    October 2008 Very little in the way of camera outings this month. Some new results for the 1931 Houghton Cameo were added, although these images were taken awhile back. A Seagull TLR arrived for some work and has been adopted, but no museum entry as yet. The log files for the website were finally sorted out, hopefully this will bring to an end the ludicrous amount of time wasted trying to fix serevr hosting and being de-listed by google. Visitors have dropped enormously, down to just under 20,000 a month now, from a height of a little short of 35,000 in June 2007, just before we were blacklisted by google. Hopefully we can now get back to playing cameras... rather than websites. There are a number of cameras loaded right now, but likely to stay locked away as the weather is cold and 'orrible. September 2008 Well, it's not been a great year for the vintage cameras, with relatively few outings. However a few offerings have been added to the Leica IIs results gallery. The Exacta's first test roll was processed and seems to confirm everything works as it should. Somewhat suprising, bearing in mind that we had to make a new shutter curtain for it, so most gratifying. a couple of images from the first test roll have been added to prove the fact! July 2008 Oops... a bit of a disaster. LICM vanished for a few days whilst it was inadvertently forced to transfer from one server to another. We lost the whole lot..... re-uploading has taken a wee bit longer than expected as the new server is configured diffrently and or poor little brains are not accostomed to change. Off to lay down for a bit now. Apologies offered grovellingly. A much happier note is the donation of an Exakta Varex IIa. Although this example is currently non working, it is already in pieces in the workshop and progress looks promising. One set of shutter curtains are cracked and holed and are being replaced, the famed Exakta timing unit is seized, but a clean shoud sort it and the lens is cloudy. Currently loaded are one Pentax K1000, the Nikon 401, Mastra and Sputnik. June 2008 Very little activity on the cameras these days, but the KMZ FT-2 was treated to an outing to Tuscany in April, along with the Sputnik and Sanderson. Sadly the Sanderson 5x4" got dropped in Sienna, which didn't do it many favours. The plates from this outing remain undeveloped some two months later.... but the camera itself has been rebuilt. The Fornidar was completed, but we await the delivery of the new focus screen from the USA. The Leica II currently has a film in it, as does the Mastra and one of the K1000s. We have run out of black and white chemicals and are looking for a decent supplier..... January 2008 The Nagel Fornidar has progressed rapidly and has now been completely rebuilt. There remain the problem of the plate carriers that are in a very bad way and far from light tight, but two of these are on the way to being usable. The Leica's first film is in processing and a long lost film from the Sputnik has apparently surfaced in some bankrupt processing house and it on it's way back.... The Agfa Box 44 continues in use, as does the Canon AV-1. New additions to the collection are a Canon Demi and a Minolta Repo, both half frame cameras. Also the a truly awful, but early, Arcus C3. The fate that awaits this one has yet to be decided....... December 2007 Happily the Leica proved to be salvageable and was rebuilt over a couple of days. This included giving it a new leatherette covering, as the original vulcanite covering was completely missing. This Leica II was a total wreck in reality, but I decided that it ought to be saved. The quality of the construction was such that, despite years of total neglect, all the mechanicals needed was a good clean and the camera seems to be working fine. It currently has a 400ASA test roll in it, that should show up any capping trouble in the shutter. Also in the workshop has been a Taron VR, this camera is missing a few parts... so a spares source is being sought. The Nagel Fornidar, a long term resident of the scrap box has next been selected for restoration and the survey is underway. There are no missing parts but there are serious corrosion issues to tackle and it looks as if the leather covering will need to be replaced. Very little actual photography going on this month, this time of year is generally too busy with visits etc and the weather had been a bit squishy..... November 2007 We celebrated our millionth unique visitor in November, an average of around 15,000 a month since 2001. The only addition to the pages this month is a humble little Agfa Box 44. A massively mangled Leica has joined the collection, but will be a while before it joins these pages, if indeed it proves to be salvageable. Cameras that are loaded at the moment are