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    cool pics
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    Thanks. I enjoy early pictures of major cities.
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    Love those big-format camera images. As cool as 35mm and digital cameras are, they just can't compete with a Speed Graphic in the hands of someone who knew how to use one.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Love those big-format camera images. As cool as 35mm and digital cameras are, they just can't compete with a Speed Graphic in the hands of someone who knew how to use one.
    My uncle used to shoot weddings in his spare time. He had a 4x5 crown graphic and a 2 1/4 x 31/4 bush pressman. His flash units had about 6 d-cells in them and were huge.

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    Absolutely stunning, George.

    Dig it, totally.


    And, you're right, Carl. (Jeeebus, you understand Speed Graphics, too?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by kf0rt View Post
    Absolutely stunning, George.

    Dig it, totally.


    And, you're right, Carl. (Jeeebus, you understand Speed Graphics, too?)
    I had a minor in photography in college, never got a degree, though. Did a bit of large format work with a view camera; that's not to say I could make a Speed Graphic work or anything, but I know about them.
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    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Tried to go to the actual archive and it seems to be down due to traffic.
    That was cool George.

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    Interesting thing is that most of the buildings shown in those pictures still exist and still look pretty much the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Interesting thing is that most of the buildings shown in those pictures still exist and still look pretty much the same.
    A lot of them do, but in some of the disneyfied places not so much. Even in the last 10-12 years that I've been here so much has changed. Even some of my favorite watering holes are now in the ash bin of history, steamrolled by development.

    Speaking of which, you know Mars bar was shut down a couple years ago, right?

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