Kodak Kodacolor

These were some friends of mine whose wedding I shot back in 1984.

No, the snow wasn't almost over the tops of the trees this year - it's just a trick angle. There was a four or five-foot snowdrift behind my house and I held the camera below the top edge of it, shooting upward. Camera: Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash (made in Kodak period 12/57) Lens: Plastic Meniscus Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 620 Date: 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. 620 Snow 01df

This was my Dad's electric motor repair shop not too long after he had had it built. Toward the middle of the image, you can see an electric water cooler. He painted it gold, but it had a short in it, so you had to be careful when drinking from it so that you only touched the plastic part of the handle so you wouldn't get shocked. Camera: Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash, No. 1 (Made in 12/1957) Film: Kodak Safety Film 6014, 100 ASA Aperture: F/16 (approximately) Shutter speed: "B" (bulb) approx. 2 secs. Date: 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. KBHF-1 KSF 6014 Shop 1977 03ff

A great looking 1956 Chevy seen up in Arthur, Illinois when my family took a trip there in 1978. This was from a new higher resolution scan I did today of the whole roll of film this was on. Camera: Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash No.1 Film: Kodak Safety Film 6014 Date: May 28th, 1978 Location: Arthur, Illinois, U.S.A. KBHF-1 KSF6014 Arthur-1 08df

These remains happened to be from a New Year's Eve party I hosted at my house on December 31st, 1981. As I recall, it was a pretty good party. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: January 1st, 1982 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Christmas 1981 16ff

My little brother, Matthew, taken when he was three years old. There's about 17 years age difference between him and I. That's my bicycle right behind him - I still have that bike. Oh, and I still have the brother, in case anyone was wondering. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1980 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KS 5035 Diane Hamblin 11hf

The marquee for the motion picture "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" when it first came out in 1977. I saw it then and it's still one of my favorite movies. Taken with my very first camera, a Kodak 35 RF rangefinder. (I still have it, too.) Camera: Kodak 35 RF rangefinder (made in 1948) Lens: Kodak Anastar 50mm, f/3.5 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm daylight film Exposure mode: Manual (of course!) Date: 1977 Location: Harrisburg, Illinois, U.S.A. Kodak 35RF KSF 5035 CE3K 17if

A wall of the house my family lived in back in 1978. Dad and I built this house. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 35mm Date: August 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5035 07jf

Some colored Easter eggs from 1978. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 35mm Date: April 2nd, 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica TC Easter Eggs 20gf

A misty sunset over the lowlands of Illinois. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor II 100 asa Shooting Program: Aperture Priority Date: 1979 Location: White County, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF5075 1979 Sunsets 18hf

Toward the extreme southern end of Illinois, there are hills and mountains that start to rise above the flat farmland areas. Some of these places are quite unlike the rest of the state and are very scenic. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1979 Location: Southern Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF5035 Romayne's Farm 15eff

These tracks were quite near where I used to live back in 1978. They were close enough for me to explore often Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: November 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Kent's Ford 01lf

Some nice rock formations located in extreme Southern Illinois. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1979 Location: Southern Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF5035 Romayne’s Farm 18ff

I started taking pictures of the television screen back in the late 1970s of my favorite shows. Of course, Star Trek is one of my all time favorites. Using the multiple-exposure feature on my Minolta XD11, I would take multiple screenshots on one frame - kind of like my version of a Viewmaster reel. This particular episode was "The Doomsday Machine." This was at the end of the episode when Kirk and Spock were reviewing what just happened. The lab I was sending my film to to be developed always did this to the final frame of each roll. They would flash some kind of code, I suppose to identify who's film is was and then tape each roll end-to-end to be developed. This process usually ruined the last perfectly good frame on my rolls because, if you would work it right, you could get one extra shot on the roll past frame number 24. But the lab would always do this, ruining it. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 ASA 35mm Date: 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta Kodacolor 100 Smokey And The Bandit 25ff

In Christmas times past, the family would gather around, Grandmother would get out her box camera and she would memorialize the moment with a careful snapshot of the day. This was what my family’s Christmas tree looked like back in 1977. Somehow, the negative got a little fogged along the edges, but it lends it the look from times past. This was my fifth camera. Camera: Kodak No. 2A Cartridge Premo Model B (made approx. 1919) Film: Kodak Kodacolor II 100 ASA 116 film Aperture: ? Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) Date: December 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Kodak No. 2A KSF6014-1 08df

I took this with my high school's yearbook camera. I was the yearbook photographer at my school for two years. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: June 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5035 Yard 1978 25ef

A truly inspiring monument located at our nation's capital. Camera - Minolta XD11 Lens - Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film - Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm Date: May 1979 Location: Washington, D. C., U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5075 Washington 1979-G 16ff

Taken with a Konica Autoreflex TC on Kodak film in 1978. This was some wildflowers growing in my back yard. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 color film Date: 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5035 Yard 1978 04hf