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korannkali

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Oh My!! I just realized that my 11th DA birthday passed me by. More than a decade as part of the DA community. Wow. 
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Excited

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So I have been working with one of my wife's grandpa's old cameras and I finally got up the courage to buy some film and test it out. I got the film developed the other day and was pleasantly surprised to find out that everything is fine. The camera works great and there are no light leaks in the shutter. Amazing for a camera that is 50 years old and hasn't been used for probably 30-40years.

When her grandpa died we found dozens of old cameras. He apparently was an avid photographer. Most of the cameras were damaged or defected in some way or other. I ended up selling them all to some company I found on the web. I kept the two most interesting. One was a German Rolliflex. It is in rough shape but I like the look of it. The other is my newly working camera. It is a camera called the Beauty Lite III. It seems to be somewhat of a rare camera. I can't really find much information about it online. I low it is a Japanese camera and it was made in the 60s. Other than that there isn't a lot of info out the. When i got the camera it was a bit dirty And some of the moving parts had seized up. I cleaned it all up and worked with everything to get the zoom and the film winder working again. I am happy to report that it works.

I have a couple big things coming up that I planned to photograph (a car show I'm organizing, a trip to San Diego, and later this year a trip to seatle/Alaska/Canada). I can't wait to use the beauty lite (although I will still use the good ole digital camera too).
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It's so hard to believe that today I turned 30! 3 decades sure went by fast, especially having spent 1/3rd of that here on DA!
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Barrett-Jackson

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I was at the Barrett-Jackson Car Auction in Scottsdale on Monday. I took alot of pics. Its hard to get a good picture of a car at the auction, with other people hanging about and bad back drops (like a row or porta-potties behind a beautiful chevelle). I just posted the best 4 pics I had of the show. I did some light manipulation on them to help fix some of the problem with people and backdrops. Some of them are okay. Others not so much.
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Finally!!

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Well I just got back from a nice vacation to San Antonio. It was so pretty on the river walk that I couldn't stand not having a camera anymore and I broke down and bought one. Photos to follow soon.
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