Pick a window, you’re about to leave ……
They would be very popular in the UK…
Nice camera/lens combination. Do you still have/use them?
I could never afford to get into medium format film photography although, when a student I did by a Lubitel 166B 6x6 TLR which, despite the plastic lens and no metering (Sunny 16 rules), produced some very good images until it got dropped and the reflex mirror broke
Later I got a Yashica MAT 124G (also a 6x6 TLR) which did good service for quite a while but eventually got left behind by digital. Unfortunately, after 8-10 years of non-use, I found that the lens had developed a mould (unfortunate but oddly appropriate in the context of this thread) which rendered it non-functional.
However, I never graduated to an ILC medium format camera despite coveting a Mamiya RB67 (and later the RZ67).
In a way, it is sad that modern digital full frame 35mm (and possibly even APS) can match the image quality of these film camera’s. I really liked the slow and deliberate imaging process that a viewfinder less MF TLR (or SLR) gave you.
Ironically, whilst modern camera’s have got much better at automating the techical aspects of photography, they also encourage a less than deliberate imaging technique and I, for one, am pretty sure that, as a consequence, my ratio of ‘keepers’ to ‘junk’ images has gone down - not up. Having said that, the near zero cost of attempting a photograph has also allowed me to take images that I would never have attempted with a film camera - many of which have proved remarkably good and opened up areas of photograhy that would not have been possible (for me) previously so I guess that, as with everything, it is a case of swings and roundabouts.
No they went years ago , I did at one stage consider a pro career but thought better of it, I was not enjoying my day job at that stage. I later emigrated to South Africa, before I left I sold the medium format gear, studio lights and darkroom gear.
I made the right decision , I returned to my roots as a Brewer I have a masters in Natural Sciences and a Industry based qualification (master equivalent) in Brewing Science . I spent the next 17 yrs working for South African Breweries until I retired.
I even got a Microsoft certification (MCSD) and retired as the IT department’s tame brewer …
My photography these days is a bit digital point & shoot in Game Parks and the like.
Liverpool, UK. Waterfront. 30th October 2024.
Liverpool’s answer to Elvis. Billy Fury.
We have a padlock in this area. Can never seem to find it, but it’s there!
Four lads who shook the world.
Maybe my next avatar
I know that area fairly well. Not too far from Spitalfields, Shoreditch, and Whitechapel. A stones throw away from Gilbert and George and the curry emporiums of Brick Lane. Ten minute walk to tower bridge. An interesting part of London.
I used to. But I wouldn’t recognise it now.
I went to City University (Between The Angel Islington and Barbicon Tube stations) from September 1982 to June 1986 and, at the time, the halls of residence were near the east end of the Barbican. Our Saturday and Sunday morning ‘clear the cobwebs’ walks regularly took us out to Liverpool Street and beyond - even as far as St. Katherines Dock.
I know the area from various trips to the showroom of my then employer, on Commercial Street. Whenever I had to make the trek down from Cheshire, I would always stay the extra day, so that I could explore the area. There is a building up towards Old Street that has a kind of M.C Escher perception thing going on. When viewing it in real life, it almost makes you queasy.
Aahhh Brick Lane , all exploits in London seemed to finish up in Brick Lane , I lived in Brentwood for 10 yrs so Liverpool st to get home
We had meetings in the Truman brewery , no doubt gone these days
Conspicuous by the absence of bricks…
I’ve heard there are security issues in Liverpool…
Well, Putting a positive spin on your comment, no-one has stolen the padlock, and it’s been there for over 10 years
The building is still there, but I would surmise that it’s not brewing anything stronger than tea or coffee nowadays.
Incompetent “crims” …
Fascinating , someone posted a similar description of the Higson’s Brewery in Liverpool recently.
I started my brewing career at Ind Coope in Romford , so we were part of the “London Brewers” albeit a bit east. things like cricket matches , drinking evenings. The industry is understandably quite social. As part of the Brewers Guild , I organized training course for young brewers, one of which was at Trumans.
Alas there seems to be very few “real” breweries left in London, Youngs, Courage , Taylor Walker, Trumans all gone
That was probably me as I’ve had food and drink there a few times.