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Same tech specs as the previous one. Camera stores used to have atmospheres not unlike those found in pool halls. At least the items on the "used" shelf are more easily identified in this one.

This was taken using a 10mm OP fisheye Nikkor -- on a Leica M4. It was at Fox Photo in Columbia, Mo., where the Nikon salesman was visiting and demonstrating new products one weekend in 1970. I stacked on the M4 first a Leica M mount to Leica screw adapter, then a Canon SLR to Leica screw adapter, then a Nikon F to Canon SLR adapter, after which I stuck on the Nikon fisheye just to see what would happen. This is what happened. It was taken with 2475 Recording Film at some ungodly high ASA and processed in the trick 2475 developer. The experiment was technically a success but a practical failure. Not that I would have ever spent the price of a whole camera with several lenses on a fisheye, anyway, even if I'd had the money, which I didn't. Fisheyes tend to be kind of cliches. (If you look closely, you can see some interesting things on the "used" shelf, including two Olympus Pen F bodies, some Pen F lenses, and a 16mm Bolex movie camera.) At right there are signs for "Circus Showtime," which was a promotion of Kodak Carousel slide projectors. It is sad to think how many people now have never seen or used a slide projector or a projection screen. They should have to suffer as we did!

Word came today of the death of Dick Cottam, who for many years broadcast from this booth at the back of the newsroom at The Columbia Daily Tribune, at 7th & Cherry Streets in Columbia, Mo. Reading the news is Eric Engberg, later of CBS News Cottam was the first radio guy I ever met in person, when I was a tiny kid and he was covering the Cosmopolitan Club's annual Pancake Day. Engberg replaced Cottam as news director when Cottam went to NBC.

Editor Dennis Neeld on the phone.

University of Missouri Tigers vs. Kansas Jayhawks, November 23, 1968. I was 15 and shot this with a 300mm lens on my Nikon F. Exposure was 1/1000 at f5.5 on Tri-X at ASA 400. It went on to win some awards. Alas, I have no print of this picture and the negative has been among the missing for decades. So I scanned this clip, which is from The Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, at the time one of the nation's leading newspapers in its use of pictures.

I shot this one bright Friday morning, then took the film to the paper. I was 10 years old. There was a lot of racial tension at the time, and the Browns were the lone black family in the immediate neighborhood. Whether it was because of race or just a prank was never determined, because the villain was never caught. I had to scan a clip here -- the negative and original print are long gone.

I took this picture in the old newsroom, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, mid-1960s. My father, Gene Powell, was a much-loved reporter and photographer.

Nikon F, 35mm Nikkor, Tri-X, Ethol UFG