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I normally don’t fall in love with AF zoom compacts, but I did with this little Konica Lexio 70 W! It is incredibly small and (to my eyes) a very handsome camera. I can’t call it a plastic wonder as it is made out of metal. It feels like an expensive camera, the Yashica T4 feels positively 3rd rate compared to the solid and chic Konica.
Specs wise, it manages to pack a 28-70 zoom with a very respectable aperture of 3.4 at the 28 mm setting. This is a bit Pentax Espio 928, but in a body of an Espio Mini. The large LCD is backlit in indigo blue, very nice touch. The camera has all the usual modes including a backlight compensation of 1.5 EV. There is no dedicated button to cancel flash, but there is a curious feature. If you select to cancel the flash and turn the camera off, next time you turn it on, just press the mode button once and the camera reverts to your previous setting, very cool!
This is the very first time with an AF zoom compact camera that I can’t complain about the viewfinder. For the first time I have a compact zoom camera with a big viewfinder, in fact so big that I can compose with my eye at 15/20 mm from it, remarkable. Konica has profited from this big viewfinder and incorporated not LEDs but icons at the bottom of the frame like macro, AF confirmation, flash and infinity focus. Also, the viewfinder is very bright and has a dioptric correction.
I suppose there must be a catch, but I have failed to find it just by playing with the camera. Possibly the week point of the camera is in the lens. I have to try it and confirm my suspicion, if the lens performs decently, then this Konica Lexio 70 W will be the first zoom P&S camera that I will use with pleasure.
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
Messier 45 - Seven Sisters
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
RA 3h 47m Dec +24° 07′
I obtained this image by compacting data collected during technical tests carried out last winter, exclusively with 135 and 200mm telephoto lenses.
After decades of investigations, there are still those who claim that the cirrus clouds in the Pleiades are remnants of their formation. How true will it be?
About 135 pc distant and with an estimated age of 130 ±20 Myr (Barrado y Navascués et al. 2004), M45 is certainly a young-than-average open cluster, but not as young as believed.
The higher mass members are: Alcyone, Electra, Atlas, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, Pleione and Celeno. Some of them are stars of class Be, however under 8 solar masses. It must be said, however, that some are binary and multiple systems, therefore the real masses of the individual components could be lower [A&A 425, L45-L48 (2004)]. The group mainly contains stars of class A and F, therefore between about 1 and 2.5 solar masses. Clearly there are red dwarfs and substellar objects such as numerous brown dwarfs.
Taking into account the estimated age, all stars with masses greater than 8 times the sun have already exploded as supernovae millions of years ago.
Some of the brightest stars are now in the process of evolving into red giants and some have already done so, as some massive white dwarfs have been discovered.
If we had observed the Pleiades a few million years ago, we would have seen a nice mix of white stars and red giants, as in some younger OCs.
Regardless, M45 could not have remnants of the original cloud since they usually last only a few million years before being swept away by the radiation pressure exerted by the most massive stars.
Those clouds, which many believe to be remnants of the original hydrogen cloud, are instead cirrus clouds belonging to the larger Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC-1) that the cluster is now passing through. That cluster and cloud are not correlated can be seen from their reciprocal, almost opposing motions (Steven J. Gibson and Kenneth H. Nordsieck 2003 ApJ 589 362)
The Pleiades are moving towards the constellation of Orion and will still resist another 250 million years before completely disintegrating under the effects of the tidal forces exerted by the Milky Way.
Cirrus clouds only scatter the light of nearby stars.
A rare caravan which has an elevating canvas-sided roof. These date from the early 1980s and would originally have been painted beige with white stripes.
Why cant these camera manufacturer's produce a Owners Manual that not only names the buttons, levers & dials but actually tells you what each of them does and why you would want to use them in the first place, some of us are NOT techies or Rocket Scientists.
Some compact 35mm cameras side by side.
