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Micro Machine racing car from the mid 1980's. For three years at the height of their popularity Micro Machines were the largest selling line of toy cars beating out Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Majorette for the top spot. Most micro machines are about the size of a small pencil sharpener. This one is about 28mm in length, slightly larger than N scale.
For the Macro Mondays group. Topic: Toys and Games.
As much as I love my PENTAX K-1, it is a very bulky camera for some purposes. I have been thinking for a while about getting a smaller camera for travelling. While I already own a PENTAX K-r and the diminutive PENTAX Q10, these are not really what I need. The K-r is still relatively bulky and the Q10 lacks any kind of view finder. On Monday, I made a bit of an impulse purchase and got a Sony A6000; it is small with the 16-50mm kit lens and it has an electronic view finder. Having already owned a Sony A7, I was familiar with the operation and, with an adapter, I can use all my manual focus primes. With the introduction of the A6300, the A6000 is now quite attractively priced.
As always, when you buy a new camera, the weather turns bad. So, this evening, I resorted to photographing my washing machine drum! I have been thinking of doing this for a while… I know, I need to get a life! This image is a stack of four identical images as the exposure time was fairly long and I wanted to counter any noise. The individual frames were shot at 16mm at an aperture of f/10. Exposure times varied between 25s and 30s. Developed from RAW using DxO Optics Pro 11 and post-processed using Affinity Photo. Not a competition winner, but an interesting image in a funny sort of way 😊
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W.A. Young Machine Shop and Foundry
Rices Landing, PA
This shop was built in 1900. It was closed in 1969 and left the way it was on its last day of operation with machinery and tools dating as far back as 1870.
The shop is beside the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania. It specialized in repairing barges, tug boats, and other river vessels and making replacement parts.
I'm not sure what this is (perhaps a lathe?) so I called it "Mystery Machine." If anyone knows what it is, please leave a comment.
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See more images like this in my Y.A. Young Machine Shop album:
www.flickr.com/photos/cj_proartz/albums/72157654848957191...
Machining a gear hub - the piece in the lathe has a finished weight of about 110Kg. It is quite large! The gears mounted on it certainly will be!
I photographed this for a friend and was really impressed with the work. Great chunks of Steel being machined to nearly half their weight to produce these beautiful pieces of work.
Who says we don't make stuff in the UK - we certainly do. What I've never fathomed is why Accountants earn more than engineers who can do this stuff - much better union is all I guess - coz it takes more knowledge and skill!
A machine crew with camouflaged helmets and their medic. I know that one of our German members posted the same image recently. Mine has nothing on the reverse.
"You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception."
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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I showed my grand daughter how to use a sewing machine. This included how to use the bobbin, thread the machine, and use the foot pedal. She did the rest by cutting out squares and sewing them together. It's a project in progress, but it's almost done.
Testing out this old camera from 2001, I'm really impressed with how well it holds up! Pretty solid detail for 3.2 megapixels. I got it for $10 at a thrift store because I wanted to see what these digicam people on YouTube are on about.
I'd highly recommend these old Olympus Camedia cameras if you are looking for an old camera to use from time to time. They are pretty slow to use by today's standards, and they not very ergonomic to use, but they are fun pieces of photography history.
Wonder why obsolete, not in use anymore, appliances look more beautiful when they are out in open, shunned. Does a brand new machine in the basement or against plush tiles in laundry room look so beautiful…
Ok this thing is stupidly heavy. It was meant to be a Light MG but I think it's too big. Lemmie tell ya why!
The stock is huge, the gun uses 75 round belts stored in boxes, of which 2 are kept in the stock. When one is empty, open the hatch, remove the empty one, slide the full one forward and replace the old one.
The second reason it's so heavy is that the barrel is cooled by controlled amounts of liquid nitrogen pumped through very small holes in the barrel.
The tank in front of the trigger is the nitrogen tank, it's insulated. What appears to be a gas tube is actually the nitrogen return tube.
The tank has two holds, the main hold is used for circulating nitrogen, the second is for re-cooling the nitrogen (with more nitrogen).
If the nitrogen is re-cooled so much that the cooling hold becomes the same temperature as the circulating hold, they are combined in the effort to increase the area of the "liquid" heatsink.
(Same concept that a Full tower uses vs a Mid tower for airflow, More air = better heat dispersion.)
The inside of a washing machine drum, photographed on a fisheye lens. July 07, 2014. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
Shot using a Nikkor 8mm Fisheye lens on a Leica M (Type 240), using a Novoflex Nikon to Leica M adapter. Blog post: photothisandthat.co.uk/2014/07/07/nikkor-8mm-fisheye-on-a...
Grime covered machinery in this former automotive plant which I believe is now demolished. Ontario, Canada.
©James Hackland
When I saw the Washing Machine Challenge today I had to post this one, as my favorite public Washing Machine.
I visit for lunch often, but lately it been abit too wet to enjoy lunch there.
I'm sorry I have been absent of late. Just way to much going on.
I hope you have all been well and I wish you all a wonderful Holiday Season.
WAH- Washing Machines
W.A. Young Machine Shop and Foundry
Rices Landing, PA
This shop was built in 1900. It was closed in 1969 and left the way it was on its last day of operation with machinery and tools dating as far back as 1870.
The shop is beside the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania. It specialized in repairing barges, tug boats, and other river vessels and making replacement parts.
Even the tiny metal shavings or filings remain on the tools.
I'm not sure what this is (perhaps part of a lathe?) so I called it "Mystery Machine." If anyone knows what it is, please leave a comment.
_____
See more images like this in my Y.A. Young Machine Shop album:
www.flickr.com/photos/cj_proartz/albums/72157654848957191...
One of the stunning machines on display at this year's Manchester Bike Show at Event City.
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