RE: Vintage Photos - eBay Set #2 (305-308)
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good work on the part of the photographer in the first one. Unless they were really wealthy they were probably dealing with some pretty basic camera functions and getting the timing just right on that would have been tough.
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I'm not sure if there was much in the way of "point and shoot" cameras in the 1960s. I would assume this camera had the typical shutter speed and aperture settings and I guess anyone who spent the money on a camera at that time probably learned how to use it. Doing some googling, it looks like a 35mm camera probably would have cost the equivalent of about $1500 in today's dollars (and of course you could go more expensive). You didn't have to be rich but you were probably pretty serious about it. If you buy a DSLR camera today you can go as cheap as $400-$500. $1500 probably gets you a pretty high end 35mm camera. Of course, you can spend that much on a lens and full frame cameras are much more expensive.
I just recall in the 80's that my father had a rather fancy camera, I think it was a Canon, but it could be anything else. It had a reusable flash and everything! Haha, that was actually a pretty big deal at the time.
I do know that he wouldn't let us mess with it and there were tons of settings and dials on it that you would have to know what you were doing to even mess with in the first place since there obviously was no digital screen. If you screwed up on your photos, you didn't find out until weeks later.