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If time is a blur
Then am I a blur also?
Where is it stable?
Decided to merge the Smile on Saturday’s theme of “Timepiece” with the Macro Monday’s theme of “Motion Blur”.
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Another theme, another watch ;) No, seriously, I struggled with finding something interesting with dots, even though for this theme dots can also be small holes or droplets. The original plan was to photograph the hour and minute separator (the colon) on one of my Casios. Although I was a little in doubt if these counted as dots because on a digital watch these "dots" are squares. But when I got really close to the display with the macro lens, I discovered dots of a different kind: the pinpoints of light of the LCD panel. My "dot-finding problems" were solved ;)
I assume that the panel used for this display is a TN-LCD (TN = Twisted Nematic) because that is what Casio uses for most of its digital watches while the better STN-LCD panels are reserved for the high-end models. TN-LCD was introduced in 1974, and it is still used even for cheaper (UHD) monitors and such. The display of this watch is a negative one which means that its legibility is not the best, especially because this is also a tone-on-tone coloured display made of a very dark, almost black-ish purple as background and a warm rose-tone for the numbers, etc. And unless there is a light source from above (daylight/sunlight works best) checking the time is a guessing game. But since I never wear this watch at home, only outside, the legibility is still good enough, and I bought that thing for its multicolor bezel anyways (please check the first comment where you can find a detail of said bezel which I'd photographed for our "Low Key" theme in September '22) ;)
Setup: The best way to photograph the watch's display was to mount the camera to my repro/copy stand and shoot straight from above. I still had to do some book stacking to get the watch as close to the lens as possible, but that was nothing compared to the days when I had to clumsily balance the table tripod on a (very unsafe) pile of books to be able to shoot straight from above. I also used the Oly's High-Res mode so I would be able to crop out a small part of the image while still retaining a good resolution and a big enough frame. My lightsource was a single photo LED lamp with natural light from the left. Processed in DXO PL6, LR, and Color Efex.
In case you wonder what the diamond-shaped symbol in the lower right corner is: it's the "alarm on" indicator, and it blinks a few times every full hour (and the watch bleeps).
HMM, Everyone!
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Please don't ask me how this photo came to be. This is, once again, a last-minute attempt, made today after I tried and tried yesterday (unsuccessfully, I might add). "Watch" is one of the "easy and therefore difficult" themes, at least for me it was very difficult. It didn't help that I was a little obsessed with reflections, because my first idea was to photograph the reflection of my Dad's watch in the rainbow-coloured mirror dial of one of my "Who cares if the watch is legible as long as it looks cool?" Casio watches. It didn't work, neither as a single image nor as in-camera stacking or focus bracketing.
Next, I tried to photograph the reflection of another Casio in the blank space on the backside of my old pocket watch (the part where, back then, the owner's initials were engraved). Without the initials, it looked like a mirror, nicely framed by an ornate pattern. So I carefully polished it, but it was too scratched and dull, so any reflection was quite muted and blurred. All I managed here was a soft reflection of the indices of an old Skagen Quartz watch, but it didn't look like much. I still tried this and that and then called it a day (or rather: a night).
Today, I decided to give it one more go, and this time, my Mom's antique pocket watch came to the rescue. The latter's back (with an engraved "K") is much shinier and highly polished. And while I still couldn't get any at least halfway clear reflections of yet another Casio's digital dial, I managed to reflect its colours on the guilloche-patterned back of my Mom's pocket watch. I had fixed the pocket watch at 90 degrees onto the black tile with modelling clay, and placed the A1000RBW right next to it. The warped "deformation" was created by the angle of the two lamps and the reflections from the Casio, but, as mentioned above in my first sentence, I really have no idea how. It just happened, and it happened to look good ;)
HMM, Everyone!
My Yema LED watch. I’ve got a lot of watches, and most of my watches are worth a lot more than this one, but this one just loves to be photographed! My very first watch was a plastic LED watch in the late 70’s, just when it was considered high tech. It didn’t last long because it wasn’t made well. But this one is wonderful quality and a lot of fun.
