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I remember Dad setting up the movie projector, the screen, closing all the curtains in the living room and mom popping pop corn on the stove. We all took our places on the floor to watch the show and as soon as the lights were out and the movie or slides started, something would go wrong with the projector and the lights would come back on, and Dad would fiddle with the projector. We loved watching the old home movies and reliving the stories.
I came across this 1929 edition of a Gregg's Shorthand book at an estate sale last week. Definitely "Back in the Day". HMM
Comments always welcomed.
Old-fashioned and worn out. Worked for so long and enjoying the well deserved retirement. The old foot pedal Singer sewing machine of the grandma replaced by one with the motor...
We still use pennies (for the time being) but they just don't make them like they used to. (for Macro Mondays' theme)
circa 1900s
Glass silver nitrate negative plates at back
lens mounted on a leather bellows
Black circle manual appature selector,
shutter on f22
note only three appatures F11, F22, F44,
Brass lens mount
top left shutter release
below safety catch to lock after exposure to prevent double exposure
on the left hight adjustment for bellows
focusing by moving the lens bellows and peering at an inverted image on a ground glass plate at the rear of the camera
This is an heirloom comb that belonged to one of my husband's ancesters, either his grandmother or great grandmother. HMM!
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This came out of a 60s Radio and has been lurking in one of my workshop drawers ever since :-)
The Fish Knife - once commonplace, but now virtually non-existent. So, hopefully, is Broiled Scrod.
A focus stack of 124 images using Helicon Focus for stacking and digiCamControl for shooting.
Old portable Smith Corona Manuel Typewriter: I bought this typewriter new over 50 years ago when I was in high school. It was purchased from a school & office supply store in Hillsdale, Michigan USA.
In this photo, the ink ribbon has become entangled in the type levers. This close up lets you see the detail on some of the the type bars at the end of the levers.
The manual typewriter was replaced first by the electric typewriter, but then typewriters as a word processor were replaced by computers/laptops/tablets etc..
A photo of the typewriter from which this macro shot was taken can be viewed here.
English : self timer , autorelease
“Knipsen’(Germany) = taking a photo (snapshot)
Spring loaded device that opens a slot at the bottom when the bar with the red dot is rotated . In the slot the knob of a release cable can be attached . The mechanism is activated by unlocking a second bar on the side . After a few seconds the release button on the camera -where the other end of cable is fixed to- , is pushed .
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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
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/8 @ 1/60 @ iso 2000
(tweaked in Smart Photo Editor)
The Bell & Howell slide projector and slide Cube the cube is less than 2 in because of the tilt and the entire frame is just under 3. Their may be some out there that don't know what a slide is.
The bridges and tunnels in NY discontinued tokens toward the end of the 20th century. Found these two kicking around in a box.
#Back in the Day
This is something that is now no longer available. The good old Laserdisc which was in use prior to DVD.
These were like a CD but the size of a vinyl record and were much better quality than video cassettes but not quite as good as DVD's themselves, the Laserdisc had an analogue signal burnt into it's surface rather than a digital one and had around an hours play time on one side. The movie would pause while the player moved it's read head around to the other side of the disc to continue playing the film..
I still have my Laserdisc player a Pioneer DVL-909 which was one of Pioneer's first ventures into the DVD market and a safe option as it was designed to play both formats. I also have kept all my films in this format and the disc I have used here is for the film "Event Horizon".
For this theme I also found a small model of an old Royal Mail van which was green in colour and very different for how they were today and an old cassette Walkman which was how we used to listen to our music while on the move. I felt that the Laserdisc was my best option for this weeks subject though.
scheduled steam engine journeys ended in the late 1960s in Britain - my effort for Macro Mondays on the theme Back in the Day
A gear of an old breast drill. HMM!
Here you can see the whole breast drill: www.flickr.com/photos/gela56789/26304869777/in/dateposted/
Century Motorcycles "oldest motorcycle shop in America", since 1953. Specializing in classic European bikes, AJS, Triumph, BMW, Greeves, and the iconic American made motorcycles, Indian, etc...
rontradernews.com/century-motorcycles-san-pedro-ca-the-oldest-bike-shop-in-america/
Good old times - And this old clock with Clear cut pendulum balls rotate in one direction, then stops and rotates the other, I think was bought in the early 70's.
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Happy Macro Mondays folks!
Typewriter, Underwood No. 5.
Manufactured by Underwood Elliott Fisher Co., U.S.A.
Underwood Typewriter Company
Busy day on Monday, so here's my Macro Mondays "Back in the Day" offering ready to be posted.
Those familiar with the technology will know what the pencil is for!
I hope this counts, as I believe they are also making a bit of a comeback (Kylie limited edition Golden sold out recently on this format).
Very much part of the 70's for me...
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: BACK IN THE DAY
I have no idea why I'm still hanging on to this calculator, my very first one. I know it has helped me a lot in passing exams that I could have not done with a slide rule!
"THE BRITISH MUSEUM - A History of the World
The darning mushroom would have been an essential tool in an era when women were constantly repairing worn socks. Before the advent of synthetic materials, socks and other items of clothing were in constant need of repair. Darning would have been considered a necessary skill for girls and young women, part of their education as future wives and mothers. The mushroom was used to make repairs to clothing, bed linen etc a practice that has largely disappeared with the development of modern textiles."
Mushroom is 2.75" across
Yashica MF-2 is a 35mm viewfinder camera made by Yashica in 1980. The camera has a fixed shutter speed of around 1/125 second (vary on flash on/off). It uses 2 AA batteries to power the pop-up flash and the meter cell. My father-in-law used to use this camera in nineties when he was young.
West Side Highway, NYC (357 West Street)
10/2009 - Replaced with better resolution scan of the original negative
Some of my older Flickr friends will recognise these two. I found this shot in my stream and realised I hadn't actually posted it. For many years, I started my day with strong, black coffee aka mud! However, I seem to have moved over to taking tea first thing. To Flickr friends old and new, have a good day!
A joystick controller from my Atari 2600 games console.
To explain my thinking behind this: Modern games consoles have multi-buttoned control pads which have made the single button joystick controllers obsolete.
HMM!
Vintage Presto-Matic automatic bob pin curler 1940.The apparatus inserts bobby pins into a curl. My mother was a hairdresser and received this gift when she retired in memory of her job
In the years when boundaries in Europe were still guarded by customs offices (“Douane”) , many countries had import restrictions . For example , when going abroad on a holiday , the camera (or any other valuable goods ) had to be registered and marked properly , to avoid the payment of import taxes when returning home . In this case , a metal seal with a registration number is seen to be attached to a Brownie Fiesta camera (from the 1960s) .
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