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What do you get when you cross a ‘iffy’ Pentax SV and a box of Lucky 400 Film?… mostly photos, albeit semi dirty ones. I recently purchased a Pentax SV in ‘kind of’ working condition. The film counter is faulty, the self timer is faulty, the curtains were faulty, the lens front ring was half…
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Today’s post is a family relic – my late Uncle Bills Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior (Portrait Model). As the only one left shooting film(once in a blue moon now) in the family, I inherited one of his cameras he had from new. Brownies had a long production run – in its various variants which were…
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So I impulse bought a camera lot recently in an online auction. Initially, I was really bidding on a standard zoom lens for my Canon DSLR, but there were a few other goodies that caught my eye. One such goodie was the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3. A mighty 4MP bridge camera from 2004 sporting a…
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Scene from Coastal North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand Lumix GF1 The Ocean The Ocean has its silent caves,Deep, quiet, and alone;Though there be fury on the waves,Beneath them there is none. The awful spirits of the deepHold their communion there;And there are those for whom we weep,The young, the bright, the fair. Calmly the wearied…
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Fungi. Remarkably, these spores of design are more related to animals (therefore us) than plants! Rather than photosynthesising, like animals, fungi are heterotrophs – that is to say, they cannot produce their own nourishment and absorb/take it from elsewhere. To be fair, the genetic relationship began a few years ago (about a billion) – but…
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