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Or intentional camera movement with a compact camera!
The camera club at work has set the challenge of Drag Blurs and Radial Zooms, and while the latter needs a CSC or SLR with zoom lens, the thought was that those with compact cameras could achieve the former, so I set out to prove it!
The Basra Compact, a flagship partnership to revive the economy in southern Iraq
Basra, 05 May 2015 – The authorities of Basra and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today signed a flagship agreement, the Basra Compact, aiming at strengthening participatory and accountable governance and reviving the economic activity in the southern governorate, which is not just oil-rich but needs to invest in its human capacity and private sector development. Protecting the cultural and ecological heritage of the Mesopotamian Marshlands is also a priority.
Despite being the richest governorate and hosting the main port in Iraq, Umm Qasr—the only shipping hub in the country—Basra is one of the most affected by poverty and chronic unemployment with 16.1% of the population living below the poverty line of US$ 2.5 per day and facing staggering challenges in terms of access to services.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Basra authorities outlines future cooperation in the areas of decentralization, financial management and budget execution, environment protection, private sector development including micro, small and medium enterprises, and supporting the governorate’s 5-year strategic planning.
“Working with local partners is a fundamental element of national ownership,” the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and UNDP Resident Representative, Lise Grande, said. “This translates into UNDP’s support for the local network of the Global Compact promoting responsible business practices in the areas of gender, human rights, labour standards, environment, service delivery and anti-corruption,” she explained.
UNDP has nearly 40 years of experience in Iraq leading the UN’s development work, providing knowledge and practical expertise. In its long-term engagement with the government and the people of Iraq, UNDP focuses on inclusive participation, accountability, access to justice, women’s empowerment, security sector reform, decentralization and private sector development. In particular, UNDP supports the government’s 4-year development plans (2014-2017).
Photos by UNAMI PIO.
Another awsome Sport Compact event at WSID.Loads of cars made the trek from all over Aus to compete.Almost capacity entries on the track & a great selection of hot cars on show.
The presentation standard of Sport Compact drag cars has really amazed me so far this year, with a lot of the top runner track cars looking like prestine show cars with candy pearl paint jobs,tastefull air brushing and graffix and tuff drag spec rims all round. these guys have definatly stepped it up a notch!
Took a whole lot of photo's throughout the day, but unfortunatly forgot my memory backup so was limited to 4G worth of space...Ahhhrr.
Anyway, enjoy and please let me know what you think.
Jason
TAAT Cassava Compact: Technology transfer; Vitamin A Pro Cassava stem distribution in Togo with IITA-HarvestPlus Scientist, Cassava Breeder, Elizabeth Parkes and team in Togo. Also with Ataji Opaluwah. Farmers get Vitamin A cassava stems. Photo by IITA
The Basra Compact, a flagship partnership to revive the economy in southern Iraq
Basra, 05 May 2015 – The authorities of Basra and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today signed a flagship agreement, the Basra Compact, aiming at strengthening participatory and accountable governance and reviving the economic activity in the southern governorate, which is not just oil-rich but needs to invest in its human capacity and private sector development. Protecting the cultural and ecological heritage of the Mesopotamian Marshlands is also a priority.
Despite being the richest governorate and hosting the main port in Iraq, Umm Qasr—the only shipping hub in the country—Basra is one of the most affected by poverty and chronic unemployment with 16.1% of the population living below the poverty line of US$ 2.5 per day and facing staggering challenges in terms of access to services.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Basra authorities outlines future cooperation in the areas of decentralization, financial management and budget execution, environment protection, private sector development including micro, small and medium enterprises, and supporting the governorate’s 5-year strategic planning.
“Working with local partners is a fundamental element of national ownership,” the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and UNDP Resident Representative, Lise Grande, said. “This translates into UNDP’s support for the local network of the Global Compact promoting responsible business practices in the areas of gender, human rights, labour standards, environment, service delivery and anti-corruption,” she explained.
