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I am not new to photography, been taking pictures since before high school (1957-1960), Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Polaroid B&W instant camera, tried my had with SLR when in the Philippines around 1967, first SLR was a Canon Pellix QL, and I used that off an on until 1970 in Korea, when it got stolen. Replaced it with another Canon, don't remember what Canon though, cause it got stolen too. I got a replacement for it, but think it was a Canon, but may have been a Minolta. I have a bunch of slides and film from both the P.I. and Korea, might post some it it is allowed. Anyhow, I got the itch to try to replace my Pellix, so got won on ebay, looks OK, am waiting for my first roll of color 35 negs, I don't think it is any good though, the pellical mirror apparently can suffer warping damage, and I could not see through the camera viewfinder very well., so I decided to try a Canon AE-1 program, it used the FD lenses Pellix was FL lenses as you all know already. Just got the lens for the AE-1 a 50mm f1.8 Canon, though I have yet to get the AE-1 program body I ordered. But in checking Pellix and AE-1 lens compatibility (FL & FD), came across your group, so here I am. Pics if they work are from the P.I. around 1967.

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Tom_Corbett said:

I have a bunch of slides and film from both the P.I. and Korea, might post some it it is allowed.

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Sure; feel free to post anything you'd also feel comfortable showing your friends or family. In general we love to see pictures!

Welcome. I had an USAF friend at Clark AIr Base, Alexander BRown, from Taos NM, when I was stationed in Japan 1965-1967. Wouldn;t know him by chance? I picked up a Nikon F Photomic T in Japan when they came out. I lost it back in NYC on the subways years later. Here's one of it;s shots taken not far from my base with a 135mm lens.

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Alan Edward Klein said:

Welcome. I had an USAF friend at Clark AIr Base, Alexander BRown, from Taos NM, when I was stationed in Japan 1965-1967. Wouldn;t know him by chance? I picked up a Nikon F Photomic T in Japan when they came out. I lost it back in NYC on the subways years later. Here's one of it;s shots taken not far from my base with a 135mm lens.
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Hi Alan, no I did not know your friend. I was on Mindanao, only got to Clarke one or two times. Got to visit Japan a couple of times when I was stationed in Korea, stayed on Yokota AB, rode the Japanese trains some, got to the navy bas at Yokohama. That is a nice picture, Mt Fuji isn't it? By the way is there a trick to posting pictures? I tried to post two in my original post, but they didn't take.

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Tom_Corbett said:

Hi Alan, no I did not know your friend. I was on Mindanao, only got to Clarke one or two times. Got to visit Japan a couple of times when I was stationed in Korea, stayed on Yokota AB, rode the Japanese trains some, got to the navy bas at Yokohama. That is a nice picture, Mt Fuji isn't it? By the way is there a trick to posting pictures? I tried to post two in my original post, but they didn't take.

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That's Mt Fuji, yes. I reduce my posted pictures to fit a normal 2K screen 1920 pixels wide if a landscape. I use jpeg. Tiff and some other extensions don;t work. Looks like I was using the rule of thirds before they invented them.

Welcome Tom, from the UK.

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