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Pile of waste compact cameras that have already been through a quick value grading. The obviously damaged cams will be made datasafe before entering a raw material reclamation stream. Functional and cosmetically sound cameras that still have a resale value will be made ready for reuse.
A really nice 3-series that looked like it had been cherished, backed up by the current low mileage (47k).
'Fawdington BMW Newcastle' window sticker look original too.
Minolta DiMAGE S304 3.3Mp digital camera from 2001. Minolta launched the DiMAGE 5 (3.3Mp), DiMAGE 7 (5.2Mp), S304 and E201 at the same time, their first major foray into the digital market. There was the DiMAGE EX interchangeable CCD sensor and lens camera in 1998, but as a concept it didn't work and no new sensors were introduced. The 5 and 7 were the first bridge cameras, the S304 and E201 more traditional 35mm compact shapes, the S304 the higher end of the two. The 'prosumer' S304 sold for approx 800 GBP new !
MInolta f3.0 GT lens, 7.15-28.6mm (35-140mm 35mm equivalent),11 elements in 9 groups. GT lenses had G-lens technology applied to minimise abberations. There was a fully manual mode, and you could add voice memos and date stamps to each photo.
Ashleigh Morris in No. 77, with Andrew Winchester in No. 87 tucked in behind, competing in the early rounds of the 2015 Scottish BMW Compact Cup at Knockhill Racing Circuit.
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Goldline AW8000
35mm compact camera with 4.5/28 lens
With its fancy collapsible mirror for selfies it looks like a cheap toy camera. Cheap for sure, but it can more like a toy camera. It hasn't a fixfocus lens but zone focus. It has no automatic flash, you have to decide on your own between the four flash modes: on, off, fill-in and night-shot. Furthermore it sports a data back.
In the manual is written, that the lens consists of 3 aspheric elements in 3 groups. Mmmh, I have my doubts, but perhaps the elements are made of plastic at all. A red-eye-reduction is also hidden: it is activated when you press the shutter button half-way for 2 sec. before your shot. The position of the zone focus lever like in the picture above is not documented, but you can observe the position of the lens. It is equal to the group position, so I assume, it is a snap shot mode.
Warranty is provided by "Keyphoto Limited", which is a brand of Concord, a company which sales low-budged cameras made in China, like "Le Clic", etc.
After one roll of film: really unique camera, also the lens.
Pictures: Into The Sun and Moe's.
Four drums, one case. This compact blue beauty features a 20" kick with one cymbal arm. 7½x12, 10x16, 16x20, 4½x14; plied maple; satin wax.
Hanging Branch - Ricoh FF-9 1:3.5 f=35mm Compact 35mm Film P&S (1988) & Fuji 400 ISO Film (expired 2005) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
My latest eBay purchase is this smart little Dodge Commando based on a Matchbox toy with scratchbuilt bodywork apparently made about 25 years ago. OEN 587X was acquired second-hand by North Riding Fire & Rescue from Bury Fire Brigade and being rather smaller than my other pumping appliances has been classified as a compact water tender for use in confined spaces.
New product thanks to the suggestion from laxdude1995.
I really like how it turned out.
What are your thoughts?
Old Snow plow truck junkyard in Richfield Springs, NY. The yard has recently been completely cleaned up. The owner was super nice and let me walk around and take pictures
www.m25audi.co.uk/audi/q3.html
Exterior side view long shot of vehicle, Paintwork/Ice Silver metallic, Paintwork/Wheel panel in contrasting paint finish, Rim/Wheel/Cast aluminium wheel in 5-arm styling, partially polished.
The Audi Q3 is now available for ordering, you can download the price and specification brochure from the M25 Audi website using the link above. Prices starting at £24,560. Enquiries welcome.
The XD was the first iteration of the project known as 'Blackwood' - the new Falcon launched in 1979. The result was a large family car, designed to look as modern and compact as possible, despite being based on the preceding XA-XC Falcon platform, itself derived from the US model of 1966.
The car had a very modern appearance for the time, very crisp edged, in the manner of Pininfarina and Italdesign designs seen in Europe on cars such as the FIAT 130 and the VW Golf.
The fuel crises during the 1970s had led to a number of studies to develop a smaller, lighter car, potentially in combination with Mazda. Indecision (a common Ford malady) led to a re-skin of the existing car, despite an observed swing to smaller cars. The Blackwood was fitted with 3.3L and 4.1L inline six-cylinder engines, along with 5.0L and 5.8L V8 engines.
The main Australian competitor, Holden, had developed a new car, derived from the GM Europe V-Var platform, debuting in 1978, including a 4-cylinder engine, had Ford sweating out the remainder of the year, with ever-reducing sales of the outgoing XC Falcon model.
Despite these headwinds, there was still a perceived customer need for a broad rear seat, an advantage that Ford made the most of in advertising materials for the new car.
