Travelling around the world, or parts of it, for over 60 years, you may expect that I've the
best of CAMERAS. You would be far from the truth!!
To show you what I've used over the years, the following table gives the relevant details of
these 'nothing special' items of recording scenes etc!! The main objective has been to get
'reasonable' and economical memories.
Reason for
YEARS TYPE SIZE MAX.SHOTS NAME OWNER DISCONTINUANCE
1950-59 AutographicBrownie 120 8 Kodak(2/2A) My father Got OWN
1956-57 8/- Woolworth ? ? ?? Mine Too small!
1958 Small Cheap One Mine Not good enough
1959-82 120 12 Agilux Mine Process costs
1983 Small Cheap Good One My Son Got own
1984-94 Disc Disc 15 Halina328 Mine Decided to go 35mm
1994 35mm 35mm 24 Hanimex Mine Failed!
1994-98 35mm 35mm 36 Vivitar Mine Sand in shutter-mech
1997 Digital 100 CASIO QV10a Mine Water in electrics
1997-? Digital 16Mbits 100 CASIO QV11 Mine
1998-02 35mm 35mm 36 Praktica AW-240 Mine Dropped
2002-? 35mm 35mm 36 Pentax PC-5000 Mine
2005 Single Use ?? 27 Made in China Mine
The two purchases in 1997 and 2002 are still in use today! The '35mm Pentax' being the
one to have its first use in ANTARCTICA. (It has better resolution and can be scanned in for WEB reproduction.)
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