Several More Tasty Magazine Ad Scans

[bmattock]

Hey all:

In celebration of what Greyhoundman has done for me this evening, I have scanned a few more tasty magazine ads and I place them here for you in 800x1000 or so mode. Want the bigger (much bigger) original scans? Just drop me an email and say so - be prepared to have a 6 or 7 meg file dropped on ya. If you can't do that, let me know and I'll put it on my website or something where you can get at it.

Anyway, enjoy. By the way - I take requests. I've got quite a little collection of vintage camera magazines going now - covering from the 1940's on up to the 1970's. Not much outside of that. Let me know what you're looking for and the rough timeframe and I'll see if I can find it (spare time, you understand).

OK, here we go...

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[mac_wt]

Thanks Bill, this is fun. It makes me want to look at my collection of sixties National Geographics again. The publicity is almost as informative about society at that time as the articles.

Wim

 

[bmattock]

Thanks Bill, this is fun. It makes me want to look at my collection of sixties National Geographics again. The publicity is almost as informative about society at that time as the articles.

Wim

Wim,

It is amazing what you can learn about the culture of a nation or a people from reading the old periodicals. They really are gauges of the zeitgeist. I think future historians (ha, there's a concept) will be missing a trick if they don't dive headfirst into stacks of musty old magazines.

I just finished reading an interview the late Stanley Kubrick - fascinating - he was 33 at the time. I noted that although we were at the height of the Cold War in the 1950's and 1960's, that didn't stop Carl Zeiss Jena and Ihagee et al from seliling to us capitalist pigs over the transom. Fun stuff - I may have to write a book!

I like reading articles about 35mm - here to stay? And "will Super 8 take over from still photography?" and even "Is video tape the new film?" There are ads for guys on vacation taking their still camera, their movie camera, and their sound recorder - to record ambient sounds. Apparently all the rage for awhile.

Most old camera magazines are at least 1/2 devoted to movie cameras - 8mm and super 8. Amazing.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Thankyou Bill,
I love these old ads, and you can also pick up technical information from a number of them. For collectors, it is also fun to note the Serial Numbers of the cameras used in the ads. Normally, they are from the pre-production models, and some have some odd features not found in the production run.

 

[bmattock]

Brian,

I also note that some of the ads tout products that were never actually produced. Vaporware existed even way back then!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[yossarian]

"Stan the Man"

"Stan the Man"

Bill,
Which Kubrick interview were you reading? I try not to miss anything on him or Welles (I have an entire bookshelf for each of them).
yossarian

 

[FrankS]

Thanks Bill. Now I know why all those Canon rangefinders have wrinkled shutter curtains. Look at the bottom right picture of Bill's mag ad:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4218

 

[bmattock]

Bill,
Which Kubrick interview were you reading? I try not to miss anything on him or Welles (I have an entire bookshelf for each of them).
yossarian

Popular Photography, December, 1960 - page 144. "Interview with Kubrick" - questions by Charles Reynolds. He is 32 years old when this interview took place. The interview is just a couple of pages long.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[bmattock]

Thanks Bill. Now I know why all those Canon rangefinders have wrinkled shutter curtains. Look at the bottom right picture of Bill's mag ad:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4218

Ya, gerfingerpoken.

Best,

Bill

 

[Scarpia]

Bill, this should interest you. I found it in a 1964 edition of U.S. Camera International Pictures which turned up during a massive cleaning of my collections of everything and anything conducted by my wife. Last summer you posted a photo of the Spiratone 105 mm f2.5 lens which you and I own and here is an ad for it. $34.95 would yo believe? My wife also found an album into which I had pasted Modern Photography lens test results. I had long forgotten I had this. There is the result for this lens which is very good but not as good as the 105m f2.5 by Nikon. But for the price it was and is unbeatable.
Kurt M.

 

[Scarpia]

This is my third try at transmitting a scan of the whole page. I had to resize it down quite a bit so I apologize for the quality.
Kurt M.

 

[Doug]

Well well! Thanks for that one, Kurt! I bought the item in the upper right, the Spiratone 105mm f/2.5 pre-set lens, in a mount to fit the camera at lower left, a pre-Spotmatic Pentax! I'll guess that was about 1965...