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Road trip to Hungary, part 5
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Hong Kong with a new digital camera, part 8
ByGarfI found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998 and early January 1999, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…
Setting up a home studio
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Repairing an elderly Tamron 80-210mm lens (103A)
ByGarfI’ve had this old but very chunky Tamron 80-210mm Adaptall 2 telephoto zoom lens since the mid 1980s. Only I noticed that the overall image quality had become rather poor. I wanted to find out why. When I shone a small torch through it, I noticed what appeared to be a haze. Despite several cleans…
