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on Jan 13, 2017 11:43:30 GMT
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Since we've been discussing Barry's FX-3 Super half-frame camera used by British police ... here's a site about an East-German mugshot camera. If you scroll down a little, you will see the complete setup. Praktica BX20H |
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on Jan 13, 2017 12:46:33 GMT
Posted: Jan 13, 2017 12:46:33 GMT
Since we were discussing Barry's FX-3 Super half-frame camera used by British police ... here's a site about an East-German mugshot camera. If you scroll down a little, you will see the complete setup. Praktica BX20HNow that is a very interesting site...
Fascinating; I've never seen the instructions for, or details of, the set-up that the UK Police followed with their various FX-3 types but it was probably pretty similar.
It's got me thinking about the shadow(s) cast in UK mug-shots - I've never thought about it until now but it'll give a good clue as to the flash set-up. Knowing our police back in the 1970s - 1980s, it wouldn't have been very sophisticated. Somewhere I know I have an article from the British Journal of Photography on the work of one of the police scene-of-crime/forensic photographers in England that was published about 20 years ago...time for another rummage.
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