Had a nice experience the other day. An old friend of mine, in his
mid seventies, gave me some old cameras as he's moving house and
cleaning out.
One was the first camera he owned, an original early 1950's Lubitel -
all bakelite and cyrillic.
As a schoolboy he bought it new and paid for it by taking pictures of
fellow students - boys for their girlfriends and vice versa.
He apologised that the name plate was separate. Around that time the
Petrov Affair occurred (nasty shenanigans with a defecting Russian
diplomat), at an early peak of the Cold War and he kept getting grief
from people over having what was clearly a commie-cam. He pulled the
metal name plate off but still had it.
I tried not to take it but he insisted.
Just cleaned it up and put the name plate back on so I'm off to run a
film through it.
Incidentally, he also gave me a Mavica, the type that uses a 3.25"
floppy disc.
All working fine but I haven't had a bloody disc reader in years so
it's far less useable than a 60 year old film camera!
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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