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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!
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Date: 2004-12-13 06:01 am (UTC)I'd be happy to take a look, most such things are pretty standard. I won't be at Diesel tomorrow because that's the only night that Malden City Hall is open late, and I need to finish my name-change already. But perhaps over next weekend?
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Date: 2004-12-13 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 06:56 am (UTC)I'm very excited about it.
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Date: 2004-12-13 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 06:59 am (UTC)Possibly check and see if the part of the camera with that number on it is removable?
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Date: 2004-12-13 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 07:10 am (UTC)Hrm. I think bringing it into Ferrante-Dege (or however they're spelled) tomorrow wouldn't be a bad idea, if just to see what they say about replacing the strap. And they should be able to ID which camera I actually have.
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Date: 2004-12-13 07:28 am (UTC)