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Sunday, November 01, 2009

vintage aircraft with a vintage camera

The B-52 and the B-29 at The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque.





I've photographed these old planes many times; this is the first time with my centenarian Kodak, the 1-A Special with the Rapid Rectilinear lens. It is always fun to get nice images from very old cameras, but on this occasion the camera also represented a practical choice given the subject. The long lens provides a nice perspective, and the semi-panoramic format is well suited to these big bombers. The exposures were 1/50 sec. at f45 on Fuji Neopan 400.
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1 comment:

  1. Julio FNovember 2, 2009 at 5:43:00 PM MST

    Old planes are nice subjects, they carry the glamour of technique, power and history. Even B-52 types.

    I'm amazed at the quality of the pictures you get from the 1A Special.

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