Dave's Slide Collection

[Genghis]

After our tour round the NorthWest we set out on an InterRail trip to Germany. First port of call abroad was Calais where this was dumped.



First stop in Germany was Dillingen. There is a note with the slides that the weather was awful. I think the shutter settings were a fortnight at F8.














I always liked the 023s.

 

[Genghis]

Some more background. The photos to date were taken with my first SLR camera: a Praktika with a coke bottle lens that was later supplemented with a better telephoto lens. At 18 it was the only thing I could afford. I had a cheap light meter. You make do with what you had.

Dave

 

[hrmspaul]

Some more background. The photos to date were taken with my first SLR camera: a Praktika with a coke bottle lens that was later supplemented with a better telephoto lens. At 18 it was the only thing I could afford. I had a cheap light meter. You make do with what you had.

Dave

Praktica were very nice cameras in their day, Zeiss Ikon lens which would be difficult to better.

Paul

 

[HDSmith]

Praktica were very nice cameras in their day, Zeiss Ikon lens which would be difficult to better.

Paul

Until 1976, I was using a Kodak Retinette 1A, with a seperate rangefinder mounted in the flashgun shoe, that I was given s/h as a birthday gift in 1964. I spent weeks practising with dummy film before being let loose with the real stuff. I loaded my own cassettes with ex-RAF 35mm Ilford HP3 obtained cheaply from a London supplier. It was fast, incredibly grainy and very contrasty. I replaced it with a NIkkormat FT3 in 1976, bought with money earned as a freelancer. It took retirement to persuade me to switch to a Nikon DSLR.

 

[Genghis]

Today's selection:

 

[michael080]

The bay S3/6 at the fourth photo spent its last days as a steam generator to preheat coaches.
The E52 (2’B B2’) is a nice catch. Built in 1924, it is the heaviest electrical engine ever built in Germany.
May I ask where these pictures were taken? I assume somwhere in the south west?

 

[Genghis]

The bay S3/6 at the fourth photo spent its last days as a steam generator to preheat coaches.
The E52 (2’B B2’) is a nice catch. Built in 1924, it is the heaviest electrical engine ever built in Germany.
May I ask where these pictures were taken? I assume somwhere in the south west?

Saarbrucken IIRC I think it must have been 18 602.

 

[Genghis]

Early in the trip we headed north to Rheine. I had my first trip behind mainline steam that I could really remember, hence the tender number plate photo!

















Pity about the colors on this: we didn't see many 011's. I'll have to have another go at it.