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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: The Beginning
From: Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 22:57:39 +0200
Looked like an antique iron and yet took good photos in your hands :-)

Amities
Philippe

Le 7 juin 2015 à 22:41, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Hi Moose,
> 
> No, the name of my camera is correct.  I always have to look it up, because 
> many of Kodak's consumer products were quite similar.  Here is a link that 
> shows the one I had.
> 
> http://www.brownie-camera.com/25.shtml
> 
> Thanks for looking.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 6/7/2015 3:32 PM, Moose wrote:
>> On 6/7/2015 12:24 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> When my wife and I settled into an apartment in Dayton, OH in 1951, I was a 
>>> raw USAF 2nd Lieutenant, with no car, and very little in the way of 
>>> possessions.  We had received a Kodak Brownie Flash 620 camera as a wedding 
>>> gift.  Our idle time was often spent walking in the Salem Avenue 
>>> neighborhood, and the Dayton Art Institute was within our path.  This is 
>>> one of my first photographs, scanned from an album print that was more than 
>>> 50 years old.  This is how it all began for me, and within a year I had a 
>>> used Leica IIIa and a growing love of photography.
>>> 
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dayton+Art+Institute+1951+Revisited.jpg.html
>>>  
>> 
>> Fun!
>> 
>> I think the name is Kodak Brownie Hawkeye (Flash) as I got one, without 
>> flash, as a child, about two years before you got yours. My child's efforts 
>> were less successful than your adult ones. :-)
>> 
>> Obviously a crop, as 620 film is 2 1/4" sq.
>> 
>> Memory Lane Moose
>> 
> 
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