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Topic: Me, and my photo! (and my camera)
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 01-27-2003 06:59 AM
Michael wrote:
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Oh yes, now the only difference between England and Germany is that we have decent beer. And that we can actually play football (soccer for American readers). On the other hand, we have the Euro and we have to live with that.
But Michael, that's not saying much; every country on Earth plays football better than England! I'm not a football fan, so I'm quite happy to admit the truth on that one.
I'm told that some of our small, independant breweries produce some good beers, but the big ones don't have a very good reputation.
As far as cinemas are concerned, I think too many screens are being built here as well. A fair number of our very early cineras are still open as art house type venues, and are doing quite well. Nearly all of the big 1930s ones have gone. Of the modern multiplexes, we don't seem to have as many of the really bad ones as America seems to, I think most of them are reasonable. Among the best is probably the 'Picture House' chain, I know that several of their staff are members of these forums.
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the
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From: Boston, MA
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posted 01-27-2003 01:15 PM
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But Michael, that's not saying much; every country on Earthplays football better than England! I'm not a football fan, so I'm quite happy to admit the truth on that one.
It is very courageous of you to admit that, but not quite true: US football (=soccer) is even worse than English.
The cinema situation is very similar here, and I think that the multiplex boom occurred in England a little earlier than in Germany where it took place mainly in 99-01. We still have a few arthouse type cinemas which are doing OK, but most of the smaller arthouse and neighbourhood cinemas in Berlin are in trouble because they started playing a lot of mainstream in the early 90s. When the multiplexes came, they took away the mainsteam audience because they were technically better equipped for blockbusters, big screens, boomy digital sound etc. Meanwhile, most of the traditional arthouse or repertory audience was gone because the small cinemas had neglected to care for the specific tastes of that audience. So it is almost impossible to see classics in cinemas here.
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 09-28-2003 03:26 PM
Well, I've finally got round to sending in a new picture. This one was taken with a Nikkormat FTN. The camera I'm holding is an early Pacemaker 5x4 Speed Graphic c.1949 which took my previous black and white picture.
I bought this camera about five years ago, cheaply, but with many parts bent, missing or broken. It still needs more work done on it, but it works now, and I've taken some good pictures with it on conventional film, but never had much success with Polaroid.
This new picture was taken with a Graflite flash, similar to the one on the Speed Graphic, but the smaller two cell version, and fitted with the five inch reflector. A number M3 bulb in an adapter was used, with a diffuser.
ps. If anyone knows where I can buy a Focus Scope for a side mounted Kalart rangefinder, please let me know.
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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
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posted 09-28-2003 10:57 PM
Nice camera. For the last couple of weeks, I've been having great fun with a 1960s Super Speed Graphic, which is more or less the same basic design, but with a metal body and a 1/1000th leaf shutter (no focal plane shutter like the earlier Speed Graphics). Mine has the "standard" 135mm Optar lens. I have the same flashgun as Stephen does, as well as a box of flashbulbs, but no sync cord. The shutter will do X-sync, though, and a modern flash unit should do just fine as soon as I find the right type of connector to plug into the body.
In addition to Polaroids, I've been shooting Tri-X (TXP...not the same thing as the 400TX that is available in 35mm), with good results, though I haven't had any genuinely large prints made yet.
I wish I had enough space to do the whole home darkroom thing, but that doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon.
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
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posted 09-29-2003 06:13 PM
try Paramount Cords, in the Bronx, for cables, they do them to fit just about anything. They are here:
Super Speeds are rare here, as are Crowns, Speeds, of various vintages, and formats, are more common. There is a British made press camera, the Micro Press, made by MPP (Micro Precision Products), which is very similar to the Speed, but slightly more modern. It's not as historic, but for use, rather than display, I think I prefer it to the Speed. If I could find one for a reasonable price I would buy one.
I took the Speed to a 1940's weekend at the Severn Valley Railway (preserved, mainly steam operated line) last year. Next year I'm going to try to hire a '40s suit to go with it!
I've got about 3000 flashbulbs, of various sizes, they still make the large, screw cap ones in Ireland, but they are very expensive. I've never dared to fire one that size, I need to find something really big to photograph.
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Stephen Furley
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posted 10-01-2003 02:41 AM
Steam trains don't run at night, but I have got four 'posed' shots, taken at the Photographers' evening at the Didcot Railway Centre, which somebody else here mentioned recently. The're not taken with flash though. Also, firing flashes, of any type, at moving trains is an absolute no no now.
When I can find the time maybe I'll scan them and put them up here.
About half of my stock of bulbs is M3 and M5 types, another 40% is AG1s, and the other 10% larger types. I have about 150 of the big ones.
I don't often use bulbs, but the can be useful at times. Even an AG1 puts out more light than my Nikon electronic flash, and the flashgun which takes them is both smaller and lighter. I've got enough to last me for as long as I'm around, and to leave plenty for people who come after me to try.
The 'M' sized bulbs are useful in the graflite 5 inch reflector, because, in their adapter, they are the same length as a No. 5 or press 25 bulb, so they align correctly with the reflector, but they are much cheaper, and easier to find. Bulbs are also useful when you want to show movement in a shot, due to their much longer burn time.
The people in Ireland who are still making bulbs are here
Here is one of the pictures:
The detail in the original transparency is amasing; It loses rather a lot as a low res jpeg.
I have mixed feelings about this picture. I like the lamp on the left, the details of the shed roof, smoke vents etc., which show up much better on the original, and the reflections from the wet York stone slabs in the foreground, again, the shadow detail doesn't show up very well in the jpeg.
I don't like the posttion of the loco, it looks too central, but if I cropped the picture on the right it would be running out of the frame, and if I cropped on the left I would lose the wagon and the lamp. I couldn't include more on the right, as there was a load of junk just out of frame.
This was one of my first pictures with the Speed, three years ago. From memory, exposure was about four minutes at f:32 I think. Film was Fuji RTPII, 64 ASA tungsten, rated at 50. Foreground slabs were 'burned in' somewhat in the camera by means of a card held in front of the lens. Lighting was a mixture of tungsten lighting which the centre rigged for the evening, not very bright, and light from the windows of the refreshment rooms behind me.
[ 10-01-2003, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: Stephen Furley ]
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