Enter the 1980s, and despite a general movement to smaller cars, a reduction in fuel prices, along with fuel efficiency gains to the Falcon engine (in conjunction with Honda), let to an upswing in Falcon sales (at the expense of the Commodore, delivering Ford Australia market leadership for the first time.
The indecision that had put the company at risk had delivered the car that the market had wanted once the fuel crisis had subsided. Ford enjoyed healthy profits throughout the life of Blackwood (1979-1988), while Holden had required significant cash-injections from its GM parent to provide the funds to develop a bigger car as a more direct competitor to the Falcon (the VN Commodore) in late 1988.
Shown here is the XD Falcon wagon model (with optional driving lights), which drove on a longer wheelbase than the regular sedan model. This was popular with families, as the second row could be optioned with four seatbelt positions. Like a few models this month, a model just like this was owned by family friends at the time.
An curious little anecdote. For some reason my father (who was otherwise quite mechanically practical) when offered to drive the car at some point, and for inexplicable reason, was unable to drive the car, as he did not know how to operate the automatic transmission controls - odd that I can remember this detail from 35 years ago.
This car doesn't really need an introduction does it? It's a car synonymous with raw power and true American grit, built in a time when car development was still very much alive and audacious new strides were being made to create the most outrageous machines. New words such as Muscle Car and Pony Car were being embedded on the public conscience, and the car that has been credited for starting the ball of everything that followed rolling is this, the Ford Mustang of 1968.
The origins of the Ford Mustang and indeed the Pony Car itself are owed largely to the Ford Company itself, with the original Pony Cars of the late 1950's being the two seater Ford Thunderbird. A Pony Car, for all intents and purposes, is an affordable, compact, highly styled car with a sporty or performance orientated image, essentially a sports car that isn't a sports car in the traditional sense, but looks like a sports car.
The Mustang development began in September 1962, and was designed by assistant general manager and chief engineer, Donald N. Frey. Previously, Frey had worked on a concept car known as the Mustang I, a mid-engined sports car similar to that of the early Italian supercars. Frey was tasked with redesigning the concept into a smaller car, and was given 5 goals to fulfill; seat four, have bucket seats and a floor mounted shifter, weigh no more than 2,500lbs and be no more than 180 inches in length, sell for less than $2,500, and have multiple power, comfort, and luxury options.
The Lincoln–Mercury design studio ultimately produced the winning design in the intramural contest, under Project Design Chief Joe Oros and his team of L. David Ash, Gale Halderman, and John Foster. To decrease development costs, the Mustang used chassis, suspension, and drivetrain components derived from the Ford Falcon and Fairlane. It used a unitized platform-type frame from the 1964 Falcon, and welded box-section side rails, including welded crossmembers. Although hardtop Mustangs accounted for the highest sales, durability problems with the new frame led to the engineering of a convertible first, which ensured adequate stiffness. Overall length of the Mustang and Falcon was identical, although the Mustang's wheelbase was slightly shorter. With an overall width of 68.2 inches, it was 2.4 inches narrower, yet the wheel track was nearly identical. Shipping weight, approximately 2,570lbs with the Straight-6 engine. A fully equipped V8 model weighed approximately 3,000lbs. Although most of the mechanical parts were from the Falcon, the Mustang's body was completely different; sporting a shorter wheelbase, wider track, lower seating position and lower overall height. An industry first, the "torque box" was an innovative structural system that greatly stiffened the Mustang's construction and helped contribute to better handling.
Finally, after a record 18 months of development, the car entered sales five months before schedule in April 1964. Cars were manufactured alongside 1964 Ford Falcons and 1964 Mercury Comets, the earliest Mustangs are widely referred to as the 1964½ model, and production was divided among the Ford factories at Dearborn, San Jose, Metuchen, Valencia and Mexico City. Entry-level models were produced with a 2.8L Straight-6 engine from the Falcon, and came at a respectable $2,368 (about $16,180 in 2015, the equivalent cost of a small family hatchback!). Several developments were quickly made to the car in 1965, with engines upgraded to 3.3L 120hp units, and the previous 4.3L V8 was replaced by a new 4.7L two-barrel carburettor unit as the base V8. This was later complimented by a 225hp four-barrel carbureted V8. The Mustang GT version was introduced as the "GT Equipment Package" and included a V8 engine (most often the 225hp), grille-mounted fog lamps, rocker panel stripes, and disc brakes. In the interior the GT option added a different instrument panel that included a speedometer, fuel gauge, temp. gauge, oil pressure gauge and ammeter in five round dials (the gauges were not marked with numbers, however.)
