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Subject: Re: [OM] Today's wedding shoot
From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:48:59 -0500
>This sounds like a camera outfit I remember from the '60s called a Mamiya
>Press. The bellows were at the back instead of the front and the lenses came
>in barrels with their own blade shutters, which made a loud sort of twangy
>noise at least as loud as any focal plane shutter. With the roll film back
>fitted it was a bit of a strain to see through the range/viewfinder. It had
>a handle with trigger release fitted at the side.

That's the one.  There were several variations of the Mamiya Press and the
Super-23 was one.  The shutter is rather twangy -- kinda like a Conway
Twitty Album.  <g>  Loud enough to make a nervous groom jump too.


Kenneth E. Norton
Image66 Photography, Broadcast Consulting and Audio Engineering

image66@xxxxxxx
(515) 791-2306

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