That brought the memories flooding back! It really was like a club, and not only on Saturdays at first.
I bought my first monorail from Keith - an Arca Swiss, just before he started up in Marlborough Street.
If Keith - or later Francis - had said then that we would one day be able to stick a box onto the back of the camera and produce instant pictures - without film - and look at them on a computer, he'd have received a very funny look.
Look at them on a computer? A room the size of the showroom crammed full of great big grey metal boxes, each the size of of two stacked filing cabinets: probably had about 16k of memory between the lot of them, half a dozen seven feet tall tape recorders with reels the size of 12inch long playing records, a clattering teletype keyboard and line printer and an enormous bench about eight feet long that had stacks of punched cards whizzing through it.
See the pictures on it?
Yeah, sure.
Clive
Saturday mornings --just like a camera club. Go in for a coffee: Chat about kit - with people behind the counter who understood what was in the boxes and opened them up for you to actually handle the contents: Generally talk to other like minded photographers: Waste time until 12.00 & all go to the pub.
Those were the days.
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