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  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Farewell Africa.

    This is it for our current journey people and Africa – my last box of slides on this continent I think. It’s a bit of a mixed lot – numbers of the slides overall match, but I think it’s from a selection cobbled together. We start off with the above ‘Lourenço Marques Portuguese East Africa’…

  • Debonair Super-Lens No.809

    The ‘Toy Camera’ is something I seem to drop in and out of over the years. A recent rummage in one of my local quirky second hand stores revealed a vintage Debonair Super-lens No.809. A replica of the original Diana 120 film plastic cameras. the Debonair (depending where you read) is probably the best clone…

  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Canary Islands and East Africa.

    Our journey continues with the adventurers from last ‘Someones Vintage Eyes’ and remains ‘around’ the African continent. I think this post is likely both a prequel and afterward of the last as we bounce between Canary Islands first (going by slide number) and then to East Africa. But I am taking this box by box…

  • Bits and Bobs

    Sometimes one just ends up with a few shots in an outing. Maybe the others were complete flops, or maybe you just didn’t shoot enough. You throw them all into a folder. They don’t really go together. They don’t really have a theme. Perhaps their only common attribute is they are a captured point of…

  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – South Africa.

    Ok. Here we go – some more ‘Through Someones Vintage Eyes’. Let’s set the scene (conveniently these slides had a few giveaways). Its 1962. The movie ‘Fate Takes a Hand’ has been released. Kine weekly magazine stated “The pilot story is adequate” (Im not sure that would fly now). Ed, John, Dave, Bob, Ian and…