February 9th, 2010 by Administrator

I find myself looking back in time at these great photographers who used to carry bulky camera gear and tons of equipment just to make a few shots on film. Well I found an old Graflex 22 TLR camera. It was made between 1952 and 1956. It used a knob-wind twin-lens TLR, with 120 film and there were three or more models made with 83mm and 85mm f/3.5 lenses, the top-of-the-line model having a M-X-V fully synchronized shutter with a 1/400 sec shutter speed.

I figured why not take some shots of it, and reflect on how far cameras have actually come. I feel we all need to get back to our roots at one point or another just to appreciate what we have today and this is my way of reflecting on the past of where cameras used to be to now.

Michael Carlson.