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Recent content by MagicTheAxe

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    Does A Lens CLA Cause More Harm Than Good.

    I had to have both my cron 50 and Elmarit 90 2.8 Canadian CLA’d for probably the most bizarre reason ever. Right here goes… I pee’d on them.. well not literally, I’m severely disabled and stuck in bed 24/7, one day I was attempting to put the pee jug on the side next to the bed when it fell...
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    Nikon F and the vietnam war

    I’ve recently been looking back at what fired my interest in photography and it comes down to the Vietnam war which even over here in the UK was a daily feature both in the news papers and on the evening news. I went through my childhood and early teens with it acting as the back drop, I saw...
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    What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

    Well like GregY I’d had a hankering for an early Nikon F for sometime and finally found a 1961 built one on eBay complete with the prism., but mine has the older square/rectangular viewfinder window also mines a panda rather than all black. It all seems good but I’ve yet to put a film through it.
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    Tripod recommendations for Hasselblad 501CM

    Benro Mach3 TMA48CXL, massive height range and as solid as a rock. Mine held my jury rigged macro set up with ease as it also did my massive 300mm f2.8. The tripod is rated to a 20kg load but it feels like you could swing from it. WEX in the uk have a few left at a bargain price and the Benro...
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    Sally Mann Photographs Removed from Texas Museum Exhibition after Outcry

    Sadly the law tends to make the same mistakes as some do in confusing nudity with porn. Nudity is something thats pure and tasteful it only becomes distasteful when it crosses into porns territory which simply put is and image or pseudo image that depicts or mimics a sexual act. As such Mann’s...
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