by royphotog | Feb 17, 2020 | History
One of our early web pages, from 2000 It doesn’t seem possible, but it’s been 20 years since I started www.roydresselphoto.com back in the last few days of 1999. It also doesn’t seem possible that at one time, I didn’t have a website. I...
by royphotog | Feb 10, 2020 | History
My first 35mm SLR I bought my second 35mm camera, a Praktica Nova I during my freshman year in high school. That was sometime in late 1969. It was my first SLR. (single-lens reflex) It replaced the Universal half frame that I had been using for about a year....
by royphotog | Jan 29, 2020 | History
Roy Dressel Photography is a Visalia California Photography studio, in business since 1984. Our studio is located in the heart of Visalia’s vibrant downtown district. How I got “into” photography. Everyone seems to have an about page, a place where they tell you how...
by royphotog | Jan 9, 2020 | History
This Old Olympus OM-1 is one of my favorite cameras. Purchased new at Boots Camera in Fresno in 1979. The Olympus OM-1 was my first professional 35mm camera The Olympus OM-1 was my first professional camera, but I had had several 35mm cameras before the OM-1. The...
by royphotog | Dec 2, 2019 | History
Man, this camera sure does show my age. Well, in reality, it is a bit older then I am. I bought this camera in a pawn shop in Fontana, California, in about 1968, but it’s much older than that. The Mercury II camera was built by the Universal Camera Corporation...
by royphotog | Nov 17, 2019 | History
The little kit that I received for my thirteenth birthday to develop and print B&W film. It began a journey that I am still on today. The journey of the image. I’m lucky, I found my passion early in life, and it became a passion that I have been able to...
