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Nescio said:
After all the monster cameras, now something completely different:


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Original Minox Spy camera.

No, I'm not obsessed with spies (Werra post) nor do I read John le Carré before I go to bed, but since the first public vigilance cameras in Barcelona were placed on George Orwell Square, you hopefully agree that one of these beauties is worthy enough to be put on your wall...


Nescio

PS: the father of my first long time Catalan girlfriend - who some compared to Demi Moore when young, not really like Kristin, sorry for that - had one and used it to copy textile patterns and production methods abroad. Of course that was long before Inditex (Zara et al) came into the game.
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Is that really true? they put CCTV in George Orwell Square!! remarkable that's so ironic, do you have photos? or a web link?

... while the camera is obviously very cool indeed to us, I do wonder how Kristin would feel if one tried to photograph her with it ... I fear it would be a bit freaky, don't you think?
 
Thanks for putting the BP M2 in "sub-zero!" Uh, could the SWC go there too? They are cooler than un-cool . . .
 
Sparrow said:
Is that really true? they put CCTV in George Orwell Square!! remarkable that's so ironic, do you have photos? or a web link?

... while the camera is obviously very cool indeed to us, I do wonder how Kristin would feel if one tried to photograph her with it ... I fear it would be a bit freaky, don't you think?
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100% true... I lived almost next door when they put them up. Now it's Totally Tourist Territory, so I don't go there too often anymore.

You should not forget that Catalonia is the country where Dali was born. The 19th century "Eixample" (Catalan for extension) district of Barcelona projected by Ildefons Cerdà with it's famous square grid, is the result of utopic socialist theory that if everybody would live more or less under similar circumstances, class difference would disappear.
Of course speculation was what defined the district as it is until now, up to the point that Eduardo Mendoza writes in his novel "The City of Marvels" that land prices went up according to rumours where the best patisseries were supposed to go to.

And no, I have no photos as the cams are high up and taking one would just be documentary. But you got the picture with the use of words, didn't you? I like photography a lot, but I'm also one of these old farts who think that one word sometimes may provoke a thousand images.

Nescio

PS: also, the Orwell Square is actually triangular, but that's only funny in English...
 
Sparrow said:
It is now the Audi that are un-cool these days, perhaps you're a few years behind up there ... or viewing on cable perhaps? anyway I can finally have a m3 without blushing, and no, not that antique camera with the Georgian windows but the car with the laxative performance

In true Top Gear tradition this is obviously a democracy
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He He maybe youre right :D
I'd like a M7.................... a Mamiya M7
 
Nescio said:
100% true... I lived almost next door when they put them up. Now it's Totally Tourist Territory, so I don't go there too often anymore.

You should not forget that Catalonia is the country where Dali was born. The 19th century "Eixample" (Catalan for extension) district of Barcelona projected by Ildefons Cerdà with it's famous square grid, is the result of utopic socialist theory that if everybody would live more or less under similar circumstances, class difference would disappear.
Of course speculation was what defined the district as it is until now, up to the point that Eduardo Mendoza writes in his novel "The City of Marvels" that land prices went up according to rumours where the best patisseries were supposed to go to.

And no, I have no photos as the cams are high up and taking one would just be documentary. But you got the picture with the use of words, didn't you? I like photography a lot, but I'm also one of these old farts who think that one word sometimes may provoke a thousand images.

Nescio

PS: also, the Orwell Square is actually triangular, but that's only funny in English...
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Newspeak I expect, I had a great uncle who knew Orwell in Spain but I don't have any details beyond that
 
Sorry, but it's plaza in Spanish, or plaça in Catalan. That's no newspeak, but linked to "place" in English.

Nescio
 
3rdtrick said:
Stewart, I don't know if we go by votes or if you are like Jeremy and make all the decisions but I would add my vote for this...
Pete

Sorry Erik, I like it just the way it is in chrome...
Pete
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No problem, I would take either. There are degrees of sublime. ;)
 
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