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Old 6th May 2020, 11:40
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Chugalug2
 
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Thank you for your kind words SP and for explaining the PPRuNe system for posting our pics. It appears to be what all engineers aim for but sadly rarely manage, ie to be entirely pilot proof!

I'm afraid my pics, having started out as Agfa 35mm slides, suffered the ravages of time by the emulsion eating bugs before rather too late being scanned into a digital format. Exposure settings on my Yashica J5 SLR were mainly by guess and by God, the built in exposure meter being both erratic and somewhat creative, as can be clearly seen (Bad workman? What's that got to do with it?). Fitter2's glorious pic from the same era of cruising down the river shows what could be achieved in the hands of a competent photographer.

I would encourage anyone harbouring any Borneo Confrontation era pics to post them here (with or without Javelins, if the OP won't mind too much) as taking a picture back then was a calculation of cost (for film and processing) and ensuring you still had sufficient unexposed film in the camera to capture future unexpected opportunities before being able to replace the full cassette with a new one. You never know, yours might become the future iconic pic of that campaign, much as the one of the two soldiers and two girls paddling in the Trafalgar Square fountains became the one for London VE Day celebrations!
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