Leidolf Wetzlar Lordette Camera, Model Prontor-s with a Triplon f/2.8 50mm lens.
Do you remember when cameras looked like this? This was my first camera… well to be strictly accurate it was my Dad's camera and he used to let me use it as a kid. I learned a lot about photography from this camera… like estimating distance – there was no focusing mechanism for it you just guessed how far away your subject was, and set the dial accordingly. No built-in light meter. Dad had one but we didn't use it – we used something known as the "Sunny 16 Rule". And best of all you didn't need a computer to process the images afterwards. You just put the memory ca… I mean film… in the little envelope that Kodak (remember them) gave you put it in the post and two week later you would get your slides back. Oh happy days.
Shame all the photos I took were rubbish!
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Looks like a fantastic piece of kit. I don't think I really got into photography until we had lessons at school and my friends dad had a darkroom that he let us use. I started with a 2nd hand Practica that someone in the family gave me. But one of the first things I ever saved up my pocket money and bought for myself was a Zenit E-TTL.
Looks like a fantastic piece of kit. I don't think I really got into photography until we had lessons at school and my friends dad had a darkroom that he let us use. I started with a 2nd hand Practica that someone in the family gave me. But one of the first things I ever saved up my pocket money and bought for myself was a Zenit E-TTL.
My first real camera was the Kodak Retina IIa – loved it. Whisper smooth mechanics; no light meter, but I learned everything I needed to know about exposure from the side of the Tri-X box, stuff I still remember today.
My first real camera was the Kodak Retina IIa – loved it. Whisper smooth mechanics; no light meter, but I learned everything I needed to know about exposure from the side of the Tri-X box, stuff I still remember today.
+Sara PiazzaI learned the sunny 16 rule from the side of a kodak box.
+Kevin Pack the camera looks a lot better in the photo – it no longer functions, the clock work timing mechanism for the shutter has had it. Started to fail in the 1970s actually – images getting more and more over exposed as it became more and more in accurate. Which is a shame, as I have fond memories of using it.
+Sara PiazzaI learned the sunny 16 rule from the side of a kodak box.
+Kevin Pack the camera looks a lot better in the photo – it no longer functions, the clock work timing mechanism for the shutter has had it. Started to fail in the 1970s actually – images getting more and more over exposed as it became more and more in accurate. Which is a shame, as I have fond memories of using it.