I still have my first film camera and the box it came in... an Eastman Kodak Bullet Camera circa 1936. My father had carried it in the Pacific War to the battles for the Marshall Islands, Iwo Jima and to occupy Nagisaki soon after Fatman was dropped on it. He gave it to me in the 50's, and I carried it my military service years during the Vietnam Conflict from the mid 60's.
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So while I too was a photog from the late mid 50's, but I have very few of my film camera pictures from before I bought my first digital camera in 1995. They were lost over the years to pilferage or being tossed out by past family members. A lot of the pictures from digital cameras have been lost as well in computer crashes or computer upgrades over the years. Digital's aside, I still preferred to use the film cameras for field work. I still have my last bought film camera (a Minolta 7000i SLR (with every tele to macro lens, strobe, card and accessory for it known to mankind) that dates back to 1984 IIRC. I also still have 5 digital cameras, but the only one that will still take sort of good pictures that was recently brought back out of moth balls is a Canon S3 IS SLR 6MP that I didn't like when I bought it in 2006 IIRC so had never used it much. I only take a few pictures of vape gear now days, so at this late date in life I won't ever buy another camera.
Did find these old ones lurking in the 'puter of some of the stages of the life history of the Western Tiger Swallowtail (
Papilio rutulus) that I took around 1998 in the mountains hand held with my ex's point and shoot camera with slide film (and no macro lens). The slides were ran through my flat bed scanner to get them "digital", hence some loss in their quality. For scale the egg that is soon going to emerge is about the size of the head of a straight pin... and picture 2 is the 1st instar larva that came out of it. The other pics are of 4 of the 6 instars a larva passes thru as they grow and shed their skin. The last a larva that will soon pupate. And a picture of a fresh adult that had recently emerged from it's pupa.
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In time I'll dig out some of those I had scanned from prints or slides.
