My father’s first 35 mm camera was a viewfinder camera of a brand called Lord that I have seen nowhere else. I think he probably bought it at an Army post exchange near Sasebo, Japan in 1953 or 1954. He passed it on to me in the summer before I turned nine, and it was a challenging camera for a child: manual focus, manual exposure, manual aperture, easy to forget that the lens cap was still on. This is the last picture I ever took with that camera, 11 years later and just before I left for college. The winding mechanism had some kind of problem by that time, putting way too much space between exposures so that I only got 20 exposures out of the 24-exposure film that this picture comes from.