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Snow on the Buxton Line 3 February 1968

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  1. Johnb

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    probably the best days photography I've ever had 48327 Gowhole Yard 03-02-68.jpg 48327 leaving Gowhole Yard 03-02-68.jpg 48442 Chapel Milton Viaduct 03-02-68.jpg 48442 Chapple Milton Viaduct 03-02-68.jpg 48442 Chinley South Junc 03-02-68.jpg 48442 Dove Holes 03-02-68.jpg 48442 Peak Forest 03-02-68.jpg 48420 & 48117 Peak Forest 03-02-68.jpg 48744 Chinley 03-02-68.jpg
     
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    I like your contemporary output a lot, but these are truly amazing especially given the constraints placed upon you with slide film in the 60's. What kit were you using back then?

    Thanks for sharing them with us :)
     
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    Thanks John, I had a Miranda SLR if you remember them. I think all of these were taken with the Standard 50mm lens but I also had a 135 and 200 tele lenses the latter was the Dixon's special Prinzflex. The one thing I do regret was using Agfa CT18 film, it hasn't aged well but a bit of PS colour restoration works wonders but not for the grain and they take a lot of cleaning up. The scanner's dust and scratch filter is not a lot of good as it thinks the likes of rivets and numberplates are dust!
     
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    Yes, I remember Miranda, which makes your pics even more remarkable! I was using a Zenith 3m back then, later graduating to a Zenith B with a 44mm helios lens. After that I was an Olmypus om1n guy, until digital won me over! I must dig out all my old slides sometime, CT18 mostly and something called Perutz (I think), which was awful!
     
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    The Miranda was a good quality camera in its day comparable to Pentax. I too moved to Olympus OMs ending up with an OM1n, OM2n and OM2nSP. I was one of those with two cameras on a frame doing slide and b/w. but I moved to Fuji for colour. Digital came in 2007 but I still carried on doing some slides until a couple of years ago and I've only just sold all my OM gear
    I have some Perutz slides and Ron White of Colour Rail fame was sure it was made by Agfa but in Germany, it certainly has some of the undesirable properties of Agfa.
     
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