Yet One More Sketch from Looking Glass Photo

Lighting Equipment

Time, time, time.  Hoped I'd get to sketch some vintage camera equipment.  You know, like maybe an old large-format bellows camera on a wooden tripod? Right.

To the young photographers working at Looking Glass Photo, 'vintage' is a Nikon single lens reflex circa 1960's . . .  and me.

Some More Sketches From Looking Glass Photo and Cameras

Camera Stand

It was fun sketching at the Looking Glass  Store!

Old Horns
Perhaps from a truck?

Looking Glass Photo

 The staff at Looking Glass Photo was very welcoming to our sketch group. I asked them to show me the oldest camera they had in the shop and they brought me an original Nikon F to draw. This very heavy (film) camera was introduced in 1959. It was so durable it became known as the hockey puck. It was the camera used by photographers covering the Vietnam war and the first space launches in the 1960s. (Original price $186.) I also found a great lens and light meter in the resale cabinet to sketch.

Looking Glass Photo and Camera

This Berkeley camera store, in operation for over 40 years, relocated from Telegraph Avenue to a big new space on Ashby Avenue.  Lazy me found a comfortable leather chair and painted what was in front of me:  the water cooler and their wonderful graphic floor!