Challenge: "Keep It In The Corners" Aug. 12-16 (Page 68): Thanks for the "thumbs up," Karin. :sm02:...

Rolk Loc: South Central PA

photophile wrote:

Thanks for the "thumbs up," Karin.

Rolk Loc: South Central PA

SueScott wrote:

pg. 65

The camel lips made my LOL!!

Glad you got a kick out of it, Sue!

Rolk Loc: South Central PA

Photogirl17 wrote:

Those Watusi Cattle Horns can really get Humongus..Nice work Here Tim..Pg. 65

OMG, I didn't realize the Orlon's hit "Wah-Watusi" was about these critters!!!

Thanks, Lesley...glad you enjoyed.

RichardQ Loc: Colorado

creativ simon wrote:

Do you still have this camera Richard and some of the others you have used over the years or have you since disposed of them in one way or another, great shot by the way

Thank you for the kind comment, Simon, and for your interest in my equipment. Yes, I still have the Veriwide 100 (the 100 refers to the angle of view of both the viewfinder and the f/8 47mm Super-Angulon lens). Plaubel made several variations , some without the optical viewfinder (using instead a collapsing wire frame as a sports or news finder).
Another very useful accessory on my luxury model consists of three factory-installed spirit levels which enable me to precisely align the vertical and tilt for architecture shots. Those levels are not on the model shown here. I originally had two Veriwides, color film in one, and B/W in the other. A roll of film produces only seven frames, and it was too awkward and time-consuming to shoot a couple of angles on color, reload with the B/W and reshoot the same angles. The Veriwide is an all-metal construction, no batteries. The Compur leaf shutter's speed range is 1 sec. to 1/500; it has to be cocked before each exposure but is blocked afterward until the film is manually advanced to the next frame, so there's no danger of a double exposure. Unfortunately, one of those cameras was lost in a home burglary, together with an Asahi Pentax 6x7-cm rollfilm SRI with a Takumar 150mm, f/2.8 lens, a Canon AE-1 35mm SLR with three lenses (including a special 35mm f/2.8 tilt/shift lens), and my original 1938 Automatic Rolleiflex twin-lens 6x6-cm rollfilm camera used to take my first three shots in this Challenge. I had to modify that camera with an outboard solenoid so I could synchronize a flashgun with the Compur shutter in 1949.

Today, beside the Veriwide, I still have a Plaubel Peco Jr. monorail view camera (4x5-inch with three lenses and various accessories), a Crown Graphic 4x5 press camera with one lens, a 1958 Automatic Rolleiflex TLR, f/3.5 75mm Zeiss Planar lens, a Nikon F-1 35mm SLR with two lenses, and a Pentax Spotmatik 35mm SLR. They are all in a glass-door cabinet, a gift from my daughter. Unfortunately, my hands are now too weak and deformed by arthritis so I can't even hold a camera, much less operate it.

I loved working in the darkroom but I was always out shooting and sending my films back by mail for developing and printing. Many times I never saw my work unless it popped up in a magazine I was reading. I didn't own the negatives. But I still have hundreds of my own negatives, many of which have not been printed but are carefully stored in glassine envelopes. Of course, I'm deluding myself in thinking I'll sort a few out and make up an exhibition.