When there were less than three days before the exam, Duan Yun was not busy reading books and reviewing, but rode his nephew to buy a camera outside the West Gate.

When he arrived at the department store, Duan Yun went straight to the third floor, which was located on the third floor where household appliances were sold.

At the innermost part of the hall, Duan Yun saw a counter selling cameras, and there were already a lot of people around at this time.

When it comes to buying a camera, other brands such as Canon, Nikon, and Sony pop up in my mind, and it seems that cameras from other countries have become our only choice. However, in the seventies and eighties of the last century, the camera market was very different from now, when it was still the era of domestic cameras.

As a representative of classic domestic products, Seagull Camera is the oldest and largest in China, and the only imaging equipment manufacturer in China that develops and manufactures various types of SLR cameras, stereo cameras, automatic cameras and various types of photographic equipment. In the late 50s and 80s of the last century, Seagull was a well-known brand among the cameras that Chinese people could buy. Owning a Seagull SLR camera "Seagull DF" once became a symbol of photographer's status.

Although a camera that cost hundreds of dollars was undoubtedly a luxury for people of that era, in fact, before the 80s, there were still many private cameras for urban residents, basically all of them were young workers in the same factory, and a few or even a dozen people pooled their money to buy one, and then borrowed each other, and the photos taken were sent to the photo studio for washing.

The most popular camera of that era was the Seagull 4 type reflex camera produced at the end of the sixties, the shape and shooting method of this camera is very different from the single-lens reflex digital camera commonly used in later generations, there are two lenses in front of the camera, and when shooting, the lens needs to be pointed at the subject, and the photographer looks down from the refractor to observe and adjust.

Until 82, the two-lens Seagull 4A camera was still on sale at a price of 195 yuan, but the new model of the Seagull DF set was already on the market.

The so-called kit is only equipped with a 58mm header, but this kind of SLR camera is very in line with the perception of the appearance of the camera by young people in later generations.

This new SLR camera is very expensive, one costs 450 yuan, and at that time, it was basically domestic film of brands such as AD or Lekai, and the price was about 30 yuan, which was almost equivalent to a month's income of an ordinary person.

Although most people can't afford this new SLR camera at present, for a 'rich' like Duan Yun, who has a net worth of more than 50,000 yuan, buying a camera is just a small amount of money.

"Waiter, take this camera out and I'll take a look. Duan Yun pointed to the latest Seagull DF1 in the window and said to the counter waiter.

"If you don't buy it, you can't move it casually. When the waitress heard this, she said with a blank face.

"As long as the quality is okay, I will ask for it!" Duan Yun had already adapted to the attitude of the waiter in the state-run store in the past few years, so he didn't care, just patted his bulging pocket and said.

"Uh. After seeing Duan Yunyi's mouth shallow with a thick pile of unity, the waitress's face immediately melted with ice and snow, revealing a smile like a spring breeze.

After taking the camera out of the counter, he gently handed it to Duan Yun.

After taking the camera, Duan Yun's first feeling was that he was a little dropped, far less light than the cameras of later generations, but it gave people a very later texture.

In his previous life, Duan Yun used autofocus digital cameras and mobile phone cameras, and it was not difficult to take pictures, but in this year, taking pictures is definitely a technical job.

When Duan Yun took photos of model workers in the factory before, he found that the photographer's technique was not simple, Duan Yun had been carefully observing the photographer's movements, metering, focusing, and zooming, each of which required rich experience to be proficient.

Feeling that the machine was good, Duan Yun immediately paid for this camera, and then bought five domestic Lekai films in one go.

It's not enough to have a camera, Duan Yun also needs to master shooting techniques, and there is also the problem of photo washing.

With the newly bought camera and film, Duan Yun did not go home directly, but came to the Hongguang State-owned Photo Studio on Daxi Street.

Hongguang State-owned Photo Studio is the largest photo studio in Daxing City, a three-story building, and Master Wang, who took a photo of Duan Yun and them last time.

The reason why Duan Yun found Master Wang was to learn photography techniques.

In the 80s, learning photography is to learn technology and craftsmanship, and it is still a bit of a threshold, after all, the cameras of this year are not better than the point-and-shoot cameras and digital cameras of later generations, but the kind of manual mechanical cameras that use "metering by looking, focusing by twisting, and zooming by walking", plus the negative photographic paper costs money, and every time you press the shutter, you are very cautious, you must consider the exposure, consider the composition, consider the depth of field, consider the tone, consider the camera position, Consider how to seize the key moments, avoid waste films, and improve the production rate, and the final result can only be known when it is flushed out, which is difficult for novices to control in a short period of time.

In addition, people who have this hobby are also very popular with classmates, colleagues, neighbors, and friends. If your skills are good enough, there will be countless things to help people and take pictures in the film era, and you will basically not be idle on weekends and holidays.

Until the mid-to-late nineties, especially in the digital age, cameras like the old Wang Xie Tang Qianyan, gradually flew into the homes of ordinary people, in the city, almost every household has a camera, photography has become a public behavior, no longer mysterious and high-minded, everyone can be a photographer, professional photographers are not so popular.

In fact, with Duan Yun's current economic strength, he can choose to explore photography technology by himself and become self-taught.

But the problem is that Duan Yun is now in a hurry to produce a product promotion catalog, and he doesn't have much time and energy to waste on groping for self-taught photography techniques, so the best way now is to apprentice.

At half past five in the afternoon, the photo studio got off work on time, and Duan Yun saw Master Wang walk out of the photo studio, and immediately greeted him.

Master Wang had obviously forgotten about Duan Yun for a long time, but after hearing Duan Yun's self-introduction, he remembered him again.

"Then what are you looking for me?" asked Master Wang.

"Master Wang, I'll just say it, I came to you this time, I wanted to apprentice to you......" Duan Yun said with a smile.

"This ...... I'm sorry, I don't accept apprentices. Master Wang shook his head when he heard this.

"I don't learn in vain. As Duan Yun spoke, he stuffed a paper roll wrapped in newspaper into Master Wang's pocket and said, "This is the tuition fee, as long as you can teach the basic techniques of shooting and making darkroom washing photos in two days, I will have an additional reward......

"Hey, I said, why can't you understand the words of this young man? I'm very busy with work every day......" Master Wang took out the paper roll that Duan Yunsai gave him from his pocket, and was about to return it, but he was surprised to find that there were at least a dozen sheets of great unity in the newspaper!

After hesitating for a moment, Master Wang immediately put the money back in his pocket, squeezed out a smile and said to Duan Yun: "You wait first, I will ask the unit leader for two days off......