In fact, strictly speaking, my photography journey should have started with my first camera.

Although my photography enlightenment can be traced back to when I was a child, whether it is the photos in the photo album, the large photos in the window of the county photo studio, or the group photos of a wall I saw in Mr. Wu Gui's house, and the Seagull 120 camera that was too short, these did not allow me to really enter the circle of photography, because these photos were taken by others.

The subtext of other people's photos is that I'm in the photo, not behind the camera.

That was until I got my first camera of my own – the Ricoh camera, the Ricoh-KR-10.

This is a 35mm camera with a K-mount lens from a 1984 SLR produced by Ricoh. In some markets, the same model is labeled XR-10. This state-of-the-art feature is that you can press the shutter halfway down before taking a picture, and the lens will autofocus. Don't underestimate this feature, it was absolutely powerful back then, allowing me to take some photos that were in motion except for some scenes of movement, and the photos that were basically washed out rarely had a false focus.

This camera was owned around 1994.

It's a lot easier to have your own camera, and you can take pictures anytime and anywhere.

At that time, the idea was very simple, that is, to take pictures of family and friends, and record those scenes that I thought were important or meaningful.

Of course, sometimes it's just a matter of excitement.

When I got my Ricoh camera, I started my photography journey.

The Ricoh camera mentioned in the article is just a general term, referring to these color photos.

These color photographs are basically made of 35mm film, which refers to a single frame of film with a length of 36mmx24mm on the high side. It was first initiated by the Leica Company for portable landscape cameras. As for the origin of this specification, it is very simple, that is, the Leica company will take the vertical 35mm film film, change to horizontal film, so that only 24mm long side in the film film becomes 24mm wide high side, by changing the direction of the film film to increase the photosensitive area of the negative, this is more professional, in short, it can be illuminated very clearly.

Back then, I remember using only three brands of color film, Lucky Fly, Kodak and Fujifilm.

Lekai film is a domestic brand, slightly cheaper, more cost-effective. Unfortunately, it was discontinued ten years ago, and now the manufacturer has switched to the production of solar cell back film.

The era eliminates a profession or object, and it really doesn't even say hello.

The Kodak 100 I used the most back then (there were also Kodak 200 and Kodak 400 at the time), and I didn't know what that 100 meant until more than 20 years later. The Kodak 100 is a daylight roll and is suitable for use in the sun on a sunny day, the Kodak 200 is suitable for use in the shade of a sunny day or when it is cloudy on a sunny day, and the Kodak 400 is suitable for use on a cloudy or rainy day, as well as in the early morning and evening.

I really didn't know about it at the time, and I never understood why the colors of the photos taken at night were distorted.

At that time, it was really difficult to look up information.

There are two more experiences that deserve to be mentioned from the color film, and although they are not very large, I think they have benefited me a lot.

One is a standard Kodak 100 film, which can generally take 36 shots. This requires that when the film is loaded before taking pictures, the back cover is opened, the film is gently pulled out of a section of film, and then the film is put into the left card slot, and then the pulled film is stuck on the right card wheel and rotated a circle, after making sure that it is stuck, close the back cover, and you can start shooting.

According to this standard, 36 photos can be taken.

Another operation is to put the pulled film on the right card wheel and wait until the back cover is closed, and then start shooting.

In this way, 38 shots can be illuminated.

Of course, the extra 2 photos are risky, and the risk is that if the film is not stuck on the card wheel, then the subsequent operation will be idle, that is, the film is not moving, but the number showing the number of photos is still moving, and finally when you finish taking 38 photos, you will roll the film back after you have taken 38 photos, but there is actually no photo at all. When you go to develop, the whole film is white, and it's not just a piece of film that is wasted, it's mainly that the scene you shot is shot in vain.

There is always no one who does not get your shoes wet at the riverside station.

After a few failures, I found it extremely uneconomical to fight 2 out of 36, which means that you lose money if you make a mistake in 18 shots.

And through real practice, I will make one mistake a few times.

Since then, I have resolutely refused to do this kind of stupid thing like fighting small with big fighting.

The second thing worth recording is that after the color film was taken, the photo had to be developed to see the results of our photo, and this needed to be developed by an enlargement printing agency.

Rinsing consists of two parts.

One is to punch and the other is to wash, which is separated.

