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I fear my creditcard bill this month. I spent over 800 Euros on cameras and accessories alone.

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Some stuff from Allen arrived yesterday

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[edit]changed image to link, because it's huge!

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Hello Rick, glad you go them OK ... erm re; your PM .. I will have you know that is 100% best Yorkshire dust .. My apologies though, in my haste to pack it safely I did forget to dust it off after taking from the shelf where they lived.

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War Correspondent
United Press
'The Writing 69th'
8th USAAF
Somewhere in England

... " I got vision and the rest of the world is wearing bifocals " ...

... " I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them " ...

Glad I'm not the only one who had some quality Yorkshire dust

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"He's a tool of snap on proportions!"

"He looks like TV interference in that bloody face paint"

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake int he day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did"
T.E Lawrence

Keep it up guys .... I'll start charging extra next time ...

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War Correspondent
United Press
'The Writing 69th'
8th USAAF
Somewhere in England

... " I got vision and the rest of the world is wearing bifocals " ...

... " I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them " ...

I'll be sure to save it when I dust off the camera then.
Will it summon Oscar Barnack if I use it to make the pentagram for my summoning rituals?



Camo Cobra Bocage trip
Graflex Speed Graphic


Bateman's House WW1 Weekend
Leica IIIc, 5cm f/2.5 Hektor

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The weekend left me with a couple of cameras from 1952. :\
Picked up an Agfa Billy Record III for a steal. It did require some baking of the shutter at a 110c for 10 minutes to get the "Green Goo" to soften and free up the focusing helical. Rangefinder wheel was stuck too, but a bit of exercise and fresh oil freed it up....tore the skin from my thumb moving it around though.

The other camera was a French Ultra-Fex "Himalaya", not particularly rare or anything, but it came with an unused roll of Kodacolour film.

Shot some Ferrania P30 over the last week with my repainted Leica IIIc, but the results look very dark. Probably under-developed
I used 4.7ml of HC-110 concentrate in 300ml of water for the developer. (Solution H, 1+64) Developed for 12 minutes by 20C.
Now, I know using less than 5 or 6ml of developer per roll is not adviced. So either the high-silver content of the P30 film is the problem....
Or the high speeds on the Leica are off.
Playing with my recently acquired Olympus Pen FT today, loaded with Fomapan 100. Light meter doesn't work so sticking with Sunny-16

Some oldies from earlier this year.

Grave - Multiperiod Event. Leica IIIc with Hektor 5cm f/2.5


Vught - Dutch Royal Army Engineers Museum


Grave - Battle for the Eleventh Bridge 2016


Grave - Battle for the Eleventh Bridge 2016

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Hembrug Military Weekend 2016, Leica with 5cm f/2.5 Hektor lens


Passchendaele Museum, Kodak Auto Graflex RB with Ross Xpress lens, expired ortho film pushed 3 stops (hence the burnt edges)

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Fed a roll of Fomapan through my Contax I (and Olympus PEN FT) last Saturday at the "Battle for the 11th Bridge"

The 1/100th setting in the sports group of the Contax I appears to be running at least a stop too fast, so..
euh...enjoy the grain

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