Olympus Pen S
Olympus Trip 35
Olympus XA + A16
Olympus Mju I / 1
Olympus Mju I / 1 limited , serial number 00001xx
Olympus Mju II / 2
Olympus Mju II / 2 Zoom 80
Nikon L35AF
Nikon L35AF2
Nikon L35AF3
Yashica T
Yashica T2
Yashica T3
Yashica T4
Yashica J-Mini Super
Pentax Espio Mini / UC-1
Pentax PC35AF-M
Minolta Hi-Matic 7s II
Minolta AF-C + EF-C
Minolta Riva Mini ( same thing as Leica Mini )
Canon G-III QL17 + Canonlite D
Canon MC + MC-S
Minox 35 GT + TC 35
Ricoh FF-1 + SL 121A
Konica EU Mini Peanuts
Belomo Agat 18k
Lomo LC-A+
Vivitar 28mm fixed focus
This comapct pump was seen at truckfest on 30/7/16. Rumour has it it will be going to Mid and West Wales FRS.
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jo__lees: Where is that? Looks familiar...
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I look quite sullen here. No very good reason why :)
If I'd known I was going to play lots of guitar hero this evening I would have tried to make the top half as more like the bottom half. Pink sweater's not very rock and roll.
Curious shop on Coldharbour Road, Bristol called Bijoux Gifts. The sign shows it sells home interiors and dollshouses. Not sure if the interior goods belong in the dollshouses, Maybe some items will be used in the property to let above.
I’ve come across a few old onsite waste compactors in the past, however unfortunately I failed to consider taking pictures of them all for the purpose of documenting their existence. One classic system I did photograph recently is this stationary unit consisting of a solid blade packer coupled to a tough old ribbed 27m container, not at all resembling the new bulk handling gear out there today. According to what is indicated on the top left corner surface, but not visible in this photo, this compactor was fabricated in January 1982... I’m sure this classic refuse mechanism has always resided at this particular city shopping centre which has been around forever. It’s also a MacaPak system, produced by none other than MacDonald Johnston Engineering. Near the front of the container you will get hinted involvement of AB Equipment, from a previous search I got the impression they’re involved with dock equipment and one of their customers is Kmart. I have no idea which company serviced this bin in the past, but it was definitely a dino truck, yet I’m not even sure who does it today, although it’s a hook lift job now. Sitting adjacent to this packer and right behind me in the photo is another identical stationary blade packer, but that one is hooked up to a modern Cleanaway container and serves the Coles store.
Unable to hear the yelling of 3 people and a wookiee, Ted starts up one of the Death Star's trash compactors. He can't figure out why it stops a few minutes later.
Nikon F80
Sigma 105mm f/2.8 OS HSM
Kodak Gold 200
A series of random photos while in the house and garden under lock-down restrictions.
Some of the compacts that I love. I think these are some of the most fun you can have with a film camera.
The second generation of the Renault Kangoo models was built from 2007 until 2021. Part of the range is this Compact model. This model is often used by surveillance companies over here. It's seems to be a little too small for the owner of this one, seeing the additional box on the roof...
Compact 126 très courant en France. Le format 126 donne des vues 28 x 28 mm. Modèle fabriqué de 1970 à 1971, le boîtier porte le numéro 333112, le code datation de cet exemplaire, inscrit sous la chambre noire, est YOSC, soit 0671. "Le 333-X est équipé d'une cellule électronique qui contrôle la vitesse de l'obturateur (de 10 à 1/100 NDLR). Il est doté d'une prise pour déclencheur souple, ce qui est rare sur cette série d'appareil." (Sylvain Halgand) La cellule est au CdS, alimentée (sur mon exemplaire) par 2 piles EPX825. Objectif fixe Kodar 43 mm 1:11, fixfocus. Il y a une sécurité contre les doubles expositions. Viseur interne, fixe, à cadre collimaté. Le "X" dans le nom du modèle indique que l'appareil est équipé pour l'emploi de Magicubes, flash fonctionnant sans pile.
H x l x p : 68 x 111 x 58 mm, 215 g, sans pile. Fiche "SH".
Vide-grenier du 23 octobre 2022 Ã Cottance (Loire)