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Classic Manual Camera Friday #16


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<p>Sweet 16 CMC Friday ! Party rules: max 300 kb and 700 pix's longest side. My kick off is two from the same neg, taken during a recent wondering about town with my Bessa I and a monopod on a breezy spring day. These 6x9 neg's yield a "different" feel to the picture, but if one wants to stay in the rut, the "standard" 8x10 is there.<br>

Film was 400Tmax, Pilot metering, G filter, 510-Pyro developer. Enjoy, Bill</p><div>00dF2G-556346284.jpg.7ae97cfbf611c8180a9283ce341c9b8d.jpg</div>

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<p><strong>Another from an old folder, an Agfa Super Isolette.</strong></p>

<p><a title="NedFl2 by Andrew Yue, on Flickr" href=" NedFl2 src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8671/16275502038_1a77c40f7f_o.jpg" alt="NedFl2" width="500" height="508" /></a></p>

<p><strong>Ned working with a Bridgeport mill</strong></p>

Best Regards - Andrew in Austin, TX
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<p>Bill, I like the post office in full-frame view, not 8x10-aspect crop. The flashing four-way stop light underscores the main-street feel. Usually I would try to crop out (or preferably compose out) such a thing, but it works in this case.<br>

<br />Those are far less obtrusive utility wires than I would have expected in the scene, by the way. There's nothing worse than a beautiful historic building with 17 heavy, drooping utility wires passing by, including the usually fat-black cable television ones. You've been lucky!<br>

<em><br />--Dave</em></p>

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<p>One of the last shots taken on my "Reflexa" with a 50mm Canon f/1.9 lens. This was a rebadged Mamiya Prismat (also sold under many other names).</p>

<p>After I removed the cassette of film, the camera fell apart - literally.</p><div>00dF3b-556349384.jpg.5b58f1e8cd39682a983e5c4031af0f4a.jpg</div>

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<p>Bill, that's no big deal. Few would begrudge you removing the few electrical cables in upper left of that frame. I meant that the two cables passing below the stoplight are surprisingly fine and disappear into the post office building, and that appears to have been the case in the original.</p>

<p>I was referring to this kind of nonsense below (admittedly the worst case I've ever seen) as being what you were lucky to avoid... (Picture from about a year ago--Rolleiflex 2.8E Planar, shooting Ektar)<br /> <em>--Dave</em></p><div>00dF5b-556352284.jpg.c511853f4af3caf76a1cb1d953629718.jpg</div>

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<p>Had a second roll that I shot with my Minolta MC Rokkor 55 mm f1.7, the standard lens that reduced the selling price of an SRT 101 by about 30 to 40 USD, at least in a 1969 photo magazine. Quite a difference in today's dollars though. For the second roll I used a roll of my cold-stored Plus-X (most of which expired July 2012).</p><div>00dF7F-556355684.jpg.b9c962370529efd7e8b63a2d1bef33ec.jpg</div>
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