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Instructions for my custom models for the Death Star Escape & Compactor are now ready. You can buy downloads on my website
If there’s one company in Australia with heaps of dino compactors, that company will be Suez, or SITA as I wish they were still known. Maybe in the past the company had more dino work on a national scale, but the high majority is now subject to their Sydney operations, with most of their bulk bin trucks indeed dino roll-offs. I’m sure the company has a good couple hundred open top containers, compactor containers and integrated units in Sydney, a lot of which appear to be young or freshened up. However, a few years ago I came across one of their older pieces of equipment outside their Wetherill Park transfer station, just sitting on the road unattended while its transporter was somewhere else. I love seeing a compactor just sitting on the road out from a dock, especially at night in the Sydney CBD haha It’s not often you would find a compactor of this capacity being used for garbage, so I think it’s safe to say this is a dry waste container or more likely one for paper and cardboard. You can tell this one is an oldie, with very faded paint and signage, plenty of scratches and a decent amount of rust. You can see the front of the container has been punched inwards... a result of the many times this steel box has been pushed into its resting position by the bail hook and frame. I reckon the “No Parking Day Or Night” signs should feature an additional “Offending Vehicles Will Be Towed” - not hard to do with the truck!
For when I'm not able to bring along the DSLR. Those vintage good looks made hard to resist taking a shot.
Participant in the Classic Tracks Targa Rally, organised by Llandysul Motor Club.
Car: Peugeot 106 XR Quiksilver.
Year of manufacture: 2000.
Date of first registration in the UK: 4th February 2000.
Place of registration: Worcester.
Date of last MOT: 26th May 2023.
Mileage at last MOT: 94,947.
Date of last change of keeper: 22nd November 2021.
Number of previous keepers: 10.
Date taken: 28th May 2023.
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
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
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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.
a selection of the 28mm compacts that i've used (or will do) over at www.52x35mm
ricoh gr1v - www.flickr.com/photos/jeyku/sets/72157627543148779/
canon sure shot - yet to be used
olympus trip 505 - www.flickr.com/photos/jeyku/sets/72157630424434634/
olympus xa4 - www.flickr.com/photos/jeyku/sets/72157629652534117/
konica eu mini - coming soon
fuji tiara ii - www.flickr.com/photos/jeyku/sets/72157629755078959/
olympus mju iii wide - www.flickr.com/photos/jeyku/sets/72157629709245259/
nikon af600 - www.flickr.com/photos/jeyku/sets/72157630567799720/
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.