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Video Home System Tapes used to be the best way to record your favourite Programmes..........Today you would be hard pressed to find a machine to Play them on !!
These vintage letterpress blocks were used for manual typesetting #BackInTheDay "86" is an American slang term that means an item is no longer available
Mama from 1991. Before going on a 2 year sabbatical to South East Asia, I purchased pre paid Kodachrome positive 35mm film; which came with an envelope addressed to Kodak's developing facility. A perfect system for travel and was a special treat to arrive back in Canada to see all the slides in one place.
#BackInTheDay Happy macro Monday!
This week's Macro Mondays theme of "Back in the Day" was fun... I asked my mom if she had anything laying around that she used to use back in the day that isn't used anymore. This is a close-up of the gear of an old-fashioned egg beater. She said it belonged to her mother and she can remember her mom using it to mix all kinds of things together. Nowadays we use electric mixers or whisks to mix and beat ingredients. I love the Made in USA stamp in the center.
This was my first camera, back in the day. It was a film camera, and used flash bulbs. You had to switch the lever at the bottom from black and white to color if you switched film.
For Macro Mondays “Back In The Day” theme
(Note: Above is the version cropped per instructions of Macro Monday administrators to meet the group’s 3-inch guideline. The original image that I posted, which shows the tool in a more understandable context as to how it was worn, can be seen in the first comments box for anyone who is interested.)
This vintage tool was among my father’s things when he died. It was probably worn by him when he was a young man or perhaps by his father before him for use in harvesting corn by hand.
The tool consists of a metal hook riveted to a formed leather piece that straps around the hand and wrist using attached straps and buckles. Users walked beside horse-drawn wagons in the fields as they husked the corn manually and threw it into the wagons. The hook on the tool was used to rip the corn husk open so that the ear could be easily broken off the shank that leads to the stalk. Though labor-saving machinery was available for corn harvesting by the 1920s, some farmers still husked and harvested corn by hand into the 1940s.
The text on the tool metal says “The Raidt Make, Shenandoah, Iowa.” A bit of Googling reveals that there was once a company called Raidt Mfg Co. in Shenandoah, which is not far from where members of my family have farmed for generations in Southwest Iowa.
HMM
Last Tuesday I visited a castle, where I saw this dust dispenser. It was used to help ink dry on the paper: when the writing was finished, dust was spilled over to avoid runny letters.
I used to play steel folk guitar and this is a set of pitch pipes I'd often use to tune it. These days it's done electronically by many folk guitarists as demonstrated by Ralph McTell in a concert I went to in November 2016
This a macro photo of the typebars in a vintage manual typewriter, my submission for Macro Mondays theme "Back In The Day."
Do you remember the days
when you would wait for the sun to shine so low
the world was covered in warm orange tones
and you would run through fields of flowers
watching bugs dance in the light
through the viewfinder of your camera
and the summer ahead of you
felt almost endless?
Macro Monday 2 April: Back in the day...
... when people were sofisticated and used one of these to put sugar in their tea.
This bracelet with a set of clamps was designed to transform a pocket watch into a wristwatch . Approximating the opposite parts of the clamp creates a wider space for the watch to be put in . A security chain connects the two for extra protection against loss of the precious item .
(for #MacroMondays #BackInTheDay
The #MacroMondays #BackInTheDay theme
"A girl will call it ‘sweet’ and will want to be given one. And the purchaser who knows next to nothing of cameras, yet expects great things from them, will not be disappointed with the results."
- British Journal Photographic Almanac, Review 1935
This is an Ensign Midget camera. Aimed at the ladies, it was designed to fit into a purse. Photos were composed by extending a small metal frame folded above the lens or viewing the scene through a tiny viewfinder folded away on its left hand side so unseen here. Using that does strange things to one's eyes so is not recommended.
The type was launched in 1934 but the silver finish on this one reveals it to be a limited edition 1935 model, released to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary. It is more scarce than the standard model, which was finished in black. It was the same price as the standard model, but sold in an attractive presentation box. Sadly, ours is lost.
The photo on the right is a family snap taken by this very camera, probably in or near Helensburgh in Bonnie Scotland. The nice lady on the left is Alice Galloway, my dear wife's grandmother, the original owner of this camera. Ellen Crawford Phillip, great grandmother, is the lady on the right.
The photo is an image stack, one focused on the camera, the other on the family snap to address depth of focus issues. A 12mm extension tube was used.
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This weeks Macro Mondays theme is Back in the Day.
What you see here is a Kodak Instamatic 110 camera, and battery.
When I first got interested in photography, this was something I coveted. You see back in the day, if you wanted to be able to have a camera in your pocket at all times, the instamatic 110 format was what you wanted. It was not a great format as far as quality of images goes, but it was ultra portable and gave you a chance of capturing those spontaneous moments that always seemed to come at inopportune times.
Now being somewhat poor, when I did finally make my 110 investment, I opted for one of the "bottom of the line" models that did not require a battery. This was purely a practical decision, not wanting to have to pay to replace it when needed. After all, I already had to pay for processing and printing of the film and images, something that was not insignificant when on a budget.
Back in the day I coveted this camera and battery, and for the life of me, I can not think why.
HMM.
Trip down memory lane, I remember being very excited about getting Now 1983 on Cassette... few years ago now!
Looking for something that is not in use anymore for the Macro Mondays - Back in the Day brief. Photo corners in an old photo album that belonged to my grandmother. Have no idea where this photo was taken.
