Chapter 42 Talk about taking pictures

When I was young, the camera I started playing with was a rectangular eagle eyeglass box. As long as the sun is shining and the scene is within the range of the mirror, I can take a clear image without measuring the distance to the light.In the year of college graduation, the school required a half-length photo to be attached to the graduation certificate, and the photo was also required for the commemorative book of the classmate association, and there was no need to pay a penny. Just go to the Dechang Photo Gallery in Dong’an Market and write the name of the class. After the photo is taken, the Dechang Photo Gallery It will be sent to the school for us to be printed separately, as simple as that.As a result, there are still photos of some classmates in the graduation yearbook.At the teacher appreciation banquet, the principal silenced everyone, saying that some people are superstitious about taking a photo, and the soul is injured once. The students cherish life, so everyone is afraid of taking pictures.Although it was a joke, some people didn't want to take pictures. I still haven't figured out the reason.

In a few years, I bought a new camera with a 3.6 lens, which was equipped with a head film or a glass negative film. It was equipped with an automatic shutter tripod, and the aperture was zoomed visually, and the focus was adjusted by the image. The photos taken by the eagle eyeglass box are much smarter. The Shanghai Liangjiang women's basketball team played basketball in Beijing for the first time. The first game was against the Normal University women's basketball team in the outfield of the Youth Club in Meizhu Hutong.The atmosphere in Beijing is relatively conservative. Although playing basketball in the north is a winter sport, the uniforms of any women’s basketball team are long sweatpants. However, the Liangjiang women’s basketball team, after warming up by running the basket, all players remove their trousers to reveal what they are wearing. Red short sweatpants, this kind of bold exposure, is the first time in the eyes of Beijingers.At that time, I was working as a field reporter for Tintin Pictorial, and it happened that I was carrying a video camera. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Ma Yimin, had to temporarily act as a photojournalist on a temporary errand.I was just a beginner in taking pictures, and the team was posing. At that time, some famous photographers in Beijing, Zhang Zhida, Tan Tongsheng, Sa Kongle, and Zong Weigeng, were flashing with lightning, snapping, snapping, and I was in a hurry. At the end, my light has not been aligned yet, so the audience who watched the game drew a burst of sneer.Fortunately, Xi Jun, the team leader of Liangjiang, specially changed the formation so that I took a few very clear photos. Later, "Shanghai News", "Shenzhen" and "Current Affairs News" all adopted my photos, which made Sa Kong very angry He blew his beard and stared.Xueyou Huang Zhongfu took my negatives and made several photocopies and gave them to every team member in Liangjiang.Because of this relationship, he and Xi Jun hit it off very well. From lovers to a good relationship, it became a good story in the football world.I, a clumsy temporary photojournalist, unexpectedly became the old man under the moon once!Although I have to face the light from behind with my first film camera, it took pictures of many beautiful people and scenery wherever I went in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Later, I accompanied my late mother back to Ning Hailing's natal family. The local people are simple, kind and gentle, and the scenery is wild and beautiful, so I brought the negatives, and within a few days, all of them were photographed.Although there are two photo studios in the local area, they do not develop the negatives on behalf of customers.One day I passed by a pharmacy and found that there were more than a dozen boxes of Kodak film on the shelf. The people in the pharmacy didn’t know what it was for. Come back, take a special photo.Later, when I returned to Shanghai, I took pictures by the pool in Hongkou Liusan Garden. After washing out, there were two beauties in high-knot clogs and flamboyant sleeves in the reflection in the pool. Several people from the Black and White Photography Society saw it, but they couldn’t tell. So, everyone suspected it was a ghost, but I couldn't come up with enough evidence. As a result, my enthusiasm for photography gradually cooled down, and the mirror box was hidden away.

Not long after the opening of the new branch of Shanghai Xinxin Company, brother Wang Xuchang and I visited the photography department (Wang studied in Paris, specialized in photography, and returned to China to establish Shenzhou Film Company on Yuyuan Road to shoot movies), and found a Kangtai with a set of two lenses. The camera is not only complete with parts, but also has all the tools for developing and enlarging in the darkroom.He thought the price was cheap, so I bought it and brought it back to Beijing.Because of the flexibility of the machine, the stage stills are particularly vivid and clear. At that time, I sent Zhang Xiaokan to him for publication of all the Beijing stage stills of the "Drama Weekly" in Shanghai at that time.The July 7th Incident broke out, and before I had time to escape, the Japanese Gendarmerie had already "come" to search the house, but they found nothing, but they took away my Contax camera and its accessories.During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, I ran around here and there, and I didn't have a good camera, and of course I didn't have the leisure to engage in photography art.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he came to Taiwan in the 35th year of the Republic of China.The Governor's Mansion during the Japanese occupation era was destroyed by the bombing of the US plane and has not yet been repaired.The area around Hengyang Street is considered to be a well-organized area. Every afternoon, the sidewalks on both sides are filled with bells, pots, stoves, emeralds and emerald feathers, and most of them are all kinds of cameras. It can be seen at a glance that they are the spoils of war looted by the Japanese during the occupation. .After defeating and surrendering, these things could not be carried back to the country, so they had to sell them to collectors who were worthless.My friend Sun Shuwei has a long history of research on optical instruments. He hunted for treasures at those antique stalls every day. At one time, he bought 21 cameras in one go. The largest lens was 1.8, which was the best at that time.He traveled between Shanghai and Taiwan by boat, and made a lot of money back and forth four or five times.Later, when he was in Shanghai, we lost contact with each other.I still have a few red, green, yellow and blue lenses in my bookcase. Although my hands are trembling and my eyes are shaking, I haven’t played with cameras for a long time. I occasionally take them out to play with them. , Unknowingly burst out laughing.But after thinking about it for a long time, another ray of worry came to my heart. After all, I am old, and I am not as exuberant as I used to be.