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CAMERAS + PHOTOGRAPHERS = PHOTOS

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  My first ever camera was a little Kodak Brownie like this one. One of the first pictures I took with my new Kodak Brownie was this one of my beloved and first ever parakeet, Tipi-Tin. A few years later I wanted a camera that could take flash pictures allowing me to photograph people and things inside as well as out, so I asked Santa for this Kodak Starmite camera.  One summer I decided to try using my Dad’s old bellows camera but I didn’t do well with it.  I kept forgetting to manually advance the film and was taking double – even triple – exposures all the time.  They were interesting, but not exactly what I was hoping for and I didn’t know it was happening until I had the film developed so much of what I thought I was getting preserved on film was not.  That was a ‘too bad’ summer. Following the fiasco with Dad’s bellows camera, I bought myself Kodak’s skinny 110 model which worked much better. Next up was Kodak’s Advantix 2000 which took even better picture...