As I continue to scan the (over 300) black and white negatives that came with the ebay Argus C3 camera I bought, I’m continually amazed at these pictures.  Not only are they of some of the most historical places in the world, but they are from over 65 years ago!  Here’s a couple you may (or may not recognize), click each photo to be taken to it’s photo page to find out what these locations are (obviously, the title of this post gives you a hint.) 

My family and I are planning a big trip to Europe this summer.  There’s eleven of us going and we’re all so excited!  I wish my grandfather was alive to go with us, because we’ll be visiting one of the concentration camps he helped liberate.  Recently I purchased a vintage camera on Ebay.  The camera is the Argus C3 and it’s in amazing condition, it also came with undeveloped color slide film (that expired in 1954), and also some developed black and white negatives.  The negatives were the surprise, they are filled with images the owner took during WWII!  I know some history and information on the owner (he passed away at age 63 and his wife recently passed away last year..and I believe the person I bought this from on Ebay got this camera from the estate sale)…I’m in the process of scanning all of the negatives, and when I’m finished I’m going to try and see what family members I can contact to see if they’d like the scanned images.

One thing I plan to do is to run a test roll through the Argus camera to make sure it’s in working order, and then take this camera with me to Europe…so that it can take pictures there once again.

I wanted to share a couple with you tonight from the over 200 images I’ve already scanned…I believe these were both taken in Slovenia (which is near north Italy).

Stanley is the newest edition to my 35mm film camera collection, isn’t he cute?  And he’s in such great shape for his age!  Stanley was bought from Ebay, and what a steal he was!  Not only did he come with some vintage kodak metal film canisters (and film that expired in 1953 and 1958), but there were developed 35mm negatives in there from the 1940’s and 1950’s… more on that soon!

For now, meet my new friend…

In my last post I showed you the film from the Diana Mini, in this post I wanted to show you a few favorites from my most recent roll from the Canon AE-1 Program camera.  I’m loving this camera…it’s super sharp!  I’m just sort of using it as a point and shoot right now…it has an ‘auto’ setting where it chooses the fstop and shutter speed for you, all you have to do is manually focus.  I do want to get this baby out of auto mode and shoot some more soon!  Mainly I was keeping it in ‘auto’ mode to make sure it worked ok.  Now that I know it takes some great sharp photos, I want to really put it through it’s paces!

Non of these images have had anything done to them other than being resized for the web and adding my watermark  (‘desaturate’ was also used in photoshop to remove any green casts to the images due to the processing by taking it to a drugstore type place.)