Camera Collectors and Why They Grow

This article was in the September 1967 issue of US Camera magazine. I see they mentioned the French Sept 35mm camera I had shown in an earlier posting.

 

 

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Here is an article on using an exposure meter for flash.

 

 

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Here is one on creative copying.

 

 

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Here is a directory of color films available in 1967.

 

 

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Modern Photography had this article on Good Buys in Used SLR's. They were buying the same cameras we are buying today.

 

 

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Here is an article on photographer Eliot Porter.

 

 

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Bennett Sherman writes about the Modulation Transfer Function.

 

 

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Patricia Caulfield writes about protecting our film images.

 

 

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Ed Scully writes about how to improve our pictures.

 

 

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Keppler writes about lens sharpness, how to determine it, and why you shouldn't care.

 

 

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Here is this month's Too Hot to Handle column.

 

 

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Here are this month's Modern Tests.

 

 

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Here are this month's camera equipment ads.

 

 

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Here are this month's dealer ads.

 

 

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As always, a great look back. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks very much.

 

Keppler was a gem, and I miss him still.

Thanks again, Marc!

 

The article on camera collecting was very interesting. And as said above, the used SLRs reviewed are those we still buy or crave, 50 years later..

 

The field was getting more technical, with MTF explanations and Keppler doing his best to explain the magazine's lens testing criteria. I bet that there had been a few angry letters from manufacturers! Best part of the article is the last paragraph: "....I'd much rather go out and use lenses than worry more about them."

I bought my first camera in the fall of 1967. A Yashica J7. I was a senior in college.

I actually had a Sept, in what appeared to be working order, and although I even had a couple of spools for it, along with its fitted case, for some reason now forgotten I never loaded and used them. In a fit of obvious temporary insanity in the early 1990's, I sold it along with a few other things I shouldn't have sold, including a black bodied Leica II, a couple of IIIA's, a couple of Speed Graphics and a Zeiss Movikon. I got some pretty good money, but still will forever wonder what the heck was the matter with me!

Yes, Keppler's article is about as sane an explanation of lens "sharpness" as you'd hope to find. Excellent collection of articles, Marc; many thanks.