Manufactured by Yashica Camera Co., Japan

Model: c.1975 (produced between 1975-1982)

35mm film SLR camera

BODY

Lens mount: Contax/Yashica mount. Does not make use of MM lens shutter priority.

Lens release: by a small button on the right of the lens flange

Shutter: Electronic focal-plane, horizontal-travel cloth

Shutter speeds: Auto mode - 4-1/2000 Manual mode - 14 settings of 4-1/2000 +B.

setting: dial beneath the re-wind lever, A and speeds numbers for manual setting

Shutter release: Real Time Electromagnetic Release System, aux. via Release Socket (electronic), on the top plate beside cocking lever

Caable releasesocket:on the back of the top plate

Cocking lever: also winds the film, 140 degrees stroke, retractable, winding possible with several short strokes

Exposure meter: TTL center-weighted metering at full aperture using SPD (silicon photo diode).

Exposure modes: Aperture priority automatic exposure and manual exposure

EV range -1-19 at ASA 100.

ASA film range 12-3200. Setting dial on the right of the top plate, lift and turn

Exposure setting: set the shutter speed Auto or manual, then press continuously the exposure check front button over the self-timer lever, a red LED dot appears in the right of the speeds index, automatic setting of the shutter speed corresponding the number in the index,

if a second LED dot appears automatic setting of shutter speed is between the numbers on the index; In manual speeds mode if the red dot is over or under the setting of yours, the exposure is not correct, you must correct it by turning aperture ring or speeds dial

Indeed, there is a line of 16-dot LED parallel to speeds index.

Exposure compensation: +2 EV ~ -2 EV , via exposure compensation dial beneath the ASA setting: 1/2 stop clicks using unusual system of x4 to x1/4. X4 means "times 4" or 2 stops.

Viewfinder: Eye-level SLR penta-prism - field shows 92% of picture area.

Viewfinder display: speed scale with a pointer on the right side. Green pointer overlaps "A" setting on Auto; or indicates shutter setting on manual.

Aperture display on the top side, and f-stop in use in green figure

Exposure compensation tab appears when the exposure compensation pointer is set at any position except X1

Focusing screen: Micro-prism standard - six others available

DOF button: on the right lover of the lens flange

Mirror lock: Lever on the left of the lens flange

Re-wind lever: folding crank type, and film rewind release button under the crank

Re-wind release: by a button on the bottom plate

Frame counter: Auto resets, advance type, window beside the cocking lever

Multiple exposures: Depression of the film rewind button

Self-timer: Mechanical , 10 sec. delay

Hot-shoe

Flash PC socket: on font of the body, Synch speed 1/60

Strap lugs

Back cover: Hinged, removable, opens by pulling film rewind knob all the way out.

Tripod socket: 1/4"

Battery: 6.2v silver-oxide battery (544 or PX28), or 6v alkaline-manganese 4LR44.

Battery chamber: on the bottom plate

Battery check: by small button on the back of the top plate, and red LED beside the cocking lever

Couplings for motor drive and winder on the bottom plate

Engraving on the bottom plate: Yashica Japan

Body: metal; Weight: 700g wo/ lens

Serial no. 073768 (on the bottom plate)

LENS

Yashica ML 50mm f/2

Filter tread: 52mm serial no. A90556926

Aperture: f/2-f/16 w/half click stops

Focus range: 0.5-10m +inf, w/DOF scale

Weight: 158g

Standard Lens: PLANAR T* 50 mm f/1.4

Yashica winder

Battery:6x AA size battery

Weight: 294g wo/batteries

more info:

Camerapedia

in Mir com

A view of one of the buildings on Pershing in the central manufacturing district.

The Central Manufacturing District (CMD) was a 265-acre industrial park created in 1905 by Frederick Henry Prince, an East Coast investor. The CMD was the first planned manufacturing district in the United States.

Zenit means Zenith, a point in the sky that appears directly above the observer

Manufactured by Krasnogorsky Mekhanichesky Zavod (KMZ) , (Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk), Moscow, former USSR

Zenit = Зенит, B = V in Latin

Model: 1971, type 6b (export model), produced between 1971-73

All Zenit-B produced between 1968-77 with quantity of 889.617 units

There are 15 types of the camera, as to Alexander Komarov

35mm film SLR camera

Lens: Helios-44-2 58mm f/2.8, M42 screw mount,

Filter thread: 44mm, serial no. N7 191455, with zebra ring, (Made by MMZ)

This lens is standard one and others are Helios-44 2/58mm and Industar-50-2 3.5/50mm

