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Now I know it's Spring but I'm going to show you lots of photographs I took last Autumn using my Olympus Pen FT half frame single lens reflex that I loaded with Kodak Ektar. These photographs of St Thomas' Churchyard in Brampton, Chesterfield. I took similar photographs that you can see in my folder on my Samsung Galaxy.
The Olympus camera and its system took the 35mm frame and divided it in two making a 24mm X 18mm frame. The system was designed and built in the 1960s. The lenses were small and light and performed beautifully. I have the FT with TTL metering and the FV without metering. I also have two of the more sophisticated viewfinder Pens- a Pen D2 and a D3. The latter was loaded with B&W film and I have yet to process that. The half frame system declined for a variety of reasons. Kodak wouldn't mount slides, processing colour prints was awkward for the labs and full frame gear got smaller (initiated by Olympus!). These are taken on the 60mm. I still love this gear.
Well, it's been a long time, but I'm finally finished with all 4 starter tanks from WoT. As you can probably tell, this is the Renault FT. Invented in 1917, it was the first tank to use the layout that most modern vehicles use. It has been called the father of all modern tanks. Produced by the French in the thousands, it was also made under license in America, and produced in Italy as the Fiat 3000. It had an unusually long service time, being used in combat up through World War II, right up until the end of the war, when captured examples were used by the Germans for street fighting in Berlin. Soon, I will take a group photo and send it to the WoT fanart database, so keep your eyes peeled for my work in the next few fanart spotlights! If you're tagged here, its because you built a Renault FT, and I'd love your advice.