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Brought home the family button tin when we cleared Mum's house last year. Mr'icks wanted a button so I opened up the treasure trove, then spent ages looking at the buttons. Amazing how small circular bits of plastic and metal can bring back memories. Most of these buttons were used as tokens when we played the Little Grey Rabbit card game.
Button Everlasting (Coronidium scorpioides). Seen at Belair National Park near Adelaide, South Australia.
I found this Kodak Retina IIa camera from my local photography store on August 5, 2023, Lyon, France.
Kodak Retina IIa camera's were manufactured in Stuttgart, Germany, in the years 1951 to 1954. The IIa is equipped with a Scheinder-Kreuznach lens 1:2 f=50mm and at Synchro-Compur shutter operating from 1s to 1/500s. The IIA version of Retina camera's has also a range finder coupled to the focusing helicoid.
The principle of Retina camera's are the folding lens with a bellow to give a very compact body when folded. The Kodak Retina IIa is a beautiful piece of manufacture, typical of best photographic German industry.
After detailing and blank mechanical tests, I did a test film with a Fomapan 200 at Parc de la Tête d'Or. I used a 36mm ush-on Foca DYMA filter, adapter to the 32mm lens of the Retina. I exposed the film for 64 Iso to compensate the DYMA filter absorption. Snce the range finder was not correctly calibrated, I focused the lens trusting the distance scale and used a LASER meter to evaluate the object distance.
The expositions were flawless on the field but I had a blockage during the film rewind that I could not manage by pushing again the rewind small button of the bottom of the camera. The best solution would have been to open the camera in the dark to recover the film, but I tried to re-advance the film and the film broke. I just succeeded to save the 15 first views of the test. Some are presented here in the dedicated album.
If the exposures were OK, I noticed a problem in the focusing with a clear out-of-plane off-centering likely due to a dirty helicoid of old dried grease in the ramp. I hope to find a good technician to re-calibrate the range-finder and clean the focusing ramp.
Now that I'm looking at it though, I think I'll take the button off and put it back on with a different thread color.
Sometimes a swatch gives you alot of information.
I was experimenting modified one row button hole from Nancie M Wiseman. I couldn't believe only 2 bind off button hole can get 7/8" button through. 5 bind off button hole can get 1.25" button go through.
Little new learned things like this made me happy.
Se cambia de ropita y se pone algo mas alegante!
Tengo que confesar que es mi ojito derecho!!
Adoro a mis 2 muñecos nenes de la casa (Nano, mi precioso enyo, y Button, este precioso blytho)
i made these a couple weeks ago, inspired by this tutorial kiddley.com/2006/05/31/a-button-bouquet/ ...i reallllly love them.
Madison Adams, a freshman in special education, cuts out an image while making a button during a button making break in the Friends Room on the third floor of the Vernon R. Alden Library on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. (Tyler Stabile/Ohio University Libraries)
my button "necklace". I had some leftover chain..
I hope to find some others to put on there, eventually.
Contractor: JD Long Masonry, Inc.
Ronald Reagan National Airport Parking Garage located in Washington, DC recently added a floor to their parking garages. Glass block was used throughout the renovations of the parking garages. Glass block was used in the elevator towers and extended above the ground over 80 feet high. Glass block was also used as a banister at all the new stairwells adding beauty but protecting parking patrons. Glass block emergency pylons were built throughout the new floor housing an emergency phone and panic button.