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1944 ~ Well I was 12 in 1944 and a Freshman in High School And I started taking pictures of friends and family then But I do not remember with what Camera... And I was working after School then and bought a New One |
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1946 ~ My First Flash Camera ~ Brownie Flash 620 ~ Real nice little box... Took Sharp 2 1/4 X 3 1/4 pics Original Price $6.00... Flash Extra |
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1946 ~ My Second Flash Camera ~ Kodak Brownie Reflex 127 And a Mistake... Took Dinky pics less than 2 inches square And I never liked true reflex cameras anyway Original Price was $6.00 and Flash Extra |
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1947 ~ Was a Junior in High School here And reading mags about a better Camera |
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1948 ~ Then I graduated in 1948 at age 16, went to work for Sears Making big (?) money and getting big ideas... I bought this book about Graflex Cameras Well worn and well read, I still have it after 64 Years |
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I read about all the original Graflex Cameras And in the back... The New Pacemaker Speed Graphic |
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1948 ~ Well they had one in the Showcase in Sears Retail Store And I used to go down on break and drool over it And the Price for the Camera alone was $400... Case and Flash extra So... I got Mom to sign for it and it was MINE! But I made the payments Started taking photos everywhere I could Here at the ROTC Ball in 1949 |
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1949 ~ Built a Darkroom in the basement, developed and printed Photos This one snapped by a friend in 1950... I was 18 and in the Civil Air Patrol And got tired of working at Sears and Joined the US Air Force in October of 1950 |
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1951 ~ Lowry Air Force Base Denver Colorado ~ Camera Tech School At that time the Photographer field was saturated so second choice was Camera Repair School And a good choice as it turned out for Assignments Was second in Class and got a promotion to Corporal at finish |
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1951 ~ Assigned to the Base Photo Lab at Scott AFB, Illinios My job was to maintain all Photo Equipment and also was in charge of the Supply Room and ordering of supplies for the lab Was adanced to AFSC 40350 and Promoted to Sergeant (Airman First Class) Now I see that it is called Senior Airman And of course I had my Speed Graphic with me from then on |
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1952 ~ Assigned to Luke AFB, Arizona, still lugging that Camera with me Took a Photographer test, passed with A 98 Score and transferred to Senior Photographer AFSC 23250 |
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1953 ~ Assigned to Randolph AFB, Texas to stock a new Recon Photo lab with Equipment and supplies Promoted to Staff Sergeant, AFSC 23270 and finished out my Air Force enlistment Then back to work at Sears in 1954 for two years and then to IBM in 1956 for the next 31 years |
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1956 ~ Started at IBM... Not taking many photos then in 1962 moved to Saint Joseph, Missouri at the request of IBM Bought a new Camera, One like this Canon Ex-Auto photo I found online Then a new house, new hobbies, taking lots of 35MM Slides Most of the older photos on my web pages are copies of slides I took with this type of camera |
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Then in the 1980s I got into video... First with a separate camera and recorder...
Then next into Camcorders... Like this RCA... It was Stolen and replaced by a Samsung. Then I lost all the Video I had taken in a fire, moved to Parkville in 1998 and brought the Samsung with me |
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Next I bought this used Vivitar 35mm SLR and started taking pictures around Parkville It did a fair job and I was scanning the prints for placing into web pages I still have this old dog on the shelf |
| 2003 ~ Sometime about here my Vivitar 35mm was having a light leakage problem and I jumped into the Digital camera world with this dandy little Kodak workhorse and fed my web pages with it's pictures until 2010 |
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2008 ~ Sometime in 2004 my old Samsung VHS Camcorder was stolen from my place here in Parkville and I know who... Now serving in Federal Prison for drugs So I went without Video for a few years and then bought a Panasonic SD Video Camera (left here) Next an HD (right) |
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But the SD Camera didn't suit me and I sold it and ordered a new Panasomic HD Video Camera Taking HD Video all over and burning Blu-ray DVDs to show on my TV... Really Sharp! |
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2010 ~ Then I read about the Canon Rebel XSi Digital SLR in PC World magazine and decided I had to have that Ordered that early in 2010 and been giving it a real work-out since, new pics just about every day for my BLOG |
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2010 ~ The Canon has a built-in flash that is adequate for many scenes but I added an External Flash for better coverage |
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2010 ~ One of the first Photos I took with the new Canon In the mirror so I had to reverse the copy |
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2011 ~ The Canon XSi was doing everything I wanted to do quite nicely But then I saw reviews of this New Canon EOS 7D DSLR and I had to have it |
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So May 31, 2011, I ordered it A week later, here we are trying it out Takes great Photos and great Videos and I love it! |
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Then on September 8, 2011, I updated this page And is the Canon EOS 7D my last Camera? Oh Oh.. Got my sights on this one, stay tuned to see when I get it! New 5 Star Rated Panasonic AG-HMC40 |
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2011 ~ So that brought my Camera History to September, 2011...Such a fun hobby for all those years since 1944... Here ready for Pics at the Annual Parkville Nature Sanctuary 'Santa Trek' |
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And then in October of 2011 I bought my latest Video Camera A Professional Model Panasonic AVCCAM, full HD for Blu-ray Video |
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Then back to the Nature Sanctuary in late October to try it out Video of Pumpkin Carving Night and Ghost Story Night |
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