This watch belonged to my dad. If anyone knows any more about these I would be delighted to hear from them.
Jamie Wyeth's incredibly realistic 1990 painting of model Orca Bates sitting in front of a whale jaw. Photographed at the Crystal Bridges Gallery in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Peco Plaubel / Industar 51 / Agfa Multicontrast MCP 310 RC paper negative
This is the first paper negative I shoot in more than two years, and it will always amaze me how delicately the Industar 51 performs. This macro was shot at f16, which I believe to be the sweet spot of the lens, and i absolutely love how every focus area has been rendered.
The watch by the way, is a trinket that I bought at a Japanese 100 yen store, and I think this is as good as you can get for 75 cents of a dollar. I bought it not because I had any expectations on it being too functional, but because I fell in love with the (grammatically wrong) warning imprinted below the screen that it is 'no water resistant'. I couldn't pass on the opportunity to own a Casio knockoff with such brutally honest piece of advice on it, so there they went my 100 yen (108 tax included).
Sony a850
Asahi Pentax
Super-Takumar 50/1.4
shoe-mounted flash ( diffused/reflected), f/4 @ 1/40th sec, ISO 200
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Timex Iron Man Triathalon wristwatch.
I read the book some time around 7th garde, late 1980s, when this watch was new.
I haven't worn a wristwatch in 20+ years. A fresh battery got her runnin' just fine.
Just like me, Timex "Takes a lickin', keeps on tickin' "
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“Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
Originally put together as a contest entry, this image represents the progress of timekeeping all the way from the early sundial right through to the latest innovation - the world clock on a 21st century cell phone. Mist, clouds and water further add to the mystery surrounding this abstract image.
I was conscripted into the South African Defense Force (SADF) in July 1979 and was sent into operational service on the Namibia-Angola border at the beginning of April 1980. On March 11, 1980 I was back home on my final "weekend pass" before heading north when I bought this Casio 83F-80 from "New World Pharmacy" on Pretorius Street, Pretoria.
According to my diary It cost me a whopping ZAR 45.00 - US$4.50 / £3.00 at today's exchange rate, but a month's salary for me back then. I bought it for a number of reasons:
• It was lightweight plastic. As a reluctant infantryman I already had too much crap to carry!
• It was black and largely matt black. Fewer reflective surfaces to draw attention on patrol.
• It was digital and accurate, and required no winding.
• It had a light - essential when handing over guard duty in the pitch black Namibian night.
• It had an hourly signal to keep track of time & an alarm to help wake up at ungodly hours.
• Apparently it was vaguely water resistant.
• The battery seemed to last forever!
This wristwatch went into combat, and to hell and back with me. It saw four tours of duty (including one "camp" after my national service) and was on "The Border" (operational area) for probably 15 months or so. It survived Ondangwa (Ovamboland and Operation Smokeshell), Ruacana, Mpacha, Bagani, Mohembo Hek and the Caprivi Strip It, and even spent some time in the cell at Katima Mulilo...but that's another story! It also survived two major car accidents - I rolled a car on August 28, 1980 and was a passenger in a second rolled car two days later (August 30, 1980). Crazy times...
I had not seen the watch for over 20 years when I found it in a box at my mother's place in 2007. The original strap had perished and crumbled, but I though it worthwhile to shoot pictures of it in that condition. I cleaned the watch, fitted a new battery and she fired up just fine. I couldn't find the right strap anywhere, and so settled for a rubber replacement with round apertures, which served me well until I recently acquired a Casio strap very similar to the original.
This watch is neither expensive nor sophisticated, but it is an important one in my life and a proud representative of its era.
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Reverse side of the 1984 Reinforcements from Cybertron order form/insert. Showcasing the Omnibots, Powerdasher and Time Warrior watch.