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Post by PeterW on Feb 8, 2010 6:04:51 GMT -5
That's a really nice picture, Gene. It shows you had a good eye for design even way back.
I won't say how far back, let's just say I'd been married for 10 years. It was also the year I started writing and taking pictures full-time for a living, though I'd been freelancing evenings and weekends for some years.
The colours in the Kodachrome have survived very well, so your storage system must be good.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 9:54:04 GMT -5
I don't have a photo of it, but my first SLR was one of the Exakta models without pentaprism that I purchased new, with lens, from Olden Camera, NY, for $40 in 1963. I took this shot of bullwhip seaweed (Laguna Beach, CA) with it. It's my oldest surviving picture, taken when I was 18. Shot on Kodachrome II (ISO 25) Wonderful picture, Gene. If you were 18 in 1963 you and I are the same age. I got my Exa I around 1960 for $39.95. At the same time my dad got an Exacta VXIIA new for $69.95. Wayne Gene
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Post by GeneW on Feb 8, 2010 14:51:31 GMT -5
The colours in the Kodachrome have survived very well, so your storage system must be good. PeterW The original colour of slide has shifted toward magenta, but a single click on Auto Color in PSE shifted it back. Gene
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Post by PeterW on Feb 8, 2010 18:25:54 GMT -5
Mik,
If you got those cameras that clean in just five hours you worked damned hard. They look pristine.
I've been puzzling over the third camera with the Gauthier shutter but I don't think I've ever seen one before.
I, B, T is usually an English marking on shutters, standing for Instantaneous, Bulb and Time. Instantaneous was usually around 1/50 sec.
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Post by photax on Feb 9, 2010 12:51:50 GMT -5
Hi Gene ! A great picture ! It reminds me of those sixties outer space movies, looks like a piece of an astronaut-eating alien MIK
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