Tuesday
May032011
My Shiny Old Flexaret
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 11:07AM To my dissapointment, my dad gave most of his old cameras to a camera collector friend. Luckily, he could not find all of them.
When I started focusing on photography, he still had couple of them left in his "pile". He just had to find them. When birthday approached and he could not procrastinate any longer. Voila, Petka got a shiny old Flexaret!
It's been a while since I used a non-digital camera and I must admit, I am quite intimidated by this metal brick. But it looks fabulous and has so much history -- it was my dad's first camera. Can't wait to see what comes out of it! And if nothing else, it will look great in my living room. :)
Bringing it back to the US was interesting. The German security employees at the Frankfurt Airport looked at it and wondered who made it. I said it was German. They said it was not. We looked at the labels and found out that this wonder is coming from Czechoslovakia. I did not tell them I come from there as well. :)
Reader Comments (1)
looking forward to see some Vivian Maier style self portraits ;-)
btw. old music video mentioning the old camera :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055KdFK4OH4