"Where I Live" Camera Contest

<a href="http://davidrichert.com/classic_camera_contest.htm">Contest

Link</a>

 

The shooten is over and it is time to get all the entries in by

Monday morning. Over 50 different entries so far but I know that

more are coming. We need to set up a panel or a person who will

tally the votes other than myself. I purpose that one "First" place

winner (takes the camera) and two or three "Honorable" winners just

for bragging rights. Next contest - Use a camera that was made in

the year you were born - more to follow but get your camera ready.

Crapola! This is supposed to be a camera forum, not another Leica Forum.

Lighten up, Bill. Sounds like a fun thing, gets people using their classic cameras, which I take as a good thing.

 

And David- on the camera in the year you were born...what if you have no idea when a camera was made? (Typical of many models, I suppose),

1972 - I am born outside the forum guidelines ;) I have enough grey hair already to add 5 years.

There have been many fine photos posted from all over the world, and the camera illustrations and notes are informative and inspiring.

I could easily be convinced to give away more than one camera.

"Next contest - Use a camera that was made in the year you were born - more to follow but get your camera ready."

 

Geez, not ALL of us here are old farts...for some of us 30 is still in the distance (ahead not behind)...

 

;-)

 

Alan

David, I offered before to help so here I am. I can tally the votes or anything you may need to bring the contest to a decent finale.

It looks just great, instructive and inspiring. Thanks for hosting this on your website.

Looking forward to the next contest already - although I did actually use a camera that was made the year I was born this time!!!! Don't ask which one though.

Many thanks to everyone who has made these things possible.

I don't think photography had been invented yet when I was born. (just kdding)

This contest was super fun and the "camera-of-the-year-you-were-born" idea sounds at least as funny. My modest suggestion to stay within our self-imposed limits & prevent archeological relicts such as myself from exploiting an unfair advantage: anyone born after 1970 gets the right to use a camera, that is a meaningful multiplier of his/her age (says, twice, three times, one and a half, but please not 1.345). Also: as much as I like the notion of "a camera of the year I was born", this would be nearly impossible to demonstrate. A few cameras could perhaps be dated that precisely to,say, 1958 or 1945, but most won't. Let's stick to: "a camera that was in series production the year I was born". Now this would put me at serious disadvantage because 1945 would rule out all German cameras, but I cannot think of anything more sensible.

Yeaarrrgh! I can use a RB67 Pro-S in this new contest and blow your old junk cameras out of the water! Bwah-ha ha! (Too bad my RZ67 is from around 1982-84...)

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A much more fun contest would be to use a camera that was made the year your parents were born! Finally you have to put those wooden plate cameras back in use.

Uh, and Richard, why did you resize and recompress my images that I nicely fitted into that 200kb rule? The pics look awful now.

A big thanks to Gene, for putting up the prize, and to David for the work he's done getting this put together!

 

I've been keeping track of the contest progress, checking the photos every few days to see what has been put up, not wanting to miss something new. This has been a great way to get folks shooting the oldies, and a real eye opener to see how much talent there is here among the group members. This was a great idea!

I agree...this contest was a great idea!

 

Got me thinking about taking photos again, and having a bit o fun with the camera. I've even been looking around at some of the older relics on that auction web site....now I have to find one as old as I am...:)

 

Thanks!

Mike Kovacs use a Canonet G-III QL-17 it's just like the 1969 model and was made in the right year for you. Which by the way you young wipper snapper was the year I graduated grade school!!!!

 

 

I'm pumped to do the next contest as I just recieved a Canon L-1 which were made only during the year I was born 1957.

David has done a ton of work on this project. I'm doing the easy stuff. Dave's work is exemplary let's all give him the clap !

Ah Gene, don't get me started! I v'e been trying to behave, but its

not easy.

Many great great photos on the contest link. Much talent . Very

impressive.

How do you find a camera made the year you were born? Very few cameras have the date of manufacture on them.

<i>How do you find a camera made the year you were born? Very few cameras have the date of manufacture on them.</i><br><br>If you have a Kodak, <a href="http://www.toptown.com/nowhere/kypfer/camerosity.htm">you're in luck</a>...

After reading the first response from "Bill Mitchell" I thought I stirred the pot wrong, ruffled a few feathers and spilled the coffee. But I have learned with email it is best just left alone, and my mother said "If it's not worth saying don't say it, or write it". By the way what is a Leica forum (some kind of rant)? But all is looking good all I wanted to do is increase interest of photography with older cameras. I will soon be reaching the start of middle age in June when I will reach 50 and thought that shooting with a vintage 1955 would be cool, groove, hip or is it what ever? and if others show there age all the better. Now your exact camera does not have to of been made that year but that the model was available. McKeown's' s Cameras along with other books do list ages and model years along with the group we can help out for Zeiss Cameras try <a href="http://davidrichert.com/age_model_.htm">Zeiss Models</a> Lets finish this "sharing of Pictures" before we start the next. Youngsters and their cameras will be handicapped.

FWIW, most of the Russian and Chinese cameras have the year of manufacture embedded in the serial number (with most Russian camera, it's the first two digits). As a result, I'm confident in saying I used a camera made the year I was born for one of my entries in this contest.

 

I like the idea of letting the "kids" who aren't yet 35 use a camera that's 1.5, 2, or 3 times their age (that should cover most of the 20th century) -- I'd like the same option, but I don't have a 90 year old camera (2x my age), and only a couple close to 72 (1.5x); the closest I have to 1.5x is my Kawee Camera, which is actually 70 years old this year; next beyond that are 77 and 78 year old models.

 

Another suggestion for the next contest -- instead of a camera made the year you were born, pick a camera you have and photograph something with a visible relationship to a historical event the year the camera was made (or during the years a model was made, if it's not possible to reliably date the camera). So, say, with my 1927 Ziess-Ikon 250/7 Ideal, I might photograph a television (maybe antique, maybe a nice new 50" flat screen) to commemorate the first demonstration of television transmission in April of that year, while my Moskva-5, made in 1959, might be used for a photograph of the interior of a computer, since the integrated circuits that made computers possible were invented in 1959.

Donald, that's too complicated - like I could climb Everest because the summit was conquered in '53 ... :-)

Well, Sandeha, if you won't want to climb, or even take a picture of

Everest with your 1953 camera, how about a shot of the Everrest Matress Factory? Or you could get a shot of a Cadillac Eldorado, introduced in 1953. That same year, a German named Ganzhorn first advanced the idea within IBM of computing electronically. And, of course, the Korean Conflict was put onto the back burner in 1953 (though it's still simmering away, just awaiting a turn of the dial to burst back into a full rolling boil). Other news from 1953 -- the Iranian coup that put the Shah in power (the same Shah who was deposed by Knomeini in the late 1970s), Dag Hammarskjold became secretary-general of the UN, King Hussein ascended to the throne of Jordan, Castro started the Cuban Revolt, Jaqueline Cocran became the first woman to break the sound barrier, and Winston Churchill received the Nobel Peace Prize...

 

Lots of stuff there to inspire a photo with a 1953 camera, I think...