Three Imperial Cameras

Yes, I did. I bought three Imperial cameras in one trip to the antique mall last night, two of which are clearly identical but rebranded. The Chicago camera collective did plenty of that, but this is my first real example of it.

The two snapshot cameras take 620 film (i.e. 120 on a smaller spool) and the Lark takes 127 (aka Brownie) film. Both of those films are available nowadays, although the 127 is a bit more expensive, being that people don’t use Brownie snapshot cameras like they did some 60 years ago.

Looking forward to cleaning these up and testing them out!

Six Years and a Lifetime Ago

Just for fun, I launch up the Timehop app pretty much daily, just to see what I posted to social media on this day in years past. Today, as I was scrolling through photos of my son, tweets about weight loss and running, and photos of snow, I swiped to see this face staring back at me, with the one-word caption, “Worried.”

Worried

It was a feeling I remembered well. It was the day I learned I was pregnant. Continue reading