Way Back

Right now I'm working on a huge non photo project. It's a major archeological dig! I'm attempting to get our garage cleaned of all it's boxes. It's amazing all of artifacts that are being unearthed. Many, many items are destined to be recycled, donated or sent to the landfill. Here is an image of me from a backbacking trip to Stanislaus National Forest, Central California in July of 1974. Notice my trusty Argus C3 camera is slung around my neck. I believe this image was taken by Dale Tressler. God's light and love upon your day, chris

Another Image of the Brick

About a year and a half ago I had a blog entry about my first serious camera an Argus C3 which had the nickname of the "Brick". The moniker suites it really well due to its shape and weight. Yesterday morning I was looking for some steel wool and I was sure I had some in one of my photo cabinets. I didn't but I ran across my old friend the Argus and I decided to rephotograph it with some new LED lighting I purchased awhile back. I photographed it on a black sweep using three lights. Two on the sides and one slightly off center in the front. I must say that I was very pleased with the result. This Argus has a lot of sentimental value as it was given to me by my Dad and it's the camera that I learned the basics of photography on. Surprisingly the camera is still in working condition. The Argus C3 was mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There were over 2 million of them made making it one of the most popular cameras in history. God's precious love to all, chris Photographed with a Canon 7D mkII and a Tamron 18-200 at 200mm. The camera settings used were AV mode, ISO 200, F 16.0 at 1/13th of a sec. The camera was supported on a Manfrotto 190 XPROB tripod with a heavy duty Bogen ballhead.

Way Back in Time

Right now we are at the start of a major clean up at our house. We are emptying all of the closets and getting rid of everything that we don't really need. Today I tackled the stairwell where most of my old camera gear is stashed. The coolest thing that I came across was my very first real camera. When I was sixteen my Dad gave me his old Argus C3 (nicknamed the brick). I think he gave it to me to keep me busy with something to keep my mind off of the fact that we were moving from Colorado to California at the time. I think his idea must have worked because I'm still taking photographs to this day. That old Argus forced me to learn how create an image because there wasn't a single automatic feature on it. You had to calculate exposures, focus and depth of field all on your own. Plus to make it even more difficult I started out shooting slide film which has very little forgiveness. I had a great time with that camera and I learned a lot from it. Now it is covered in dust but surprisingly it still works! I could throw a roll of film in it and step right back out and start creating images with it. So nice to run across an old friend. God's love and blessings to all, chris Image created with a Canon 7D and a Canon 17-85 mm lens at 85mm. Camera settings used were AVmode,ISO 100,F 18.0 at .50 sec. The camera was on a Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod with a Bogen 3055 ballhead. I used a black sweep and lighting was from two continuous source LED light panels one above and one off to the side.