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We're not big TV watchers, my wife and I. We had no idea that there was going to be a big Hollywood-style Beatles tribute on the tube-----we just stumbled upon this by accident. But what a smile-inducing accident.
It's remarkable, to say the least, that a group which broke up more than 40 years ago still commands this kind of attention, admiration and affection. Only two of the Beatles are left, but they're amazing performers.
Paul McCartney actually has MORE hair in 2014 than he did in 1964 (even if it's dyed). He showed he can still rock with the best of them and hit those high notes, albeit with more difficulty. And Ringo! Back in '64, he just sat at his drum kit and drummed. In 2014, he was up and moving around, dancing and prancing about like he was 23 instead of 73 (you read that right, seventy-three) years old! Despite his very limited abilities as a singer, the guy is just a natural entertainer.
This was some show, folks.
See this car in the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8R8OyG1DE
You don't have to go too far back into history to find this controversial machine, spawned from a great idea, but resulted in the destruction of the car industry in Northern Ireland and the near imprisonment of the company's founder John DeLorean.
John DeLorean (1925 - 2005) was a very talented car designer at the General Motors Corporation, designing many classics such as the Pontiac GTO and the Chevy Vega.Unsatisfied with his maverick way of business he was eventually let go from GMC in 1973, despite being the Vice-President.
But this was not the end of his story as he chose instead to create an ethical utopian sports car that wasn't built with the planned obsolescence that the big Detroit businesses were building their cars. With that, he formed the DeLorean Motor Company, affectionately dubbed DMC.
Originally his plan was to open a factory in Puerto Rico, but eventually settled in Northern Ireland after £100 million was offered by the Northern Ireland Development Agency, who also made a deal that it would be funded by the British Government at a rate of which every £100 paid into the company by the taxpayer, DeLorean only had to repay £1. In 16 months a 660,000 ft² factory had been built in the Dunmurry suburb of Belfast.
At the same time he began to design the company's first (and what would turn out to be only) product the DMC-12. Designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the car was meant to look like a machine that was not of this world, or had accidentally be sent back in time by some fuddy duddy in the future (I'll get round to that later). With Gullwing doors, a stainless steel body and top of the range safety features including airbags and a crash-resistant plastic understructure.
However, beneath the futuristic body the car was very primitive. DeLorean had signed a deal with Lotus to help him develop the car, but this would ultimately result in the car being more a Lotus Esprit with a different body.
The promised rigidity of the car during crashes using ERM (Elastic Reservoir Moulding) was replaced by a conventional chassis and resin. Eventually even Airbags weren't included in the final model.
In a panic to get the cars into production in 2 years rather than the recommended 5, hastily put together durability tests were carried out by driving the cars round and round a racetrack constantly until bits fell off.
The built quality too was very much shambolic to say the least. The iconic Gullwing doors were given struts that were too weak and therefore never worked properly, resulting in them not fully opening.
The engine was not sterling and new, but instead was an age old 2.6L Renault V6 from a Renault 30, producing only a measly 130bhp resulting in the car being heavily underpowered.
The suspension had to be modified with springs, the driving experience was claustrophobic and dark, the alternator was too weak for the electronics and thus went flat in no time, often with the result of locking the occupants inside due to the electric central locking system, the stainless steel body was easily stained even by fingerprints, it had panel gaps that you could drive a bus through, the car handled like soap and was supposed to cost $12,000 but ended up entering sales at £26,000, which made it impossible to compete with similar Porsche's and Merc's of that price range which were also much, much better.
But either way the car went on sale in 1981 to a huge fan-fare, with the car outselling Porsche and having deposits backing up at showrooms across America.
However, the honeymoon soon wore off and by 1982 only 4,500 of the proposed 10,000 cars per year were sold. In fact eventually only 8,000 cars would be built, meaning DeLorean had failed to reach this target on both accounts.
But DeLorean continued to be ambitious and floated the company on the stock market, upping production at the factory to make things look busy and putting raw recruits straight onto the shop floor. The result was that Belfast's workforce were churning out thousands of cars no one wanted and thus were losing a fortune.
Eventually he turned to the British Government for some extra money, but the new government under Mrs. Thatcher was no longer willing to give subsidies following their confrontations with British Leyland.
The end came when DeLorean was arrested by the FBI for brokering Cocaine deals to help fund the company. Although acquitted on the grounds of entrapment, the company went bust in 1983 and the 2,600 Belfast workers, who despite working to the very end to keep on making cars, were turned away, with the remaining cars and equipment being auctioned off for what little money they could salvage.
Of the £800 million put into the company by the American and British governments, the resulting accounting recalculations found that only about £100,000 of that could be reclaimed, with another $17 million disappearing without trace.
