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No-Name Panorama Camera
Why would you do something you already know the answer to? Spite, curiosity, stupidity… in my case it’s probably all three. Was it a waste of film? Probably. Did I enjoy doing it? Not particularly. Am I happy that I did it in the end? You bet.
Missed Shots - Part 1
The first installment of the new missed shots series. A look back at three pictures from this past year that I messed up, with an interesting story.
The Perfex Special
A focal plane shutter proved to be too difficult to fabricate reliably at a lower cost, but the Candid Camera Corporation still wanted to produce a higher quality camera. What resulted was a unique line of cameras that existed in a somewhat gray area. Advertised as the ‘Perfex Special’, four distinct models were initially created using leaf shutters and lenses from cameras produced a decade prior.