Please note - the "original" size here is 1/2 of the scanned resolution - many of these are kodachrome and they look great. Others have suffered "storage". Also, many of these are more than 30 years old on expensive (for most kids) Kodachrome film. Only 1 shot, or 2 at the very most, would have bee taken of any subject. No "memory card". No "bracketing. No "do-overs".

My Brother writes: How I got into photography -
My older brother, Andrew, and I went through a phase of taking black and white photographs. The negatives were then developed and printed using a rather primitive kit which gave you a postage stamp sized print. By high school, I had used some of my summer earnings and purchased a Yashica 35 which was a real eye opener after a series of tired brownie cameras.

Having grown up in a house filled with National Geographics, travelling seemed the obvious thing to do once high school was over. So, I travelled in September 1974 overland from London to Kathmandu through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and finally Nepal. At the time it seemed like that part of the world was only going to carry on opening up to the West and travellers. Sadly, now, travelling overland from London to Kathmandu is now only for the courageous. However, I came home from my first big trip with hundreds of slides and the urge to go again.

By 1978, my Yashica had been replaced by an Olympus 2, a great camera as long as it didn't fall in a lake or have its circuitry fail in the middle of Central Africa. I finally got it repaired in South Africa, It continued to shoot great pictures all the way up through East Africa, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka and back to India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia. Oh, I hasten to add that I bought a Rollei 35 as more than just a backup camera which I used for a lot of my black
and white images.

And so that is how it was up until the mid 90s, the Olympus 2 (an Olympus 1 was added later) - when I stopped shooting slides and black and white negatives of any significant amount.