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Belca Belfoca Test on Flickr.
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I’ve had this Belca Belfoca folder rattling around in a box for well over 20 years. Not a camera with terribly much to recommend it, a three speed ‘Junior’ shutter topping out at 1/100th of a second, scale focussing, stamped metal construction. Heck, probably the best feature of this camera is the giggle-inducing ‘bonotar’ lens but, I figured what the heck and ran a couple rolls through it last weekend.
Well, it works. Results were much more drastically hurt by my myopic attempts to scale focus than from anything to do with the camera itself. It’ll go back to rattling around in a box for another 20 years and, if I can still get 120 film then, I may shoot another couple rolls with it.
Big Game Hunters on Flickr.
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As is the tradition, the Pacific National Exhibition coincides nicely with open hunting season on all plush animals. No tags, no licenses, no limits. People took advantage of this in droves.
A very nervous two weeks for the cosplay kids though.
The Intrepid Observer on Flickr.
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Using the latest gadgets from the Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action, this foreign ‘student’ keeps a watchful eye on happenings in Canada; under such deep cover that he is entirely unaware that the agency to which he swore his allegiance was disbanded in 1944.
The end of the Old Time Photo Studio on Flickr.
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If you always wanted to get one of those old time portraits at the PNE well, you’re screwed. The owner has now retired and, another PNE institution has gone the way of the Challenger Map and the smash up derby.
Planning is key. on Flickr.
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I saw no child anywhere near this stroller. I can only surmise that the owner had anticipated the need to transport a large, stuffed bear and brought the stroller along in preparation for that eventuality.
Score one for preparedness.
Hall of Mirrors Horizon Diptych on Flickr.
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Sure glad these two negs ended up being on the same strip. Lord knows where I would’ve cut them!
All Hail the Mini Donut! on Flickr.
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And, the skies opened up and God said ‘Damn, these are good. Really sorry for all that stuff in the Old Testament’.
Proud Mary Keep on Burning… on Flickr.
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Caught this spry young lass rollin’ down a river in the beer tent at the PNE during a performance of noted local Tina Turner impersonator Luisa Marshall. Guessed at the exposure, crossed my fingers and fired away. Quite happy with how it came out, it’s hard to judge peak action when you’re shooting with a camera that takes 1/2 a second for the lens to swing across the frame!
Seriously Fuji, how in the world can you sleep after having discontinued Neopan 1600?
Make sure to check this one out big.
