Category Happy SUNday

Happy SUNday! – camera brochures

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Collecting classic camera sales brochures is fun, but it’s also educational. If the marketing departments did their jobs correctly, then the information should be entertaining and a great way to enhance your collecting experience.

Here are five recent acquisitions.

Likely the first and most complete brochure for the new Canon F-1, which was released in March 1971. This brochure is dated November 1970.
An often overlooked early Canon camera. Dated November 1970.
Part of Canon’s building blocks of sophisticated 35mm SLRs on their way to developing the F-1. Dated September 1969.
I had the next model up from this classic. Dated March 1971.
Check out these guys with their Canon Super 8 movie camera. Dated March 1971.
Available Canon lenses as of late 1970.

I have more brochures in my collection, with the earliest being from the mid-1950s.

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Happy SUNday! – rolling stock

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Canon EOS R
Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM Lens

Along the waterfront, Fernandina Beach.

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From a recent outing along the tracks in Fernandina Beach. The trains supply two paper mills along the Amelia River.

The tale of two realities. Amelia Island, with some of the best beaches and natural beauty, shares this.

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Float my boat. Fernandina Beach Marina.

Big boat, ‘little’ boat.
Built for stability, comfort, and room.
Yachts and a paper mill.

Canon EOS R mirrorless digital camera and a Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 L IS USM zoom lens.

A wonderful combination.

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Happy SUNday! – ‘sight’ seeing

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At sea level, at 6 feet above the surface, you can see an object at about three miles away. With a 600mm lens, details come into focus.

Uncropped image of a sailboat taken with my 600mm lens. With the naked eye, the boat was a white spot on the horizon.
A slight crop of the original image reveals additional details.
At an extreme crop. My Canon EOS R does well with its 30.3 megapixels.
Canon EOS R.

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Daisy. Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM lens with Canon EOS R.

Daisy 2. Fujifilm X-T2, TT Artisan AF27mm f/2.8 Lens. Film Sim Acros.

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Happy SUNday! – photography

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Using a classic Nikon lens from 1965 on a modern mirrorless camera. All images were taken in the Fernandina Beach Historic District.

Historic Palace Saloon.
Sun Spot.
Bits and Pieces.
Historic courthouse clock tower.
Not so vintage knobs.
Nikon Nikkor lens from 1965 on my Fuji X-T2.

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Happy SUNday! – cruzin’ 1958

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My father-in-law, Frank, in his new Chevy. Bennington, Vermont.

1958 Chevy Impala all decked out. What a ride! Check out the two rear-view mirrors on the hood!

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Happy SUNday! – Nikon F

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Classic Nikon. This is the last Nikon F in my collection. I enjoy using and collecting the early Nippon Kogaku logo bodies and, of course, a Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f1.4 lens. The camera was built in mid to late 1964. The lens is from 1965. I like it when it all comes together.

Instantly recognizable.
A classic 35mm SLR.
It was first released in 1959. This one is from 1964.
The reputation of the Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f1.4 lens is world-renowned.

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Happy SUNday! – family pics

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My mom, Mary, was photographed by my dad, Paul, while traveling along the PCH in late 1961. Pictured is my Aunt Helen’s Ford Galaxy 500 that she lent us for our trip to San Francisco and Yosemite NP. I believe Helen was living in Thousand Oaks, SoCal, at that time. It was a fantastic trip that I’ll never forget. I was likely climbing some rocks or on the beach when he took the picture.

Some improvements were added to the original.
The original Polaroid image.
My dad is holding his Polaroid at the Las Vegas Strip during that same California trip. Photo by me.

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sad sunday…

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In light of another series of recent shootings in the United States, with one receiving the level of attention that I remember RFK received in 1968, I thought it would be a good time to remember these children, their parents, their families, and their teachers. Sandy Hook in 2012 and Uvalde in 2022…

Babies… just babies.
Remember them…
More children. And their teachers.
Just ONE of hundreds killed by hateful people with guns.

I don’t usually post political things, and this isn’t and should never be political. People die in an unregulated society in LOVE with weapons, not humans. Peace, Chris