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This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
This is a simple resolution test I performed on my refurbished Canon PowerShot A1200 point & shoot digital camera. I used the good old USAF-1951 test target as my subject. This target was printed at high res. on a modern laser printer.
As you can see above, I made four images with the camera, at the full resolution of 12 megapixels, and at the next lower in-camera resolution (6 megapixels). I tested at both the widest and tightest lens focal lengths.
I shot four times at each setting, letting the camera autofocus before each shot, and had the camera on a tripod, using self-timer for maximum sharpness. ISO was set to base (80). Maximum JPG quality, fixed white balance. Exposure is auto-only on this camera, and did vary somewhat between shots at times. I carefully compared the images in each set, and kept only the best.
The first image is a 100% (1:1) crop of the center of the test target, at 20mm focal length, at 12MP.
The second is at 6MP, with the lower resolution down-sampled in-camera. As you'll see, very little detail is lost at 6MP. The 6MP image was resampled (using Sinc) 142% in the PC to allow same-size comparison on screen
The last two images were made in the same way as the first. The only difference is that they were taken at 5mm, the lens's widest (shortest) focal length. The target was shot from the same distance as the 20mm shots, but the test target easily accomodates this, with its several scales. Once again, the loss of detail at 6MP is insignificant (to me).
This is the third similar P&S cam I've tested, and they've all had about the same result, with the other two showing no effective difference at their lower res., because their next step down from full res. was more like 8 or 9MP, down from 12 or 14MP.
What to take away from this? Very few inexpensive zoom P&S cameras will have lenses good enough to resolve the full res. of the crazy-high megapixel count sensors of recent years. It would have been better if the manufacturers has designed around perhaps 6MP sensors with less noise, for best photos. But of course, big numbers sell, so this is where we're stuck...
So, set those cameras to lower res., and get many more photos before the card is full, and as-shot photos will take less time to upload to your computer and/or online. And less storage space will be needed, whether on the PC or in the cloud.
Happy snapping!
The Ash Creek Wildlife Area is in Lassen County, in northern California.
This is an HDR image, made from several exposures combined using Photomatix.
The Nikon D600 is developing a reputation as being plagued by dust or oil on the sensor, probably from some design defect or quality control issue. The worst of the spots almost always appear in the upper left portion of the frame, leading many to suspect a source of the dust in the camera itself, at that corner of the sensor (upside down, naturally). I have cleaned my sensor a few times with “canned air”, which does improve matters slightly. I have not tried more aggressive sensor cleaning techniques, and will not do so until I have no other recourse.
This image is a 2048x2048 1:1 crop of a full-frame image taken with my D600. The crop is from the upper left corner of the original image. Have a look at the full 2048 pixel image to see detail (right-click on the image and choose “Large 2048”).
The "lens" was a Holga pinhole of 40mm focal length, with a .25mm aperture and a focal ratio of f/160. This lens was selected because it gives the sharpest detail of any sensor dust. I used a 30-second manual exposure at ISO400. I chose this speed rather than the base of ISO100 to keep the exposure time reasonable. The lens was pointed at a completely white screen on my LCD PC monitor. I kept the camera moving during the exposure so as to record no subject detail, leaving only the dust rendered. I chose the exposure to put the hump of the histogram about in the middle. The vignetting is caused by the pinhole lens.
A faster lens aperture will allow a shorter exposure, but much less distinct dust. This is why sensor dust is rarely noticed- a common focal ratio of perhaps f/5.6, and a complicated subject will almost always hide any small dust particles on the sensor.
I may be sending my D600 back to Nikon for service or replacement, if I can be assured that they have developed some sort of permanent solution to this widespread problem.
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley. This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Muller Lathe
Built by
The Bradford Mill Co.
Cincinatti, Ohio
USA
The size is as follows, roughly measured:
Swing over bed: 20"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Four-jaw chuck diameter: 18"
Bed length: 12 feet
Bed width, center to center across the outer two ways: 16”
Maximum workpiece length, center to center: 8 feet
It may have been built in the 1886-1901 era, from what I've learned so far.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description. My girlfriend Zoe bought a 1955 Carpenter (1954 GMC based) school bus from him, and he towed it the 17 miles to our Ranch with his old tractor on public roads:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihuX5mIFSA
Photos of the bus can be seen in another set of mine:
www.flickr.com/photos/darronb/sets/72157635098965316/
Willie also renovates and runs old steam engines. His tools are basic and in, umm, often less than pretty condition.
I believe he told me that despite its condition, having been outside for many years, this lathe was still in occasional use, wonder of wonders. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to list it for sale soon, online. If nothing else, it makes a magnificent lawn ornament.
