Two More Cameras
I got two more cameras! Actually, they were given to me as presents from a friend. Thanks Chad!
The camera that looks like a traditional camera is the Argus C3 (aka – the Brick). It is a 35mm rangefinder camera that was built around 1939. The other camera is a Six-20 Brownie Junior that was introduced in 1934 and sold originally for $2.25.
I like the mystery of where they’ve been and the pictures they took. Think about it. They were around during World War II so I have to wonder if they took pictures of a G.I. coming home from the war in Europe or a Christmas like the one from the movie “A Christmas Story”.
“You’ll shoot your eye out kid!”
What amazes me the most about these cameras is that they’re only around 70 years old. It is hard to fathom how far things have come in just 70 years for photography, but how simple and classic pictures from these kinds of cameras still are. No digital camera can reproduce the kind of pictures these cameras can take and it’s a shame that the art of film photography and darkroom developing is falling to the wayside in exchange for efficiency and immediacy. Times are a changin’.
I remember taking photojournalism I and II in high school and spending hours in the darkroom with friends talking about high school stuff while we made pictures. I liked watching the pictures appear on the paper as we developed the pictures and put them in the fixer as soon as the picture appeared. We learned how to dodge, burn, and do all kinds of tricks with film photography, but, personally, I like rolling film canisters. It’s kind of therapeutic.
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