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Pictures at a Picnic
« on: April 14, 2015, 01:17:36 PM »
From an instruction paper that came with a circa 1928 Agfa Ansco camera.

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Re: Pictures at a Picnic
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2015, 04:08:46 PM »
"Walk casually and look pleasant" is clearly a picnic photographer's mantra to rival Don McCullin's "f8 and be there".

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Re: Pictures at a Picnic
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2015, 04:22:29 PM »
"Walk casually and look pleasant" is clearly a picnic photographer's mantra to rival Don McCullin's "f8 and be there".

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Re: Pictures at a Picnic
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2015, 06:20:12 AM »
I'm still amusing myself thinking of what sort of "very wild ideas" people had at picnics in the 1920s.

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Re: Pictures at a Picnic
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2015, 12:04:48 PM »
Excellent stuff! It would be great to see the whole thing... Skj.

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Re: Pictures at a Picnic
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2015, 03:58:16 PM »
I want to see the whole thing as well :D

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Re: Pictures at a Picnic
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2015, 10:44:19 PM »
You might be in luck ;)
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