Fotografia

In 1969 I bought my first 35mm camera, a Mamiya Sekor 500. The 500 referred to the top shutter speed. My new digital camera's top electronic shutter speed is 32,000. Although I have been doing photography for over fifty years, I have no idea what use I would have for any speed over 1/2000 of a second. Truth be told, I have no idea or use for 98% of the function choices on the new camera, nor in the editing programs.

After grade 16, and a short stint doing audiovisual for a school system, I worked in a camera store in Nashua, N.H.. Photography was popular then, and Massachusetts' residents saved the sales tax by crossing the state border.

I returned to Allentown, and operated a small custom darkroom on 8th Street for a few more years. Although I stopped doing my own darkroom work, I continued taking pictures. I reluctantly gave up film emulsion for digital about twenty years ago. 

I have the pleasure of using my own photography in many of my blog posts. For social media size purposes, today's cell phone cameras can duplicate the quality of my old Mamiya Sekor 500, but they don't command the same commitment to the image. 

photocredit:molovinsky/Nashua,N.H./1974