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Technologically Lost?

  • From: P3D <DavidH8083@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Technologically Lost?
  • Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 13:49:20 -0400
>Almost 50 years later, the Realist camera has fallen behind 
>technologically.  Everything today is auto-this and auto-that.  >The
"indestructible" Realist camera looks out of time and >place next to the last
generation of SLRs.
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     I was shooting stereos one Sunday morning at the old abandoned Hudson
River Ferry tubes here in NYC, when another panicy photographer ran up and
asked if I had a spare battery.  Seems his "technologically advanced" camera
had exhausted its power supply. I said, Sorry mine doesn't use batteries.  He
seemed surprised and asked,  Well, what kind of camera are you using?  I held
up my circa 1950s Realist.  
     Of course, I was able to spend the rest of the morning shooting, while
the other photographer went in search of a photo shop open on Sunday.



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