This photo was snapped in 1974, which is the tail end of being "Collection worthy". Some people cut it off at world war II, and some stop at the 21st century. But in the early 70s, cameras became even more popular and photos stopped having a certain "feel". It's very hard to describe, but they felt less special, with no border to speak off and better colour reproduction. Since the 110 negatives were smaller, the photos often turned out worse than brownie from 30 years ago. This photo seems to have bucked the trend, and still feels unique. Maybe its the black and white, or maybe its the pose, but it still feels like a true found photo to me.
Most 110 cameras had molded, plastic lenses, rather than a ground glass lens found on higher end cameras. Bad lens=bad photographs. Too, the rise of the one hour, machine process and print, labs brought down the cost of photography to the point where people could take more pictures for less money. Hence, more frames exposed without thought. Like digital, it was a button pushing age.
ReplyDeleteAll except for the Pentax auto 110, The smallest film slr. I have one in my collection somewhere, andI am dying to get some film. I should really start another blog for my camera collection.
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