French apple seller

While I was still a staff journalist I saw this apple seller in one of the side streets of Paris. I rather fancied an apple and bought some, and then decided he was such a character, with jokes and banter in a fast French patois I had difficulty understanding, that wanted a picture of him. I think I used my Zorki C and FP4 because that was the camera I usually carried for my own pictures, and it was more pocketable than an SLR. Most times I had a staff photographer with me for assignment pictures. The light was failing, and I wanted to get some detail in his black coat so I opened the lens to its full f/3.5 and used 1/25 sec, the slowest speed the Zorki's got.

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