Of cause many were made by famous brands like Voigtlaender, Zeiss Ikon, Agfa and Rollei.īut 35mm film became the dominent format and I still remember when the factory rep brought in one of the early Topcon 35mm automatic cameras. I still have some of these pictures in my school work books and the quality of these comparatively basic cameras was incredible.
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Everything was manual of course and in Black and white. A far cry from the 36 pictures you would have gotten on to a normal KB roll (Kleinbild or 24x36mm film).
6x9cm would give us 8 pictures per roll, if I remember right. My first camera was a roll-film, 6x9cm camera, a very common format thouse times. Over the years I got to work with and own many cameras. Often these classes were the last one on a Friday and subsequently went over time, until the school caretaker throw us out. I don’t know where from, but there were at least 10-15 chess boards in the class. So half of our lessons, was playing chess. He had possibly more in-depth knowledge about the photographic processes than any other teacher in the country. Mutter, was not a typical teacher, but a scientist. One of our teachers was a chemist from TETENAL, a company which manufactures photographic chemicals in Hamburg. We learned everything from the mechanics of cameras, to optics and darkroom technics.
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One day a week I would travel to the other side of Hamburg to attend the professional school. In our company we have had a lot of apprentices, whereby apprenticeship in Germany is something very different to what is is here in Australia and it covers much wider fields, including retail management, etc.
An activity, I still don’t enjoy today.īeing young almost everything was exiting and fun. Since I worked in a small camera store on Hamburg-Harburg, I became involved in virtually all aspects of the business, except bookkeeping. In selling cameras, projectors and darkroom equipment I learned a lot about the equipment of the day and the customers. Of course the photography I really love is travel and, what is nowadays called street photography. From weddings (not so successful) to medical (not so much fun in running flashlight cables through blood puddles on the floor) to industrial (lots of fun). Accurately more correctly in dealing with photography, but my education and training brought me face to face with darkroom photographic work. Afterall audio visual and photography belong together.Īfter my dream becoming a pilot, due to me wearing glasses, was shattered, I started out in a career in photography. This is not really a write up about the evolution of photography, more about my personal experience and how I want to bring this into our new business venture ‘NCAS_48’, which is to complement our AV business ITI-Image Group.
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