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richardHaw

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the Beatles and their Nikons
« on: May 28, 2018, 12:04:03 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4MB22gPt0

OK now that I got you with the title, it's more like Ringo talking about his photography with pictures of him with his F and F2 (which he still uses) along with some commentaries on his Nikkor fisheye that he used to take Paul's picture.  :o :o :o

looks like he got George and the others to get their own Nikons after a trip here in Japan

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Re: the Beatles and their Nikons
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2018, 07:10:26 »
...but no Greens of Summer.  :(
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Re: the Beatles and their Nikons
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2018, 18:57:09 »
looks like he got George and the others to get their own Nikons after a trip here in Japan
It seems they got some Asahi Pentax  :o
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Re: the Beatles and their Nikons
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2018, 15:06:33 »
Ringo's black Pentax was prominently featured throughout A Hard Day's Night, most memorably, perhaps, for the [spoiler alert] accident it sustained off the towpath -- in Surrey? Many aspiring and experienced photographers can or could relate. (It's why rust-and-relic gear is so readily available on eBay... ) Now, a certain, once future, Beatle spouse was famously on the scene -- when New York still had one -- with her Nikon. All speculation about a familial connection to the Kodak brand was purely fictive; like "Paul is dead".   ::)

I have a clear picture in my mind, of George slinging a fab, gear [pun intended] black Nikon F, somewhere at some time, but that proves nothing. I can however affirm he was once -- maybe more then that -- in possession of, own or was seen using, a silver "plain prism" [sic] Nikon F.

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