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I took this shot with a Moskva 5 folding 6x9 camera. There were some partisan re-enactors in the small Slovak town where I lived, and they had a train with guns mounted on it. I asked if I could take some photos with something approaching a period camera and they were super up for it. If you've never used a folding camera like a Moskva or an Ikonta, it's basically a hybrid of a rangefinder with a leaf shutter at the lens. This means you cock the shutter at the lens, but the shutter release button is on the body. To fire it, you have to have both wound on and cocked the shutter. There's a mechanical linkage that connects the shutter button to the shutter itself at the lens, which you can manually push but it's hard to get to as it's between the bellows and the tray. Anyway, these two dutifully lined up for me a few minutes apart against different train carriages. Somehow I managed to accidentally take a double exposure where the carriages are almost perfectly lined up, but the subjects are offset enough that it looks like they posed together.  LegioVlak005.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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