Canonet 1971

[payasam]

A processed roll of film, uncut, emerged from what I thought was an empty film can. Looking at the negatives, it is clearly from the summer of 1971. Taken with a first version Canonet. Must say the 45mm f/1.9 lens was good. The photo attached is of my favourite big sister (female first cousin, dead seven years) with her first-born, now the mother of two boys. Most probably flash bulbs were used, though I may have borrowed an electronic unit from a friend.

 

[40oz]

Cool.
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[Sonnar Brian]

I'm guessing that brought surprise and a few tears. I remember '71 well. Seems not so long ago, and an age ago.

 

[payasam]

Surprise, yes. Tears, yes. Will send a print to my niece, which should bring more of both. You're right about the elastic nature of time.

[edit] Adding two more from the same roll. The young woman clowning with what could be a slice of cucumber in her mouth is now the granny in a green shawl in my RFF gallery. The little girl teaches in a college and has a 13-year-old son and a second spouse. The boy is a balding professor in a US university.

 

[clarence]

Great story.

I hear that the Tata Nano will do for ordinary people what the Canonet did in the 70s.

Clarence

 

[payasam]

The Nano small car has still to enter the market. If it is priced as promised, and if it turns out to be worth the money, its effect will be greater than that of the Canonet: there are more "ordinary people" in the world than there are photographers.