Eastman House has a collection of thousands of cameras, and there are maybe 75 of them on display at one time, in one of the galleries. I always enjoy looking over the cameras because I find cameras that I used in my career. On this trip, I was stopped in my tracks by this camera, a 4x5 "Speed Graphic." My high school owned a camera that looked like this, and I used it to cover some sporting events. The first event was a baseball game, and I photographed a player sliding home to score. That photograph was used by our local paper, "The Milford Citizen," because a sportswriter was at that game. It was my first published picture! Who knew what that first published picture was going to lead to!
This camera looks so cool and to think you used one like this. High School boy's photo is published. Wow. You certainly knew what you wanted to do in your life.
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Wow! Great story!! How exciting to have your first photo published in the paper!! The camera looks so big and heavy! betsey
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing to me that Apple has figured out a way to stuff all that complex hardware into an iPhone!
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