has used many of the items featured in this blog.

This is a BerkleyOmega C760 enlarger. It is a specialized transparency projector used to product photographic prints from film negatives, using incandescent light bulbs.  The light passes through a film holder, which holds a negative and projects the image onto photographic paper which is then developed in a dark room. 

The light meter is used to determine the proper exposure.  It allows the photographer to determine which shutter speed and f-number should be used for optimum exposure.within a certain lighting situation and film speed.

A bulky telephoto lens.

The KODAK disc camera.

Two Polaroid Land Cameras with two different flash attachments. 

Leica 35mm camera and:

                                                      

KONICA 35mm camera and a Minolta 35mm

Rolleiflex Cameras have been made since 1929. 

The viewfinder sits on top of the camera, and the photogapher looks down at the image.

The PRONTO 35mm camera. I understand this is the "Agfa Silette", produced in 1953.  On line research shows many Prontos, but none seem as old as this. 

Smaller bellows cameras, among them a PRONTO bellows. and the Foth Strut folding camera for 127mm film rolls.  It was made by Foth from 1931-1943.  It has a focal plane shutter.  Some later models had a couples range finder.

The "Grandaddy" of our 'accumulation', the KODAK bellows camera. 

The legendary Olympus PenF SLR(single lens reflex) camera.  There are no competing 1/2 frame SLR systems from other companies then or now.  It was designed by Yoshihisa Maitani.  It takes a roll of 35mm; 36 exposure film and yields 72 exposures.

Ed's newest aquisition, the Panasonic  Lumix Digital Camera. 

and he tells me it is a "point and shoot' camera and very easy to use.  I prefer my own 'easy-to-use-point-and-shoot-camera, the Canon POWER SHOT!  I like its size and simplicity.  My camera fits into the palm of my hand or a coat/sweater pocket, and is there at the ready when and where I want it.  Downside: It goes through batteries, 2 at a time, hourly!!! (depending on use). 

Cameras come in many shapes and sizes, but the smallest one I have is my cell-phone camera (even smaller than the Canon). 
Photographic equipment  has evolved from a bellows camera, and the photographer hiding under a hood, shooting off explosives to take pictures, to an instrument the size of a credit card, that takes a picture by simply touching the "TAKE" icon on the screen. And then the ability to send that image to one or many recipients who could be anywhere in the world.

Thanks for visiting the the Camera "accumulation".......remember:  Say "Cheese"!!!!!