There is a fixed charge for film processing, which means that you will be charged no matter whether your film is good or not, and then you will be charged for one photo for each photo washed. At that time, Saltu had already begun to have some private printing agencies, which charged less than the regular printing agencies, at least one-third worse than each one.

If the price is low, there will be a market.

I've been there a few times as well.

Under normal circumstances, no one will only develop one roll of film, basically save several rolls to develop together.

Every time I went to pick it up, people would take out a few blank rolls of film and tell me that I hadn't photographed them.

If you don't have a photo, you don't have a photo, and the cost of rolling that should be given is indispensable.

The first time I felt very annoyed, but I regretted those scenes.

The second time I was more careful, and each time I made sure that the film had turned before closing the back cover.

But when I sent it, two-fifths of the film was still blank, and I was told that the film was not rolled, and at the same time, I was fooled that it was cheaper than the regular printing agency, and he was kind enough to help me settle the account.

Although I'm not good at math, I'm not stupid.

There is no need for the clerk to say that it is so complicated, and the unit price obtained by using the money I paid to remove the number of photos I have gotten is much higher than the price of the regular printing agency.

The overpayment doesn't matter, and the photos that were carefully taken in various scenes will never come back.

So I'm here to explicitly transfer the disasters and the like that I'm going to encounter in the future to them, it's really not that I'm not unkind, you must know that the movie always says that sooner or later you have to pay it back.

With these two lessons, I don't think price is my first choice anymore.

Off topic, the book is back to business.

Thanks to the habit of being a child, no matter what activities are a little bigger, even if you take your children to the park, you will habitually bring your camera, and after a long time, you will naturally leave a lot behind.

Now I look at this thick pile of photos, and I realize that there is too much information recorded in the photos.

First of all, the photographs record the child's formative years.

Photographs can also record the decoration of our home back then.

From this photo, you can also see what the study room I first used to do on the balcony back then.

At that time, there was no idea of hitting the bookcase, but there was an iron shelf, and it can be deduced that there were not many books back then. And because it was a south balcony, I was afraid of the sun, so I covered the books with newspapers.

For example, when I recorded the layout of my home when I was a child in verse 2 of this chapter, I could only draw a rough floor plan, because I really didn't keep the photos back then, and I couldn't let others have an intuitive feeling of the house based on my narration alone, and none of the things used in that era could make people have an intuitive feeling of the stove hook or something.

With photos it doesn't change.

Although it may not be necessary to deliberately take pictures of the layout in the house when I first took the photo.

But there's a good chance you'll leave something behind inadvertently.

For example, it has been more than 10 years since I moved from the 10th district, and I still have an impression of the original things, but many things are no longer clear, but fortunately there are these photos.

This was the way it was back then.

The sofa looks like this. Now I can recall it when I look at it, but if I don't look at it, I don't have any impression at all.

The dresser of the year was in the style of Futaba, and it is still there today.

The bed of that year was a solid wood bed in the Temple of Heaven, and it was also there.

The cottage to the north is my study.

I have already written about the bookcase on the wall composed of several groups in the article "A Study at Home", and the design of that time is still outdated even today.

I almost used this place as a study just now, if it weren't for the drying rack on the balcony that reminded me.

It seems that the study did not have this computer desk, so I took a corner of the living room as a matter of course, and now that I think about it, there should have been a single sofa here, so I moved to the study. At that time, the monitor I used was the kind I jokingly called the big square head.

The poker on the screen was a testament to what I wasn't doing.

The hanger I used back then was already a good wife-type that could be shaken up and down.

In addition to the room setting, there are many photos that inadvertently save things that we used before.

For example, when I lived with my parents on the 1st to 25th floors of the Rang District, I bought a TV for the first time at home.

Because the 83 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" began to be broadcast at that time, the first few episodes were watched at my mother's workplace, and few people had a TV at home back then. Every night, many people in their units drag their families to occupy space, and they can't see the screen clearly at all when they are later.

It should have been a few episodes before my parents decided to buy a TV. We watched "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" on this TV, and we bought it in 1985.

The reason why it is so certain is because there were no books back then, and we could only chase it episode by episode.

No matter how anxious it is, it's useless. By the time of the last few episodes, there was a thin pamphlet on the street with a synopsis of the story.

It is written according to the episodes of the TV series.

I bought it and Jiao Xianghong, a tablemate in the back class, borrowed it from me.

She was my tablemate in the third year of junior high school, and of course I lent it to her.

