CharlesDAMorgan
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Again, lots of agreement. In this case I was intending to get out for a photo walk on a bright day and just checked in at the dealers as he was listing my Hasselblad for sale. Two hours later I got out again!
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Again, lots of agreement. In this case I was intending to get out for a photo walk on a bright day and just checked in at the dealers as he was listing my Hasselblad for sale. Two hours later I got out again!
Dralowid
Michael
You actually have a real bricks and mortar camera shop? In the UK? I am stunned...
CharlesDAMorgan
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Bricks and mortar film camera shop indeed.
Dear old Russell at Soperfect Images went from being a seller of camera mugs, old folders and plate cameras as curios to cutting edge of the analogue revival with big new shop and students who buy Hasselblads and Portra 400 by the bucket load. He's even building a darkroom with 4x5 enlarger for hire. That makes two darkrooms for hire within a mile of my house.
There is also a London Camera Exchange too. It's all a bit old fashioned, but that's Plymouth for you.
Dear old Russell at Soperfect Images went from being a seller of camera mugs, old folders and plate cameras as curios to cutting edge of the analogue revival with big new shop and students who buy Hasselblads and Portra 400 by the bucket load. He's even building a darkroom with 4x5 enlarger for hire. That makes two darkrooms for hire within a mile of my house.
There is also a London Camera Exchange too. It's all a bit old fashioned, but that's Plymouth for you.
CharlesDAMorgan
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Returning to Carry On films, where I used to live is just down the road from Pinewood Studios, so a fair number of actors lived locally. One was Sid James. According to my neighbour, the retired village policeman, Sid James had a big gambling problem, being his missus knew that he wasted far too much time and money at the local bookies. So she refused to give him any cash to waste. However, he ran a very uneconomical Jaguar, and had an arrangement with the local garage that he could fill up as often as he liked on credit, including lots of cash for the bookie. So for years Mrs James was happily settling huge bills for petrol, which was mostly money advanced for the bookies!
The bookies are still there, but their trade has never really recovered from Sid's departure. He also had quite a thirst, but all the locals who remember him say he was a real gent.
The bookies are still there, but their trade has never really recovered from Sid's departure. He also had quite a thirst, but all the locals who remember him say he was a real gent.
Barry Kirsten
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Yep, there'll never be another Sid. We have been British comedy fans all our lives. I particularly was brought up from the cradle on it, in the days before there was any television (in this country). Life as we know it would never exist without the Carry On gang, The Goon Show, Monty Python, Mr Bean, and so many more. Now Charles I must ask your thoughts of Rowan Atkinson... Surely he's long overdue for a gong. Each year I scan the Queen's Birthday and New Year Honours lists, only to be disappointed. If Tony Robinson (Sir Baldrick), Michael Caine and many others deserve knighthoods for services to acting, certainly Rowan Atkinson does. He's been brilliant as Mr Bean, Johnny English, and not to forget serious roles like Maigret. Is there any buzz in the UK about him? Happy Christmas to all.
Greg Maslak
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Over here in the Commonwealth, for folks my age, photography and British Comedy began with a "nudge and a wink" and two Pythons on a train, but imaging the Carry On gang in togas pretty much does it in for me!
By the way, I'm saving Charles 35MMC piece, since I saw it yesterday, for that time tonight when all is quiet and Santa can rest with a toddy and cookie. I can't wait to read it.
To all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and good night.
By the way, I'm saving Charles 35MMC piece, since I saw it yesterday, for that time tonight when all is quiet and Santa can rest with a toddy and cookie. I can't wait to read it.
To all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and good night.
IdealCamera
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In famous times of old, folks like Julius Caesar (decent lawyer, better politician, great with a salad they tell me) exercised themselves literarily for a spell (e.g., De Bello Gallico).
These days, I hear, every bloke says “I’m famous, so I am above grammar,” like that fellow Sigismund, who was rather too full of Teutonic pluck. They even ruin the puns.
These days, I hear, every bloke says “I’m famous, so I am above grammar,” like that fellow Sigismund, who was rather too full of Teutonic pluck. They even ruin the puns.
CharlesDAMorgan
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I'm not sure that I begin to understand the criteria for the award of showbiz gongs - I suspect if a minister likes you it becomes a cert, or just tread the boards with some Shakespeare or live for a very long time!
Happy Christmas to you too!
Dralowid
Michael
Hats off to Russell, if he can get £135 for an ABLON (not ALBION) I am in awe.
https://www.soperfectimages.co.uk/c...itz-albion-35mm-film-leader-trimmer-template/
Having said that it is great to hear of a business that can take advantage of a revival of interest. Next he'll be stocking 8mm movie film.
