Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
Thus far in my life I have managed to collect too many things (just ask my wife). Over the past 30 odd years I've had quite a few cameras. I've managed to save a few/buy new ones. I don't have any of the old brownie cameras that people gave me to play with when I was like 5. I think I was given 3 or 4 brownies that were no longer useful to their owner. I have at least 1 Kodak PonyIV that I saved since I was 8 or so. I also have a Kodak Tourist II and a Kodak No. 1A Kodak Jr.
I picked up the Tourist II and the Kodak Jr. when Tonya and I were visiting her family in Alton Ill. I actually picked them up at the Alton Exchange. The Tourist II had film in it that I want to get developed but I have to find a place that will give me back the metal spool the film is wound on. Without the metal spool the camera can't take anymore pictures since the spools aren't made anymore but you can buy film that will roll onto the spools. I intend to post the found pictures once they are developed.
I picked up the Pony IV along with a second Kodak Pony (that is probably still some where in my parents garage) at a copy shop in Midland Park NJ. I was walking home from school and I stopped at the copy shop. In those days before Kinkos and the like the copy shop used to have a water cooler that was free for kids while they tried to entice us with black and white copies for a nickel a page (there was no color copiers at the time). I saw these two Kodak Pony cameras in the window and I had to have them. I scrapped together some money to buy them and I did. I wish I could say that I used them and that I took some amazing shots. I played with them but I never took an actual photo with either as I had a simple point and shoot 35mm camera I had one at the school fair earlier that year that had auto winding and auto exposure through a fixed focus lens. I used that point and shoot until I got to high school where I was exposed to one of the first commercial digital cameras. The photos were stored on 2in video floppies of which I still have a handful rattling around. I gave up on film then and I waited 9 years for a digital of my own (my old Sony Cybershot).
Posted by pqbon at April 17, 2007 12:57 AM