[Leica] Square format

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Come to think of it, so were mine:

Brownie Starflash:
<http://www.brownie-camera.com/36.shtml>
Mine was blue

Didn't get another camera until I was in college:
Yashica-Mat 124
<http://tinyurl.com/ywyxv6>
It was thrown down (literally) by a wedding phototg who had it jam one  
time too many. A girl who lived in the other half of my duplex brought  
it home curious to tear it apart. We did, and when I put it back  
together, it worked. I bought film, talked to a friend who brewed his  
own, bought developer and tank and dove in.

I tell folks I'm a graduate of the label and insert school of  
photography;^)

You may be right about fitting lens coverage being the reason we had  
square format. Didn't the first box Kodaks deliver round pictures on  
square prints?

Maybe the question should have been, "When and why did we stop  
worrying about square?" Related to the proscenium perhaps?

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/




On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> My first two cameras shot squares.
>
> The first one 1958  when I was 10-12 yrs old: (1960-2) Brownie Starlet
> http://www.geh.org/fm/brownie/htmlsrc/mE13000055_ful.html#topofimage
>     http://www.vieilalbum.com/BrownieStarletFR.htm
> Manufactured : 1957-62 Lens : Dakon Shutter : Rotary Quantity Made :
> Original List Price : $6 Film Size : 127 Negative Size : 4x4 cm
> Made in France!!!!!!!!
>
>
> Then in Chicago a holiday season came along and:
> 1963 13-14 yrs old: Instamatic 100  126 Cartridge  28x28mm
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kodak_Instamatic_100.jpg