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Hello
Don't remember now where I found this site, but I'm glad I did. I seem to recognize more than a few folks here from APUG. Anyway, nice to have found it.
These days I'm shooting more miniature format than anything else - most of it on Tri-X, but I do get out and about with some 6x6 cameras and the 4x5 every now and then. |
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Hi Frank and welcome to Fadu, look forward to your posts and maybe seeing some of your work,Richard
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Hi Frank and welcome. Yes some of us - well me certainly - have been around since way before the internet.:
I grew up with what was called "steam radio" but even then it was at least powered by electric. Mike |
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Hi Frank and welcome to FAU.
Neil.
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Welcome to fadu Frank.
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Yeah, well me too. Funny thing is, I've had a career in IT for the past 25 years, and yet I can't seem to embrace this whole digital photography thing. I was first introduced to the darkroom way back in '67 and I've been hooked on it ever since. But "steam radio"? Never heard that expression before. Perhaps you mean radios with vacuum tubes (valves I believe you call them across the pond)? I remember those, and still have one or two floating around here somewhere.
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Frank. It seems that "steam radio" must be a particularly British phrase. I don't know the origins but I think it first arose in the days when transistor radios and television ( newer technology) were taking over and "steam radio" referred to a more primitive form of instrument when they were bigger than todays TV's, had big cabinets with intricate fretwork designs and occupied pride of place in the living room of the house.
The tuning dial lit up at night, usually with enough light to make the room look a little ghostly if the lights were out. Mrs Braddock and Mrs Graziano used to listen their husbands fight for titles on them. Well in the pictures( movies) they did anyway : They always fought in B&W as well. They were called "wirelesses" then. My son rolls his eyes when I refer to a radio as a wireless I still miss those big wirelesses. Full of valves as we say in Britain as you have identified. You had to switch them on a minute or so before the programme started to allow the vavles to warm up or you'd miss the opening. Great days but of course nostalgia is not what it used to be : Mike |
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Hi and welcome to FADU
Neil |
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Welcome to the forum Frank.
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Welcome Frank.
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