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Early summer evening light spills in through trees. After dinner, I use the Mamiya to make one photo of Kelly, my wife. We enjoy a walk down to the harbor and spend time on the docks where an old harbor gas pump with analog digits still shines an ethereal green light. Now, the house and its accompanying suite are quaint. We arrive and settle into our in-law suite attached to the back of what I hear is a Round Pond landmark-the house that used to have a garish and outdated glass facade. Mansard roofs dot the village and a lone, gleaming white chapel’s steeple stands as the tallest point, dwarfing the pine next to it. The roads to Round Pond are winding, and as you drive you pass countless boats and farms. The coast is rocky and on the southern tip there exists Pemaquid Lighthouse, built in 1827 and one of only a handful of lighthouses in Maine to use a Fresnel lens, an assembly of hundreds of prisms which collimate light into a powerful beam, making it visible far off the coastline. The bay is dotted with some small islands and can be traversed here and there in a kayak. Muscongus Bay was named by the Abenaki people for its “rock ledges” and is relatively uncommercialized. Round Pond is a shallow harbor off of Muscongus Bay with mounds of lobster traps and a hilly terrain. Sunday morning, we loaded up the car and headed to a fishing village called Round Pond. This Mamiya represented my doorway onto a higher plane of photographic existence, and I was eager. Up until that moment, I had only shot with 35mm cameras. I made my way to the seller on Saturday and, to my delight, found a near-mint camera with the 2.8/80 and 3.5/150 lenses, complete with a power drive and grip all packaged up in a Pelican case.Īfter buying the camera, I immediately snatched up the common-and cheap-six-volt battery it takes, and basked in the green glow of the battery check light. Lo and behold, I located a Mamiya 645 1000S in Bristol, Rhode Island for a steal. We’d be spending the weekend exploring Midcoast Maine, and earlier in the week I’d come down with some sort of fever to which the only cure seemed the purchase of a medium format camera. As usual, I was in search of a quick buy.