View allAll Photos Tagged Digitization
From back of photo: "Paulsboro. Feb. 1950. Dolly & Florence DeHart."
Florence L. DeHart Burns, 1934-
Ernestine (Dolly) DeHart Renaud, 1935-2024
This the test film of my "Spiegel Reflex Contax" Pentacon D returned from the repair service, Lyon, France, June 2024.
The camera blocked severely during my initial mechanical tests in December 2023. My preferred local repair shop successfully repaired the camera and recalibrated the shutter, at this Pentacon D was fortunately salvaged from a poor condition.
For the test film, I equipped the camera with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar normal lens 1:2.8 f=50mm holding a Hoya yellow filter x2 40.5mm screwed plus a FOCA (France) aluminum shade hood. The camera was loaded with a 36-exposure film Fomapan 200. Expositions were determined using a Minolta Autometer III Minolta light meter for 100 ISO to compensate the absorption of the yellow filter. The film was exposed over two session on June 23 and 25, 2024. The outdoor views were done at 1/100s or 1/200s typically at f/11. Indoor, I used the 1/50s or the 1/20s from the full aperture f/2.8 to about f/4.
L'Antiquaille, June 23, 2024
69005 Lyon
France
After completion, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal developper at dilution 1+50 at 20°C for 10min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
During the two sessions I did not notice any observable problems. However the results show that the second curtains started to malfunction after the seven first frames of the first and land the second frames of the second session. The curtains stopped before complete closure leading to an overexposed band. The camera now returned to the repair shop for evaluation. If too complicated, I will keep it a spare parts source for my other Spiegel Contax that correctly working.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg. For this second film, no problems were noticed from the views with the shutter operation. I reinforced the light seals near the back locker where a suspicious small possible leak was noticed on the first test film. The leak is now highly reduced or absent now.
---------------
About the camera and the lens :
The VEB Pentacon Dresden company was the name chosen in the 50's for the suite of Zeiss Ikon Dresden after the WWII in the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR).
I just got this body of Pentacon camera that was the export version of the Contax D manufactured in Dresden between March 1953 to August 1956. Both Zeiss Ikon and Contax brands were contested to the Zeiss branch on the other side of the west-east internal German border.
To avoid legal problems for exportation, Zeiss Ikon Dresden deposited two new possible trade marks resulting from the contraction of the words "Pentaprism" + "Contax" giving "Pentacon" and "Pentax". The name of Pentax was sold to Asahi Opticals in 1956 and the SLR Contax continued its distribution either under the name "Contax" for the internal East market, and "Pentacon" for export.
A new logo symbolizing the Ernemann tower of the Dresden Zeiss Ikon factory. For a time the "ZI" initials were included in the logo before disappearing later.
My camera came without lens but with its original user manual of Pentacon U.S.A., a splendid ever-ready bag made of a strong leather with a carmin velvet inside, and the original box. I present the camera here fitted with the normal lens of my Praktica VLC3 from the 80's that was constructed 20 years later.
Contax D followed the initial SLR 35mm Contax S presented in 1946. Other versions (E, F, EF) were on the market until the early 60's.
The M42 lens, branded "Carl Zeiss Jena", is a mid 50's Tessar 1:2.8 f=50mm, is in perfect mechanical and optical conditions. The lens could fit 42mm push-on or 40.5mm screw-on filters and shade hoods.
Helping to prepare a catalog for an upcoming exhibition of works by and about Wyndham Lewis. We are working with an odd collection of artifacts -- largely prints and reproductions -- that belong to a Lewis scholar.
We had to photograph a number of large prints, posters and framed works so we took over a meeting room for the day in order to control the overhead lights and reduce glare.
This vivid picture of an active star forming region — NGC 2467, otherwise known as the Skull and Crossbones nebula — is as sinister as it is beautiful. This image of dust, gas and bright young stars, gravitationally bound into the form of a grinning skull, was captured with the FORS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Whilst ESO’s telescopes are usually used for the collection of science data, their immense resolving power makes them ideal for capturing images such as this — which are beautiful for their own sake. The image is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2), and shows the region surrounding NGC 2467. The field of view is approximately 2.4 x 2.0 degrees.
This is the test film of my French FOCA lens OPLAR 1:3.5 f=9cm for the FOCA camera's "PF" ≈ (French : "Petit Format", PF1, PF2, and PF3) with he 36mm screw mount. The test was done in Lyon, France, along the Saône river banks and the district of Ainay, on December 11, 2023 by a quite humid and cloudy weather with about 13°C.
For the test, I mounted the lens to one of my FOCA PF2B range-finder camera bodies (the "PHOTO-BANGARD" one, see below for details). The lens was equipped with a FOCA AUV 42mm push-on filter plus generic cylindrical shade hood. The camera was loaded with a film Rollei Retro 400S (former aerial Agfa Aviphot 400) a super-panchromatic black-and-white film sensitized to 760nm in the near infra-red. The emulsion is coated on a clear PET film leading usually to high-contrast negative views. The film is quite adapted to low-light or misty weather. Exposures were determined using an Minolta Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The views were done at 1/200s or 1/100s from the full aperture 1:3.5 to 5.6.
Voûte d'Ainay, December 11, 2023
69002 Lyon
France
After completion, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal developper at dilution 1+25at 20°C for 10min30 The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg
--------------------
About the camera :
According to the serial number this FOCA PF2B should be a model-4 from year 1955 (model-4 spans the years1954-1957). The shutter is a type-3 that equipped the version 16 to 17 in 1956. Curiously, the camera has also the type-6 rewind large button only appeared in 1957 on the model-5 of PF2B's. Maybe a latter upgrade required by the customer or prosed by the after-market service.
The camera was kept in its original box with the serial number hand written on the right side of the box. on the inner side of the camera back a sticker indicates the original seller : "PHOTO BANGARD", 29, Quai du Fossé, Mulhouse, France,
The Foca type PF2B (PF for "Petit Format") was constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) starting from 1947. It was manufactured in the Chateaudun OPL factory, route de Jallans, France. The factory, constructed in 1938, is still at the same place under the name of SAFRAN now producing precision devices for aerospace appliances.
The camera was originally equipped with the collapsible 36mm screw-mount OPLAR lens (a modified Tessar formula with an additional fifth rear element) 1:2.8 f=5cm. The focal shutter of the PF2B has timing of 1/1000, 1/500, 1/200, 1/100, 1/50 and 1/25s plus the B pose. A slow exposure device below 1/25s could be installed by the aftermarket service and was installed basically for the FOCA PF3 type.
---------------
About the OPLAR 1:3.5 f= 9cm long-focal lens :
This long-focal lens is practically pristine either mechanically and optically. The French company O.P.L. ("Optique & Precision de Levallois") designed this lens for its FOCA camera's that first appeared in 1949 (version-1), and manufactured the lens in its factory of Châteaudun, Eure, France.
The serial number identifies a late model-5 version-6 (#115.000 ± 116.100) produced from 1959 to 1962 at the end of the 36mm-mount FOCA camera's. The optical formula improved from version-5 with 3 elements in 3 groups instead of 4 elements previously.
89819985 :Piction ID--Rohr Stockholders Meeting 11/06/1974---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a generous grant from the NHPRC: NHPRC and the San Diego Air and Space Museum
From back of photo: "June 1958. Barbara's party. Jim's home. Aunt Mildred, Ted W., Emma DeHart, 1958, Kitty, Lydia, Jim, Florence Gleeson, Linda, Barbara."
Mildred Allen Moore, 1902-1954
Theodore (Ted) B. Warrington, 1898-1990
Emma Campbell Gleeson DeHart, 1904-1995
Mary Kathryn (Kitty) Pryor Gleeson, 1927-2015
Lydia Gleeson Warrington, 1899-1988
James H. Gleeson, 1912-1986
Florence (Ted) Budd Gleeson, 1901-1980
?
Linda K. Gleeson Abel, 1948-
Barbara Gleeson, 1951-
Edited Digitized Sky Survey 2 image by way of the European Southern Observatory of the sky around Alpha Centauri. Grayscale variant.
Original caption: This image of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri AB also shows the much fainter red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The picture was created from pictures forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The blue halo around Alpha Centauri AB is an artifact of the photographic process, the star is really pale yellow in colour like the Sun. Proxima Centauri appears as a faint red star towards the lower-right of the picture, a labelled version is available here.
Condition: New Size: 6.0″ Type: Touch Digitizer
We sell brand new touch screen for Amazon Fire 6 HD tablet. It is high quality replacement digitizer. It comes with 1 year warranty and price is very competitive.
Check out embroidery digitizing samples of the work done by our experienced embroidery digitizers for customers worldwide.
For Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920/G920A/G920P/G920R4/G920T/G920F/G920V LCD Screen and Digitizer Assembly Replacement - Gold - See more at: www.rootmi.com/for-samsung-galaxy-s6-sm-g920-g920a-g920p-...
This was by far the most painstaking step of the repair. Removing the shattered digitizer from the frame that it's mounted on.
From back of photo: "4 months. Dec. 25, 1957. Brian's first Christmas."
Ernestine (Dolly) DeHart Renaud, 1935-2024
Brian Renaud, 1957-
After several months, my local repair shop gave up to repair my first exemplary of Leningrad camera. I got that GOMZ Leningrad for less than the price of the lens (50€) a year ago (February 24, 2024, flic.kr/s/aHBqjBftyP) at the monthly collector meeting in Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure, near Lyon, France. I looked then again for a working one.
Leningrad’s are fascinating Russian range-finder 35mm camera’s produced in Leningrad (USSR) / Saint-Petersburg, from 1956 to 1968 at about 76.000 units. It is not really a rare camera but appears only from time-to-time in the classical collector’s networks.
The Leningrad camera project was developed by GOMZ company (ГОМЗ, Государственный оптико-механический завод, Ленинград = Gosularstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod =State Optical-Mechanical Factory), Leningrad, USSR. The Leningrad ’s were constructed to a very high degree of precision and likely the most advanced rangefinder ever made at that time in Russia. At the 1958 World Exposition in Brussels, the Leningrad was awarded the "Grand Prix de Bruxelles”. Modified Leningrads were also used in the Soviet space program. In addition to a complex parallax-compensated multi-focal (for 3.5, 5, 8.5 and 13.5cm) collimated system, the camera has a built-in spring-powered mechanical motor for an automated film advance after each view taken. The Leningrad monts the 39mm Leica-type thread lenses, especially of the Jupiter series of lens derived of classical Carl Zeiss lenses designed for the Contax (Biogon 3.5cm and Sonnar’s 5, 8.5 and 13.5cm).
In 1965, GOMZ became LOMO ( ЛОМО, Ленинградское oптико-механическое oбъединение (Leningradskoïe Optiko-Mekhanitcheskoïe Obiedinienie) that is still existing, producing instrumental optical devices (www.lomo.ru).
On eBay, I focused on a LOMO Leningrad year 1965 in working condition but without the original film plate. I got the camera for 130€ including the leather bag and a standard lens Jupiter-8 1:2 f=5cm. The seller adapted cleanly a different film plate that looked to work, but my idea was to use the camera back of my faulty Leningrad. This film plate may a precision glass plate special designed for optimum film transport and optical planarity. I received my new Leningrad on January 31, 2025 in good condition.
After a very careful inspection and a detailled cleaning, I decided to make a test film using a FOMAPAN 200 black-and-white film. On the Leningrad it is said that there is absolutely no way to check the correct film advance during the shooting session. The rewind should not be up since the mechanical forces induced would be too high for the spring-powered spooling barrel. The film should be also in a quality not too tight film cartridge and should be checked before use. This stressful machine should be manipulated with maximum care when not familiar with it.
For all the frames, the Jupiter lens was fitted with a Hoya HMC anti-UV filter (40.5mm). The light metering was done for 160 ISO using my external light meter Minolta Autometer III with the 10° viewer for selective metering privileging the shadows areas or the integrating opale dome for incident light metering. The weather was a bit cold (4°C) covered leading to very flat and low-contrast scene outdoor.
February 3, 2025
Parc de la Tête d’Or
69006 Lyon
France
By safety (I don’t what’s happening when the end-of-film blocks the advance), I stopped the session at the frame 35. What is more, for each new views, the Leningrad barrel spool does a fixed half turn. This induces a growing interspace gap as the film advances. Finally, the film was rewound normally and processed using 350 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 5min30 at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.1.1) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
For Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920/G920A/G920P/G920R4/G920T/G920F/G920V LCD Screen and Digitizer Assembly Replacement - Gold - See more at: www.rootmi.com/for-samsung-galaxy-s6-sm-g920-g920a-g920p-...