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magidI'd decided that I should really learn how to use a 'real' camera, not the point-and-shoot one I've had for years, now that I'm finding the limits of what I can use it for. I mentioned this to my parents, and they gifted me with one of my dad's old (read: no longer used) cameras (actually, I don't know that he has more than one unused camera lying around).
So, I am now the proud soon-to-be-wielder of a Zeiss Contaflex. I don't know whether it's a I, II, III, or IV (the linked site mentions that the I is 861/24, but the numbers I found on mine were 861/02, and later numbers seem to be even higher). There was no manual with it, so hopefully my camera-knowledgeable friends will help me out (and I'll take a basics class at Cambridge Adult Ed or some such place). It's in a brown leather case (with a broken leather strap I need to replace) that I don't know how it comes out of (nor how to get film in and out of), and the smell of the leather with a touch of mildew makes me think of camping trips when I was young, how I'd love to wear the old canvas-and-leather backpack.
Anyway. Huzzah for having a camera, and hopefully I will learn what I need to soon to be able to use it!
So, I am now the proud soon-to-be-wielder of a Zeiss Contaflex. I don't know whether it's a I, II, III, or IV (the linked site mentions that the I is 861/24, but the numbers I found on mine were 861/02, and later numbers seem to be even higher). There was no manual with it, so hopefully my camera-knowledgeable friends will help me out (and I'll take a basics class at Cambridge Adult Ed or some such place). It's in a brown leather case (with a broken leather strap I need to replace) that I don't know how it comes out of (nor how to get film in and out of), and the smell of the leather with a touch of mildew makes me think of camping trips when I was young, how I'd love to wear the old canvas-and-leather backpack.
Anyway. Huzzah for having a camera, and hopefully I will learn what I need to soon to be able to use it!