Dear Husband has vivid childhood memories his father's camera - the Yashica A. He remembers standing facing the sun with his 10 siblings (No, that is not a typo and, yes, that means there were 11 children!) while his dad captured their squinty faces forever on film.
The Yashica A is a twin-lens reflex camera - a type of camera that has been around since the late 1800s - made from the late 1950's until the late 1960's. One lens is the shooting lens and the other is the viewfinder lens. This type of camera opens at the top, allowing the photographer to hold it at waist height, look down through what is basically an inverted periscope, and focus the image.
Enough of the history... Since the Yashica meant so much to Dear Husband, I decided it might make a nice still life subject. Little did I know that this old camera would kick my butt! I am finding that it is much more enjoyable for me to paint people - or really anything else - than to paint this camera. All the straight lines and circles are giving me a headache!
Here is the Yashica after a couple of painting sessions. Hopefully in the next week or two I'll have the strength to finish it!
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