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The theme for today in the Kerrisdale Cameras daily photo challenge is “Compact”. I struggled with this one until I saw one of my daughters CD’s (Compact Disc) sitting on the table reflecting light from a nearby window #kcphotochallenge
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I was given a box of old compact digital cameras to see if I could resuscitate any of them. This one is awaiting a battery and further testing. Kodak made a ba-jillion types of early digital cameras. They tried everything to satisfy a fickle marketplace. What they DID succeed in doing (at least for this guy) was to make wonderfully colorful cameras. We could use more of that these days. Lots more. IMHO.
The small size of the Black Hills Central's Baldwin 2-6-6-2 tank locomotives--38 foot wheelbase-- can really be seen from above--in this aerial view, #108 has topped the steep initial climb out of Hill City and is now winding between the hills on a light downgrade before the drop into Keystone.
Hickson Compact Group 61 consists of the four galaxies to the left of the center of the image:
NGC 4169 (HCG 61a, UGC 7202, PGC 38892 and others), the S0a type galaxy at 3 o’clock.
NGC 4170 (HCG 61b, UGC 7204, PGC 38897 and others), the long, low surface brightness galaxy at 12 o’clock.
NGC 4175 (HGC 61c, UGC 7211, PGC 38912 and others), the galaxy at 9 o’clock.
NGC 4174 (HGC 61d, UGC 7206, PGC 38906 and others), the galaxy at 6 o’clock.
These galaxies, collectively known as ‘The Box,’ are located in Coma Berenices. HCG 61a, c and d appear to be located approximately 175 million light-years away. HCG 61b is much closer at approximately 43 million light-years away.
Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2
360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours
Imaged over six nights in April and May, 2023 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.
CAT CB32B Compactor built in scale 1:40.
Two Non-Lego clips were used for the foldable ROPS.
More pictures in the album.
The Digilux 1, a "compact" camera of rather massive size, truth be told, came out in 2002, when digital photography still needed trainer wheels.
It is the first fruit of the cooperation between Leica and Panasonic. The same camera was also marketed under the Panasonic label as the model DMC-LC5.
The lens is a rather good DC Vario Summicron zoom with a maximum aperture, at the lowest focal length, of f/2.0. Far better than other compacts at that time. It covers the focal length range (35 mm equivalent) of 33-100 mm. This lens is good, no question about it. I also rather like the bokeh.
The sensor is a 1/1.7", (7.3 x 5.5 mm) CCD with a resolution of 3.9MP. It is unusual in using a CMYG (as opposed to RGB) filter array, which should have enhanced the overall sensor light sensitivity.
However, this sensor is the weak point of the camera.
Let's face it - the images are noisy. Colour rendition and contrast do look rather good, until you zoom in, which of course you should never do with images taken with such an old camera. When zooming in, you do see the grain and the noise, even at ISO 100. Small wonder: tiny sensor, big noise.
This is the least visible in macro shots such as the above and the most visible in landscape shots.
Compact. Sleek. Fast. The enemy wouldn't expect it. They can only grunt, "WTF?!?!"
The Wryneck Tactical Fighter a.k.a. W.T.F. is designed primarily to escort and defend battleships but on occasion used to intrude and clean out hostile environments.
Armed with twin pulse ion guns on each side and the Ferro-Inductive Non-Glitchy Electromagnetic Reciprocating Cannon underneath, the W.T.F. has ample firepower to cause considerable damage in a single swoop.
It's thrusters are pulled in closer to the hull to reduce drag as well as to increase speed. Each thruster is powered by a Hornive Milfium Reactor.
More pictures available in MOCpages and Brickshelf when moderated.
Car: BMW 316 Compact (E36/5)
Date of first registration: 6th March 1995.
Registration region: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Latest recorded mileage: 61,125 (MOT 9th November 2018).
Date taken: 19th March 2019.
Album: Street Spots
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Year of manufacture: 1999.
Date of first registration in the UK: 20th May 1999.
Place of registration: Chelmsford.
Date of last MOT: 7th April 2021.
Mileage at last MOT: 100,621.
Last change of keeper: 9th August 2020
Date taken: 3rd June 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
It started with the LC-A, that I got in a 2nd hand shop in Budapest 2 years ago, I took it to test it the next days on my way by train across Bulgaria/Romania to Istambul, and I finally figured out that P&S were the way to travel without worries. always ready, and in a simple pocket. SET
Eventually the lc-a fell and so I could try to fix the frame counter it had to get a new dress.
Also, missing some shots because of the zone focus it was not ideal, so I started looking for some cheep AF ones, and they had to be as pocketable as the lc-a, on that area the mju II is the winner.
I don't think this collection will grow much more, unless I stumble upon some expensive models or so, for very cheap (ricohs gr, minolta TC-1 etc...) I'm happy with these ones for now, let's see what comes next.
