photographic opportunity to me. I was visiting Reno and
my wife was attending a baby shower so it was decided I
should make myself scarce.
As good luck or good planning would
have it, I had my
I'm no Huntington Witherill but
I've loved his series done at
There are so many pictures and they
are so large that I felt
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freshly serviced 5X7 Speed Graphic
and 3 lenses with me,
as well as a pretty goodly supply
of loaded film. The Speedy
already had been fitted with 2
lenses, the 9" Cooke Series
III f6.5 that came with it, and
a 10" Pinkham & Smith Series
V Synthetic. 2 days earlier
I had received a Karl Struss
Pictorial lens of 12" focal length
and I was anxious to give
it a good spin. I shot 25
sheets of film with these three.
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the Concours de Elegance and I
thought perhaps I could find
some lovely shapes and light at
the National Auto Museum
in Reno. I called and confirmed
that tripods and large
cameras were allowed. They
said, "Come on down!"
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I should spread them over 3 pages
for a change. This is page 1.
Many of the photos are nearly identical.
My purpose was to
have good comparison shots between
especially the Pinkham
and the Struss. I did a few
with the Cooke just for some reality
to compare the lovely softness
against.
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