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Sleeping in the shadows.
As it is now 60 years since I took up railway photography I thought that I would put in one of my earliest modern traction (!) shots. It shows English-Electric 10001 stabled inside the roundhouse at Willesden shed.
The shot was taken with my first camera - a Lubitel 2 plastic-bodied twin-lens reflex design imported from the USSR in large quantities in the early 1960's and sold for the bargain price of £5 in old money! However, the simple 3-element lens lacked edge sharpness at large apertures, as seen here

Sleeping in the shadows.

As it is now 60 years since I took up railway photography I thought that I would put in one of my earliest modern traction (!) shots. It shows English-Electric 10001 stabled inside the roundhouse at Willesden shed.
The shot was taken with my first camera - a Lubitel 2 plastic-bodied twin-lens reflex design imported from the USSR in large quantities in the early 1960's and sold for the bargain price of £5 in old money! However, the simple 3-element lens lacked edge sharpness at large apertures, as seen here

Photo Details
Gallery name / Photographer:Geoff Gillham / January 2024
Camera:Lubitel 2 TLR
Lens:Cook 75mm 3-element triplet
Exposure including ISO (and film if used):1/15 sec at F4.5 (the maximum aperture) Film used Kodak Tri-X
Date Taken:23-02-1964