Popular Photography - February 2015 USA

TIME EXPOSURE *
FEBRUARY 1955
market. Now, Dresden, Germanybased
Ihagee introduced a postwar
version, the Exakta 66. At a
price of $319.50, it was loaded with
features but lacked the reliability
required by professionals and
advanced amateurs. It also lacked
virtually all the elements that
made the Hasselblad the leader
in this category, so it passed away
almost unnoticed and unmourned.
Gifted Reader
Many of our readers proved
to be talented photographers,
as evidenced by their photos.
Here, Harold Berry of Wellesley,
Massachusetts, captured the feel
of the fishing town of Gloucester,
Mass. For
this dockside
shot, he used
a Kodak 35
loaded with
Kodachrome
Daylight film.
The exposure
was 1/100 sec
at f/5.6.
Beach Blanket Binki
This month’s cover girl was
3-year-old “Binki” Gessner,
pouting behind a strategically
placed towel. This appealing
photo was taken by Ruth
Bushman of Philadelphia using
a 4x5 Super-D Graflex fitted
with a 190mm Ektar f/5.6
lens. Bushman used three #22
flashbulbs and “open flash”
technique, in which the shutter
was opened in ambient light,
60
YEARS
AGO
We reported
on the launch
of Tri-X,
Kodak’s new
super-fast,
highquality
film.
the bulbs fired, and the shutter
then closed. Her exposure on Kodak
Ektachrome Type B film was f/16
with an 81EF color balancing filter.
Medium-Format
“Klunker”
The potential value
of a medium-format
SLR had long been
recognized, with
several well-regarded
models on the pre-war
Profile of a Master
One of the most significant
features in this issue was a
portfolio of photographs by
Edward Weston, one of the
greatest camera artists ever. Here
is an excellent but less famous
example of his work, characterized
by both simplicity and superb
image quality. The sheer beauty of
Weston’s images was due in part
to his use of 8x10 view cameras,
as fully described in a technical
profile by features editor Arthur A.
Goldsmith Jr. —Harold Martin
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