UNDP has nearly 40 years of experience in Iraq leading the UN’s development work, providing knowledge and practical expertise. In its long-term engagement with the government and the people of Iraq, UNDP focuses on inclusive participation, accountability, access to justice, women’s empowerment, security sector reform, decentralization and private sector development. In particular, UNDP supports the government’s 4-year development plans (2014-2017).
Photos by UNAMI PIO.
Romeo in the back window of the car, his favorite place, leaving Lake Wateree Memorial Day weekend 5/27/07 6 1/2 months old
Use vignetting in a photograph today. Either add it in post (easier) or do it in camera via lens or lighting (harder). #ds381 www.dailyshoot.com - Created by shooting through the hole of a compact disc. :)
Elevator Compactor, Diecemberfest 2012
©Sondra MacLeod. Photos are not to be used without permission.
Two ever-ready leather bags for my Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa and my KW Praktina's camera's arrived recently.
The bag for the Exakta is a special bag with a large nose that can accomodate the Carl Zeiss Biotar lens 1:1.5 f=75mm. It is made of 3 detachable parts. The interior is covered with a blue velvet.
I found also a lot of two waist-level finders, a model version 2 (years 1950's) with a big optical bloc giving a splendid magnification and a later version 5 with a modern focusing screen incorporating a Fresnel lens and a central micro prism zone (year 1960's). Both have their Exakta leather cases in good condition that could also fits the pentaprism finder.
The KW Praktina leather bag is more classical in two pieces with detachable shell.
About the Exakta Varex IIa and the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar lens :
The camera arrived from Berlin, Zehlendorf to Lyon, France, on February 7, 2024, It indeed a "wunderbar" Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, year 1957, with its normal lens Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 1:2 f=58mm "Q1" (First Quality).
The camera was offered by the vendor to his father who was a former development engineer at Ihagee company, Dresden, Germany. During all his career he could even not imagine in DDR to buy such wonderful and expensive camera almost all exported abroad. He carefully restored and maintained the camera to he factory standards.
The Exakta Varex was, for a time in the fifties, before the Nikon F, a trusted system 35m SLR camera that was successfully used in professional, technical and scientific appliances. The Varex followed the Kine Exakta started before WWII in the 30's. The Varex IIa (1956-1959) is tough to be the series of best quality. Exakta stopped the production in 1970 with the ultimate VX1000 but several further camera's were after sold out under the name of Exakta as the Exakta RTL1000 for instance.
About the KW Praktina camera :
This specimen is the version 2 (code 110) produced at about 25.000 exemplars from June 1958 to Mai 1960. Praktina camera's were very high grade precision and quality machines much more sophisticated than the Praktica and the Praktiflex also produced by KW. Praktina was a "system" SLR 35 mm camera with a an impressive range of possible accessories and lenses including large capacity 17m film back and several motors.
My camera came with the mechanical 12-view motor and two Carl Zeiss normal lenses : a Tessar 1:2.8 f=50mm and a Flexon 1:2 f=50mm. This later Flexon lens was designed for the Praktina by Carl Zeiss Jena to modernize the old Biotar 1:2 f=58mm and to fulfill a more closer definition of a "normal lens" to the focal of 50mm. The lens is also much more compact. It was soon renamed "Pancolar" by Zeiss later on.
The Praktina has its own bayonet mount that ressemble a bit to the Canon FD mount with a locking ring on the camera body. The mount has a very large diameter. The IIa model has a new fully automatic diaphragm stop down system. With the Zeiss Flexon, the iris preset is indeed like with a modern camera.
Praktina is a completely different camera compared to the Praktica IV. The body is very well equilibrated and more compact not very far for the Olympus OM-1. The design looks particularly modern and the camera is particularly pleasant to manipulate.
The productiotn suddenlty stopped in May 1960 after the governmental decision to drop down the imposed prices of all camera's DDR by 30%! Praktina was then likely too expensive to be produced normally. As consequence, the less expensive and less performant Praktica's continued when KW became part of the VEB Pentacon.
April 13, 2024
69004 Lyon
France