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 Did you guys carry a camera? (currently 1 views) |
| Frenchie |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 1:14am |
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Dont know how this will turn out...frankly i am already surprised to hear that the 35MM camera has been mentioned a few times....what can i say? i led a sheltered life over there...didnt spend much time at the mall in Chu Lai...
might have to copy and paste this each time to keep a running total.
What type?
35MM
MINOLTA? 1
PENTAX?
YASHICA?
KODAK?
CANON?
enter your brand here
or Instamatic and as far as i know there was only one type
KODAK 110
or enter your own brand of instamatic...
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Fletchw2zero |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 1:45am |
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| I had a Ricoh 126 TLS for a while that I bought on stand down. Took lots of pictures. Had to drop rucks in Queson Aug 69 and we never saw our rucks again. Dinks or Marines got it. |
Fletch
Co B 4/31 May through November 69
C Btry 1/82 Arty Nov 69 thru April-ish 70 radio handle whiskey two zero
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| Ken McKenzie, C, 4-31 |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 1:46am |
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I went through at least 3 Kodak Instamatics. Had one burn up in an APC. One stolen by kids at a forward base along with 5 rolls of exposed film in an ammo box.
I bought a Polaroid at the PX in Tay Ninh. Bad choice. Never took it to the field, but got some nice photos in basecamp.
A friend bought a Minolta 101 and we shared the slides he took. Much better than the instamatic. I bought one when I got back to the world and used it until going digital. |
Ken McKenzie
C-4/31, 196th LIB, 1965-1967
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 2:03am |
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| The kodak looked great (sizewise) but there was no way good pictures could come out of that tiny negative.. I dont think i knew about Ricoh back in the days...that minolta 101 was a work of art.....i loved it |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Ralph Urrutia |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 3:15am |
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Medium Member C 4/31 from Oct 68 / 69 196 Inf.
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| I had a Minolta Hi Matic 7 bought at the px on standdown also....and also lost it with my pack in aug 69. Kept in in a plastic bag with film and personal stuff that I wanted to keep dry. Worked great for a long time. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 4:13am |
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| Ralph i am pretty sure my first minolta was a Himatic 7...god knows i wasted several rolls of GREAT pictures in trying to put the film in correctly...messed up several rolls at fort polk...rifle range, cattle trucks etc |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Ralph Urrutia |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 7:26pm |
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| great camera...thats what I took the pictures on the C 4/31 google that i have posted:) |
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 9:21pm |
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I can't think of a technology that has advanced as dramatically as the personal camera.
My father used a Rolleiflex (twin lens, 2 1/4x2 1/4 film) for forty or more years before moving up to a Hasselblad.
He gave me a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex, a 35mm SLR, when I was a senior in high school. This was just before the invention of the through-the-lens light meter, so it came with a GE lightmeter and much instruction. At least twice photographing near streams, I looked down at where the cord holding the meter disappeared into the water, leaving little bubbles.
Both the Rollei and the Zeiss took (and still do) great pictures, but I later moved up to much easier to use Fujica and Nikon SLRs.
I have to admit that I don't have a digital still camera, except for a sneaky critter-cam, even yet.
As I mentioned on the other thread, I sent for the Zeiss when we were at Tay Ninh, used it briefly, and was persuaded to send it home when we moved north.
While I never had any objection to the men in my platoon taking snaps, I was never comfortable by the distraction (or appearance of it) of doing it myself in any but the most "stand down" circumstances. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 9:43pm |
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Jim:
I have been known to collect cameras and i believe i have a Contaflex in my collection. Ill take a picture later on today and post it. Im pretty sure it works but I have never used it. I finally gave in to the digital age and i now carry a Canon S3...great camera...it even changes colors in the picture without blinking an eye...it is mind boggling...hundreds of pictures can be put on a 1GB card (SD), movies can be taken also....just dont run out of batteries.. |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jack Krohn |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 11:35pm |
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Frenchie - you left out Nikon ;-)
As I had mentioned in the thread about rucks, I bought a Nikon at FreedomHill during one of our stand-downs and carried it in an ammo can on the bottom of my ruck.
This pic was taken during the stand-down when I bought it. A buddy had a Polaroid so we had a "shoot-off" ;-)
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: November 22nd, 2010, 11:46pm |
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| ahhhhhhhhhhh a nikon....in my estimation the "cadillac" camera of photography...i wont ask which skinny guy you were.....only because i can tell a polaroid from a 35 MM |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: November 26th, 2010, 3:44am |
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| any of you guys carried a half frame camera? you know, 72 exposure out of a 36 exposure roll. |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| stillkit |
| Posted on: November 26th, 2010, 2:18pm |
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I carried an Instamatic wherever I went and accumulated something over 500 photographs. Of course, they didn't last long in the tropics, so I probably went through half a dozen of them before it was over.
Late in my tour, I bought a 35mm Yashica off someone for 50 bucks, complete with a carrying case, filters and lenses, but I never took it to the bush. Instead, it stayed locked up with my personal stuff in the supply room while we were out beyond the wire. It took much better pictures, but wouldn't have survived the first stream crossing or head-first dive into a rice paddie to dodge bullets.
Though I haven't used it in years and, though both film and development are getting hard to find, I've still got it and it still takes great pictures.
Question: Did y'all develop your film in-country? I know the PX system had development available, but I never used it as we were a "swing" battalion and tended to change locations a lot. Instead, I'd send it home. Mom would have them developed, then send them back to me so I could notate the back of them, then I'd send them home again.
All of my pictures crossed the Pacific four times! LOL |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: November 26th, 2010, 2:26pm |
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most of my film i received and sent home for processing so i had be my own censor..nothing too ugly for mom to view.
At some point (luck i think) i got a hold of prepaid processed film...which meant that the film went to hawaii for processing and they mailed it back to me...most of the time it went home.
The one time ( i had GREAT pictures on that roll!!!!) i was in da nang i took my film for processing to the PX. Within a very short period of time we went back to LZ West from our temporary detail and as a result i never got the film back...still there...if you guys go back to da nang...get my film for me |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Lloyd Martin C 3-82 68 |
| Posted on: November 26th, 2010, 4:26pm |
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I had oh cheapo Kodak instamatic. Used the free film processing from KodaK in HI.
Unfortunatly must have had some censored as many never made it back home. As with the time of the Battle Of Nui Lon when the A-1 Sky Raider went down in front of us I had taken pictures of the down plane same roll with these pictures as the one of me and Lt Griffin was at the site. To bad we can not raid Kodac in HI and bet we would find a tremendous amout of pictures! But sure more then likely all distoried. No wonder the grovernment had KodaK offer free processing!~
Say if you use Photobucket.com and just by clicking on your photo also brings up box on right to SHARE Then go to the IMG box and left click on it , will say copied, then go to your message and just right click and paste!
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Lloyd Martin
Austin, TX
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FO D 4/31 Feb 68 - Aug 68
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