Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
Signs in the Sky, image by Donna June. Nikon D7100. ISO 400, at 6 seconds, f/10.
A very dear friend of mine captured this image the other day (it’s not AI) with her Nikon D7100. The church steeple is on Long Island. It’s an excellent composition.
Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
Hi all! I have my last Canon Macrolite ML-1 electronic flash from my collection for sale. This one is the latest version from 1985. It will work perfectly with the Canon New F-1 as well as any of the earlier A-Series cameras. It’s in my Etsy camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com
Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
My Asahi-Takumar 135mm f/3.5 lens set is shown with my Asahi Pentax 35mm SLR from 1957. The lens is from 1958. The lens is listed at 300 grams or 10.5 oz. My lens weighs 326 grams. There must be an error in the original weight, or my lens was modified by the factory after the first lenses were made.
It’s one of the first auxiliary lenses made for their new 35mm SLR camera.Asahi Optical Company’s first 35mm SLR with a pentaprism. This model was released in May 1957, and the lens followed shortly after in 1958.A snip from the instruction guide. This lens is the closest to mine in design.The earliest lens design had two chrome aperture rings.It’s shown here mounted to my Fuji X-T2 via an adapter.A test image. The equivalent focal length is about 200mm when used on a 1.5x crop sensor camera, such as the Fuji.There may be some light haze or cloudiness inside one of the lens elements, as this shot lacks contrast.Same shot with added “punch”.
Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
In light of another series of recent shootings in the United States, with one receiving the level of attention that I remember RFK received in 1968, I thought it would be a good time to remember these children, their parents, their families, and their teachers. Sandy Hook in 2012 and Uvalde in 2022…
Babies… just babies.Remember them…More children. And their teachers.Just ONE of hundreds killed by hateful people with guns.
I don’t usually post political things, and this isn’t and should never be political. People die in an unregulated society in LOVE with weapons, not humans. Peace, Chris
The Canonflex was released in May 1959. It was Canon’s first 35mm SLR. The Yashica Pentamatic was Yashica’s first 35mm SLR, and it was released in March 1960. It was designed with the help of the recently acquired Nicca Camera Company in 1958. It’s safe to say that without Nicca’s help after the acquisition, the Pentamatic wouldn’t have come to market when it did.
Likely two cameras many have never seen.
As a collector of classic cameras, I appreciate these designs from the late 1950s.What makes them different keeps them the same. Both cameras feature sharp standard f/1.8 lenses. The Canomatic lens is reportedly radioactive. No evidence that the Yashica lens is also radioactive. The lens on the Yashica was made by Tomioka Optical for Yashica. The Canon lens was made by Canon.The Canon is a slightly larger camera than the Yashica. The Pentamatic is slightly more compact compared to the Canonflex. Its all-metal construction puts its weight right there with the larger Canon.Rear view. The serial number on the Canon indicates it was the 5,998th camera made. The Yashica was manufactured in August 1960 and was the 8,101st model produced up to that point in 1960.
Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
In celebration of my mom, Mary, on the centennial of her birth in the city that she loved and knew so well… born September 10, 1916, at home on East 74th Street in Manhattan.
She told me that the rooftops and streets of the Upper East Side were her playgrounds and the East River (THAT river!) was where they splashed in the heat of summer.
She would go on to become a secretary for some of the biggest corporations in America, which were headquartered in New York.
She would meet my dad (Paul) at the wedding of her best friend and fall in love with him at first sight. She married my dad on November 3, 1943, just a few blocks from where she grew up.
During the war, she worked at Columbia University and would go on to receive recognition for her work on the Manhattan Project (Silver A-Bomb Pin).
By the mid-1950s, she was a suburban housewife (not a bad thing to say then, but if you said it today, you’d catch heck) and was the best mom in the world to me… she was at every baseball game and at school functions, and she taught me the ropes of New York and life.
My mom was the strongest person I knew… in less than twenty years, she would lose the man she loved with all her heart and fight on to see me through those difficult years that came after.
Sadly, she left way too soon herself, but her love of the City, of life, of adventure, and her courage are with me today.
My mom’s Kodak from 1938 and the host of images she took with it are special to me. My mom’s and dad’s love of photography was passed down to me (foto DNA), and that remains an essential connection to them.
If you’ve read this through, I thank you… It is only a small gesture that I can make in her memory today.
Image 1: Her camera.
Image 2: 1960 street photography. Me with my first camera.
Image 3: Mom with her bestie, Anne, in 1939.
Image 4: Mom and Dad in 1961 on a second honeymoon in Rio.
Image 5: 1976, Jensen Beach, Florida, just before I left for Japan.
Her Kodak camera.‘Street Photography’, 1960. With my first camera.Mom (on the right) with her bestie, Anne, 1939.Mom and Dad, 1961.On the beach, 1976.
Comments are always welcome; I’ve learned a great deal from reader feedback. As always, thanks for stopping by. While there, visit my camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com (CC Design Studios, hosted on Etsy). – Chris Whelan
Chasing Classic Cameras with Chris 