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We were able to sail on Queen Mary II on our return from the Isle of Bute instead of using the ferry. The weather had turned nasty but permitted a shot of the rainbow from the deck. 1/6/75.
I built something!
In the 1990âs and up to 2005 if I remember correctly, LEGO had a small KOÌF II shunter locomotive in their German location in Hohenweststedt.
I always wanted to build it, had the stickers ready for years, and during the current craze of building trains, what ifs and so on for my kid, I simply got started with it, trying to build it like Iâd build an official set again.
I failed miserably.
Turns out that if you want to keep this thing somewhat correct looking, there is no way building it as a (hypothetical) LEGO set. At least not motorized (but whatâs a train without a motor?).
So I gave up and built it like I used to build before I started at LEGO, heavily inspired by how Michael Jasper built his Köf III loco (probably 15 years ago, when he found that perfect ballance between fanbuilds and playability for trains: brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=161474 ) and this is what I ended up with.
There are some things that Iâve seen before, like for example the cups for lighs were first used like that by Duq I think, and although I had an alternative idea for them, I decided that I want it hillarious instead of 100% accurate. There are so many LEGO Köfs out there that itâs difficult to reinvent the wheel anyway.
Itâs not too crazy buildingwise, but it would be impossible to launch in itâs current state as itâs too fragile.
Looking at pics, Iâm thinking that the lower edge of the cabin should be minislopes, but it looks wrong when built, so I ended up with these bows.
I decided that Iâd rather have an engine compartment and the snout three wide than that slanted nose that starts too wide, and ends too narrow, and completley wrong engine bay covers, the handrails that run along the top edge of the snout kind of help to cheat the width there a bit. I made two grilles. The yellow uses a sticker though to mask off the black edge of the plates underneath. No idea which one is better.
I didnât forget the doors, I simply didnât build them, it would require some tweaks and loosing the minifig, and I find trains that donât have the space for a dude pointless. These things were shunting at snailâs speeds anyway, I doubt the doors were closed much in summer anyway.
I also deliberatley lost the two hand rails on each side of the door opening, I had them, looked dumb, made the loco wider without adding much detail, the LEGO logo would have to be smaller... Meh.
I also decided to give the running boards a wooden look, some model manufacturers make them look like wood, some donât, I seem to see wooden planks on some of the pictures of the original, but it might aswell be rust. I donât know.
Offered by Glassic Motor Car Company of Palm Beach, Florida. Glassic was best known for its Model A Ford replicars.
CHAIKA-II (type 1a, 1968) half frame camera (24x18)
Lens: INDUSTAR-69 2.8/28mm
Shutter: Leaf shutter (1/30- 1/60 - 1/125 - 1/250 +B)
Film: 35mm (72 frames in 24mm x 18mm)
Made by MMZ
Porque la belleza no estĂĄ en las cosas, sino en los ojos de quienes miran... asĂ, quien sea capaz de hacer que le miren con buenos ojos, por su atractivo, por su sentido del humor, por su capacidad de conectar, por su conversaciĂłn, por su inteligencia, y no sĂłlo por su belleza etĂ©rea, poseerĂĄ la... Belleza Intemporal...
Modelo: Laura
Folded Ernemann Heag II plate camera. The knurled knob has a double function. If turned it unlocks the case in order to fold out the camera. Once opened it serves as a focussing button.
