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STEAM EASED OUT ON THE GREAT EASTERN

In the summer of 1962 I was living at Shenfield, Essex, and at the tender age of 15 had only seriously started photographing steam, after buying my first ‘decent’ camera, a Kodak 66 folding camera.

It had a reasonable f4.5 lens, six shutter speeds to 1/200th sec and took 6cm by 6cm negatives, 12 on 120 roll film.

I was developing, printing and enlarging black and white photographs by this time, buying the equipment and learning how to do it in

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