Someone on here a while ago got one very similar from the UK Lidl.... Not sure how it worked out.
Will be very interested to see how you get on and if it makes a big difference to the quality of pictures.
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Someone on here a while ago got one very similar from the UK Lidl.... Not sure how it worked out.
Will be very interested to see how you get on and if it makes a big difference to the quality of pictures.
I knew someone got one!!!
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Aren’t most of these comics from the 1950s–70s or so, though? I was looking for scans of comics about the Second World War for something (remixing/repurposing them, essentially) some years ago, and found out that during the war, American comics were mostly actually comic (as in: funny) and superhero stuff, not war stories about the Good Fight™ like I kind of expected.
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My main problem with it right now is where to put it for photographing models
I have this little photo booth that stands on a table in my hobby room, but there is no room in front of it to put the tripod, so I may have to improvise some kind of clamp to stick the light onto.
The cover shots are yes, but mainly because UK “comics” of that time (and up to one hundred years earlier) that dealt with that sort of content were not picture books. They were known as papers, and contained written word stories, not illustrated storyboards. UK picture comics of that period were also of the “funny” type and just lampooned or stereotyped the nations enemies. The actual fighting wasn’t illustrated. The commando type picture war stories didn’t really start appearing in the UK until the sixties.
I’ve read the first chapter, and there is far more depth in there than the cover suggests. The book actually starts by discussing the origins of the comic industry during the Victorian age. War stories of that time were initially based around the Napoleonic era, moving on to the Crimea and so to the fringes of empire and colonial wars as time went on. They were apparently designed to give a sense of service and moral guidance. Amazingly some of those early papers had circulations of over a million copies per week. The UK population of the time meant they must have been read by a large number of adults as well as children.
Hi Jakko
I also do most of my photos in a little photo booth. I hold the light in one hand and hold the camera in the other. I poke the lens through the centre hole in the light. Works fine for exposures 1/60th and faster. For slower exposures, danger of camera shake when holding the camera in one hand, I use a tripod and delayed exposure.
Jim
I also do most of my photos in a little photo booth. I hold the light in one hand and hold the camera in the other. I poke the lens through the centre hole in the light. Works fine for exposures 1/60th and faster. For slower exposures, danger of camera shake when holding the camera in one hand, I use a tripod and delayed exposure.
Jim
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Oh, these are British comics? When I saw the cover, I took it to be about the American type comics from yesteryear.
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That would not work for me, as I take my model photos with an iPad. Taking photos with that using only one hand is a little problematic
Mail Man dropped this off today a day early than it was supposed to be here. 
HI ALL well we got another little girl called lilley an she is 3 yrs old as snowball died a month ago so we were very lucky to get another pure white moggie an here she is as she has just came out of her cat box from her foster carers just got too hope she will take to us an settle in
chrisb
chrisb
She’s a beaut Chris :smiling4:
Hope things go to plan and she settle’s in nicely.
Geoff.
Hope things go to plan and she settle’s in nicely.
Geoff.
Congrats CHris, hope she settles in well.
Pete
Pete
Many thanks Geoff lets hope so as she is a very shy cat an spends most of her time sleepin lazy little devil lol but she came down this morn from up under the bed to see me an jen in the livin room an let us coach her so see how it goes with her
chrisb
That’s a cracking addition to the family Chris. Very pretty little lady. Really pleased for you. Just give her time and space when she needs it and she will settle well.
HI Tim yes i hope she does but at the moment she spending more time snozzein than up under our bed than up an about but yes she is exsacly like our snowball was same looks an same colour eyes an jen is very pleased
as am i
cheers for your nice comments on her Tim
an now the house dont seem empty no more
chrisb an jen
Lets hope she settles in mate.
HI Scottie yes lets hope so but she is very wary at the moment but she's been goin round rubbin her scent on everything in the house so hopefully she likes it here but she is beginnig to walk around with her nose in the air like she owns the place which amuses us greatly
ATB chrisb
Of course she does, she's just permitting you to live there as long as you serve her correctly!
Pete
YES Pete i think you are right we are her flunkies or slaves now Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh what have we let ourselves in for lol but we are happy now we have got her now the house dont seem empty no more
chrisb an jen
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