Recent content by blackfive460

Rumor has it that the chap who owns uksteam.info is either in hospital or a family member is so I'm sure we can understand that priorities will have changed. An alternative, which also includes diesel tours, is http://www.railtourinfo.co.uk/diesel.html

Certainly was woken last night, it even took the power out for half an hour. Didn't get the camera out. Perhaps I should have...

Chas Eagles. Now there's a name I haven't heard for well over 40 years. From Sunderland if I remember correctly. In the 1970s I worked for a deep discount photo retailer and we occasionally sold cameras to him. I suppose it was cheaper for him to buy from us than get one offs from the UK...

I suppose it would have to be the Exakta Varex IIB that I bought in the late 1960s. If the word had been in use then I suppose it would have been described as a bit of a 'geeks' camera what with the multi-exposure facility, cassette to cassette film loading and the knife to cut the film mid roll...