So I can be sure that the TV was bought in 1985 and it is safe to say that it was bought in the first half of the year.

I would also like to tell my friends who care about my memoirs that there are many times when it is not how good my memory is, but because many scenes are deduced in this way because of photos or other things.

Another special mention is that this photo was taken for the first time with a ready-to-take camera.

After taking a picture with that particular camera, a photo pops up with a "click", and when it first comes out, there is nothing on it, and you hold the corner of the photo in your hand and fan it slowly, and after a while, a looming shadow will slowly appear, and after a few minutes, it will become very clear, forming the final photo.

I remember that Uncle Zhang bought it abroad after he went abroad.

Hardly ever seen by my peers, I should have flaunted the characteristics I love to show.

Another example is the first car I bought.

I should have bought the car very early, and there weren't many models to choose from back then, so I chose this one.

Since then, I have always recognized the Citroën brand.

The chassis of this car is very good, and I often say that it feels like driving without crossing the railway, and it is very smooth.

As I mentioned in the first chapter of the game, when I played "Dragon's Teeth", Zhao Yuhua and I have always cooperated tacitly, and it turned out that we used such a TV when we played Nintendo games.

This kind of color photo can also really record the days of our gatherings.

Because there is no problem of false focus, there is basically no longer the phenomenon of not being able to see who is in the photo.

It's supposed to be winter, and I can't tell where it is from these few buildings with few features, but it certainly won't be Shenzhen, Guangdong, where there is no snow season.

The top three are from high school.

The photos also tell us about some memorable scenes.

This scenario was decided to be written when I was writing the table of contents.

Back then, a few classmates had a reunion, and there was no place, so I discussed with my parents, and they said that they were going to the same school on Sunday, and they could give us the place. I was very happy to inform them. On Sundays (there were no weekends yet, so they were all Sundays), they led my brother to leave early, leaving the family for the six of us.

One pass.

Chef Hu wears an apron and is very stylish.

Shang Guoli, as a big brother, still has the appearance of a big brother, not only worked hard to brush the pot, but also got a lot of vegetables for us.

The six of us had a great time.

As a result, I later learned that the three of them had nowhere to go, so they went to the park for a day.

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world.

These photos record the life of my teacher!

This is when we first entered the school, there were five classmates in one dormitory, and I was the fourth. The instructor in the middle was in charge of our military training back then.

The photos also document our sweet journey.

Of course, there is more to it than that.

A glimpse of the whole leopard.

Photographs can also document the places we have been.

Photos can also record some of our work scenes!

This regimental flag reads the Youth League Committee of the Natural Gas Company.

It's a place of work that I will miss me.

I don't know why I ran to the middle of the podium.

This photo is taken in a cram school that I rarely attend, in 1985, and the foreign teacher in the photo is from Canada.

The reason why I remember it so clearly is because these foreign churches answered our questions in class and then gave us some small gifts. The question I asked was, "Does it snow in the winter in Canada?" ”

Please forgive me for this question, I was still in junior high school and didn't study world geography.

In fact, that alone would not have kept me in the loop for forty years.

The main reason is that I asked this question twice.

The reason is that in the second class, another foreign teacher came, and asked us to ask the same questions, the same small gifts. When I got up, I couldn't remember what to ask for a while, so I had to bite the bullet and ask the previous lesson, "Does it snow in Canada in winter?" The question was asked again.

It must be because the skin is too thin and embarrassed, so I didn't understand how to answer, and it is very likely that I didn't understand. Just remember, it snows too.

I can also remember Li Min and Qin Yu in the photo, and I also remember the girl in the lower left corner (because she has a long braid), but I can't remember what her name is.

There was a time when I learned how to write gold letters on photographs, so I took them out and took them to the test.

This photo with classmate Jing Bin made me write the four words that love is priceless, and the words of the year began to dance.

The special effect of this photograph (which gives the impression that it was seen through a telescope) was taken by a classmate he invited.

That's when I learned that there are a lot of tricks to taking photos.

For example, he learned from his classmates to put one person in the palm of another's hand.

For example, he learned how to take pictures like this telescope effect from his classmates......

You must know that there is no concept of PS at this time, it is all about some photography skills. In other words, this is what the photo looks like when it is washed out.

Later, I played a little bit and took a rainbow photo of my wife in the winter.

At that time, the rainbow actually appeared on the bottom plate.

Unlike later, when there was a digital camera, it was easy to do these special effects.