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I built something!
In the 1990’s and up to 2005 if I remember correctly, LEGO had a small KÖF 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 I’d 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 what’s 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 I’ve 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 it’s difficult to reinvent the wheel anyway.
It’s not too crazy buildingwise, but it would be impossible to launch in it’s current state as it’s too fragile.
Looking at pics, I’m 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 I’d 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 didn’t forget the doors, I simply didn’t build them, it would require some tweaks and loosing the minifig, and I find trains that don’t have the space for a dude pointless. These things were shunting at snail’s 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 don’t, I seem to see wooden planks on some of the pictures of the original, but it might aswell be rust. I don’t know.
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
Чайка 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 (ИНДУСТАР) 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: ¼”
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
Manufactured by Voigtländer & Sohn AG, Braunschweig, West Germany
Model: 1959, (Produced between 1958-60)
35 mm film Rangefinder camera
Engravings on the top plate: Voigtlander Prominent II
Lens: Voigtlander Ultron 50mm f/2 , interchangeable w/ 35-50-100-150mm lenses, Prominent bayonet mount , serial no.4704441
Aperture: f/2 - f/16, setting ring and scale on the lens
Focus range: 3.5 - 60 feet (1-18m), +inf
Lens release: a latch on the lower front side of the lens, push and turn simultaneously to anti-clockwise, mounting: push the latch and simultaneously mount and turn the lens
Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder, by turning the knob on left of the top plate, the distance and DOF scale on the knob
Shutter: Synchro-Compur leaf shutter, speeds 1-1/500 +B,
setting ring and scale on the shutter, just behind the lens
Shutter release: on the top plate
Cable release socket: on the top plate, just back of the shutter release button
Viewfinder: coupled rangefinder, bright frame lines for parallax correction of 35,50,100 and 150mm lenses, (the second largest frame is for 50mm),
very bright sight, a special feature of the Voigtlander view- and rangefinder cameras
Cocking lever: also winds the film, long stroke lever on right of the top plate,
must stroke two times for cocking the shutter and winding one frame
Frame counter: coupled with winding lever, beneath it, advance type, manual setting
Film release button: only for re-loading of the partly exposed films, on the back of the top-plate, covered with the winding lever
Re-wind release button: just beside the winding knob and turns when winding
Re-winding: by a pop-up semi-circle shaped lever located on the focusing button
Re-winding indicator: small chrome part with red screw like middle, turns when re-winding, on the bottom plate
PC sync socket: on the right uppper side of the shutter
X & M sync: setting by a green lever on the shutter, all speeds
Self-timer: a lever on the shutter
Cold - shoe
Strap lugs
Film memory indicator: on the bottom plate
Backcover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left side of the camera
Tripod socket modern 1/4'', w/ an adaptor screw for old types 3/8''
Body: metal; weight: 970g
serial no. C 78010
Prominent II is one of the best mechanically and optically design Rangefinder with interchangable lens system camera, the first of this type and has a unique appearance.
It was made by Voigtlander for the competition with Leicas and Contaxes.
It had a very special and unique reflex-housing part and turnit finder as accessories,
Voigtländer is one of the the world's oldest companies for optical instruments. Founded by Johann Christoph Voigtländer in the year 1756 in Vienna (Austria), it was the first factory for optical instruments and precision mechanics there.
1931 Voigtländer entered the mass market with the BESSA camera for 6x9 format.
1939 the VITO, their first camera for 35mm film, was well received by the customers.
1970 Voigtländer was merged with Zeiss-Ikon.
1974 Voigtländer became part of Rollei .
Since 1987 Ricoh and Chinon make cameras for Voigtländer.
In 1994 the last part of the original Voigtländer company in Braunschweig was closed.
In 1995 Ringfoto bought Plusfoto and the Voigtländer brand.
In 1999 the popular 35mm viewfinder camera body Bessa L was introduced, developed and produced by Cosina
During the 20th century the Skopar and Color Skopar lenses became the standard lenses for Voigtländer's own cameras.
more info
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)
Cámara 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 estándar W-Nikkor 35 mm 2.5.
Enfoque por estimación directa.