the Canon AV-1 and the Nikon F401. October 2007 Hits on the site are still down, but climbing back progressively. Our old 1907 Sanderson was finally scrapped, the last of the usable parts being used to restore a nice early example that has now joined the collection in its place. The new arrival is a c1902 Hand or Stand regular Sanderson Half plate camera and is an early edition of the definitive strut arrangement. I hope to get a couple of shots with it fairly soon, to see if it's light tight. The carcass of the donor camera has gone onto ebay, as the surviving wood and leatherwork is quite nice, even though the bellows are completely shot. Currently loaded cameras are, F401, Zorki 4. FT-2 Panoramic and an unlisted Agfa 126. Results for the FT-2 panoramic have been published and happily the thing is finally light tight. September 2007 The Living Image Camera Museum has been blacklisted by Google! Obviously we are a hot bed of espionage, terrorism and other nefarious activities that we are are a danger to society and have been removed from Googles search index. Sadly, therefore, if you think this is a worthwhile site you will have to bookmark it. Or swap to MSN which still thinks we exist the right side of the law. After a week of constantly re-submitting the site, we are back on Google! But the indexing has suffered badly and it will take several moths for the site to get back to previous hit levels. Such has been these activities that little photography has taken place, but a film went into one of the Zorki's. August 2007 One of the LICM's earliest arrivals, the Certo Dolina I, has been out and about again, a handful of results have been added on its gallery page. Films have been processed for the Ensign Commando and Houghton and Butchers Cameo. A couple of new images for the KMZ FT-2 Panoramic have been added. Also active recently have been the K1000s, both for once, the Nikon F401, Minolta 16 EE and the Minox DCC, the latter also had a new image added to it's gallery. July 2007 Owing to the UK heatwave, you know - the type that leaves whole towns under 8ft of water, it's been rather quiet on the photographic front. Success with sourcing quarter plate film though, we now have sufficient stock to see the quarter plate cameras through to the end of their...or my lives. The Minox DCC had an additional image added. The pentax k1000 was busy on wedding photopraphy duty again. Let's hope August is a bit more productive. June 2007 New results added for the Ensign Autorange 220 whuch was overhauled at the end of May, as well as a few from the FT-2s trip from South East Asia. The FT-2 now needs another averhaul....... Also the Asahi Pentax Spotmatic produced some quite nice images using macro bellows, these are published in the results gallery for this camera. May 2007 The FT-2 is away on its travels. A long term problem camera, the 1912 No.1 Folding Pocket Kodak, finally had its focus problem resolved - a manufacturing defect that would have meant it spent its entire working life out of focus. Now sorted out it took it's first in focus image after 95 years! Results here. The Certo Dolina recieved an overhaul and is currently loaded with Efke 50 ASA stock. The Pentax Spotmatic had a film run through it, almost exclusively on close up photography - a new diversion for me. Finally the Butchers Midg was given an extremely rare outing to Mimic the famous Cottingly Fairy photographs. The website recieved a bit of a re-organization, primarily the scrapping of the old Era Rooms and replacing them with the more visual Cabinets Rooms but renamed as Era Rooms. This meant changing several hundred internal links, so apologies if anything goes awry..... This had freed up some space on the foyer page to allow a new section on using old cameras to be introduced, that will hopefully be developed further over time. April 2007 The KMZ FT-2 has continued to supply some entertainment, but has now been declared fit and will be sent away to Cambodia for it's first major outing soon. Results wise, we have added the first images for the Olympus Trip, Zeiss Contina, Minolta 16- EE and the Halina A1. Time is desperately short at the moment and consequently only the Pentax Spotmatic and Minolta 16 are currently loaded. Penguin books returned the 1904 Sanderson and Thournton Pickard that were used for a book to be published later this year, having taken great care of them. Thanks Liz. One of our Kodak Autographic 1As was temporarily converted to a pin hole camera, sadly the results were an unmitigated failure! March 2007 We have begun a push to pool resources for vintage camera users, specifically obtaining extinct film types. Initially this is for 70mm film stock in 30metre lengths supplied in tins and Quarter Plate (3.25 x 4.25") cut or sheet