(1 week after)
I just came back from the fleamarket with some more P&S cameras, Mju I (another),
Ricoh FF70(it's a DOA after all), Fuji HD-M, Konica EU-min and a Porst 135AE
#2 UPDATE
additions : Olympus XA2, Ricoh FF-1, Leica C2-zoom, Nikon AF600, Rollei 35B
A nearby compact blue dwarf galaxy, NGC 5253 was imaged with Hubble's High Resolution Channel (HRC) on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to produce this image. A lot of hydrogen gas is present here and is most evident in the narrowband H-alpha filter which appears here in vivid reddish magenta. Numerous young, massive star clusters full of massive stars are visible as mottled, bright, blueish patches.
This is a very close look at the nucleus and star-forming region of the galaxy. Just enough detail is revealed for me to guess at what I'm looking at, and yet not quite enough for me to feel sure. One of the bright patches near the center is rounder and slightly yellower, causing me to suspect it is an old globular cluster. What is interesting to me is that some of the bluer clusters visually appear to have comparable diameters and densities. Pretty impressive. I suspect they contain fewer but brighter, more massive stars.
I am fond of these old ACS/HRC datasets because they are comparatively rare since the HRC stopped functioning in June 2006 and never came back online even after the servicing mission which repaired the rest of the ACS. The observations comprising this image were acquired five months prior in February 2006.
Glancing at the abstract for this paper, we might expect this to one day be observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Data primarily came from the following Proposal: Sizes, Shapes, and SEDs: Searching for Mass Segregation in the Super Star Clusters of Nearby Starburst Galaxies
Note: Some lower resolution ACS/WFC data from LEGUS (Proposal 10765) was used to fill in the missing data where the occulting finger was. Some older WFPC2 F656N data from Proposal 6524 was used to slightly enhance the ACS/HRC F656N data.
Red: ACS/HRC F814W + ACS/HRC F656N
Green: ACS/HRC F550M
Blue: ACS/HRC F435W + ACS/HRC F330W
North is NOT up. It is 25.4° clockwise from up.
A compact fluorescent light bulb, shot for a story explaining the benefits of CFL's over incandescent bulbs.
Creating this shot was a fairly involved process. To see how this photo was lit and shot, click here.
© 2006 David Hobby
A very basic Compact. Top spotting points if you see one of these now.
Plate comes back to a Piaggio T5 (a scooter?)
From where I sit at this moment, Orkney seems so remote. It's easy to forget that it sits just off John o' Groats and was a bit of Scotland nibbled away and submerged at the end of the Last Glacial Period. Prior to that, the lowered sea levels left Doggerland high and dry — a convenient stepping stone for humans to repopulate Britain from the rest of Europe. Yes, I've been to the very north of the archipelago, to North Ronaldsay. Today I'm away to South Ronaldsay — ironically juxtaposed at opposite ends from its northern namesake. This won't take me to Orkney's most southerly isle, Stroma, which to be honest has less water between it and Scotland that it has between itself and the rest of Orkney.
Here's a reminder of how compact these islands are. This is the northern tip of Glimps Holm looking back across Lamb Holm to Mainland. By now I've crossed two of the causeways constructed as navigation barriers in WWII. There are what appears to be military installations, there on the cliffs of Lamb Holm. In the middleground lie relics of the block ships sunk here early in WWI. I think this was the SS Numidian, an almost 5000 ton steel hulled steamer scuttled here on 30 December 1914. She was sunk in the company of SS Aorangi, SS Thames and SS Minieh with, I think, Numidian in the shallow water near this spot. I could be wrong. If you need a better answer there's a kind of trainspotters' guide to the wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Orkney is so user-friendly. It's a small place, compact, packed to the gunwales with history; so much that with sea level rise its, Plimsoll line is in peril of disappearing beneath the waves. Getting about is quick and easy; all that and it has a village named Twatt.
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Date of first registration: 17th March 1999.
Region of registration: Swansea.
Latest recorded mileage: 13,578 (MOT 28th March 2019).
Date taken: 16th August 2019.
Album: Street Spots
Not many if any places to see a pair of SD35's running now days in the US, here GLC 383 and 384 work the interchange with the Ann Arbor RR at Osmer siding just north of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nice compact packages these SD35's seen from above, if only EMD had cataloged an SD30, that would have been a pretty swell looking unit - August 23, 2024.
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Date of first registration: 20th May 1999.
Registration region: Chelmsford.
Latest recorded mileage: 126,397 (MOT 10th June 2019).
Last V5 issued: 20th June 2020.
Date taken: 8th July 2020.
Album: Carspotting
Could be a very cool Live/Work space… in Central Porto- just east of the Main Retail Shopping Street- kinda like how State Street in Chicago was during The Jane Byrne administration ( meaning mostly closed to Auto & Bus traffic)
showing the collection of treasures inside. it seems i can't resist the rhinestone rondelles whenever i find them.
This 1 3/8 inch figure is the DC Comics character The Flash as seen in the game HeroClix. The red and yellow streaks behind him are actually tissue paper.
I believe this is the first toy photo I've posted to Flickr that was lit by my camera's flash. I typically use lamps, flashlights, LEDs, etc.
This image is straight out of the camera: no tweaking, no color processing, no cropping, no nothing.
Submitted to the Flickr group 7 Days of Shooting.