David’s parents’ Kodak box camera and our mum’s Agfa.
I was stumped for a good picture today and decided to share this one of two of the cameras that David had in his collection. Both of these belonged to family members. The Kodak Brownie I believe belonged to David’s parents the battered Agfa on the right belonged to our mum. She used it to take photos of Naomi and I as small children. This was actually the first camera I ever used myself. Mum showed me how to hold it and take the pictures. She would change the film for me. I remember that it was 120 film and you would get about 8 photos to the roll. I was probably six or seven years old when I was first allowed to use this camera.
Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008.
We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company.
I currently co-write two Wordpress blogswith my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and a "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania.
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2 thoughts on “Snapshot Sunday: Vintage Cameras”
Awesome. I never seen one of these. 🙂 You have museum pieces there, photography history. 🙂
There are actually several of this type of camera in David’s collection. They wre quite common when I was a child. I plan on keeping most of the old cameras and will feature more another day.
Awesome. I never seen one of these. 🙂 You have museum pieces there, photography history. 🙂
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There are actually several of this type of camera in David’s collection. They wre quite common when I was a child. I plan on keeping most of the old cameras and will feature more another day.
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