Funcionamiento:
Es la evolución de la Nikonos I/Calypso.
Comparte la forma y el cuerpo con ligeras modificaciones como la palanca de rebobinado.
La cámara es totalmente mecánica, necesitando de un fotómetro externo para calcular la exposición.
El enfoque es por estimación 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 aproximación, etc.
En uso:
Es una cámara curiosa y divertida.
Lo mas llamativo al principio es el calculo de la distancia de enfoque, pero al final te acostumbras a una estimación directa utilizando la escala de profundidad de campo y la distancia hiperfocal.
Aun así me han salido algunas fotos desenfocadas.
Una buena opción es montar el objetivo al revés con la escala de distancias abajo, es más fácil de leer al mover la cámara.
Al ser un gran angular de 35mm sale casi todo.
Manual de instrucciones:
www.butkus.org/chinon/nikon/nikonos/nikonos.htm
Mas información:
www.imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/archives/2004/09/nikonos_...
Leica M4-P
Voigtländer Nokton 35mm f/1.4 VM II MC
Ilford HP5+ EI640
HC-110B 6m45s @20° in Lab-Box
DSLR Scan
I think these look good as a 4dr. Spoiler must've been an accessory item?
There's something common to this car and the next Carina along...
Looking straight up at the dome of the lobby rotunda.
King Hassan II had promised Casablanca the mausoleum for his father, Mohammed V, who died in 1961. However, he was forced to walk back that promise and keep the mausoleum with the rest of the family’s in Rabat. Instead, he gave Casablanca this magnificent mosque to attract pilgrimage and tourism (it is the only mosque in Morocco open to non-Muslims). The building holds 25,000 worshippers; the open-air plaza can accommodate another 80,000. It was begun in 1986 and completed in 1993, employing 10,000 construction and craft workers. Much of the cost (estimated at up to $700 million) was raised from 12 million donors by public subscription. Major structural remediation of the foundation, which had suffered from exposure to salt water on this wave-washed promontory, was undertaken beginning in 2005. The design is by the French architect Michel Pinseau, with almost all of the materials sourced from within Morocco.
World War II nurses holding hands, from a mostly uncaptioned photo album. Possibly Africa, c. 1943. Photo on Flickr by gbaku/John Atherton (CC BY SA) www.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/4019920791/
Another one from the series with the house martins. This is one of my favorites, so much going on in 1 frame. Taken in Saucedilla, Spain.
There's been plenty of discussion on how to mount this combination. This is how I'm doing it and it works perfectly and easily. Parts used:
- Manfrotto 026 swivel umbrella adaptor
- Stroboframe universal shoe mount:
- Giottos mini ball head MH1004:
The trick is to setup the mini ballhead at a 90 degree angle and the flash head on the 580EX II to 180 degrees. This way, the flash head points directly into the back of the Softlighter II. This picture shows the setup before the umbrella shaft is pulled all the way down (the sock encloses the setup up to the base of the Stroboframe cold shoe). Once done, the umbrella shaft can be removed.
Kodak Duaflex II 620 Film Camera with Kodet lens. This link will take you to a collection of photos I took with this camera:
Light Painting at Texas Stonehenge II in Ingram, Texas with a great bunch of Light Painters from across Texas! Those in attendance were myself, Greg (Spectral Convergence), Jake (Digicord), Andy (Pixelated~Light), Andrew (StandUPP), Eric (Ecirc Dufeau), Eric's wife, and Ryan (a coworker of Andy's).
A special thanks to the Hill Country Arts Foundation for their help and hospitality during our visit! These super nice folks have been working to save a great south Texas roadside icon and have moved the site from its original location near Hunt, Texas just down the road to Ingram.
You can help their efforts in preserving this great work of art by donating to the cause online via PayPal! Anything that you can offer will go a long way! Click here for the donation form
Light Painting - Single Exposure
A German Tiger II tank, also known as the King Tiger or Royal Tiger tank, of World War 2. This massive tank was first encountered by the allies in Normandy in 1944, this example was discovered in Germany at the end of the war and was shipped to England for evaluation.
Pictured at Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset.