I would like to supplement the excellent article in the September issue on Magnum with the following story: for the first time the achievements of Magnum were demonstrated in a representative exhibit which was jointly created by Magnum and Photokina.
Do you prefer to set up a picture or shoot candidly?
Harvey Shaman
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I prefer working candidly. When you set up a picture, you usually put your subject on guard and so automatically create a barrier. If you work candidly and let your subject either go on with what he is doing, or get him interested in something besides the picture taking, you are much more likely to get what you are after.
For darkroom use, extra clips can be made from spring-type wooden clothespins adapted so as to eliminate possibility of their damaging emulsion if clamped accidentally on a picture area. Slanted ends of jaws of each clothespin are cut off enough to allow view of exact position of gripping surfaces on film margin.
Kodak Color Compensating Filters and Filter Factors for Use with G-E and Sylvania Fluorescent Lamps_
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David B. Eisendrath
I am told that I shouldn’t shoot color film under fluorescent lamps, yet I have made some pictures with it under fluorescent lamps that were quite good. Are there some lamps that are better for color than others?—K.K.L., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Popular Photography field-tests IMPORTANT NEW PRODUCTS
HASSELBLAD 500C
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AGFA SILETTE SL
How exposure is determined with the new Silette SL:
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AGFA SILETTE SL
$99.95
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ASAHI PENTAX
$195
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MECABLITZ 100
$49.50
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OMEGA D-2 SPECIAL
$15.50
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ANSCO COLOR CLIPPER
$13.95
ANSCO COLOR CLIPPER takes 12 2¼x2¼-in. pictures on size 120 roll film. It has an f/11 coated lens, with aperture settings for both color and black-and-white, flash synchronization, and double exposure prevention. Price, $13.95; flash unit, $4.95. A Color Clipper Travel Outfit contains camera, Type IV Anscoflash unit, Anscochrome and All-Weather Pan Film, five blue flash bulbs, and Universal Viewer in a travel case. Price, $25.95. Ansco’s address: 40 Charles St., Binghamton, N. Y.
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AKAREX 700
$69.95
AKAREX 700, a 35mm camera, has a single window range-viewfinder with luminous frame. Bens is a f/2.8 Isconar, in a Prontor LVS shutter with fully synced speeds from 1 to 1/300 sec. and self-timer. The camera has a single-stroke rapid wind. Price is $69.95. Model 700L, with built-in photoelectric meter, is $89.95. Akarex Corp., 80 B. 11th St., New York 3, is the distributor and more information is available on request.
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SAMOCA 35X
$39.95
SAMOCA 35X, a 35mm camera, has a. single window range-viewfinder and a built-in photoelectric exposure meter. The 50-mm f/3.5 lens has a click-stop diaphragm ; MX shutter has speeds from 1/10 to 1/200 sec. Price is $39.95. Samoca 28X is similar, but has an f/2.8 lens; price, $49.95. Distributor is Brockway Corp., 1114 First Ave., New York 21.
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LORD 5D
$99.50
LORD 5D is a 35mm camera with a 40-mm semi-wide angle f/1.9 lens. It has a bright-line single window range-viewfinder, a lock for takingsnapshots without focusing, LVS settings, an MFX. -3 shutter with speeds from 1 to 1/500 see., a built-in film cutter for removing the exposed portion of film, and provision for intentional double exposures. The camera, is $99.50; case, $10.95. Allied Impex Corp., 17 W. 17th St., New York 11, is the distributor.
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AMIFLEX II
AMIFLEX II, the twin-lens reflex camera described on page 34 in the November issue of POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, is distributed by Sterling-Howard Corp., 561 E. Tremont Ave., New York 57.
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ELMO 8AA
$99.50
ELMO 8AA is an 8mm spool-loading camera with trimming zoom-type finder showing the fields of 6.5-, 7.5-, 13-, plus 38-mm lenses. Features include 8, 16, 24, and 32 frames per second, a 9½ ft. film run (with a warning signal in the viewfinder to indicate end of run), built-in exposure computer, standard D-mount, and detachable pistol grip. Price, with 13-mm Elmo ƒ/1.9 lens is $99.50; with 13-mm Zunow f/1.1 lens, $129.50. Distributor is Brockway Camera Corp., 1114 First Ave., New York 21.
