“Pennsylvania Avenue Subway” Tunnel (Former Reading Railroad), Philadelphia, 2004.

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  • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    The GX680 was a fun but very unusual camera that couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to be. It was a truly gigantic beast of a medium format SLR camera providing (limited) view camera movements. It used 120-format roll film with a 6x8cm frame (so a 3:4 aspect ratio), with a built-in autowinder. It’s sort of what you’d get if you somehow merged a Nikon F4, a Hasselblad, and a Crown Graphic. Definitely not a point & shoot camera.

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      Fun fact: the Reading was a major northeastern US railroad (made famous internationally by its place on the Monopoly gameboard), which ceded its rail business in 1976 to the newly formed Conrail consortium. But the company kept most of its non-railroad real estate holdings, and today mostly operates cinemas (including NYC’s Angelika) in several countries.

      (The Reading Company was named for the Pennsylvania city, and so is pronounced with the past tense of what you do with words on a page).