Dralowid
Michael
Apols, should have checked elsewhere before I posted, £135 for an ABLON is not as bonkers it might seem...
David Hughes
David Hughes
Exactly, look how Sir Terence Milligan got his...
Regards, David
PS Saving 5 Frames with a Leica M5 to read with coffee today as my Christmas Day treat but it's only 10:40am...
CharlesDAMorgan
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That's the bonkers thing!
kram
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4 candles! voted best British gag. Anyone one in the Uk over the age of 20 should know what it refers to. Carry Ons classic films to this day.
peterm1
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Dralowid
Michael
As a Brit I used to love US radio comedy. Who did the Chariot Salesman sketch?
David Hughes
David Hughes
Well I dunno, I throw in ITMA and 'allo 'allo and nothing happens. How about a couple of antiques like the Goon Show and "Take it from Here" and, more modern, "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Universe"?
My nomination for the best short sketch on TV would be Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn. And then there's more acquired tastes like "Steptoe and Son" and "Porridge"...
Regards, David
My nomination for the best short sketch on TV would be Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn. And then there's more acquired tastes like "Steptoe and Son" and "Porridge"...
Regards, David
David Hughes
David Hughes
Photography again...
Photography again...
Charles, wouldn't you like the commission from all those CZ 35mm's that will now be sold? I was very impressed. The M5 knockers will now have to think again but I have my doubts about that. I often think some Leica owners act like members of a weird religion...
The idea of shooting the everyday before moving a long way away is a good one. Many years ago, just before I retired, I took the XA and used a cassette recording the walk from the office to the station and I'm glad I did. Often you find things have vanished and there's no record of them.
Regards, David
Photography again...
Charles, wouldn't you like the commission from all those CZ 35mm's that will now be sold? I was very impressed. The M5 knockers will now have to think again but I have my doubts about that. I often think some Leica owners act like members of a weird religion...
The idea of shooting the everyday before moving a long way away is a good one. Many years ago, just before I retired, I took the XA and used a cassette recording the walk from the office to the station and I'm glad I did. Often you find things have vanished and there's no record of them.
Regards, David
CharlesDAMorgan
Veteran
If anybody buys anything on my say so they're madder than me...
I can see why people might not like the M5, it is a bit bulkier and a little uglier than a classic M, but to me a camera is ultimately a tool for taking photos and the M5 just makes it so much easier. My father, not in the least interested in photography, had a play with it the other day and said how incredibly well built it was. It's a proper Leica but is just that little bit different. Others love the M6 but I really couldn't get on with mine, the metering is antiquated and the shutter dial (excluding the TTL) just isn't to hand in the same easy way as the M5.
There is a hint of the Leica cult member in me - I mean, it's bonkers for me to have the SLRs too when there are so many cheaper and better alternatives, but when they got it right with the SL2 and the R8 they got it so right that it just works.
Having lived in London or burbs for nigh on 30 years of course I'd hardly done the touristy bit, although I'm not sure cemeteries are high up on that list. What I had in London - street life and people of a vibrant city, I don't have in Plymouth, but what I do have here is landscapes, seascapes and countryside, so the focus of my photography has already changed. But the M5 will remain part of that with my Zeiss lenses as I can happily take them with me and get results that transcend the 35mm format, without the bulk of medium format.
I can see why people might not like the M5, it is a bit bulkier and a little uglier than a classic M, but to me a camera is ultimately a tool for taking photos and the M5 just makes it so much easier. My father, not in the least interested in photography, had a play with it the other day and said how incredibly well built it was. It's a proper Leica but is just that little bit different. Others love the M6 but I really couldn't get on with mine, the metering is antiquated and the shutter dial (excluding the TTL) just isn't to hand in the same easy way as the M5.
There is a hint of the Leica cult member in me - I mean, it's bonkers for me to have the SLRs too when there are so many cheaper and better alternatives, but when they got it right with the SL2 and the R8 they got it so right that it just works.
Having lived in London or burbs for nigh on 30 years of course I'd hardly done the touristy bit, although I'm not sure cemeteries are high up on that list. What I had in London - street life and people of a vibrant city, I don't have in Plymouth, but what I do have here is landscapes, seascapes and countryside, so the focus of my photography has already changed. But the M5 will remain part of that with my Zeiss lenses as I can happily take them with me and get results that transcend the 35mm format, without the bulk of medium format.
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