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Thanks! The beard there was started about 18 months earlier, on the very day of my discharge. There's the start of a ponytail there too. Must have been a perceived freedom from th' reg's.
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Back when I shot with Miranda gear. The award was a Pittsburgh Tri-Rivers photo organization, the shot of the bamboo masked figure was the winner. Darkroom manipulation of two negatives printed on the same piece of paper. ISTR lots of "test strips" involved. Posted the graveyard shot in the upper right earlier.
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I considered the Miranda G the most versatile of all their models, akin to the Nikons in available accessories and affordable on this teen's sub-Nikon budget at the time (late '60's). They branded some Soligor glass as their own, and for the time they were more-than acceptably sharp for commercial work. The Miranda branded optics were limited to a few focal lengths, but Soligor's own were available in a full range and available in mounts to fit most of the SLR's of the day. The bodies had both Miranda's bayonet mount and the Pentax thread mount as well, so Takumar optics were another option. Though the ∱-stop had to be manually set (non-automatic) on those just before the shutter was released. An "Automatic" lens back then meant the diaphragm would remain at full aperture until the shutter was tripped and returned to full open after the exposure. Quaint by today's definition!
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Funny you should mention Soligor. It is a Soligor 28-70mm (f2.8-f22) that I have on my Canon T-70 right now. In fact that was the lens used on the role I recently sent in for processing.
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Another "off brand" company, Vivitar, started out making cheezy sub-par lenses in the mid and late '60's, low-end affordable stuff. By the mid and late '70's they came out with their Series-1 glass, I got one of their 90mm ∱-2.5 Macro examples to try, fit to Nikon's F-mounts. Found it stunningly sharp. That lens stayed with me. Pretty sure that was the glass I used for the Hesketh-Hunt photo posted earlier. It stayed mostly on the FE or FM body as the second camera when covering events. Good focal length for stand-off people shots. Case in point:
Buffett concert, Cleveland Theater, October 1977.
Buffett concert, Cleveland Theater, October 1977.
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As an aside, there may have been all of three hundred folks in that theater. He'd booked a show in Pittsburgh for the weekend before but cancelled due to lack of ticket sales! We had tickets for both but only got to attend the Cleveland show. I'd been a "Parrot Head" long before the name was coined... 