Almost all of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D50.
More info on Bradford lathes:
This is photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
A cold and snowy night at the Gould Street Compound in Reno, Nevada
The love note in the snow on the windshield was left after a night of refurbishing our old house. We still have a long way to go.
The HDR exposure series was from 1/500th to 30 minutes at ISO100, f/8
2EV intervals
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley. This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Muller Lathe
Built by
The Bradford Mill Co.
Cincinatti, Ohio
USA
The size is as follows, roughly measured:
Swing over bed: 20"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Four-jaw chuck diameter: 18"
Bed length: 12 feet
Bed width, center to center across the outer two ways: 16”
Maximum workpiece length, center to center: 8 feet
It may have been built in the 1886-1901 era, from what I've learned so far.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description. My girlfriend Zoe bought a 1955 Carpenter (1954 GMC based) school bus from him, and he towed it the 17 miles to our Ranch with his old tractor on public roads:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihuX5mIFSA
Photos of the bus can be seen in another set of mine:
www.flickr.com/photos/darronb/sets/72157635098965316/
Willie also renovates and runs old steam engines. His tools are basic and in, umm, often less than pretty condition.
I believe he told me that despite its condition, having been outside for many years, this lathe was still in occasional use, wonder of wonders. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to list it for sale soon, online. If nothing else, it makes a magnificent lawn ornament.
Almost all of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D50.
More info on Bradford lathes:
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
Nikon D50 DSLR on tripod. Cheap 70-300mm Nikon lens. SB-600 flash (on camera). Small aperture and fast shutter speed to darken background (there was still daylight). Shutter triggered by infrared remote. Image was heavily cropped. View large for best detail.
Strobist: AB800 open behind panel of white faux suede. AB800 with HOBD-W @ 1/4 power camera right. Reflector at 6:00. Triggered by Cybersync.
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
This photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School lined bleachers at a March for Our Lives rally held in Parkland, Fla., March 24. Students emphasized the power all adults have to change gun laws if they get out and vote. “Policy change is not as difficult as losing a loved one,” one student said. Photo by Kathy L. Gilbert, UMNS
Warning: camera geek boredom ahead:
Interesting results from a resolution test I performed. I tried three configurations of my orange 1970s Celestron C90 telescope/spotting scope:
The 'scope is a 1000mm focal length, f/11 Maksutov mirror-type model:
1) Nikon D600 mounted to the C90 with a threaded adapter.
2) Nikon D600 mounted to the C90 with a threaded adapter and an inexpensive but excellent condition 2X aftermarket F-mount teleconverter.
3) Nikon D600 mounted to the C90 with a hybrid star diagonal and a 1.25" telescope to camera adapter. I used it in eyepiece projection mode, with a Meade Series 4000 Super Plossl 9.7mm (103X mag.).
In all three cases, the test target was the good old USAF1951 issue. All shots were taken on a tripod, at the same distance. There was some wind, so I had to wait for quieter times to let the rig settle. You'd be surprised how much jiggle there is when looking at the LiveView image, fully zoomed in on a 103X eyepiece image.
Camera ISO had to increase as mag went up, to keep shutter speed fast enough to freeze motion. Even though I was shooting in infrared-remote LiveView mode, thus no mirror slap, shutter slap will jiggle the image, along with the wind. I shot multiple times in each setup, tweaking the VERY sensitive focus of the C90 back and forth through the apparent point of best focus, and hoping for lightest wind. I chose the best of each set of images for the final comparison.
I left the eyepiece projection crop at full res., and upsampled the other two modes to match res. The result is that resolution appears to be identical in all three setups. Hmm. Perhaps the C90's inherent resolution limits are being fully exploited by the D600's 24 megapixel sensor with no further mag. So any further mag. is simply magnifying the limits, and making for a MUCH dimmer image.
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
Wayne LaPierre is CEO and the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.
The source images for this cartoon of Wayne LaPierre are Creative Commons licensed photos from Gage Skidmore's and cm195902's Flickr photostreams, a U.S. Military - Joint Task Force Guantanamo photo, a U.S. Air Force photo and Creative Commons licensed images from plural's flickr photostream and Jeffery Love's flickr photostreams.
The 450-kiloton air burst behind her didn't even ruffle her hair, due to her nuke-proof yard sale helmet. In case you didn't know, China has long planned to detonate a warhead over Reno:
1.bp.blogspot.com/-uVDjvMcYv5E/UnhGGJpq41I/AAAAAAABQMo/Zx...
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes: