[Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have an idea.

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Yes, Kyle, I still have my first real camera, a Leica IIIa with coated 
50/3.5 Elmar, purchased used in 1952.  It is still servicable, but needs a 
good CLA.  I have a number of scanned film and slide images from this old 
workhorse in my LUG gallery.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:18 PM
Subject: [Leica] Do you still have your first camera? Because I have an 
idea.


>I still have my first camera. It's a Petri 7s rangefinder and it's on my 
>bookshelf looking down at me right now.
>
> I think that some of you probably do as well.
>
> Here's what I'd like to do:
>
> Curate a gallery-show / web project / possibly more, that involves 
> interviews with photographers about their first cameras, how they got it, 
> what it means to them, and then to have them either
>
> a) give me a high res scan (and reprint rights) to a vintage photo they 
> took with that camera or
> b) take their first camera out and shoot at least three rolls with it and 
> give me a NEW photo (and reprint rights) taken with it (you can talk about 
> re-using your camera in the interview)
>
> as well as
>
> c) a photo of the camera and
> d) a portrait of the photographer
>
>
> it's still a bit up in the air but i've gone and registered: 
> http://www.myfirstcamera.org/ and as it grows I figure it'll take shape 
> and it'll become a beautiful thing. I'm going to leave a broad definition 
> for "first camera" -- it could either be the first camera you ever used, 
> the first you ever owned, or the first you bought for yourself or even the 
> first "real" camera you bought for yourself.
>
> Volunteers? Especially people who've had long and successful careers in 
> some aspect of photography, newspapers, commercial, etc.
>
> email me kyle at kylecassidy dot com or share your enthusiasm here, we'll 
> figure this out.
>
> thanks,
>
> kyle
>
> http://www.myfirstcamera.org/
>
>
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