Three or More Tuesday/More Cameras!

It seems like Tuesday comes around faster all the time.

Here it is time for Three Or More hosted by our friend

Tam over at The Gypsy's Corner.

Thank you so much Tam for your hosting duties.

Hubby had mentioned in a short post about our other cameras.

After a little digging around we found them.

Hubby or B-Daddy as he is known will say something too.

I will make his contribution a different color text to help separate who is saying what.

But before I go on I am sure you are wondering why the name

B-Daddy.

Some one thought it meant Big Daddy.

But actually it came from the kids whining at him

But ....Dad....dy......

So that got shortened to B-Daddy.

We say it like this, Buh-Daddy with the "B" sound coming out really fast.

So there you go.

Now on to the cameras.

First up is this Yashica.

I can remember my mother and my grandmother using this kind of camera.

Some of our wedding photos were taken with this camera

or one like this.

The two knobs on the face (between the lenses) are for setting the aperture and shutter speed.

The small yellow dot you see on the right side knob is the shutter release lever.

This was actually my field portrait and group camera. There was a larger, sheet negative camera that was kept at the studio, for detailed portrait work.

This type of camera is used mainly for portrait and group photos, or longer exposure nature photos.

Many times it will be mounted on a tripod for greater stability during the longer exposures.

As you can probably tell by this and the first picture, this camera is a double lens non-reflex camera.

That means that the mirror for the view finder is actually in a slightly different place than right behind the lens, and does not have to get out of the way when the shutter is opened (non-reflex).

The film used in this camera had negatives 2 1/4 inches square.

If you notice the long crank handle sticking out to the side, the film was cranked to the next negative after each shot, and that took a little extra force than winding a 35 mm. camera.

The dial on the side is for setting the focus, which you are doing while looking down through the top opening.

By the way, the view finder shows everything upside-down and backwards, so it takes some getting used to when trying to shoot photos.

Hubby had this mamiya/sekor when I first met him.

This is a single lens reflex camera.

The mirror for the view finder comes down behind the lens, for focusing and composing, and then swings up out of the way when the shutter opens for the picture.

If you have a single lens reflex camera, you can look through the lens from the front and see what is behind the viewfinder opening.

He used it frequently for slide pictures.

I can remember him dropping it a few times and then

it quit working as well as it should, since I managed to break the shutter iris.

After that we used my instamatic camera a lot.

I had a couple of different ones.

Do you remember those?

Looking back, I remember those were very limiting.

Then we eventually got the Chinon I mentioned in my previous

Three or More post.

The smaller lever for advancing film makes it easier and faster to get ready for the next shot.

This camera does not have interchangeable lenses, so a converter would need to be added for any telephoto work (similar to the Chinon).

When I started working as a professional photographer, 35 mm. cameras were mostly used for doing field photos.

Here is our polaroid.

This came in handy when the kids had to do a report

and needed some pictures to go with the report.

We used this one several times for that kind of project.

Because the photos were available almost instantly, many professionals began using polaroids to check composition.

They were also somewhat helpful in checking lighting.

I always thought that they were the ugliest cameras I had ever seen.

They were, however, extremely handy when you needed a picture in a hurry!

And here ends the lesson in cameras!

Happy Three or More Tuesday!

~Linnea and B-Daddy~