film, please see this link. A recent addition to the collection is a KMZ FT-2 panoramic camera, this camera marks the end of our active acquisitions and the Living Image Camera Museum will now concentrate on the preservation and continued operation of the collection. To this end the first film test went through the FT-2 after it's deep clean and proved to be quite promising. Some recent images with the Nagel Volledns have been added, this camera has been prone to light leaks, but is gradually becoming better, but still one more to get rid of. There is a pile of films awaiting processing from the February soiree to Cambodia, but I am just waiting to finish off another two rolls before sending this lot off en masse. Two cameras, the Thornton Pickard and the 1904 Sanderson are currently away with the publishing company Penguin Books to be thoroughly photographed for a book and, if all goes to plan, will be published in pop up form! February 2007 The turnout for the competition remains, very low....er to the point where the prizes may have to be returned to Ilford as there are no entries at all! Will I try again?..... probably not. The Sputnik, Contina 1(d), Olympus Trip and one of the Pentax K1000s went to Vietnam and Cambodia in Late February and all returned safely. The Sputnik behaved admireably, producing 20 stereo pairs around the ruined Khmer City of Angkor. Wow, is all I can say, the film used was time expired Ektachrome, developed back here at a professional lab. This medium certainly brings to life subjects in a way not matched by other cameras. It may be a hunk of bakelite with poor lenses, but I'm not swapping it for any digital camera any time soon. Sadly I cannot publish colour 3D images on the website, so you will have to rush out and get one for yourself! The Sputnik produces much better results that the Verascope. The results from the others are still canned up waiting their turn to be processed. The roll of test film put through the Ilford prepaid service turned out well enough, it was exposed in the 1953 Ilford Advocate, it seemed appropriate somehow. Results here. Currently loaded cameras are, Ensign Commando, OM-10, Pentax K1000, Pentax Spotmatic, Canon AF35ML, Minolta EE, Rollieflex 3.5, Halina A1 and a Yashica 44A. January 2007 The turnout for the competition is dissapointing so far, entrants are pretty much guaranteed a prize as it stands! Hopefully we wiil get a cold snap to get your creative juices flowing. Come on you apathetic lot, lets get some entries in! No results added this month, but three cameras were sent to Washington DC for a treat, The Advocate, Vollenda and the OM10. The cold played havoc, the OM10 jammed, the film in the Advocate snapped, but the oldest of them all behaved, so well done Nagel. Fortunately the film from the Advocate was salvageable and the OM10 started working once the temeperature got above -2ºC! The next trip out will be for the Sputnik which is off to Cambodia and Laos in compamy with one of the K1000s and another yet to be decided. December 2006 The first...and very possibly last ever Living Image Camera Museum competition has been launched. This has been organised for anyone in the UK still hanging onto film. This is your chance to take part and prove that traditional film still has a place in this digital world. Specifically organised to avoid the need for a darkroom and offer no advantage to those of you with extensive printing experience, this is a raw back to basics competition designed to test your 'in camera' skills. This might be the last ever traditonal film photo competition outside of the clubs ever organised, so this is your last chance! See the main entry. For the first time the website recorded over 25000 visitors in one month. November 2006 A fairly busy month for collection cameras. We finally gave up on our most recalcitrant inmate... the Kodak Retinette 1B, which has now been retired. Films were made for the Micro and the Minolta 16 EE, both of which are currently loaded. The Olympus OM10 had a few additional results added to it's gallery, as did the 1904 Sanderson and Braun Paxette. Apart from those mentioned above, currently loaded cameras are; Spotmatic, Canon AF35ML, Ensign Commando and Nagel Vollenda. October 2006 One of the Sandersons has been on outings as have been OM10, K1000, Retinette 1B, Vollenda, Sputnik and Contina. Three new donations joined the collection in October, our first Canon - an AV-1, a Canon AF35ML and an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, with an interesting history. These have all been cleaned and are ready to join in the fun. July 2006 A fairly busy month for various collection cameras, but have been too busy out playing with them to put up any results! The Pentax K1000, No.1 has been busy, Apart from that The Werra has been in action as well as the Nikon F401, Pentax 110, OM10, Ensign Commando, Nagel Vollenda and Minox DCC. June 2006 Additional results for the Nikon F401, Nagel Recomar and Zeiss Nettar have been added. The latter two were given a rare opportunity to have colour film through them. Another Bolsey B passed through our workshops and is now on it's way back to the USA. A good roll of stereo pairs was obtained from the Sputnik, but these have not been added. May 2006 Results or the Finetta 88 have been added, the long absent Minox DCC finally returned from it's makers, replaced as the original was beyond saving and the Kiev 4A had some results added as well. Restoration project 2 pages were added for the crumbliest flakiest camera in the world, our Nagel Librette. The weather turned horrible, work commitments and favours put paid to any photography at all, still summer's coming... April 2006 Three more cameras joined the collection this month, a Bencini Comet, Ilford Sporti and Halina A1 TLR. Thw Sportis is queued in the workshop whilst the other two have been attended to already. No results have been added this month, but a pile of unprocessed films is amassing nicely. The Finetta 88 decided to die halfway through a roll, so that returned to the workshop to attempt to sort it out, its a fiddly chap to fix as many of the shutter components are made of copper, which is quite a soft metal and subject to wear. March 2006 A busy time in the workshop this month. Another generous donation from the same gentleman who added four cameras back in January. This time there was a box containing a Rollei B35, a Braun Paxette II and a Mastra V35. All have been overhauled and are ready for films again. The Zeiss Contina Ib, donated back in January but with heavily fungus damaged lenses has been rebuilt using parts from a similarly donated but dead IIa, a slightly unorthodox route was taken however and the combined components have created a model that never existed. The rebuild has resulted in a camera that actually works rather better than either of the two it started out as, well mechanically at least. We have called it a Zeiss Contina Id. Currently loaded are, the Recomar, F401, Sputnik, Retinette 1B (which has jammed yet again!), Finetta 88, and Rolleiflex 3.5. February 2006 The gallery pages for one of our increasingly battered Pentax K1000s has been updated to include some of it's more recent trips. A couple of images from the Nikon 401 have found their way into the gallery for that camera as well. Currently loaded cameras are; Zeiss Nettar, Finetta 88, Retinette, Recomar, Werra and Sputnik. The collection's Retinette 1, which has been a long term dead resident owing to a seized shutter, was finally cured after another visit to the workshop. Long term workshop resident Librette had a new leather covering made for it and when the weather warms the task of making a new set of bellows can start. Another long term resident is an Ansco, that has been stripped and is also awaiting a new set of bellows. January 2006 The year started out with a very generous donation via the internet from a gentleman who preferred to remain anonimous. There were three 35mm cameras (Contina 1b, Finetta 88 and Kodak 35) and a 16mm Minolta. Although neglected and rather dusty, all cleaned up to be presentable cosmetic examples. The Zeiss Contina has come to end of it's photographic days due to fungus attack (unless some kind person has a complete set of f/2.8, 50mm Novicar elements kicking about) but the other three have some life left in them yet. The Kodak and Finetta were given an extensive strip and deep clean and the other two just cleaned externally. December 2005 Well the trip successfully concluded, and results for the Werra 1e have been added. The Ricoh half has a few additions to it's gallery as well. All the cameras on the Thailand Golden Triangle trip behaved themselves and we returned with another few hundred pictures for the albums! We have yet to process the Pentax 110 films. November 2005 Writing this in December, there was little activity throughout Nov, but we did give another Retina 117 a thorough overhaul, this has now returned to Glasgow to be used once again. It's been a tough year without any breaks and fewer opportunities than usual to air some of the vintage cameras. Hopefully this is about to change as the Ricoh half, Pentax 110 and Werra 1 have been selected as the vintage contingent for a trip to Thailand, Burma and Vietnam. October 2005 Some new results have been added for the Houghton Butchers Cameo, this was the cameras' first outing just to see if all was in order, pleased to say it is and can look forward to some more outings with it. The Thornton Pickard Quarter plate camera had a rare trip out after an