![]() Today, we will try to unlock the mystery of this intriguing Chinese Medium Format camera. In a world where almost every other camera is “Made In China” it’s still relatively uncommon to find a camera from China here in the States, especially a film camera that was actually manufactured in China and made by a Chinese company, for the Chinese homeland market.īehind the vast Chinese Empire and behind the Great Wall originated a camera they actually called the “Great Wall” or more officially the Great Wall DF camera! □ Today for your Throwback Thursday we will take a ride on the Time Machine and go back to the 1970s & 1980s to retrieve a mysterious camera from the Forbidden Kingdom Of China □ Have a beautiful week good peeps! And thanks□□□□□ I suggest you do the same because in the end memories are all we’ve got. I cannot stop time but I can record it through photographs. ![]() My Dad was like that, I guess it runs in the family! I’m not sure how other people deal with the passage of time but I’m just a sentimental fool I guess. 2007 was a year that changed my life and yet every year it is seemingly passing by ever faster, becoming a fading memory. This weekend the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th 2001 attacks came to pass. I don’t think I’ve used a self timer before or since on a TLR!! Have you?įriend, as you know there’s always a healthy dose of nostalgia on my pages and it’s not without reason. When it comes to film choices, I’m nothing if predictable □ ![]() Film unrecorded but I’d bet it’s either Tri-X or T-Max. This image was a self portrait taken in 2007 with a Rolleiflex 2.8F with the 80mm f/2.8 Planar lens. Good morning you awesome war torn camera geeks! Recently I found this photo and it’s quite timely because this week, the little baby in the photo is turning fourteen! I can hardly believe it!
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