Macro of small old salt shakers that were used at breakfast tables back in the day. Though my grandmother didn't have such fancy stuff (she simply used her hand straight in the bag of salt), I noticed them when being at friends.
These have a silver lid. People tended to put some rice in the salt to keep it dry.
Picture was taken for this weeks theme on Macro Mondays: "Back in the day", utilities that aren't used anymore but you still recognize from your childhood. Nowadays we don't need these little gems anymore, but I still love them.
Taken on tripod
Title is a John Lee Hooker song
When I was young, it was common to see barometers or barographs in people’s houses. They helped people forecast the weather, by measuring changes in atmospheric pressure – before the advent of regular TV weather shows, radar and computerised weather models.
This photo shows the ink bottle of my barograph. The ink is for the pen that draws the pressure line on the graph-paper, as a wind-up clock spins the graph-paper. You can see the silhouette of the pen in the back ground – and lines moving up, indicating higher pressure.
Today, it’s very unusual to see barographs in houses around here.
Taken with a Macro-Takumar 50/4.
#MacroMondays, April 2nd, 2018: #BackInTheDay
First thing that came to my mind when reading the new theme of MM were the weightstones of an old Roberval balance, that belonged to my late grandmother (where it gathered dust in the attic) and now to my Mum.
We have no idea, how old this scale is, but it goes "back in the days" (at least in industrialized countries) ...
Good thing I was going to visit my Mum over Easter!
So here you see some of the weightstones, stored in a wooden box: two 100g weights, a 50g, 20 g and 10 g stone.
Diameter of the 100g stones: 3 cm (1.18 inches) - of the 10g stone: 1,3 cm (0,51 inches) - of the 20g stone: 2 cm (0.79 inches) - of the 50g stone: 2,5 cm (0.98 inches)
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Das erste was mir bei dem neuen Thema für MM "Damals" einfiel, waren die Gewichtssteine für die alte Tafelwaage / Krämerwaage, die meiner verstorbenen Großmutter gehörte und dort im Speicher vor sich hinstaubte. Wir wissen nicht wirklich, wie alt die Waage ist ...
Was für ein Glück, dass ich just über Ostern sowieso meine Mutter besuchen wollte (wo die Waage jetzt als Schmuckstück steht)!!
So seht Ihr hier also einige der Gewichtssteine für die Balkenwaage in ihrem Holzkasten:
Zwei 100 g Gewichtssteine, und je 50 g, 20g und 10g.
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Happy Macro Monday everybody!
This week's Macro Mondays effort, on the theme of 'Back in the day'. I used to love having a car full of cassette tapes for a journey ( plus a pencil for the inevitable unwinding! ), this is the only one I have left, having found it while cleaning out the garage. HMM y'all!
Battered from use, possibly in Gallipoli, where he served before being invalided out. He was lucky to have survived and passed down to me as the older generation ( my parents) left their legacy. These days people don't use a battered tin mug to shave from, though they do use the shaving brush (pictured)!! HMM and Happy Easter Monday.
According to my research, these subway tokens were used at the turnstiles of the Toronto subway between 1954 and 1966. They were made of aluminum in the workshops of the Royal Mint Candienne. Good for one fare ... HMM! Selon mes recherches ces jetons de métro ont été utilisés aux tourniquets du métro de Toronto entre les années 1954 et 1966. Ils étaient fait d'aluminium dans les ateliers de la monnaie Royale Canadienne. HMM!
Macro Mondays theme: Monday, September 18th theme - then and now, before and after, yesterday and today...
Tried a few things for this theme after rumaging through my little box of memorabilia - ie "STUFF" - my biggest problem was to get into the "3-inch rule" limit. Had to use a ruler to make sure I cropped to the 3" limit.
This image has a my old iPhone, an older flash and something you may not recognize - a disposable Flash Cube. These compact little pieces were developed in the 1960's by Kodak for their Instamatic series of cameras and with an adapter you could actually use them on SLR's. I tried to include the adapter, but couldn't get it in because of the 3" rule.
Happy Macro Monday to all ...
Vintage 8mm cine (film) camera produced by the Swiss company Bolex from 1959-1963.
Specifications: www.bolexcollector.com/cameras/b8sl.html
Video: youtu.be/DZEzVm4F_cw
MACRO MONDAYS Flickr Group: www.flickr.com/groups/macromonday/
HMM!!!
Nikon D7100 + Tokina 100mm f/2.8 FX Macro Lens (AT-X M100 AF PRO D AF 100mm f/2.8)
+ Nikon Speedlight SB-700 Flash (BOUNCED)
f/22 @ 1/60 @ iso 1000
(tweaked in Smart Photo Editor)
This is the type from my old typewriter - a Royal Portable Typewriter, a ringer for the one in these photos. I got this typewriter second-hand back in the '60s when I was in high school, and it might actually date back to about 1930. I used it to type dozens of papers as a student at UCSB. Yep, it still works - but it wouldn't be my first choice for actually writing anything nowadays. I wonder what those other faint characters are on the type? This is my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "Back in the Day" - HMM! (San Marcos Pass, 1 April 2018)
March 24, 2018
Back in the day, when I used to like to do architectural drawings, I learned to use a compass. We kept sour leads sanded down to a nice sharp angle to achieve smooth perfect circles. Now, architects go to CAD and other "computer aided" digital drawing programs for accuracy and more efficient versioning. What's lost is the personal touch, and the "hand" of the artist.
Do any of my friends out there, in the design field, still draw with hand tools?
(a "MacroMondays" submission, theme "Back in the Day" HMM!)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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