But the DMC-12 went on to find a celebrity future as its space-age looks made it the perfect Time-Machine for the fantastic Back to the Future trilogy. This one here has been set up as such, and yes, it even has a Flux Capacitor!
But that is very much the thing that made the DMC-12 win in the end, the fact that even today seeing one parked on the street, people cannot help but stop and stare in fascination. Although not everyone knows about the trouble that surrounded this car's short construction life, it is what most people recognize it by, a pure mixture of style and scandal, a car with a criminal past...
My humble collection of canon RF lenses and cameras. Definitely not the most expensive collection but the best in terms of price vs quality.
today in scince someone hacked the computer and sent a FAKE porn email to just about every teacher it was haliourous.
LG전자가 첫 커브드 스마트폰 ‘LG G 플렉스(Flex)’의 주요 사양과 디자인을 공개했다.
- LG G 플렉스(Flex)
※ Social LG전자 (social.lge.co.kr/newsroom) 에서 관련 보도자료를 확인하실 수 있습니다.
A small project I did, using a Playstation 2 controller and Arduino to control the speed and direction of a bipolar stepper motor.
More information and source code: www.lungstruck.com/projects/ps2-motor-controller/
Macro of a circuit I recently built that has much the same functionality of The Great Yellow Box. Except that future generations of archeologists might have a prayer figuring out what it was designed to do.
In spite of being very tall, these speakers have room in spades.They have nice electronics to go :-))
my veteran camera, I used it for 14 years
Manufactured by Nikon Corporation, Japan
Model: c.1990, (produced between 1988-1991)
35mm film SLR camera, Integral-motor autofocus, and fully electronic / manual use
BODY
Lens release: button on the left side of the lens mount
Focus modes: Autofocus and Manual with electronic rangefinder by the ring and scale window on the lens
Autofocus modes: Single servo AF with focus priority and continous servo AF with release priority, selector on the left of the lens mount
AF detection system: TTL phase detection system - Nikon Advanced AM200 module
AF detection range: EV minus 1 to EV 19 at ISO 100.
AF lock: Possible in single servo AF mode once a stationary subject is in focus as long as the shutter button is depressed; in continuous servo AF, button on the right lower side of the lens mount
Electronic rangefinder: Available in manual focus mode with an AF Nikkor and other
AI-type Nikkor lenses with a maximum aperture of f/5.6 or faster
Depth of Field preview button: on the right side of the lens mount
Shutter: Electromagnetically controlled vertical-travel focal-plane metal shutter,
speeds: 30 - 1/8000 +B, speed setting: automatic or manual by the dial on the top plate
Shutter release: By motor trigger, automatic motor drive winding and cocking, knob on the hand-grip (battery chamber) of the camera
Frame counter: Additive type, counts back while film is rewinding, auto-resets
LCD panel information: Shutter speed, aperture, exposure mode, metering system, film speed, DX mark, electronic analogue display, exposure compensation mark, frame counter/self timer/multiple exposure, exposure compensation value, film advance mode, film loading, film rewind, self timer, panel on the right of the top plate
Command input control dial: a thumb wheel, on the right of the top plate
Viewfinder/LCD panel illumination: by pressing button on the back side of the top plate
Viewfinder: Fixed eyelevel SLR pentaprism, high-eyepoint type, w/ Eyepiece hood
Focusing Screen: Fixed Nikon advanced B-type Bright-View screen,
interchangeable with E-type screen
Viewfinder information: Focus indications, exposure mode, shutter speed/ISO, aperture/exposure compensation, electronic analogue display, exposure compensation mark and flash-ready are all shown in LCD readout,
also shows flash recommended/ready light LEDs
Exposure meter: Matrix metering, centre-weighted metering (75/25) and spot metering, selection button on the left of the top plate,
Activates by lightly pressing the shutter release button, stays on for approx. 8 sec. after finger leaves button
Film speed range: 6-6400 ASA, setting: DX code or by manual override, setting by the LCD display and the mode knob on the multi-settings dial on the left of the top plate
Metering range: EV 0 to 21
Exposure modes: Fully Programmed auto-multi, shutter priority auto, aperture priority auto and manual, setting by the LCD display and the mode knob on the multi-settings dial on the left of the top plate
Programmed auto exposure control: Both shutter speed and aperture are set
automatically, 1 EV increments of aperture is possible
Activated by lightly pressing the shutter release button, stays on for approx. 8 sec after finger leaves button
Exposure compensation: within +/- 5 EV range in 1/3 EV steps, button on the front of the LCD display
Auto exposure lock: By sliding the AE-L lever on the back side of the top plate, while the meter is on
