What was your first camera and current camera

[usonian]

12. Nagaoka disappeared. Some company bought the design. I forgot who.

I compose in-camera to this day.

Sunrises, clouds and sunsets are problematic for film (other than half-frame) because things change so quickly. Digital helps a lot in this respect.

Even for scenes that "don't move", light constantly changes. I remember reading how Ansel Adams would wait all day for the light to be just right.

In his book "Examples", he recounts how the famous photo "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" was so spontaneous that he left his light meter in the car, so as to get the photo right now,



Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrise,_Hernandez,_New_Mexico

Adams' later accounts were more dramatic. In his autobiography, completed by his assistant and editor Mary Alinder shortly after his 1984 death, the traveling companions encountered a "fantastic scene", a church and cemetery near Hernandez, New Mexico, and pulled to the side of the road. Adams recalled that he yelled at his son Michael and at Wright to "Get this! Get that, for God's sake! We don't have much time!".[5] Desperate to capture the image in the fading light, they scrambled to set up the tripod and camera, knowing that only moments remained before the light was gone.[7]

Adams had given a similar account in his 1983 book Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs[8]

I could not find my Weston exposure meter! The situation was desperate: the low sun was trailing the edge of clouds in the west, and shadow would soon dim the white crosses ... I suddenly realized that I knew the luminance of the Moon – 250 cd/ft2. Using the Exposure Formula, I placed this value on Zone VII ... Realizing as I released the shutter that I had an unusual photograph which deserved a duplicate negative, I quickly reversed the film holder, but as I pulled the darkslide, the sunlight passed from the white crosses; I was a few seconds too late! The lone negative suddenly became precious.

He did some photos with a little box camera from Sweden.

Imogen Cunningham seems to disapprove!