Peter Del

Thanks for the compliment.

A remarkable and unlikely insect superbly captured.

Magical, quite magical

It seems to me that if it includes an original Oska Barnack camera, then the estimate is very low indeed.

It seems, from the bottom left hand corner of photo no.4, that they will have a selection of oval lenses!

No.4
Take a rubbish image and justify it with a long, meaningless explanation. A common practice.

I tried the free trial to change the sky. I thought it was rather good, but you can only use, say, the night sky or midday sky once, because if it appears in more than one photo, Camera Club Members will notice!!!

I prefer the original, less stressful for my old eyes.

Thanks Keith, your articles will be very, very helpful.

"History Repeating". I hope not, the original half-frame pen had half the size image, half the quality with grain twice the size!! I'm surprised Olympus alluded to any of them!!!

What's the point? 'The Petzval lens was developed in 1840 by Joseph Petzval.', a century later The Russians brought out the Jupiter 3, a Zeiss clone!!!!! Why bother to buy either>

1 and 3 are the same

Peter Mark Roget M.D (1779-1869) described his log.log slide rule in 1815, however the actual invention of the slide rule is open to debate.
Logarithms were invented in 1614 by John Napier (1550-1617) and three years later Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) put these numbers, in a line, on the limb of his navigational instrument. Who chose to slide two of these scales together to make a slide rule is confusing. Some writers ascribe it to Edmund Wingate (1593-1656) others to Seth Partridge (1603-1686)!!!!!!

Ken, the Hong Kong made camera was first introduced in 1959, around which time I probably received it as a present from my parents, as an alternative to a bicycle, which proved to be too physically demanding. Like yourself, this kindled a life long interest and is the only camera I kept!

The first image in your Gallery is quite beautiful.

Peter Del

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/8804053911

Magic

A great picture that reminds my of my visit to a cloisonne factory in China during my honeymoon, 35 years ago!!
Peter Del
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/8804053911

' They are forgettable images.'

Depends upon how good ones' memory is.

Genius

Is this old hat? See:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/04/27/photo-gear-history-with-the-multiplying-camera-the-more-lenses-the-better

Many wonderful images (and on her website), thanks Allison.