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Mike Toddington of the WCPHA c1999<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. For our 25th Anniversary, editor Bob Lansdale worked his network of exchange journal editors to pony up an article for this volume of our journal – Photographic Canadiana<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The WCPHA (Western Canada Photographic Historical Association) had a friendly debate running with us when Ev Roseborough was editor. Their newsletter editor at the time, Mike Toddington, contributed this thoughtful piece on both camera use and camera collecting called “Hindsight … is 20\/20”.<\/p>\n

Mike begins, “Have you often thought of the time you have missed\u00a0that perfect, once in a lifetime camera buy? It is one\u00a0thing to ponder the pros and cons of an investment and\u00a0then decide against a purchase but its quite another to\u00a0miss the boat completely.<\/p>\n

“Regrettably, I fall into the last\u00a0category and mine is a sad and woeful tale.\u00a0In 1956 I was a draftee into the UK Airforce. I\u00a0worked in telecommunications and despite my numerous efforts to transfer to the photo section, the requests\u00a0were always declined on the grounds that my psychological tests showed conclusively that I had \u2018no aptitude\u00a0for photography\u2019.<\/p>\n

“In spite of this ghastly revelation concerning my\u00a0fanatical pastime, I continued to take pictures on the\u00a0base (which required a special security permit). My ‘Voigtl\u00e4nder Vito I’ served me well.<\/p>\n

“I processed my pictures at home, taking the finished prints back to the\u00a0base and selling them to various individuals at a small\u00a0profit. Much to the chagrin of the Base Photo Section,\u00a0I was being asked by senior officers to take official photos.<\/p>\n

“Questions were being asked as to why I was not\u00a0working in the photographic section. When the reasons\u00a0became known, the matter was never raised again. After\u00a0all, who would want to be locked in a darkroom with a\u00a0\u201cwannabe photo psycho\u201d?<\/p>\n

“Determined to produce better pictures this \u2018psycho\u2019 decided to upgrade the Vito\u00a0and changed to a Leica as used by the \u2018pros\u2019 in the base\u00a0photo section.”<\/p>\n

To learn the reason for his regret, members can read all of Mike’s sad tale in the pdf file for issue 25-3 on the free members only DVD\/memory stick. See above or at right under MEMBERSHIP\/Membership to join. Send any questions on membership to Lilianne at member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NB. As members we all regret the decision to not buy that camera\/lens far more than we regret anything we bought! I can certainly relate to Mike’s sad tale … And by the way, today is FAIR DAY!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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