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Dustin McAmera

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  1. Now you're moving the goalposts. You only asked how to illustrate our poor leaders, not change their minds. Politicians would never have got where they are if they were sensitive to criticism. They don't look at the cartoons, unless it's to enjoy being famous (they probably buy the original for their office wall). Sometimes, the rest of us have the opportunity to get rid of one set of egotists in exchange for another; it's only us you can hope to influence.
  2. Cartoons! Or photomontage? I think expressing opinion in an unstaged photograph is intrinsically hard. Interesting that cartoons have always been with us, and flourish when politics is at its worst (think of Steve Bell during Margaret Thatcher's years), but if you look for photomontage, you still don't find much other than Heartfield.
  3. Panamint Valley. Kiron 28mm f/2, Canon A-1
  4. Fuji Pro400H @ ISO 800, Duo-Ensign 2¼B box, for Take Your Box Camera to Work Day, 2013.
  5. T-Mount comes to mind; are you sure it isn't one of those? The mount-attachment thread of a T-mount is 42x.074mm according to Camera-wiki), so similar to but not the same as the M42x1 lens-mount thread.
  6. Stones from the common vaults reused as paving in St George's Fields, Leeds. Yamato Pax 35.
  7. The old Leeds turntable tramshed, now used for van hire. Scratchy home-made pinhole camera, 120 Shanghai GP3, Rodinal.
  8. Lord Peter Wimsey's gentleman's-gentleman Bunter is said to be a skilled photographer. He photographs footprints, fingerprints, etc. at crime scenes, and does his own developing. Those stories were written much later, between 1923 and 1939, and are set about the same time (Bunter was Wimsey's batman during the first War, and Wimsey suffers from traumatic flashbacks in at least one of the stories).
  9. graflex.org has some information, but perhaps more usefully a link to Cress Photographic (at flashbulbs.com) which seems to still exist.
  10. An answer to not quite the same question. I found this when googling after I bought an Ensign Reflex which came with an eleven-inch Ross Telecentric. The main story is that Scotland Yard bought the same lens in 1913, for photographing women's suffrage activists (apparently while they were in prison yards, not on the street or in the commission of crimes); but it also says that prisons (I imagine it means British ones) were told to photograph inmates routinely in 1871. BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Spy pictures of suffragettes revealed
  11. It says here that he wrote for the BJP thirteen times. The site wants you to allow all kinds of script to run before it displays the text, mind: Arthur Conan Doyle, the Photographer. - 1854 Photography People who like his style might like to read his account of photographing cormorants on the Isle of May. I find it a bit long-winded and jolly-good-chaps.
  12. I wonder if the rails have slightly racked forward after folding the camera: would they be in a position to block the linkage from the bump from moving? You could try to turn the focus knob back to see. The only other thing I can think of is if the camera had been folded with a little bit of rise, so the top of the frame finder might be in the way; again, I don't know if that can happen. If it did, I can only think that you could reach in through the back and push down on the bottom of the lens-board; but it might break the 'non-destructive' rule a bit. Good luck!
  13. Here's what Camera-wiki has: Category:Spring motor - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia Feel free to buy me a Foton or a Leningrad for Christmas.
  14. Posted before. Zenit with Industar 22.
  15. Fotodiox sold adapters branded Rhinocam, which let you fit a MF lens onto a DSLR or mirrorless camera. The lens-mount has the tripod mount, and the adapter includes a slider so the body can be moved to capture most of the lens' image, in a number of exposures. I bought one on impulse when I got my EOS M50, to use with my Mamiya M645 lenses. I've tried it out briefly, but still not used it in anger yet. My main finding was that fitting the camera body was very finicky; I think it was designed for earlier EOS-M cameras. I see the model I bought is sold out and won't be made again.
  16. The 'correct' lens for a Praktica would be Carl Zeiss Jena or Meyer, wouldn't it? .. but the world and his dog all made M42 lenses.
  17. This guy at Flickr has a roll that colour, and says it expired March 1975: Kodak Tri-X Pan Exp. March 1975 Which camera do I win?
  18. To stir up trouble in another direction, His Dark Materials beats it by a mile.
  19. 'Shall I ever look down into that valley again, I wonder.' KW Pilot Super, HP5, HC110, Hobbiton in the Shire.
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