I've probably mentioned it here before, but there is an issue of Petersen's Photographic that I have been after for a long while and I finally found a copy and it arrived today (Apr '77). I wanted it for a particular article entitled "How to Spoon Up Savings in the Darkroom" which contains handy charts for mixing up only as much powdered chemical as you need. It was one of the most useful articles and I followed it back when I did darkroom work "professionally" for a local studio, and also at home. So now I have it again, and I'm glad as it appears I'm going to be getting back into some darkroom work again soon.
Flipping through the issue was quite the trip down Memory Lane. In April of '77 I was in my last full month of High School, driving a '70 Torino with a 351 Cleveland in it. I didn't even own a 35mm camera yet - that would come shortly though: A Canon AE-1 purchased with the help of graduation gift money. Not long after that I would be given not one, but two Mamiya C33s, both with 65mm lenses that had belonged to a cousin's father-in-law. He used them for weddings, but had died suddenly of a massive coronary. They told me that I could run his studio in KC, with the help and training of his widow, but I never seriously considered it. I was either too smart or two dumb to believe that I would be in over my head, in more ways than one. In any event, this magazine has triggered some memories, what with its ads for the "New Nikkormat ELW", "This year's (expanded) Cibachrome System", two page spreads for the Canon F-1, then another 2 page spread for the Canon AE-1 and, yes, even a two-page spread for "The incredible Pentax KX. Think of it as five great cameras in one." It is interesting, but Vivitar lenses are advertised here as being available only in the Pentax S mount (no K-mount support yet). -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
