A Step Back

Before I go forward, let's take a step back. A step back you say? Yes, where are we coming from would be a good place to start. I haven't always just been taking pictures with a digital camera. In fact I have had a couple of types of cameras. I remember the days of polaroids and film. Technology has brought us a long way from the 70's and 80's, well as I remember. I have enjoyed taking pictures for fun, and they have documented where and what I was doing in my past.

My first camera was a 110 film camera. Just a step up from a pinhole. I am sure most of you remember what they looked like. Small, flat, and pocket carriable. The good ones had a flash attachment, but they were all manual. Auto focus? Well focus of any kind was none existent. The type of flash was a cube with 4 flashes that pivoted and was set off by a pin that hit a wire and set off the magnesium fuzz in the flash. I had a lot of fun playing with the camera, and the flash cubes. Maybe when I have the time, energy, and equipment, I will find some of my 110's and scan them to post to show what I was seeing. I warn you a lot of them were blurry. No focus remember. They were great cameras for kids and sometimes for travelling.

My next camera I picked up in about late 88 or early 89. I got it just before I went overseas on peace keeping. This camera had an auto focus, built in flash, and was a 35mm film camera. I abused that poor sucker and picked up an interesting quirk. The back door couldn't stay closed, so it ended up being taped most of the time. It was a battery hog of course, but it was so much fun. I took it with me all over Cyprus, all across Canada an it was a joy to use. I have pictures of planes, new and old, my army days, my trekkie days, and of my marriage time. Of course I have lost a lot of pictures that I took. Sometimes I didn't get the film developed when I was finished shooting a roll of film. Of course I never knew what I was getting either. The main draw back of a film camera. Then the camera finally gave up the ghost and I wandered lacking a camera to document what I was seeing. Through moves, and my divorce, a lot of my pictures went missing or were thrown out. Some I have scanned, and I will update this posting with my 35mm pictures. Be warned, they are silly and involve a lot of alcohol. At least they are all SFW.

So until next time. When I step forward to just a few years ago and start with my current portfolio of pictures, and reasoning for what I am doing.

PaladinPhil

Update: Two pictures added from the times I was talking about. I am in one of them. Guess which one.