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ARGUS C-20 ADAPTER RING
$2.40
ARGUS C-20 ADAPTER RING is offered by Enteco Industries, Inc., 610 Kosciusko St., Brooklyn, N. Y. A projecting screw arm locks or releases the adapter ring on lens and aids rotating of lens for focusing. It takes Series 6 filters. The No. 625 adapter ring is $2.40.
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KOPIL FOLDING BELLOWSCOPE
$29.95
KOPIL FOLDING BELLOWSCOPE for Praktina and Hexacon Supreme permits close-up work with these cameras. It has a geared track with lock, leather bellows, and folds when not in use. Price is $29.95. Photographic Importing & Distributing Corp., 67 Forest Road, Valley Stream, N. Y., is the distributor.
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PRAKTINA MICROSCOPIC EYEPIECE
$30
PRAKTINA MICROSCOPIC EYEPIECE is a high-magnification viewfinder for critical focusing with that camera. It is adjustable for Individual vision. The eye-cup rotates 360 degrees in either direction. It is interchangeable with the pentaprism and reflex viewfinders. Price is $30. A plain groundglass focusing screen is $3.95. Distributor is Standard Camera Corp., 319 Fifth Ave., New York 16.
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MEYER PRIMOTAR
$69.50
MEYER PRIMOTAR, an SO-mm f/2.S telephoto lens for the Exakta camera, is introduced by Exakta Camera Co., Bronxville, N. Y. It has a four element construction and focuses from 3.3 ft. Price, $69.50.
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TELEPHOTO LENS
$S2.95
TELEPHOTO LENS for Praktina FX and Praktica FX2 and FX3 cameras, the 180mm Meyer Gorlitz Telemegor f/5.5, has a pre-set diaphragm, five elements, and focuses from S ft. to infinity. A true telephoto, it is 5⅜-in. long and weighs 10 oz. Price, $S2.95. Distributor is Standard Camera Corp., 319 Fifth Ave., New York 16.
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SCREW-IN FILTERS
$2.50
SCREW-IN FILTERS for all Kodak Brownie movie cameras are offered by EdnaEite Optical Co., Peekskill, N. Y. Made of solid optical glass and coated, they come in two types; a ChromA 85A filter permits use of indoor color film outdoors while the ChromeHaze or Skylight filter prevents over-bluish color. Price of each, in plastic case, is $2.50. TIFFEN DM decamired filters permit balanced color results with all light conditions and all types of color films. They can be used singly, or in multiples, according to the degree of adjustment desired. Complete kits consist of three B (or cooling) filters and three R (warming) filters, plus case. Prices range from $10.50 for Series C to $64.50 for Series 9 kits.
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FR SHOE MOUNT BRACKET
$2.50
FR SHOE MOUNT BRACKET fits the FR 140 electronic flash head on any camera with a T-slot mount. It is intended to simplify horizontal and vertical use of 35-mm cameras with flash and for bounce-flash. It is a product of The FR Corp., 951 Brook Ave., New York 51. Price is $2.50.
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BELL & HOWELL
$39.95
BELL & HOWELL 707 is a 300-watt projector for Supersize, 35-mm, and Bantam slides. Low silhouette in design, it uses the new short projection lamp and is blower-cooled. The manual changer is interchangeable with accessory Semimatic and Electric changers. Price, with 5-in. f/4 lens, is $39.95. Address of company is 7100 McCormick Road, Chicago 45.
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FER-COLOR 6x6
$149.50
FER-COLOR 6x6 is a projector for both 2¼x2¼ and 2x2-in. slides. The unit comes in a typewriter-size case , and will project on its built-in 12x12 screen or other surfaces. Light source is a 100-watt lamp ; the projector operates on either ac or dc. It uses f/2.8 lenses; 57-mm for 2x2, 85-mm for 214 x2¼-in. slides. Equipped for 2x2in. slides unit is $149.50; for 2¼x2¼ in. slides, $151.50. The outfit for both size slides is $179.50. An accessory film strip carrier is $12. Distributor is Buttafarri Corp., 452 Fifth Ave., New York 18.
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PICTAR SLIDE EDITOR
$13.98
PICTAR SLIDE EDITOR is a light box for simultaneous viewing of up to twenty 35-mm slides or negatives. Screen Is made of translucent plastic with a series of narrow shelves to hold slides or negatives. The metal light box houses a 40-watt bulb. Price, $13.98. The viewer is a product of Mast Development Co., Davenport, Ia.
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EUMIG P-8 IMPERIAL
$129.95
EUMIG P-8 IMPERIAL 8-mm movie projector, reported on page 52 in the December issue of POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, has been fitted with a faster Eupro f/1.4 lens. Price remains at $129.95. The distributor is Unimark Photo, 132 W. 31st St., New York.
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SOMCO
$29.50
SOMCO Focal Length Modifier for use with 16-mm movie projectors adjusts the size of the picture without moving screen or projector. It fits over the projector’s prime lens to change its focal length from a normal 2-in. to 1⅝-in. or, in reversed position, 2½-in. focal length. It is distributed by Simpson Optical Mfg. Co., 3200 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago 24. Price is $29.50.
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PICTUREMASTER
PICTUREMASTER is a tripod projection screen with glass-beaded Hy-Flect fabric. It comes in eight sizes, from 30x40-in. to 70x70-in., starting at $18.95. Manufacturer is Radiant Mfg. Corp., 2627 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago 8.
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THRUJECT SCREEN
$5.95
THRUJECT SCREEN is a rear projection screen for small group viewing or for color copy work. It measures 8x12-in., is framed, and is juiced at $5.95. Distributor is Spiratone, Inc., 369 Seventh Ave., New York 1.
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STEREO-DAPTOR CO. has announced a slide carrier permitting projection of a single frame of a standard stereo slide. The unit replaces the regular carrier, and comes in special models for the Argus 300 and Kodak Signet projectors, and as a universal model for over 73 other 2x2 projectors. Price is $3.75. Address of Stereo-Daptor Co. is 358 Sutter St., San Francisco, Calif.
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CROPTO-SLIDE BINDER
$2
CROPTO-SLIDE BINDER is a 2x2 slide mount with a 33-nun window for size 127, 120, and 620 transparencies. The size of the opening is said to prevent vignetting when the slides are projected in 35-mm equipment. The binders are notched for identification in the dark, and have space for recording data. They fit 2x2 projectors and automatic changers. A box of 50 with sequence labels is $2. Manufacturer is Porter Mfg. & Supply Co., 2836 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 26.
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ADDACOLOR
$1.25
ADDACOLOR neutral density filters, for binding into slides after processing, are intended to soften glare, contrast, and overexposure effects. Made of gelatine, they ccome in sets of 24, at $1 for the 2x2, $1.25 for the 2¼x2¼-in. sizes.
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AIREQUIPT SLIDE FRAMES
AIREQUIPT SLIDE FRAMES, as featured in the slide magazines used for automatic Airequipt changers, are now available in boxes of 50. Frames are 5 cents each. The white index cards used in the system’s metal magazines are two for 5 cents. Manufacturer is Airequipt Mfg. Co., Inc., 20 Jones St., New York 13.
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AIREQUIPT SLIDE EDITOR
$1
AIREQUIPT SLIDE EDITOR allows projection of a single slide without removal of Airequipt automatic slide changer from the camera. The carrier locks to the action lever of the changer. Price is $1. Address of the company is 20 Jones St., New York 13.
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LUTES
$1.50
LUTES heat seal mounts for binding 35-mm transparencies come with a film protector for sealing with an iron without danger of damage to film. A box of 100 is $1.50. Manufacturer is H. L. Instrument Co., South Pasadena, Calif.
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BELL & HOWELL 770
$169.95
BELL & HOWELL 770, a portable tape recorder, operates at both 3¾ and 7½ ips. It features twin 5¼-in. speakers, neon recording level indicator lamp, input and output jacks, and 5 watts power output. It has five push-buttons for stop, fast forward and rewind, play, and record. Price, with ceramic microphone, is $169.95; a wroughtiron stand with casters for the recorder is $9.95.
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PAPER-DEALER
$9.95
PAPER-DEALER is a printing paper safe and dispenser, holding 100 sheets of single-weight or 50 sheets of doubleweight paper. It comes in four models : No. 57, for 5x7 or 4x5 paper, price, $6.95. No. 810, for 8x10 or 5x7 or 4x5 paper, $9.95. No. 1114 for 11x14 paper, $9.95. No. 1017 for 8x10, 5x7, and 4x5 paper, $12.95. The dispenser is distributed by H&S Photo Equipment Co., P.O. Box 14 93, G.P.O., New York 1.
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TWO old camera hands named Hasselblad and Zeiss have just pulled oft a photographic Rogers and Hammerstein. Called the Hasselblad 500C, this happy bit of Swedish-German collaboration closely resembles its redoubtable 2¼ x 2¼ ancestors in exterior architecture, with some obvious borrowings from another rather famous single-lens reflex, the 35mm Zeiss Contaflex.
Looking back at 1957, a photographically event-packed period which produced such solid technical achievements as Super Anscochrome color film, 35-mm wide-angle lenses that are an ad man’s eye-lash faster than f/2, the accessory electric motor drive for the Nikon SP camera, and many many more, it is rather difficult to think of the future development of 35-mm photography except in terms of unbridled enthusiasm.
Believe it or not, our ears can help us enjoy certain types of stereo pictures. The three semicircular canals of the inner ear contain a fluid which moves in a manner not unlike the liquid within a spirit level. As we tilt our heads the fluid touches different nerve endings.
As this is written I haven’t the final returns on what happened at the PSA convention in the battle between printmakers and color shooters. But since my last take-out on the general subject, the fur has been flying around in large clumps. The PSA’s national publication editor had the forthrightness to print articles by adherents of both factions, and had his knuckles rapped for it.
This issue is devoted to what has become known as available light photography, which is concerned with picture-taking under relatively poor lighting conditions without the aid of auxiliary lighting equipment. The emphasis is on simplicity and suggests the idea that it is easy to take pictures under practically any circumstances.
Want to make money with your camera? Seven pages of practical ideas tell you how. Are photographers screwballs? Read what psychiatrists think. Will tape replace film? Take a startling glimpse at the photography of the future. What’s the new trend in mediumpriced 35-mm cameras?
What is available-light photography? Like so many other terms in our field, it is controversial. It tends to mean to every photographer just what he wants it to mean. But a basic definition can be offered : available light is that which is normally present in any picture-taking situation other than full daylight; it is ordinarily of relatively low intensity.
HOW TO TAKE PICTURES ANYWHERE... ANYTIME... IN ANY LIGHT
CANDLELIGHT
STREET LIGHT
MARQUEE LIGHT
WINDOW LIGHT
BARE BULB
ROOM LIGHT
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Available-light photography, in a primitive sense, is as old as photography itself. By a narrower definition—the taking of pictures when necessary under ordinary room lighting— it is as old as the miniature camera. But as a unified system of photography, a matter of standard practice taking fullest advantage of every advance in film and processing knowhow, available-light technique is only a dozen years old.
THE FOUR BASIC TOOLS OF AVAILABLE-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
SOME TYPICAL PROBLEMS OF AVAILABLE-LIGHT EXPOSURE
HOW EXPOSURE AND DEVELOPMENT EFFECT THE AVAILABLE-LIGHT NEGATIVE
Practical "user-indexes"
Available-light exposure
Available-light development
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SPURRED forward by the resourcefulness of photographers who proved their ability to make interesting and exciting photographs in poorly lighted situations without the use of additional illumination, as well as by the responsiveness of photographic manufacturers who provided such new tools as the incredible new highspeed films, available-light photography has evolved from its controversial status as the favorite whipping-boy of the photographic traditionalists to its new position of acceptance and achievement.
Hockey, the fastest game on earth, has been tamed by photography. The sport is as fast, as exciting, and as rough as ever before, but now, it’s easier to photograph. At one time, big focal-plane flash bulbs and later electronic flash lamps sprayed light over the ice at intermittent intervals throughout a game.
With the party season in full swing, here's how you can take all the work out of photography by using your camera under available-light conditions
THE PLANNING STAGE
LAS VEGAS PARTY GAMES
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JOHN DURNIAK
HERE’S the key to getting good party pictures—give a good party, and shoot under available light conditions. Flashbulbs and electronic flash announce that “pictures are being taken” louder than if you had used loudspeakers. Shooting under available light, people never know you’re shooting and go right on enjoying the party.
WHEN I began taking pictures for magazines it was the time of multiple flash, and the style I most admired was the story-telling kind of picture with several planes of action all sharp and three-dimensionally lit. As might be expected, the pictures were dramatic but they looked as if they had been carefully arranged on a stage inside a refrigerator and then instantaneously frozen.
A top professional tells how he shoots at slow shutter speeds without a tripod
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HAL BERG
In hand-held photography, the markings of ½ second and slower are forbidden territory on the shutter-speed dial. When a really difficult available-light situation arises, the photographer will usually push his film in the developer rather than slow down the shutter. Unfortunately, this is true even when the contrast produced by forced development is not desired.
ACCEPTABLE available-light picture quality can range from the technically irreproachable print, magnificently endowed with the last nuance of brilliance, gradation, sharpness, and finegrain imagery to the flagrantly nonconformist interpretation in which none of these hallmarks of photographic technique are overly in evidence, and more rules appear to have been violated than obeyed.
Photography has always signified a means of recording the exact lines and shades in a scene in order to give an illusion of reality. This illusion often surpasses what might be done in other graphic mediums. But as the demands to capture an image of all kinds of subject matter under any circumstances increased, artificial light in one form or another was introduced and scenes and subjects were manipulated or posed at the expense of casualness, at the expense of illusion.
1 Hubert Mauser, Innsbruck, Austria. Despite the address of the photographer, this landscape was made in Virginia City, Nevada. (The editors did a double-take because of the European-style buildings in the foreground.) Everyone agreed that this was a pleasant pictorial, the kind of picture your friends would admire with “ahs” of delight.
Have you ever set out on a Saturday or Sunday with your camera, wondering where to look for pictures, and. what pictures to take? Here’s a new feature to help you fill all your free time with worthwhile projects. There’s an assignment for every weekend of the month, bonuses for holidays.
The time is not far off when all of us will have to cope with an income lax return. I hate to bring up such an unpleasant topic, but I know many amateurs are not taking full advantage of their photographic expenses in calculating their tax. This is particularly true of those who have only a modest income from their cameras.
A box camera, made in England, was given to me on my tenth birthday, in 1910, and photography and I have kept steady company from that day on. Possibly my interest in photography has never flagged because it provided me with a creative outlet while preparing for a career in the exact science of engineering.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT... AVAILABLE LIGHT EXPOSURE
use one of these films
Here are suggested exposures for three typical indoor situations
HOW TO CHECK YOUR PHOTOFINISHER'S AVAILABLE-LIGHT PROCESSING
BASIC GUIDE TO HIGH-SPEED FILM EXPOSURE AND DEVELOPMENT
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Here, in compact form, is a short course in available-light exposure and development, designed to help the amateur who doesn’t own an exposure meter and the one who can’t do his own processing, as well as the more fortunate who have adequate equipment and facilities.
The “split-personality” approach can improve your films
HOW MANY OF THESE JOBS HAVE YOU DONE?
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DAVID BENNETT
THE most important attribute of a successful amateur movie-maker is a split personality. Where in professional production there is a separate trained person for each of the jobs involved in making a film, the amateur must fill all these jobs himself.
New C.B.S. series finds untapped source for dramatic shots
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JOHN GILLIGAN
EVERY time the amateur film-maker makes a movie, whether he knows it or not, he is recording history. Usually it is the history of his family, a summer trip, or some other event of purely personal interest but, though he may not have intended it, he may occasionally be recording an event of widespread and lasting historical significance.
MATCH YOUR SKILL WITH THE PRO ON A NEW ASSIGNMENT: “THE RIVER”
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In our next issue you will see Joe Clark’s interpretation of “Party” as well as pictures on the same theme from our readers. We are now accepting entries for the CHALLENGE theme, “The River,” results to be published in our April issue. Ansel Adams is the professional assigned to work on “The River” theme.
Traveling Salons are made up of selected prize-winning prints from POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY’S International Picture Contests. Salons are supplied to clubs, stores, schools, and other organizations open to the general public, for exhibit.
NOW: a twin-lens reflex with interchangeable lenses
Mamiyaflex Model C Professional camera offers 80-mm, 105-mm, and 135-mm lenses plus long bellows extension
Interchangeable lenses
Lens interchange mechanism
Film transport
Interchangeable focusing hoods
Model C is excellent for closeups, portraits
The three available lenses and what they cover:
Rigid body construction:
Some features we liked:
Some things we don’t like:
Interchangeability today:
A brief word about the focal lengths:
New Mamiyaflex offers three lenses
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BOB SCHWALBERG
Ever since the dawning of the twin-lens reflex camera (longer than the three decades generally acknowledged), photographers have campaigned continuously for their right to utilize a variety of different lenses with the same twin-lens camera body.
Versatile electronic tool can make exacting darkroom work easier for you
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EARL R. SAVAGE
One of the exciting things about photography is the way it becomes less and less complicated each year—and one of the areas in which this statement can be easily proved is the darkroom. This simplicity can be capitalized on if you own a tape recorder.