Playing with my Canon F-1 (1978 Version) in our backyard in Yokohama, Japan 1978.
The marks are on the dry mounted original print. Copied under studio lighting with my Fujifilm FinePix S9900. No cropping from the original.
By the way, all pretty “ghosts” smile. ^.^
Chris
As part of my ship’s port visit to Cannes, France, I was able to take an all too short trip to Marseille from Cannes and then on to Sisteron. Not quite the full French Alps but close. A charming little town with some nice views of the mountains. Unfortunately I had to be on the next train heading back south so I at best had only an hour to walk about.
The quality of the scans are not the best as satin paper does not scan well at any resolution. All images were taken with my Canon F-1 (1978 Version) on Kodak Kodacolor negative film.
Marseille train station?
Pretty sure that this was at the train station in Sisteron. Although I could have made it all the way to Gap.
I didn’t take notes as I shot these images – 31 years later I can’t recall exactly where they were in Sisteron or were they in Gap?
All the best and thanks for your visit! Oh by the way, if you recognize any of the scenes please let me know where they are. Thanks
Chris
Some recently found images from a short stop in Monaco and the French Riviera in September 1986. Original images are from my Canon F-1 on Kodacolor film – scanned with a Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II. The prints are on satin finish paper which does not scan well – at all!
Casino de Monte-Carlo.
Monaco police caught in casual mode.
Monaco
The TVG that I did not take from Marseille to Paris!
At the casino, I was invited for a change of clothing as my casual American attire was too casual for the likes of the casino. Nice clothes – and they were happy to store my camera gear for me and watched us US Navy Sailors like hawks!
Wonderful port visit overall – we were anchored out off the coast of Cannes along the French Riviera and travelled to Nice and Monte Carlo.
Thanks for your visit!
Chris
Remembering back to our time living in Japan in the late 1970s. We lived in a small area of southern Yokohama near Sankei-en (gardens). The Naka Ward was home to a large US Navy family housing area and the ever popular Navy Exchange and Commissary. Avenue D, pictured below, was the main highway from Yokohama to the Navy base at Yokosuka. In our part of the housing area, these Sakura (below) had been planted as a joint project with the military families and the local community. After the long and dreary winter we looked forward to the blossoms and warmth that signaled Spring.
Sakura along Avenue D in the Naka Ward. Base housing to the left.
Sankei-en in Spring. A short bicycle ride from our home so we visited often.
Carol spending her 100 yen wisely on a visit to Sankei-en.
More views in Sankei-en.
Photography blossoms in the Spring.
We were lucky to live in such a nice area of Yokohama – everything was a short bike ride away. Spring was way too short and the Summers on the Kanto Plain were way too long!
Thanks for your visit! Enjoy your Spring!
Camera: Canon F-1
Film: Kodak Kodachrome 25
Chris
Sunrise and showers as viewed from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41) while conducting flight ops in the East China Sea in late 1979. Sometimes, the loneliness of life at sea can be rewarded – however briefly. Standing there in the predawn hours waiting for the tropical night to end – a dissipating rain shower on the horizon adds a bit of drama to the sunrise and the photographers night is done.
The sun touches the clouds and the tropical shower has all but dissipated. A distant ship (part of our Task Group) can be seen on the horizon’s center.
Flight Deck personnel clean their aircraft for the days activities. US Navy Sea King helicopter (on the right) from HC-1 and a F-4J Phantom jet awaits its next sortie.
The cumulonimbus cloud drops its precipitation into the warm sea.
Camera: Canon F-1 (1978 version) with Canon FD 24mm f2.8 lens on Kodak Kodachrome.
Thanks for your visit.
Chris
Rescue crewman’s fireproof helmet. USS Midway (CV-41), underway from Yokosuka, Japan in the South China Sea. 1978
No post production. As captured and composed.
Camera: Canon F-1 (1978 version) Kodak Kodachrome 25 Canon FD 80-200mm f4 @ 4 sec
Oil refinery as seen from the hill behind our house in Naka-ku, Honmoku, Yokohama. Canon F-1 (1978 version) with Canon FD 80-200mm f/4 zoom lens on Kodak Ektachrome at about 5 seconds at f/16. As best as we can tell, the refinery is still there today.
Chris and Carol ^.^
Senja-fuda… “I was here”…
Calm…
Canon F-1 (1978 version) on Kodachrome 64. Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama, Japan.
Peaceful place. Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan… July 1979
Canon F-1 on Kodak Kodachrome 64.
First version Canon F-1 with its gorgeous chrome nosed FD 50mm f/ 1.4 lens.
Canon F-1 from April 1972. This was the first version of the F-1 and it sports a rather low serial number. We’ve held this one back all these years with just occasional use (mainly in the studio). Our field tested F-1 (not pictured) was acquired new in 1978 (2nd version F-1) and it’s the one that’s traveled the world – getting seriously wet in Hong Kong, Japan and the US- dropped in a photographic safari bus in Kenya – slid off a train seat in Tokyo – and was briefly “lost” in Diego Garcia!
All original stuff from 1972.
Note that this super early FD lens does not have the SC or SSC markings on the lens ring.
I started 35mm SLR photography with a Nikonos II and then purchased my first Yashica (TL Electro-X) and then into Canon we went. We need to find some time to take this one out and put that classic glass to good use! Nothing like holding an old friend again.
Thanks for stopping by!
Chris
Chasing Classic Cameras with Chris 