The Retinette goes to White Hart Lane

My first ever camera, bought for me second hand by my Dad when I was 10 and the camera was 20. The first of the non-folding Retinettes, it features a 45mm f3.5 Reomar lens and a Compur shutter. Produced between 1954 and 1958.

30 years on, I take the 50 year old camera for a trip to the footie. Spurs v Brighton in the FA cup. Still capable of making a reasonable photograph, it, like most old cameras is very slow to use. With no light meter and no focus aids, I was using a hand held meter and an accessory rangefinder. Wind the film, take a light reading, set the shutter and aperture, look through the rangefinder, align the images, set the focus, compose, shoot... I think my [mju:]-ii is a bit faster! Sorry if you were hoping to find pictures of the match itself... FP4 and an f3.5 lens don't quite cut it under the floods at the Lane..!

Waiting for the train

Linda

Bank Station

Sarah and Beers

Phil Madge