overhaul, some results are posted. Some results for Nagels Vollenda and Recomar have been added as well as some for the rescued and now rebuilt Retina II, a minor myracle considering the appaling state the thing arrived in. Cameras currently loaded are Nikon F401, Nagel Recomar, Sputnik, Zeiss Nettar and Rolleiflex. August 2005 Quite a busy month for the collection. We had cameras at two weddings this month, one included a rare outing for the Thornton Pickard Quarter Plate view camera, and the K1000 was fully engaged as ever. Some results for the Vollenda, Recomar, Librette and OM10 have been added. Another camera that has been busy is a 1930s Houghton Butchers Cameo, however it appears this camera has missed out being listed on the site, maybe we'll try to rectify that next month. The cabinet rooms have been re-thought a bit to improve navigation. July 2005 Our utterly wrecked Kodak Retina II (011) has finally emerged from the workshop after a total rebuild. The rusted hulk was rescued from ebay at the end of 2004 - although we didn't quite appreciate the amount or work that would be required to save it. All being well it should celebrate it's 60th birthday next year in style. Collection cameras currently loaded are Yashica 44A, Cameo, Pentax 110, Pentax k1000, Olympus OM10, Nikon F401 and Nagel Recomar. June 2005 A long gap whilst other life events intervened. Sadly our old iMac on which this site was originally authored cooked itself, this has led to a two month search for a decent equivalent. The replacement is now up and running, sourced from ebay, but hasn't got off to a particularly auspicious start, needing a new motherboard and smelling badly of solder when running, suggesting an overheat problem too. This has totally absorbed the budget, so no further camera rescuing for some time. Consequently the focus will be on tidying up existing cameras and trying to get results for a few more. Added this month are results for The Vitorette DR and Minolta Hi-Matic S. January 2005 The workshop is very busy! There are currently 8 cameras in the queue. One, a Nagel Librette that arrived last month is the worst condition wreck we have yet attempted to resurrect. The damage is so severe we expect this to absorb most of our energies this month...... December 2004 The annual visit to South East Asia took three of the collections' cameras to Malaysia and Vietnam, one of the K1000s, the Arcus A and the Ricoh Auto Half, results for the Ricoh Half have been added this month. Donations of cameras have accelerated somewhat this month, with a Nagel Librette, Nagel Recomar, Butchers Cameo and an Agfa arriving. November 2004 Two new changes to the museum website this month. In order to cater for casual browsers, a pictorial reference has been added in the form of the "Era Rooms". Also, "The Gallery Rooms" have been added, these are pages of some of the photographs we have taken with the collection. They are in no particular order, clicking each picture will take the viwer to the camera responsible for taking the image. A recent arrival was the donation of a broken Minolta Vectis 40, it has been successfully repaired and has joined the collection as it probably represents the last of compact conventional silver halide cameras. Currently loaded cameras are, Ricoh Half, Minolta Vectis, Minolta Hi-Matic, Voigtlander Vitorette, Kiev 4A and the Arcus A. A handful of results from the recently refurbished Jiffy have been loaded too. October 2004 A further 21 cameras have had their images improved so far this month, mainly by re-scanning the original transparencies. The Pentax 110 had a roll of film put through it, and some results have fund their way onto the gallery page this month. September 2004 The Olympus AZ-200 added last
month had a short stay in the collection. Having too many problems
to be sorted out, it became a victim of it's own electronic wizardry
and has been scrapped. The really good news is that UK2 (the
sites' hosts) have increased our bandwidth to 5Gb/month. This
leaves room for expansion finally and removes the need for additional
funding. Some improvements have been made this month but limited
to identifying poor quality images and replacing with better
ones. Pages affected are, The Kodaks Retina 117, Junior Mod C,
