What's Wrong with your Lens?

In the October 1968 issue of Modern Photography magazine Bennett Sherman explains in graphical form,.

 

 

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Here is the 1968 Lens List.

 

 

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This month's Behind the Scenes column looks at the new Fujica G690 rangefinder camera.

 

 

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Arthur Kramer looks at "high acutance" film developers.

 

 

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Bennett Sherman looks at light.

 

 

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Meyers looks at your favorite color film.

 

 

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Here are this month's Modern Tests.

 

 

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Here is Keppler on the SLR.

 

 

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Switching over to Camera 35 magazine we see a test of Canon wide-angle lenses for the RF and SLR cameras.

 

 

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Here is the Too Hot to Handle column.

 

 

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Ed Scully looks at How Fine is Fine?

 

 

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Here are this month's camera equipment ads.

 

 

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Here are this month's dealer ads.

 

 

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Here is an article on the Ermanox camera.

 

 

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You can see the entire collection of magazine scans at my web site here.

 

 

A Look Back – Photography Magazine Scans

The Keppler essays alone would be worth a lot, but I am so pleased to be served up a nice buffet - nice selections.:)

A great look back. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting. That article about film developers, adding stuff to D76 to make the film look sharper was interesting. Wonder if it works? It was nice to see those old camera ads. I used to love looking carefully through the ads of Popular Photography (with a magnifying glass).

Thanks for another awesome look into the past. Iodide addition to Beutler or D-76 is indeed an interesting idea.

 

M4, Rollei SL66, SRT-101 - what a month in the ads.

Reading the color film article again reminded me of how customers used to visit my family's camera shop and ask the dreaded question: which film is the best film? We would tell them to try a few and make their own tests as what my dad liked or I liked might not please them. A certain amount of influence from ads made a difference as we had some that came in specifically wanting Kodachrome 64 or Fujichrome RD 100 or whatever they felt was best. I'll admit test reports influence me, but I still made my own tests. My favorite film in the late 80's and early 90's was Kodachrome 200.