This is a photo of my Grandfather Howard Counts. He was kind enough to pose for me while I played with my Yashica. This was my first roll of color film and I’m kinda disappointed in the results – the colors look a little flat to me. We’ll see how things look now that the camera has been cleaned and adjusted.
The camera hasn’t been used in about 30 years so, it was to be expected that the workings seemed to be a bit dry. After visiting some internet user groups I found a man named Mark Hama who seemed pretty highly recommended when it comes to repairing old Yashicas. Read the rest of this entry »
Earlier this month Trina and I received some of her grandfather’s camera gear. Her grandfather was Harry Wingate of Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina. He was born in 1912 and died in 1980, five years before I met Trina.