No3 Autographic and Brownie 6-16, the FED 1 and the Certo Dollina. August 2004 Six recent donations have been added to the site this month, the Kodak Jiffy from c1937 , a delightful Pentax 110 SLR, an interesting Half Frame Ricoh, Minolta Hi-Matic S, Olympus AZ-200 and a Kodak Ektra 22-EF. One new picture fo rthe Ensign Selfix 16-20 gallery has been added. July 2004 Some news this month with various cameras on outings, including the Ensign Commando after a 16 year break from duty! The Retina 117 continues to be pounded whilst it celebrates 70 years of existence...looks a bit tatty now, so I think it will be returning to the workshop at the end of the year for some cosmetic work. The Praktisix has had a couple of rolls through it but has now developed a capping problem with the shutter and will likewise be into the workshop before it can be trusted again. The Ensign Selfix 16-20 has also been out on a fairly rare outing, and returned some lovely images for a period motorcycle calendar shoot. Some new additions to the collection have also been added to the site this month, Werra, Brownie 44A amd another Autgraphic Junior. Also we added a foyer button on the top of this page so you don't have to scroll all the way to the bottom, aren't we considerate! June 2004 A long term plan to take a break to Prague finally arrived. With this came the return of some vintage camera fun. The Retina Type 117 celebrates its 70th birthday this year and was the obvious choice for the trip. Our increasingly used Sputnik also came along...as did the two faithful K1000s. There are a few results for the Retina added here. Further good news this month, even though the band width is horribly over-subscribed, the hosting service have turned a blind eye and not put the charges up. Thank you UK2. The site is now funded for a further two years. May 2004 The month was very busy owing principally to the utterly inconvenient need to earn a living. Hurumph. The Month came to a spectacular end when I was shunted off my beloved Yamaha Motorcycle I have cosetted for the last 12 years. Consequently no vintage camera fun at all. I am also clearly far too old to be propelled bodily from motorcycles and continue to bounce quite the way I used to. April 2004 Well rather too busy with other things to attend to the cameras this month! March 2004 The No. 3 Autographic, seen below, is complete now and looking very smart, lack of film for this camera will preclude it's use for a while. Its place was taken in the workshop by a Yashica 44A, this was bought as a replacement for our stolen example, and needed quite a bit of work. After re-plating several parts this camera has now joined the collection as a working example, it's first outing should be fairly soon. There has also been a Carl Zeiss Werra 1 for a brief repair and a quick cleaning session. There were two donations this month, one was unsalvageable and was broken for spare parts - the other is a Kodak 1A Autographic, which is a complete wreck - however we have decided to save it. It will be used to test out some unorthodox repair methods. The last task for the workshop this month was to acquire a Unicum shutter and lens for our 4 x 5" Sanderson, this has been completed and will be an excellent start to restoring our example to its original configuartion. Currently the Practisix, Pony, Kodak No.1 and Zenit B are loaded. Two additional pictures for the Zenit B have been added. From the bandwidth point of view the site figures continue to grow dramatically and again we have gone over our limit by 16 - 20%. We're still reluctant to put banner ads or pop ups on the pages to help pay for the site but the July deadline looms large. February 2004 No photography at all so far this month. Rather too cold recently as well. However there is a new arrival in the form of a very tired Kodak No.3 Autographic. This was so cheap it was almost a donation, howvever it requires a lot of work before it is presentable. The good news is that it is basically sound, the shutter and lenses are fine, but there is considerable aluminium rot which will require that the leatherette is removed. This will entail de-rivetting several parts. Since it requires a fair amount of work this camera will be quite extensively restored, the idea will be to stop short of mint and bring it to slightly used condition. January 2004 The Purma Special went on its travels to Vietnam and had just one roll put through it. This was largely a social visit, with not much sightseeing but rsults can be seen on the gallery page for that camera. The Pentaxes were just hammered murderously as usual, both performing faultlessly...well except for the meter on No.2 which has decided to only give comical readings. December 2003 A quiet time for the collection again as the weather has been less than perfect. However it behaved for the centenary celebrations of the Wright Brothers first flight, for which our 1904 Sanderson produced one picture, despite leaky plateholders. November 2003 A quiet time for the collection recently as we go into winter, but one new picture has been added to the results page for the Praktica LTL3. Other than that a re-avaluation of the state of the finances and the band width has had to be made. Several pictures have been deleted this month and some frequently