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I Have Sent Off For A Lens
Along with about 56,000 other people this morning. Hopefully we are not competing for the same one. In my case it is not a new release, though I am purchasing a new example of it. I made a series of conscious decisions that I urge other people to do as well: a. I did not…
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The Executive Committee Of The AIOU
Will deliver its ruling after consultation with representatives of interstate organisations. Was that a cork popping? I think negotiations have begun. Now we’ll see some art and science! The formation of a professional body to oversee trade is one thing. If it is allied to an trade organisation to oversee art, that is another. If…
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” I Read This Review…”
Keep reading. Gather more of them. Search different websites and watch different YouTube channels. Ask around at the club – at the school. Ask at the pub. Ask at the dinner table. make notes of all the answers and prepare a data base for yourself, cross-referencing the opinions. Go to the public library and ask…
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Brick Me Daddy
Eight to the bar. We often hear of people having cameras and electronic equipment stolen while on holidays. Mostly it is overseas, but then overseas is home for lots of crooked people anyway. I do not wish the thieves well, whoever they are. The excuses that are made for them are so much eyewash. But…
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Dilly Dally Daily
Grasp hold of your Protestant work ethic and throw it down the stairs. Slow down, slack off, wait a bit, and doodle around. But do so with a pad and a pencil handy. Because a lot of your best ideas will come when you are not thinking of how to think of thinking of work.…
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The Loss Of DP Review
Is the current buzz of the internet. If it goes ahead, the site and channel stop in April and disappear sometime afterwards. The reason given is cost-cutting within the current state of the US economy by Amazon – the owners of the property. With 11 people listed as the staff, I wonder whether that really…
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” A Famous Photographer Used This Brand Of Camera “
Yes. You’ve seen photos of him using it. They were shown on the advertisements for the firm that made it… He also used Hygenix toilet paper. I wonder if the ads for that show him using it. And from what angle? And with what aperture…? Famous people used a lot of photo things. So did…
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Herr Haubitze Bought A Leica
It was 1955. Herr Haubitze entered the Zentral Foto shop at Piefkestr. 60 and went to the counter. He asked the sales assistant for a Leica M3 camera and a 50mm Summicron lens to fit it. Considerably poorer, he exited with the new camera, a roll of Agfa film, and the adventure of a lifetime.…
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The Constant Update
This is v 3.5 of this post. You should install it in your brain and trash the previous versions. Two of the pleasing aspects of life on Earth are the fact that the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, and gravity makes things fall down. People have grown accustomed to…
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Remember the WOOWA?
Or the YTTRV? They were advertising names for specialist accessories in the Flapoflex catalogues of the 1950’s. Presumably you could go into a shop on the Ginza or down Camera Lane, whisper the code, and the appropriate box would be slipped out onto the glass counter. Or perhaps they were a way of telegraphing back…
Dr. Stein's Photographic Establishment
Photographic Life In The Little Studio
Dr. Stein's Photographic Establishment 