Roy Deppa spent the summers of 1969 and 1970 backpacking across Europe. Accompanying Roy was his trusty Argus C3, the film camera he had used as a yearbook photographer at Gaithersburg High School.

While the Argus C3 was a sophisticated piece of photographic hardware, with rangefinder focusing and a wide range of shutter speeds, the Argus A was a very simple Bakelite camera, made to resemble the ...