downloaded pictures converted, these measures should save 200mb transmission per month. This will give the site a reprieve from execution, closure is now projected for July 2004 unless by a miracle the bandwidth comes down, but we have exeeded our limit by 14% for 6 months and the continued operation is highly unlikely. All sites with links to this site, please note. The only camera loaded at the moment is the Kodak Pony 135. August 2003 The Sputnik was successfully rebuilt, the repairs to the exploded bakelite shell are hardly noticeable thankfully. Unlike a lot of Sputniks this one was always light-tight, amazingly it remains so. The surviving photographs from the Russian trip are published this month, in anaglyphic form for those of you with 3D glasses. A replacement Yashica 44A was sourced from ebay, not quite in the "mint" condition the ad stated. It will require a protracted visit to the workshop before joining the useable collection. Additional results for the FED1 have been added, all from the Russian trip. Continuing the Russian theme, our Zenit E was also treated to a film this month, performing well as usual - a few pictures published this month. July 2003 Results for the "Brick" have been added, proving to be a capable if unremarkable camera. Regretably July has been a black month for the collection, as is our policy the cameras are to be used. This does expose them to certain risks. Five of the museum's cameras were taken to Russia for an photographic outing. The museums recently acquired Sputnik was all but destroyed in an accident and the beautiful little Yashica 44 (serial FA5050208) was stolen in St Petersburg whilst I took photographs with another camera. This event rather spoilt the day and the end of the trip both for me and the other members of the trip. It also contained all the photographs taken that morning of the cruiser Aurora, whose story I had inteneded to tell on this site. I can't impart just how hacked off I am about the theft of this camera - the only joy is that it is one we had bought, not one of the donations. The two rolls of film that we have from this trip yielded delightful results......except that the processing house put a whole bunch of scratches on one roll - I guess it just wasn't to be! Two of the salvaged pictures are on the results page now. The Sputnik is currently in the workshop and should work again, although cosmetically it is badly marred. The FED and the Pentaxes completed the trip unscathed. June 2003 Well for starters the What's New room is. To help any regular visitors see what has changed this page will be updated every time a significant addition is made. Which of course makes two rather arrogant assumptions that A). There are regular visitors and B). anything about this site is significant. The biggest addition is the new Camera Anatomy room, which attempts to answer as simply as possible broad queries regarding different camera types. This results in a small site within a site amounting to an additional 14 pages. The site now totals 225 pages and 430images. New cameras added this year are Kodak Pony, Another Sanderson and a Voigtlander Vitoret. New purchases are curtailed as finances no longer permit this. However a few donations still come in, two of the afforementioned are in fact such cases. Running the website is largely responsible for this state of affairs, the bandwith has increased significantly over the last year which puts the site into a higher charge band. However we refuse to advertise or bombard you all with pop ups you don't want. It should stay this way at least until July 2004 when a review of the museum's future will be conducted. We may experiment with one of the honour donation schemes as a way of raising the required funds, comments on this would be welcome, via the usual email route. Whatever happens, the continued funding of the website to the detriment of the collection is not a viable option. Pictures taken with cameras have been added for the Practisix, which should hopefully now be used regularly after its protracted repairs. The Halina Paulette results gallery has been added, and it performed quite well bearing in mind what it is. Also this month the Bolsey B2 results gallery has been added, this camera turned out to be a slight improvement over the model B The Quarter Plate Sanderson has had it's first outing in our hands. Not an unqualified success by any means, but one reasonable image has been published in the results gallery for it. Finally the button on the Era Room page tht refused to align neatly was solved! Cameras that are presently active with film loaded are, Practisix, Rolleiflex, Sanderson, Yashica 44 and Yashica Autoron., oh and of course one of the K1000s.
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