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Re: [OM] IMG: The Family Photographer

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: The Family Photographer
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:58:18 +0100
Thanks Jim.

OTT  I concur with Douglas, well worth an enlarged print :-)

Amities

Philippe



> Le 19 déc. 2020 à 00:08, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> Philippe, you were half right.  It was not a Practica.  It was a Petri FTII.
> 
> On 12/18/20 10:30 AM, Philippe wrote:
>> Jim,
>> 
>> Did you ever own or use a Yashica J 3 or 5 . The battery compartment on the 
>> left hand side of the VF hints at that series.
>> 
>> I don’t remember a Practica with the battery located there. But of course, 
>> I’m so human, and so prone to error as a result ;-)
>> 
>> Amities
>> 
>> Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Le 18 déc. 2020 à 17:20, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Hi Wayne.  I was afraid someone would ask that. Based on the position of 
>>> the shutter release, I believe it to be a Praktika SLR that I bought used 
>>> when my eyesight began to get too weak for a Leica LTM rangefinder.
>>> 
>>> On 12/18/20 8:12 AM, Wayne Shumaker wrote:
>>>> At 12/17/2020 07:55 PM, Jim wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> As most of us realize, the family photographer seldom appeared in 
>>>>> vacation pictures back in the film era.  My youngest son sent me this 
>>>>> one tonight that he found in his files.  In 1971, when he was 10 yrs 
>>>>> old, I had given him a simple camera to take on a trip to visit 
>>>>> Mississippi relatives, Vicksburg, etc.  He shot this at my old family 
>>>>> home.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dad_Camera.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Things are a lot different with today's cell phone cameras.
>>>> What camera is that in your hand?
>>>> 
>>>> WayneS
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> 
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