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She doesn't ask for much. She's always attentive, buying gifts, cooking and taking me out. So when she asked for a Citizen, I didn't hesitate. I hope she likes it...
Chronograph reset button on a watch. For January 11, 2016 Macro Mondays theme of "buttons."
Thanks for viewing and happy Macro Monday!
LTM 1250-5.1 - The most powerful 5-axle crane on the market!
The LTM 1250-5.1 features enormous load capacities. Our designers had a clear concept to follow in the development of this crane – to get the maximum lifting capacity from the available weight of a 5-axle mobile crane! The result is that the LTM 1250-5.1 is now the most powerful crane on five axles in the world. VarioBallast® enables it to deliver maximum lifting capacities with a large ballast radius, making it perfect for use on constricted sites with a small ballast radius. And it achieves this by quickly adjusting the ballast in seconds. The crane can be fitted with a multi-functional folding jib, a long lowering fixed jib or a rigid powerful jib. Our proven VarioBase®, ECOmode and ECOdrive technologies make the LTM 1250-5.1 particularly safe and efficient.
Max. load capacity
250 t
Telescopic boom
60 m
Max. hoist height
108 m
Max. radius
96 m
Number of axles
5
An early Christmas present, set against a set of Christmas lights, for this week’s theme of bokeh.
I bet you can't tell how many seconds the shot took without looking at the exif data! ;-) LOL
Merry Christmas everyone, I hope all my fellow MM members are having a wonderful Xmas. See you all again in 2018!. HMM.
After over 10 years of reliable service, it finally stopped. It sat for 2 years until I finally took it to a jewelry store to replace the capacitor. The next day I was told they couldn't replace it and I would have to send it to the Citizen service center. They scratched the hell out of the caseback. I looked up a video on YouTube and say how simple it was. $20 on eBay for the capacitor, a full 24 hours of charging in the sunlight with the crown pulled and it was brought back to life.
Time flies when you are having fun with macro photography.
Five 30 second exposures combined in camera. EF50mm f/1.8 II with 65mm of extension tubes.
Thanks for viewing and happy macro Monday : )
Deader'n a doornail. Every watchmaker I've taken it to to get the "forever" battery replaced has said "Nope, not gonna touch it".
Neither grandma's gold tooth, nor my silver rings but my wrist-watch case's rear side.
#HMM to everyone! :-)
Pack shot with an ultra-wide angle lens is possible! For this close to lifesize shot, I used a 19mm tilt-shift lens, which I did tilt to maximize the depth of field.
Lighting was, as usual, with my habitual equipment. I don't remember the specifics.
This has been my daily watch for several years. It does everything better than any watch I have seen elsewhere, so I have no reason to change...
The real subject here is my watch. lol I have never owned a digital watch, and I plan to die without ever purchasing one. Well, that's the plan, anyway. lol Sadly, the swelling in my hands is from my RA, which has been rather troublesome of late. The watch, I am very proud of. It was a gift from a student when he graduated out of my class. (In Ontario, one graduates from grade eight to high school, and they make a big deal of it. I know, I never got it either. lol) Before you get too exercised over this gift, the family owned a jewelry store, and the mom worked in the Learning Support part of our school. She actually set it up, without me knowing about it. (I may not be fast, but, I sure am slow.) This is the third band I've had with the watch, which has no replaceable battery, but is charged by light. At my age, there's a really good chance this puppy is going to the grave with me. lol
This is a pack shot-like photo I took of my trusty Citizen watch. I like it a lot because it has this weird sensation of deepness to it... I don’t know how to explain it, but I feel it. Is it just me, or do you sense that too? ;o))
As usual, I do not remember how it was lit, so I will just throw the tags in...
My rosewood Laguiole.
As usual, I do not remember how it was lit, so I will just throw the tags in...
However, I remember it was my first test of focus stacking with Zerene Stacker, the software I used when I began trying that technique, before I switched to Helicon Focus.
aka the Chandler.
My first solar-powered watch
Not a fan of the standard khaki canvas strap, so on black leather for now.
Currently sitting under a skylight to charge fully.
Close up of a Citizen Eco-Drive Watch. It's a fancy way of saying it runs on sunlight, but still kinda nice. I like that I never have to wind it. Or set it, for that matter - a tiny radio receiver keeps it synchronized to atomic time.
Olloclip 7X
For quite a few years now, I have been the happy and satisfied owner of a Citizen quartz watch, a Promaster Eco-Drive, Satellite Wave model based on what they call the F900 caliber.
I will never cease to heap praise upon this watch. The only downside is that it is a bit big and a bit thick, albeit not outrageously so, like some watches you see today (with nothing inside the case, while this one is probably crammed to the brim).
On the plus side, it is not at all heavy because it is all titanium (much lighter than my Rolex). It is waterproof, but the weak point of waterproof watches is that they lose their waterproofing when you open them to change the battery, unless you have the guy re-do the waterproofing, for a cost that’s maybe 10 times that of the battery... Here, no need: it is solar-powered (even a good bedside lamp recharges it), so it has never been opened and it is as waterproof as on the first day.
Precision-wise, its quartz movement has a deviation of a few seconds per month (with Rolex, it’s per day!) —and that’s if you order it not to recalibrate, because if you leave it to its own devices, it resets itself very precisely, usually during the night, using time signals transmitted by GPS satellites, which means it will adjust itself all over the world, provided you have a reasonably clear view of the sky: it works even through the small window of a plane in flight (someone posted a video on Youtube about that). So, it always tells you the absolutely exact time.
It also tells the day of the week, the day of the month, the month, the year (and it knows to adjust for leap years), the hour in another time zone plus the GMT time, it has an alarm, it adjusts for daylight savings if they are in use, it has a chronograph function and even a circular slide ruler... Of course, it also tells you how much power it has in reserve, knowing that that reserve can last more than 500 days...
In summary, for me it is the best possible watch. I only wish it were a bit thinner, and of course there are times when I wear my Cartier Tank again with pleasure, but most days, the Citizen is my faithful companion. It is very sturdily built with sapphire glass, it has fallen numerous times and been hit against various hard surfaces, not a scratch, not a dent, it still runs perfectly well.
This is a super-macro shot of part of its face, taken with the Novoflex BALPRO T/S bellows at full extension (reproduction ratio is about 10:1) and a 35-mm Fotodiox Pro extension tube on the 85mm ƒ/1.8 lens.
Composite shot made up of 5 focus-stacked exposures, set manually using the Novoflex Castel XQ II focusing rail on which my BALPRO T/S bellows is mounted. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.
My Citizen watch propped up on the background of Au large, a technical and practical sailing handbook by Alain Gliksman. Published in 1967, this was the first such large book I ever bought, maybe a year or two after it came out. I was just a young boy learning to sail and dreaming about bluewater sailing and racing and it was my first sailing Bible. It was very expensive and I’d had to save quite a lot of money to afford it.
I still have it to this day.
My first attempt at super-macro watch photography, on an earlier Citizen Eco–Drive watch, now re-sold.
Micro–Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR with Kenko extension tubes.
One of the several hundreds of watch photos I used to indulge in many years ago, when watch collecting was a passion and photography was an option. Today it's the total reverse. :o)
Clockwise from top: Modified SKX007J with Ti Samurai hands, SBBN007 300m "Tuna Can", Citizen Promaster Tough 4x4" Limited Edition, SHC063P "Sawtooth".