Multiple exposure button: the knob on the multi-settings dial on the left of the top plate coupled with rewind release button, up to 9 exposures can be set
Film loading: Film automatically advances to first frame when shutter release button is depressed once
Film advance: In single-frame shooting mode, film automatically advances one frame when shutter is released; in continuous high or continuous low shooting modes, shots are taken as long as shutter release button is depressed; high speed 3.3 fps; low 2.0 fps., setting by the LCD display and the mode knob on the multi-settings dial on the left of the top plate
Film rewind: By simultaneously pressing buttons with red rewind markings in front of the LCD display and the knob on the multi-settings dial on the left of the top plate,
rewind stops auotomatically when film is rewound
Hot-shoe, Flash synch. X, 1/60 to 1/250
Self-timer: Electronically controlled; timer duration selectable from 2 to 30 seconds in one second increments, blinking red LED on the front of the hand grip, indicates self-timer operation, cancellable, button on the left of the top plate
Remote control terminal: on the left-front side of the camera, w/ a lid
Back cover: Hinged, interchangeable with Nikon Multi-Control Back MF-21 or World Time Data Back MF-20, w/ film cartridge confirmation window
Tripod socket: 1/4''
Strap lugs
Body: Weight: 695g, wo/ lens
Battery: 4 AA alkaline batteries, battery chamber opens by a screw on the right bottom side of the camera and the battery holder slides out
On/off switch: on the right of the top plate
Engraving on the bottom plate: Made in Japan and serial no. 2092349
LENS
AF Nikkor 24-50mm f/3.3 - f/4.5, filter thread 62mm, serial no…
Mount: Nikon F bayonet
Zooming: manual, the ring and scale on the lens
Aperture: f/3.3-f/22, setting: auto or manual by the ring and scale on the lens,
w/ a lock button on it, locks at f/22
Focus range: 0.6-10m + inf, with macro
Produced between 1987-95
More info:
This is my Nikon F Photomic FTn - one of the open issues on my "to-do-list" (started by removing the leathering).
The FTn-finder was intruduced in 1968 and built till 1974. It was the last metered prism for the F and offered a sensitivity from 6 to 6400 ASA.
This F was used a lot and has many signs of usage. Its long shutter-speeds don´t work accurately and therefore it needs some service - but its still a really nice camera. - And a big and heavy one too :-) .
My latest acquisition (the Minolta, not the meter) and seems to be working well, shooting a first roll right now.
Anybody who knows the exact version of it? Seems a bit rareish with the Citizen MXV 1/400 and no meter.
Chiyoko
Rokkor 75mm 1:3.5
Citizen MXV 1-1/400
Seriously Hop! Another Lens?
I only paid $15.00 with shipping, so no big deal.
Made for Vivitar by Tokina.
It's pretty ugly, but the optics are in near perfect shape.
The focus ring has a nice long throw and smooth as butter.
Aperature ring is perfect as well.
So far I think it's plenty sharp stopped down to f/4.
Some C.A. but not too bad.
Hacking a digital bathroom scale to use as a general-purpose weight sensor or input device.
Explained in more detail at:
Chinon SC #421582 and AUTO CHINON MC 1.7/55mm. Camera is working and in excellent cosmetic condition.
Shot with Super-Takumar 1.8/55 f4
The keyboard at which I spent most of my weekend working. No - that's not a bad thing, I was certainly "in the zone" and really enjoyed what I was doing, and achieved a lot.
name: Kodak Retina IIc (020)
produced between: 1954 - 1957
lens: f/2.8 50mm various
shutter: Synchro-Compur
film type: 135
picture size: 24 x 36 mm
quantity made: 136,000
I'M SOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY! I didn't expect at all, it was totally sorprising!
It's a Canon Eos 550D. I've tried some Nikons before, and this is absolutely better! Can't wait to use it when I go to the Patagonia this January!! :D
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Please, check out my friend's scream: www.flickr.com/photos/sofiismiles
a two-dimensional chaotic system, showing leakage from a trap or snag. This is a two dimensional version of the adjacent "dollar trap" which demonstrates that as the dimensionality of the system is increased, it is possible to make "exceptional events" having lower and lower probability and frequency of occurrence.
A SNAG is a region in the chaotic trajectory which "catches" the motion as it goes past and holds it up for a while. In this picture the chaotic motion visits nearly all the places in the area of the picture, but it is "snagged" on the lighter structure that you can see here, and has a tail or "leak" where it returns to the wider domain. Many real-world natural systems exhibit this kind of snagging, in which the motion is not for ever confined to a small region or "trap".
my veteran camera, I used it for 12 years
Manufactured by Chinon Industries Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Model: c.1978, (produced between 1974- ?)
