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WHEN Martin Le-May set off
for a trip to a local park with
his camera he could have had
no inkling that he was about
to shoot one of the most
remarkable wildlife photos ever taken ~ an
image that would go viral around the world
and even be featured on the BBC's News at
Ten (see pages 4-5).
Had he not managed to get a photo, few
‘would have believed him ifhe had returned
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shoes. The lesson, of course, is to always carry
a camera with us, because we just never know,
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Lite, and AP forum members
were asked to photograph an
object or objecis that held
sentimental value for ether @
relative or friend. The entries
were, as always, strong, But
‘there could only be one
winner ~ and this it
‘was given, by my mother, my
sgranddac’s Great War memory
box’ says johncb84. ‘In it were
his medals, spur cap badge,
shoulder tile and several
photographs. But most poignant
for me was an embroidered
field dressing and a crucix,
constructed from bullets, that he
hhad made wile in hospital and
recovering from his wounds
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seize the moment during
is wife Ann, With his camera
ade, Martin used
to record the
involved was to crop the image
Martin told AP how he had
posted ton a Facebook page
accessible only to a ‘closed group!
of Essex birdwatchers. It may not
have become famous at all had
not been for a group member
asking Martin fhe could tweet it
AieceEE cs eler else
Look and think
before opening
the shutter. The
heart and mind
are the true lens
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Images revealed that
pre-date photography
FEI IMAGES that pre-date
the invention of
photography as we
know tare set to go
(on display in the UK.
‘Amateur French
‘scientist Joseph
Nicéahore Niepce
(right) captured
the fist surviving
Photograph from
nature n around 1826,
Nigpce = who later
worked with French pioneer
Louis Daguerre ~ created
permanent images by exposing
chemicals on metal plates to light,
2 process known as heliograph.
Now, three of his olass plates ~ of
vwiich there are believed to be only
16 imsexstence — are set to go on
show at the National Mecia Museum
(NM) in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Niépce was not only able to develop
his images, but he was abso able to fhe
‘them, having frst experimented by
copying drawings through the action
of ight subsequently applying the
technique to hand-drawn etchings
“These form part of the NMM's
Drawn by Light exhibiton,
which runs from 20
March-21 June.
Nigpce is believe
to have contributed to
Daguerre’s 1831
clscovery of the light,
sensttvty of odised
siver plates.
‘Other historic images
have also been in the news
recently, including work by
Britsh photography pioneer
Julia Margaret Cameron
An albumen print of Cameron's
“The Dream, 1869' raised £18,600
atthe Bloomsbury Auctions of 19th
and 20th Century Photographs from
‘Private Collection. Cameron's
1867 portait of Jula Jackson (the
‘mother of writer Virginia Woolf)
fetched £13,640.
Gustave Le Gray's ‘Panorama du
Port de Séte, 1857’ shattered its
presale estimate of £2,000-
£3,000, bowing out for £9,300
However, photos by Britsh
hotography inventor Willan Henry
Fox Talbot fled to reach their
reserve price. Among them was
“The Frutt Sellers, Lacock Abbey,
{rom around 1845, that had been
expected to fetch up to £15,000.
The lots also included Man Ray's
‘Mannequin de Man Ray’ (1938),
‘which fetched £6,820, alongside
a much larger body of his work
documenting the Exposton
Internationale du Surréalisme.
“Le Cardinal ¢Amboize, 1826, by
Joseph Nicéphore Nigpce
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Photographer
builds a ‘Mega
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Jig APHOTOGRAPHER
plans to take his Mega
Mammoth’ wet-plate
camera across America
Chris Honeyset, from
the US, nas secured funds
to buld what he describes
sa Mega Mammott
‘lass-plate camera that is
‘capable of shooting images
hundreds of times larger
than 35mm fim.
Chis, who has already
tured his trailer into a
‘mobile wet colladion
darkroom, plans to use
the 22 x 27in glass-plate
‘camera to photograph the
‘American Southwest. He
raised more than $15,000
through crowdfuncing
webste Kickstarter
‘The photographer has
already but the wooden
fend of the bellows, and
attached them to the
‘camera, He needs the
Additional funds to buy at
least two ‘vintage’ lenses
of diferent focal lengths.
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reckons ft wil take around
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When Tony Kemplen resolved to use
different film camera each week he
founda treasure trove of lost gems. Here
he looks at the Malina 35X
1 Thad £1 for each time Ive seen
camera described as ‘the poor
‘man's Leica could buy nearly three
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encompass all sorts of models, oten with
very itl in cornmon with each other let
alone the Leica range. Sometimes, asin the
\Voitlander Bessa series, the expression
alludes tothe qualty of buld and range of
‘eatures, while with this cheap and nasty
lump from Hong Kong itrefers to the
cameras shape and appearence Haking
‘the manufacture; even had the cheek to
include a red dotin the design, but tne
company is fooling aryone. The base is
stamped ‘Empire Made! which apparently
was often a euphemism for Made in Hong
Kong and at that time it was widely
perceived as a source of second-rate tat
‘Along with the Italan Bencini Comet
‘cameras ~ which in my opinion, though
cheap and cheerful, are design classics ~
‘the various versions of the Halina 35
are some of the commonest cameras to
‘appear in junk shops and at car-bool sales, impossibly st focusing rings, making it
Mass produced and cheap to buy, they awkward if not painful to use, k may be
‘lourshed in the family snapshot market of thatthe 50-year-old grease has tutned to
‘the 1950s and'60s, before being dumped glue and that a clean, lubricate and adjust
len masse in the '80s and '90s. would rejuvenate it, but frankly I don't
This version, aHalina 35X complete with think would be worth the effort
its box, cost me £2 ata local boot sale. _ Most 35mm films would set you back.
‘The box itself isa period piece. Printed in more than the value of this camera, but
yellow, red and black, itbears the legend fortunately the local Poundshop stocks
‘A camera for good photograpty,.so no Agfa Vista colour fi. | wouldn't descnbe
pressure there then. Perhaps fm being a using the Halina as a pleasure, since the
Ite unfair, as the Halina 35X does, after tif controls and coarse feel were a chore
all, sport a four-speed shutter and 2 In fact, | went looking for subjects that
focusing lens with apertures from 1/3,5 matched the settings to avoid further
down to 1/16, placing t several notches wrestling The results were reasonable and
above the various Kodak Brownie clones typical of a 1960s print. My subject was a
retro festival land gir using a threshing
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