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petermorwood:
torrilin:
bomberqueen17:
Listing a voigtlander vitessa and the instruction manual is like “ just clean your lens with ether ” who doesn’t have ether in your camera bag?? I mean. Really who doesn’t?! (at Delaware Camera)
Yes, because I always carry around liquids that are explosive, inclined to knock me out, and a bit vague on whether they should be a liquid or a gas.
Times change, and you’d be surprised at what keen photographers with an expensive imported camera* carried about As Normal back in the day, never mind had in the medicine cabinet at home :-)
* From adjectives like “complex”, “superbly-engineered” etc., the Vitessa wouldn’t have been cheap.
(photos are from The Online Darkroom, a fun website even if you only shoot digital)
There might indeed be a tiny bottle of medical alcohol or ether in the camera bag.
A big bottle of chloroform and a lot of cotton wool might, however, suggest other interests…
When I go back to work tomorrow I can upload the photos I took of the camera itself, but they’re similar to that. (This is the shop I run online, where about half of the cameras I shoot wind up; the other half go on our eBay.)
The original receipt was also in the box. It was over a hundred dollars. However, there’s no year on the receipt (it was hand-written). Nineteen fifty something, surely. ($110 in 1955 would be $975 today.)
This was not the same camera bag that had the box of potassium permanganate in it, alas. Oh, I did have one on my phone of the camera:
ha I took that entirely because the lens name was funny. The Ultron, as it happens, was the highest-end lens available for this rangefinder, and means this beaut will probably go to eBay in hopes that people will bid it up, instead of Etsy, which tends to move items much more slowly.
I won’t say there’s never a dull moment at work, but there are occasional not-dull ones. A bottle of ether would be just the ticket to make a Friday entertaining, though.
petermorwood:
torrilin:
bomberqueen17:
Listing a voigtlander vitessa and the instruction manual is like “ just clean your lens with ether ” who doesn’t have ether in your camera bag?? I mean. Really who doesn’t?! (at Delaware Camera)
Yes, because I always carry around liquids that are explosive, inclined to knock me out, and a bit vague on whether they should be a liquid or a gas.
Times change, and you’d be surprised at what keen photographers with an expensive imported camera* carried about As Normal back in the day, never mind had in the medicine cabinet at home :-)
* From adjectives like “complex”, “superbly-engineered” etc., the Vitessa wouldn’t have been cheap.
(photos are from The Online Darkroom, a fun website even if you only shoot digital)
There might indeed be a tiny bottle of medical alcohol or ether in the camera bag.
A big bottle of chloroform and a lot of cotton wool might, however, suggest other interests…
When I go back to work tomorrow I can upload the photos I took of the camera itself, but they’re similar to that. (This is the shop I run online, where about half of the cameras I shoot wind up; the other half go on our eBay.)
The original receipt was also in the box. It was over a hundred dollars. However, there’s no year on the receipt (it was hand-written). Nineteen fifty something, surely. ($110 in 1955 would be $975 today.)
This was not the same camera bag that had the box of potassium permanganate in it, alas. Oh, I did have one on my phone of the camera:
ha I took that entirely because the lens name was funny. The Ultron, as it happens, was the highest-end lens available for this rangefinder, and means this beaut will probably go to eBay in hopes that people will bid it up, instead of Etsy, which tends to move items much more slowly.
I won’t say there’s never a dull moment at work, but there are occasional not-dull ones. A bottle of ether would be just the ticket to make a Friday entertaining, though.