Following its launch, the Ford Mustang caught everyone napping, with General Motors having absolutely nothing that could come close. Although a hastily reworked version of Chrysler's newly released Plymouth Barracuda attempted to fight back, the sales numbers for the Ford Mustang were just completely off the scale. The world over people lauded the car's beautifully grunty image, it's comparatively good 20mpg fuel economy at 60mph, its grand interior, even the name was praised, Mustang, a strong word for a breed of American Horse. Its style hearkened back to the lawless and raunchy Wild West era, and its name just added to that premise. So great was this car that it took even the British by storm, a country that has never had a 'Wild-West', with Ford stealing a lucrative market with their derivative European version, the legendary Ford Capri, the wet dream of so many British youths!
The most famous version of the original Ford Mustang MkI's however is almost unanimously considered to be the model of 1967/68. The 1967 model year Mustang was the first redesign of the original model. Ford's designers began drawing up a larger version even as the original was achieving sales success. The major mechanical feature was to allow the installation of a big-block V8 engine. The overall size, interior and cargo space were increased following earlier customer complaints about legroom, and exterior trim changes included concave taillights, side scoop (on the 1967 model) and chrome (on the 1968 model) side ornamentation, square rear-view mirrors, and usual yearly wheel and gas cap changes. A new 320hp 6.4L FE engine from the Ford Thunderbird, which was equipped with a four-barrel carburetor, was made available in place of the previous 289hp power unit. Top Speed of the top-range GT version was 105mph. During the mid-1968 model year, a drag racer for the street could be ordered with the optional 7.0L Cobra Jet engine which was officially rated at 335hp.
My personal favourite though, and the favourite of many other Pony Car fans, is the 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback, primarily due to its appearance in the crime thriller Bullitt. In an exciting chase across San Francisco, Lt. Frank Bullitt, played by actor Steve McQueen, drove a modified Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT fastback with a 6.4L 4V engine in pursuit of two hitmen in a black 1968 Dodge Charger, jumping over the city's many steep hills and streets, sweeping down narrow roads and dodging traffic and the ever popular SFO Cable Car! The chase has gone down in history as one of the most exciting car chases in movie history, and elevated Bullitt's Mustang to everlasting stardom.
The original lines of this particular Mustang ended essentially in 1969, when then model for that year modified the body to make it look more macho. Many Mustang enthusiasts I know choose to forget this particular generation, citing it as the beginning of the long slide down into obscurity that the Mustang went to in the 70's and 80's. Although one of these Mustang's did take part in the spectacular Las Vegas car chase in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever, the car simply had not the same style and magnificence that the 1968 model had obtained before in Bullitt. The 2nd Generation Mustang of 1974 however is where most Mustang enthusiasts believe the true spark was lost, with its big chunky panels and downgraded engine being considered a husk of the original, compounded by the 3rd Generation which was to be based off a Mazda!
But it's the original that most people remember as the car that imprinted the word 'Mustang' into the urban dictionary. A car that is simply a telling of raw power, a bandit against any form of environmental consideration, a lawless figure in a world of legislation. So iconic is this amazing machine that Ford went back to its design with the latest generation of Mustang, although a bit more bulky and angular.
Just update the calendars for 2012. I printed them out and took the picture at the local Starbucks. Original calendar page is here.
Here's a good size comparison, mainly set up as a test scene to shoot with other cameras. Top: Olympus XA, Chinon Bellami, Rollei 35S. Bottom: Petri Color 35, Olympus 35RC, Minox 35GL. 400TX BW film, with Pentax K1000 and 100mm f2.8 lens. Shot at f5.6
The Olympus cameras are the best performers. The Rollei, Chinon and Minox are contenders (except, this particular Rollei has some lens fungus). The Petri has not impressed me.
Agfa Optima Sensor compact 35mm camera. Top plate showing rewind button, depressed and turned to use the advance lever to rewind the film.
Specifications:-
Type: 35mm compact camera
Size: 104 mm x 68 mm x 54 mm (W x H x D)
Image Format: 24 x 36 mm (W x H)
Lens: Agfa Solitar, 40 mm f/2.8
Diaphragm: Automatic f/2.8 to f/22
Focusing: Manual scale pictograms on top of the focus ring/ meter/feet scale on bottom, focusing 3ft/1.09m - infinity
Shutter Speeds: 1/500 second - 15 seconds
Viewfinder: Large direct finder with parallax marks for near focus
Film Loading: Manual
Film Transport: Manual single stroke lever, also used to rewind film when the 'R' button is depressed and turned
Film Speeds: 25 ASA/15 DIN to 500 ASA/28 DIN, selected on a ring around the lens
Flash Contact: Hot shoe, aperture selected manually with flash
Cable Release Socket: On left hand side of the camera body
Tripod Socket: 1/4 in. on right hand side which doubles as camera strap attachment
Battery: 3 V625U batteries, located by opening the camera back
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Detail Fahrwerk + Lichtanlage /
LED Fahrrad Lichtanlage Radsport Dynamo, 75g! Miniatur Hochleistungs-, Felgendynamo,
Konstruktion: VELOGICAL engineering /
Kommunikation: Ogando +49 (0)177-7201107 /
Copyrights: www.velogical-engineering.com /
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