Cameras

[NW Modeling List]

I'm come a long way from the Kodak Brownie and Polaroid cameras I began
with in the mid-60's.  I enjoyed a Canon FTB and an A-1 when shooting 35mm
slides from 1973 to 2003.  Changing over to digital photography in 2003
I've gone through a number of Canons beginning with the "Original" Digital
Rebel.  For the last several years I've been very happy using both a Canon
5D MkIII and 6D.  With them I use a Canon zoom lens EF 24-70mm 1:2:8 L II
USM and a Canon zoom lens EF 28-300mm 1:3.5-5.6 USM.  Too bad we didn't
have such cameras and lenses in days gone by.

Ed Painter; Member #70 from Narrows, VA living in Cohutta, GA

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:57 AM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> I balanced my photography with modeling during high school.  Neither was
> cheap and a bagboy’s part-time pay didn’t go far.  When I entered college
> in 1977, modeling was put on the back burner and I “focused” (pun intended)
> on photography.  I kept bagging groceries for Ingles until taking a job in
> the college’s Physics lab setting up experiments for underclass sessions
> and repairing equipment and was making a whopping $5/hr.  With gas at 54
> cents/gallon then and a roll of processed K64-36 costing around $10, I
> finally had some extra dough to go shooting.
>
>
>
> I came to western North Carolina with just 4 Southern slides in my
> collection that I’d shot on vacation the previous summer.  When I graduated
> in 1981, that had risen to over 5000, including Clinchfield and SCL.  When
> I stopped taking slides in 2004, the collection had risen to over 25,000,
> some of which were traded for (remember when slide and negative trading was
> just like trading stamps?).
>
>
>
> I actually bought my 35mm camera in 1975, not ’76 (mis-typed this in
> previous email).  It was a Honeywell SP1000 with a manual screw 55mm lens
> and a slide switch near where the lens screwed into the body that turned on
> the “averaging” light meter.  That was the weakest link … the switch top
> came unscrewed from the switch body (inside the camera) 3x during its life
> and each time I had to visit a camera repair shop to put it back.  Maybe
> none of them had the equivalent of LocTite back then!
>
>
>
> In 1982, my first job after graduation at Babcock & Wilcox (east of
> Lynchburg) allowed a “trade up” to a Canon F-1 and I added an A-1 soon
> after for black and white.  Added a Canon 70-210 zoom later and had an el
> cheapo 35mm wide angle from K-Mart that didn’t get much use.  In 2004, I
> converted to a Canon 20D digital.  I now use a Canon 5D with 24-105 lens
> and have a Canon 100-400 which has AMAZING clarity.
>
>
>
> Modeling content:  The Canon 5D with “normal” zoom is what I use for all
> kit instructions pix.  It can’t get macro-close but I offset this with a
> time exposure, at least f14 aperture and no flash.  You can see some of
> these (converted to low rez) on my web site (S and O AAR flat cars, in
> particular).
>
>
>
> Jim King
>
> www.smokymountainmodelworks.com
>
>
>
> *From:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 11, 2019 9:10 PM
> *To:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Subject:* Re: EXTERNAL: E-units - Southern practice
>
>
>
> This all reminds me of saving my allowance and odd-job $$ to buy a used
> Minolta SLR, on layaway no less, at age 14 for the princely sum then of
> $169.00. Nearly half a century later, the camera’s still on a knick-knack
> shelf wondering where Kodachrome 64 went! LOL. Wish I’d shot more then,
> glad I captured what I did, budget-permitting.
>
>
>
> Andre Jackson
>
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