Photography and Me
Photography has always fascinated me. My parents bought me a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye box camera when I was 8. The link will show you what it looked like and also its performance parameters, which were limited, to say the least. I remember using it indoors at the Smithsonian shortly after I got it. Thankfully, my horrible shots are now safely at the bottom of some landfill in Berks County! But it sparked an interest in doing better. My brother brought back a Konica 35 mm single lens reflex (SLR) camera when he returned from the Navy and gave it to me in high school. Now I could play with shutter and aperture settings and different film speeds. It was all trial and error but I slowly got better and in the days of film, I mostly shot color slides. I finally bought a Canon AE-1 after I joined the Navy. This was a very popular entry-level SLR at the time (Canon discontinued it in 1984) but it was solid and my photography improved a little bit more. Margan and I used it and her SLR (I think