I started off with an Argus C-3, a sturdy old 35 mm workhorse with a slow lens. Probably f3.5. Focus was with a wheel you turned to get double images in the view finder to merge into one image. (No through-the-lens stuff and no built-in light meter.) It worked well for high school journalism and shots of the Eiffel Tower (I was a teenager living in Paris - army brat) but the lag in processing time, especially for slide film (Kodachrome was one's only choice), meant feedback was weeks later. Kodak's processing labs were few and far between and I wasn't inspired to shoot a lot. Too much trouble. Sometimes a roll of film would sit in my camera for a year. Or more.
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