Manufactured by MMZ (Minsk Mechanical Factory), Minsk, former USSR
After 1971 made by BeLomo
ЧаĐčĐșĐ° means Seagull
Model: c.1968 Type 1a
All Chaika-II produced between 1967-72 with quantity 1.250.000 units
There are 6 types and 9 sub-types of the Chaika-II
As to Alexander Komarov
35mm film half frame Viewfinder camera, picture size 18x24mm
Lens: Industar-69 (ĐĐĐĐŁĐĄĐąĐĐ ) 28mm f/2.8 filter slip-on serial no.none
MMZ logo on the lens
Aperture: up to f/16; setting: ring and scale on front of the lens
Focus range: 0.8-5m +inf
Focusing: manual front cell focusing; ring, distance scale with symbols and DOF scale on the lens shutter barrel
Shutter: leaf shutter; speeds: 1/30-1/250 +B setting: by a ring and small window on the top-plate
Shutter release: on front of the top-plate, w/cable release socket
Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, on the back of the top-plate
Frame counter: additive type, auto-reset, window on the top-plate
Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder, vertical quadrangle
Re-wind knob: on the bottom plate, pull out and turn to arrow direction
Re-wind release: by re-wind knob
Flash PC socket: on front of the camera
Cold-shoe: none
Memory dial: on the re-wind knob
Self-timer: none
Back cover: opens by a latch on the right side of the camera
Tripod socket: ÂŒâ
Strap lugs
Body: metal; Weight: 388g
Serial no. 2928620 in the back cover
Chaika was the call sign of the first Russian female cosmonaut, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. She became extremely famous for her achievements and is still considered a hero in Russia. It's very likely that this line of cameras were at least partly named in honor of her. Her famous flight took place 1963 and the first Chaika camera was sold in 1965.
The difference between Chaika-I and Chaika-2 is addd a removable screw mount lens which could be used as the lens for an enlarger that was apparently never made available. The threads are the same as those for a Leica lens, but the focusing distance is different, so the lenses are not compatible.
More info: in Sovietcams by Aidas Pikiotas, in Fotoua by Alaxander Komarov, in Camerapedia, in Flickr group Russian Cameras
A new series of shots with Hasselblad XPAN-II(Panoramic Camera), borrowed from my flicky/fotologue matenino77!
Thank you nino san!:)
@Shinjuku
*Hasselblad XPAN-II+45mm f4+Kodak E100VS
*Best viewed in Large Size
Nikonos II (1968 - 1975)
CĂĄmara anfibia de 35mm.
Sumergible hasta 50 mtrs.
Cuerpo de aluminio muy resistente.
Velocidades B, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250 y 1/500.
Objetivo estĂĄndar W-Nikkor 35 mm 2.5.
Enfoque por estimaciĂłn directa.
Funcionamiento:
Es la evoluciĂłn de la Nikonos I/Calypso.
Comparte la forma y el cuerpo con ligeras modificaciones como la palanca de rebobinado.
La cĂĄmara es totalmente mecĂĄnica, necesitando de un fotĂłmetro externo para calcular la exposiciĂłn.
El enfoque es por estimaciĂłn directa mediante una escala en el objetivo y dos marcas de profundidad de campo.
El visor esta calculado para usarse con el objetivo W-Nikkor de 35 mm con marcas de pararelage.
Tiene toda una gama de accesorios, objetivos de 28 mm, 80mm, flash, lentes de aproximaciĂłn, etc.
En uso:
Es una cĂĄmara curiosa y divertida.
Lo mas llamativo al principio es el calculo de la distancia de enfoque, pero al final te acostumbras a una estimaciĂłn directa utilizando la escala de profundidad de campo y la distancia hiperfocal.
Aun asĂ me han salido algunas fotos desenfocadas.
Una buena opción es montar el objetivo al revés con la escala de distancias abajo, es mås fåcil de leer al mover la cåmara.
Al ser un gran angular de 35mm sale casi todo.
Manual de instrucciones:
www.butkus.org/chinon/nikon/nikonos/nikonos.htm
Mas informaciĂłn:
www.imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/archives/2004/09/nikonos_...
The Mountain Dwellings in Copenhagen. 80 dwellings all facing south with multistorey carpark under. The aluminium plates in the facade form a reproduction of Mount Everest. Awarded best housing project in the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona 2008. Photo taken from the metro.
Built: 2008. Architect: BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group, Denmark.
Coherent Soft X-ray Scattering beamline under construction at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source II. This beamline will provide coherent soft x-ray scattering and imaging capabilities with world-leading high-coherent flux and detectors for probing correlated electronic textures and dynamics.