PeterW
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Post by PeterW on Jul 15, 2007 17:11:08 GMT -5
Hi, I've often mentiond my wife Valerie's photography so I thought you might like to see a few of her pictures. Here are five from the first roll she ever put through her 1936 Kine Exakta with f/2 Biotar lens the Saturday after she bought it in, I think, 1956. They were taken as we strolled round the Serpentine and along the Thames Embankment in London. Film was FP3, developed, as usual, in ID11. Years later she used the same camera as her first professional freelance camera.  The man on the bridge.  Strollers in silhouette.  Rower on the Serpentine. And as a change from silhouettes  The Thames and County Hall.  Open air art exhibition, Chelsea Embankment. Hope you like them. PeterW |
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Post by GeneW on Jul 15, 2007 19:08:22 GMT -5
Peter, her work is beautiful. Thank you for sharing these with us.
Gene
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 15, 2007 19:36:53 GMT -5
Peter,
What beautiful pictures.
What an exceptional talent.
Mickey
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Post by herron on Jul 15, 2007 21:46:14 GMT -5
Peter:
I enjoyed those very much. Thanks so much for sharing them!
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Post by SidW on Jul 16, 2007 4:13:26 GMT -5
That was great, Peter. And this way she's still very much among us.
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Post by PeterW on Jul 16, 2007 6:14:55 GMT -5
Thanks for your comments, guys. I appreciate them.
PeterW
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Post by vintageslrs on Jul 16, 2007 7:52:14 GMT -5
Peter
Enjoyed viewing those pics...thanks much for posting them!
Bob
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Post by Randy on Jul 16, 2007 7:58:34 GMT -5
Wonderful photos, Wonderful Woman.
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 16, 2007 11:54:54 GMT -5
Always a pleasure to see vintage B&W done well with vintage photo gear. Thank you for sharing those wonderful images.
Bob
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Post by John Parry on Jul 16, 2007 13:56:40 GMT -5
Peter - I'm the guiltiest of all. Valerie's inheritance is a signal call for us all to look around, spot those 'out of sync' elements and shoot them.
Yes. Stop p|ssin about Parry - take some photographs!
Best Regards - John
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Post by doubs43 on Jul 16, 2007 18:06:23 GMT -5
Peter, I've been away since early Sunday morning and just now saw Valerie's pictures....... and they are excellent!! I'm even more impressed that she used a pre-war Kine Exakta that likely had a waist-level finder. She most certainly had an eye for composition and the exposures look to be exactly right on the money too. Thanks for posting them.
Walker
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Post by Rachel on Jul 17, 2007 6:36:37 GMT -5
I go along with the rest of you ..... lovely pictures.
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Post by PeterW on Jul 17, 2007 7:25:17 GMT -5
Thanks again, folks. You're correct, Walker, the Kine Exakta has a non-interchangeable waist level viewfinder. Not a plastic screen, it's a big chunk of optical glass cut from the centre of a plano-convex lens with the bottom flat part finely frosted. No focusing aids like micro-prisms or split image prisms, but bright and clear even though by now the mirror is suffering a little and losing some of its silvering. The Biotar lens is completely manual, no auto stop-down. No built-in metering at all, let alone TTL. Valerie used to use a hand-held Ikophot selenium meter for some of her shots at this time, otherwise she guesstimated. I still have the camera and run a short length of film through it every so seldom, just to keep it exercised, though it takes me a while to get used to the left-to-right swapped-over view in the finder. Everything moves the wrong way when you turn the camera, and it makes the composition seem strange. It also makes me THINK again about my photography compared with my Canon T70 which makes me lazy as it does all the thinking except focusing for me. I keep forgetting to stop down after focusing and get about half the pictures over-exposed four or five stops.  . PeterW |
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Post by paulatukcamera on Jul 17, 2007 17:15:16 GMT -5
Peter,
Lovely atmospheric shots. They do take me back! Streets full of upright black cars, men in hats.
I remember using an Edixa with a waist level finder when I was a teenager - I never got the hang of doing the left to right move correctly. Valerie must have had marvellous dexterity to keep the rowers in view.
Perhaps you should consider limited print runs of her best photos.
I'd buy a picture of the rowers.
Paul
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