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It’s Friday, time for some Classic Camera. Today I want to show you the Revere Eye-Matic EE 127 from 1959, here some facts:
- Second inexpensive auto-exposure still camera
- $139.50 in 1959 ($1045 in 2010 dollars)
This was the second of the auto-exposure cameras introduced in 1959. Revere, like Bell & Howell, had perfected its auto-exposure systems in movie cameras and then moved the technology to still cameras.
This is a big, heavy camera made of painted steel, like a kitchen appliance or even a car. But, as the review from none other than Peter Gowland says (below), it worked.
Wow was it expensive: $1045 in 2010 dollars! The Bell & Howell Electric Eye 127 was $599 in 2010 dollars, and the Brownie Starmatic was only $259 in 2010 dollars. (Both are shown by this app.) Revere must have expected buyers to pay a lot for automation in 1959.
Clearly, though, these early cameras proved that auto-exposure was here to stay.
Saludos
Cesar Out!
Happy Sunday friends!
What a day yesterday (Sat Jan 28, 2012)… after a painful one hour drive to Kissimmee FL, finally got to see the Mecum Auction in action!!!…
Covering this event was a real blessing, never saw before that many cars in my entire life, my Favorite 1967 GTO!, that’s a car!, I don’t know if I have to say more, but if you missed it, try to go next year is a very good experience.
Got my Media Pass through friend Drew (@Motozombie1), we were helping Motorama Guys (@BerryLowman) to cover the Auction, together with Mike form AtomicMotoX (@AtomicMotoX). After a few hours another group of friend join us and had a walk to the tents, hundred of cars, for sale, including boats, everything was in perfect harmony till the end of Sunday, when the auction move to another place.
The light inside was a little bit tricky, compensated white balance for tungsten, then shutting A, sometimes M, ISO at 800 trying to keep my shutter speed around 1/125s, aperture at f/4. After all this, of course I had to work the WB adjustments, the light was OK, but I think they setup that way for the TV cameras, either or I came back home with a nice repertoire, personalities including the Master Mind Dana Mecum and from Chasing Classic Cars Wayne Carini, photos in the gallery below.
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Weather is getting pretty good, actually the weekend gonna be really nice, actually I didn’t try to get Paul Dellegatto out of business hehehee, I just repeating what he said…. well get back to photo talk, this time wanna talk about a nice event that happened to me in my last trip to Paradise Lost.
Result that as usual you reserve your vacation in advance, just put away the days you wanna be in vacation, right? I did reserve just the two weeks I allowed to leave from my office, very happy indeed when I communicate with family. The usual 4 and a half drive to Miami is now OK for me, so after a day of decompressing over Sin City, I was ready to hit the road, I mean hit the air, on a plane, flying… to Cuba.
But wait the fairy tale history doesn’t end there, when boarding/checking the lady from the Agency told me that my TWO WEEKS were wrong, only ONE WEEK!!!!!, I was upset, really? c’mon… well, at that time you can not argue with nobody over there, but for one reason, my trip start with the wrong foot.
Well, to make the story short, when already in Cuba, I have to go back to Camaguey, actually have to return twice, so you have two days already gone. Finally got my ticket fixed, leaved a 20 USD tip to the attendant, then a little bit of time for photos.
When going back to the car, stopped at the El Gallo Square, very different when back in the 80′s, now is closed, then you can DRIVE through Maceo St. just like that.
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