35mm film SLR electronic camera
Lens: Chinon Auto, 55 mm, f/1.4, Multi-coated, M-42 mount, (Pentax/Practica)
w/ Manual and Auto lens settings feature, by a lever on the back of the lens,
filter thread 55 mm, serial no.168732, do not change the lens when the camera is on
Aperture: f/1.4-f/16 setting: ring and scale on the lens
Focusing: Fresnel lens, Matte screen w/ central microprism split image rangefinder and ground glass collar, by ring on the lens w/ distance scale and DOF scale
Focus range: 0.5-10m +inf
Shutter: Seiko MFC-ES, stepless electromagnetic focal plane metal shutter, verticaly travelling, speeds: Auto: 4 to 1/1000, Mechanical: at X 1/100, Manual : B, X, 4 to 1/1000
setting : dial on the top plate, Auto-manual 4 to 1000-X-B modes
Shutter operates only with batteries except X and B modes.
Shutter release: beside the cocking lever, w/ a lock lever
Cocking lever: also winds the film, retractable, short stroke, on the top plate, right
Frame counter: auto-reset advance type, window right of the winding lever
attention when advancing the first two blank exposures of newly loaded film, make sure that the shutter is on X or Manual speeds mode, otherwise the shutter will remain open a long time and film will not wind, when number is 1 visible in the counter window, you can turn the speed dial to Auto mode
Viewfinder: SLR pentaprism, Speeds Scale and Exposure Indicator Needle are visible in it
Eye-piece blind feature: a lid closes by a small lever, just left to the prism
Exposure meter: TTL CdS meter, two cells, centre weighted, aperture priority automatic exposure control
Film speed range: ASA 25-3200, setting ring and window on the EV compensation dial
Auto exposure range: EV 1-18, at 100 ASA
Exposure setting: in Auto mode, turn the aperture ring until the needle in the speed scale in the finder points to the desired/accurate speed, indicator needle moves when half way pressing of the shutter release, there are over and under exposure red marks in the speed scale
in Manuel mode: you can see the correct speed pointing by the needle, independent from your speed setting
AE Memory Button (Memotron): for holding the metered exposure in memory,
on the lower left side of the lens mount, for this:
in Auto mode, depress the shutter in half-way for metering then press and lock the Memory Button, then release the shutter on another frame composition
Auto Exposure compensation feature: -1/2x to +2x EV, 1/3 F-stop increments,
dial beneath the re-wind lever
Re-wind lever: folding crank type, turns when film winding
Re-wind release: on the bottom plate
Flash PC socket: left side of the lens mount, set X on speed dial, sync. 1/100
Hot-shoe
Self-timer: time adjustable, 7-12 seconds
Back cover: Hinged, opens by pulling-up the re-wind lever
Memory holder: on the back cover, place your film's box top cover
Tripod socket: 1/4''
Strap lugs
Body: Metallic, Weight: 620g, wo/the lens
Battery: 3v, two silver oxide 1.5v, eg.G13/S76, (accepts lithium Kodak K58L or two alkaline, eg. LR44), attention: minus side facing upwards,
battery compartment on the bottom plate,
Battery check: green LED on the eye-piece frame, in Auto mode turns on when half way pressing of the shutter release, if battery OK
On/off switch: not seperate one, electronics of the camera is off when speed dial on X mode
Posemeter's on/off switching is incorporated to the winding mechanism, it is on after a film winding/cocking shutter, after exposure it will be off
External motor drive socket and connections: on the bottom plate
Chinon Power Winder is a sophisticated device, employs a special computer memory chip, and has many fonctions: Single and Continuous frame modes, Pre-set exposure counter (up-to 24 frames), Interval timer (up-to 30 seconds intervals between exposures), on/off switch and LEDs.
serial no.106092
+ Chinon Power Winder + B&K Sky 1A filter + Focusing handle + Cable release
+ Strap
CE-3 was also sold under the name of Revueflex AC1 and some other brand names
Chinon Industries Inc. is owned by Kodak Japan Limited in 2004, the Japanese daughter company of Eastman Kodak Co. Before that time Chinon had been an independent camera manufacturer for around 50 years.
Showing the 12 volt/7A/H lead acid battery that powers everything in the box including the camera. PIR sensor is on top of the Peli box and uses a very cheap and reliable Chinese sensor module and some additional electronics.
An Arduino-compatible audio player designed for Seeedstudio's PCB assembly service and open parts library (www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Open_parts_library).
Portrait of my Panasonic Lumix DSC-G3 sporting a Canon FD 200mm f/4 lens. See www.flickr.com/photos/trevordurrittlrps/16763567355/in/ph... taken with this set-up.
Canon EOS 600D + Yashinon 50mm M42 lens, available light.