Let’s see some of the earliest photos you’ve made —

[Pál_K]

A few more early pictures…

These are wonderful! A time machine!

That Kodachrome photo is simply the perfect example of Kodachrome colors. Also, the Kodak infrared. I miss that film.

Are those the live oaks in Northern California? I love seeing those, near Redding.

 

[oldhaven]

I recently went through some slides from the early 70's and picked some out to scan. This is one from 1972 of my wife. I used my first camera, a Mamiya Sekor 1000DTL with 55/f1.4 lens that I bought a year earlier in the Navy Exchange in Norfolk, VA. I used the camera throughout the 7 years in the service and into the 80's and still have it. Finding it in a drawer a year ago started me on a journey to reintroduce myself to film. I found that a lot of the slides had aged badly, but the Kodachrome transparencies I have were as vivid as I remembered them. A lot of detail in this photo, and it was not scanned at high resolution.

 

[oldhaven]

More Kodachrome slides of Barbara from about the same period. My favorite musician.

 

[Tuna]

 

[newst]

From my photographic infancy, a decade ago.

 

[petronius]

1979 with my fathers Porst Reflex FX3 and my own 135mm

 

[petronius]

1979, same camera with the Pentaflex 50mm/2,8 held in front of the camera in reverse position, HP5

 

[petronius]

1980, Nikon FM with the infamous Beroflex 500/8 ("Wundertüte"), Kodachrome 64; I mounted the lens/camera combination to a homemade gunstock and enjoyed the weird looks I got in the zoo (I was 16;-).

 

[chuckroast]

1971 - Nikon FTn Apollo, 50mm f/1.4 lens. Scan of resulting silver print ...

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (nikkor h auto 50mm f2) nikkormat ftn

New Years eve Utrecht 1970/1971

 

[Rick Waldroup]

I have many photos older than this one but I have not scanned them.

The camera was a Nikon F2 with Tri x.

Kathy - Miami Beach - Summer, 1977

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (nikkor h auto 50mm f2) nikkormat ftn

Amsterdam Centraal Station, 1974

 

[EliasK]

1978, self portrait with the first camera I bought, Pentax K1000 w/50M 1.7 ektachrome 64

 

[neal3k]

Sepia Shack 35mm by Neal Wellons, on Flickr

I took this photo about 1965 in a rural area between Americus and Andersonville, Georgia.
Olympus OM-1, Plus-X film. I was developing with D-76 or Microdol; don't know which I used here. Sepia toner.

 

[John Bragg]

My Grandma aged about 94 @1981
Camera used, Canon AV1 with Colour print film and direct flash.

Grandma Roberts by E.J. Bragg, on Flickr

 

[oldhaven]

Three more well-preserved Kodachrome transparencies from 1972, taken with my just acquired 1000DTL




Snow on the beach, Virginia Beach, VA 1972



Van trip with our bloodhound Chance

 

[maggieo]

I was fourteen when I took these, usually with a Canonete QL17 GIII:


Sue On The Creek, Craig, NE, 1978 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr


Cedar Bowl, North Platte, NE, June, 1980 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr


Mark Villwok, North Platte, NE, 1980 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

 

[maggieo]

Kim's Jeans, North Platte, NE, 1980 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr


Trees and Gully, Craig, NE, 1980 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr


Don Hasenkamp, Oakland, NE, 1980 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

 

[Doug A]

Sometime between 1965 and 1967. Parked in front of a Barricini Chocolate store on 14th Street in NYC. Leica IIIf, Tri-X, lab developed (developer unknown).

 

[Deleted member 65559]

Sepia Shack 35mm by Neal Wellons, on Flickr

I took this photo about 1965 in a rural area between Americus and Andersonville, Georgia.
Olympus OM-1, Plus-X film. I was developing with D-76 or Microdol; don't know which I used here. Sepia toner.

.....the Olympus OM-1 came out in 1972....