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Great men have made cameras that inspire...

Great stories! I still have my F3, love that beast. Some of our children have used it in their photography classes too. It's probably my favorite Nikon. I do miss shooting with film sometimes. Having film made you felt like you had a loaded weapon that needed care in the direction you pointed because you only had so many shots available. One of the downsides of digital is the ability to shoot anything and everything, a la iPhone footage.

Brook's photo reminds me of the camera owned by a photographer I worked for after college. Not quite as big of a back, a mere 12" x 20" negative holder, but the grain was nonexistent on those images. A predecessor of the RED methinks.
 
My Dad bought a Minolta SRT101 while in the Air Force in Vietnam. I don't know how many pictures he took with it but years later, when I was in high school I convinced him to let me use it. I'll never forget the day I dropped the lens cap and put a tiny scratch on it (the lens cap). My dad had hardly looked at the camera in thirty years and he noticed that tiny scratch immediately. That was definitely one of my greatest lessons in how to care for a camera or anything that really means something. My dad gave me that camera for my birthday a few years ago and I still use it and, other than a small scratch on the lens cap, it is in pristine condition. Thanks for the stories everybody!

Regards.
 
This camera made the greatest impression on me growing-up in the 80s. It still looks remarkably modern despite being a 25year old design. I try to put a few rolls through mine every year for nostalgia reasons.

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Stephen Aldridge said:
My Dad bought a Minolta SRT101 while in the Air Force in Vietnam. I don't know how many pictures he took with it but years later, when I was in high school I convinced him to let me use it. I'll never forget the day I dropped the lens cap and put a tiny scratch on it (the lens cap). My dad had hardly looked at the camera in thirty years and he noticed that tiny scratch immediately. That was definitely one of my greatest lessons in how to care for a camera or anything that really means something. My dad gave me that camera for my birthday a few years ago and I still use it and, other than a small scratch on the lens cap, it is in pristine condition. Thanks for the stories everybody!

Regards.
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A similar story which will always make me sad - my Dad had a Minolta camera which he had for 15 years. One day my brother and I decided to take it to the beach and managed to lose it. All our dad said was 'I kept that camera for 15 years and you lost it in 15 minutes'. That happened about 20 years ago but I'll never forget the look on his face. Cameras are part of family heirloom.
 
NASA Amigas

NASA Amigas

I own two NASA Amiga computer systems that were used for real-time acquisition and processing of telemetry data downlinked from NASA rockets as well as the space shuttle. Some of you guys with a background in video will remember the Amiga. Several of these computers were in service from the late 80's until 2005. They had varying hardware cards custom designed and built at the space agency, with all manner of bizarre cabling coming out the back. The funny thing is that when NASA sold these machines off they didn't wipe the hard drives (at least on mine) and the data from all the flight missions is still there, as well as documented procedures and protocols, notes, etc. A true piece of history.

On my personal inspiration:

When Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung, my dad designed and built his own. He was scuba diving before it was possible to go out and buy the equipment or get certified. He could--and would--bend any machine to his will to make it do things it was never designed for. If he needed something, more often than not he built it himself. My dad was a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and he built airplanes that we flew off our own property in the country. Because of him I grew up flying, scuba diving, riding motorcycles in the desert, and had an amazing childhood. I also learned photography on the cameras that he passed down to me.

Next week I'm placing the deposit on my Epic-X. I've pre-named it Jughead, after the nickname given to my dad (from the character in the Archie comics) by his friends for his skinny physique and impressive ability to eat a large number of hamburgers. I wish he was here to see it today. I think he would have loved the engineering and almost brute-force, solid design of RED equipment.
 
One of my favorite cameras... the Leica CL that I shot all this with. I always had either the CL or my Contax G2 on me when I hit the streets. I bought Tri-X in bulk rolls and kept 4-5 rolls on me at all times.

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here is a shot of my father operating a camera here in Sydney back in the 60's.
All i know about it is that it was an electronically switched 35mm film/studio camera made by Arri......i wish i new more about it......
This image inspired me to take up cinematography as my life long passion..........thanks Dad......
oh yeah check out that eye light.....!!​
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Unless I miss my guess, that is an Arriflex 2C inside of that blimp, and yes, I believe there were 1,000' magazines made for that camera.
There was a bottom plate that coupled the motor out to the side.
 
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My first inspiring camera was an early Zeis Ikon Contina. I got it for free as the film drive mechanism was broken. Fixed it and still use it to this day.

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Before my Nikon FTN there was my 1969 Mamiya Sekor 500DTL SLR (see below and now I have borrowed a good friend's Leica M3 and actually bought analog for the first time in years... Getting some needed discipline back......
 

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Jarred Land said:
I have Funny story about this one..

My first Christmas with Jim, and before I knew that fact above.. I searched and searched and searched for the perfect gift for Jim.

What do you get the guy that has everything?

I came across a collector's item in Europe.. Some moon "dust" that came from one of the long lost cameras that came back from the moon.

My god! the perfect Gift. I spent an ungodly amount of money for some dirt.. but was so excited.

It finally came.. was a few specs of dust in a lovely little display case with a little blurb and photo about the lost camera and such.. I was so excited.

Christmas came.. and I finally I gave it to Jim..

He said " Thanks... this is great. I am not sure how to tell you this.. but that long lost camera... "

heh heh heh.

At least the camera and it's dirt are back together again :)
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Post of the day. Hope you, Jim, and RED team have a great holiday. Cheers.
 
John Mastrogiacomo said:
My favorite camera - and it looks exactly like film! :wink5:

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Big fan of the Eclair family. Had an NPR that filmed Lennon, Leary, Ginsberg, Hoffman, Ono, White Panthers, Black Panthers, and the list goes on and 2 Cameflex Eclairs - 1 for scuba and 1 for timelapse. Still have them. Well, that and a freezer full of 35mm neg. Ha-ha.
 
I actually have so many favorites that it is hard to post them all.

I have an Arri S that I modified with a custom battery on the bottom that I used a ton. I also loved shooting my Nikon F2 High Speed Motor and also my Hasselblad 500 ELX for Oakley ads. I shot a lot with my Aaton and I loved shooting the Arri 435 and 235. There is nothing like shooting a Leica MP.

But nothing compares to shooting EPIC... :-)

Jim
 
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