Lens release: simply turn to anti-clockwise

Aperture: up to f/16setting: ring and scale on the lens

Focus range: 0.5-20m +inf

Focusing: Fresnel matte glass screen; ring, distance scale and DOF scale on the lens

Shutter:Horizontally traveling, cloth focal-plane shutter, speeds 1/30 - 1/500 +B,

setting dial: on the top plate

Shutter release: on the winding knob, w/ cable release socket

Cocking lever: also winds the film, long stroke, on the right of the top plate

Frame counter: on the winding knob, additive type, manual reset

Viewfinder: SLR pentaprism

Re-wind knob: on the top-plate

Re-wind release:

Flash PC socket: on foront of the camera, X sync 1/30

Cold-shoe (lost on my camera)

Memory dial : on the re-wind knob

Self-timer

Back cover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left side of the camera

Engraving on the bottom plate: KMZ logo and Made in USSR

Tripod socket: ¼", off-center

Strap lugs: none

Body: metal; Weight: 887g (with standard lens)

Serial no. 71 204359 (first two digits show the production year), on the back of the top plate

The main differences from Zenit-3M are mechanism of mirror and cocking lever were changed. It is similar to Zenit-E, but it hasn't selenium light meter.

Could be found under export names: "Revueflex-B, "Kalimar SR100", "Phokina", "Prinzflex-500", "Meprozenit-Pro", "Cambron-B", "Global"

More info: in Fotoua by Alaxander Komarov , in Camerapedia, in Sovietcams by Aidas Pikiotas</a<

Manufactured by Utility Manufacturing Company New York, USA

Model: c.1940 Model F, produced from c.1938

Medium format film Viewfinder camera; film 127 roll, picture size 3x4cm with 16 exposures

Lens: Velostigmat 2 inch f/3.5 (Wollensak Optical Company, Rochester,USA)

Aperture: up to f/22setting: lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Focus range: 4-25 feet +inf

Focusing: helicoid focusing, the focus locks at every distance mark that is engraved in the focusing ring. In order to turn the focusing ring it is necessary to push down and hold the small chrome button that is located on the side of the lens mount

Shutter: (Wollensak) Deltax, everset shutter, (self-cocking),

speeds: 1/25-1/50-1/100 +B, setting: lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Cocking lever and Shutter release: by the same lever, on the lens-shutter barrel

Cable release socket: on the lens-shutter barrel

Viewfinder: simple eye-level reverse telescopic optical viewfinder

Winding knob: on the top plate

Flash PC socket: none

Cold-shoe

Self-timer: none

Back cover: remeovable, opens by a latch on the right side of the camera, w/ Two red windows and built-in lid

Filmloading: special spool mechanism

Tripod socket: ¼"

Camera leg: retractable, below the lens mount.

Strap lugs

Body: Neilite (similar to Bakelite), and helical lens mount, and back cover heavy cast-metal; Weight: 540g

serial no. none

More info: McKeown’s 12th ed. p.943

in Camerapedia, in Scotts Collection

the entrance to the new manufacturing facility which recently came online.

I encouraged them to include a jar of finely moldable clay with each of their new 3D scanners, with no explanation needed. People might think more about creation and less about copying with their "Replicator".

More generally, I think we need a new framework for 3D content creation, as it has held back so many 3D dreams, from VRML in the 90s to 3D printing today. If you want to create a 3D model of a teacup, it’s just way too difficult for most people using geometric primitives of addition and subtraction, manipulated and rotated with 2D tools separated in space (a screen and touchpad or mouse).

My first thought was that perhaps we could reconceptualize the digital process: instead of manipulating polygons, what if we had digital clay — malleable and asymmetric and organic — that snapped to polygons and various axes of symmetry after the fact? The UI would naturally support multitouch screens where we see the clay under our fingers and need not project and rotate 3D objects in our minds.

And with a 3D scanner, MakerBot could take a step in that direction by providing rudimentary post-processing of scanned clay. With 3D printing, the objects don’t have to be symmetric. Complexity comes for free in a 3D print. Objects may be a bit more artistic and organic with asymmetries. So the post-processing could include a slider for smoothing… and perhaps a way to recognize Platonic forms like a circular or elliptical curve, offering various snap-to-grid options if wanted.

© Photos : Samuel Coulon

Patrick Levy-Waitz, Président de France Tiers-Lieux et Monsieur Jean-Marie Girier, Préfet du Territoire de Belfort pour la labélisation officielle de la Crunch Factory comme l'une des 20 premières "Manufacture de proximité"

Manufactured Tree

The Startimer Pilot Manufacture with our AL-710 in-house movement, recommended retail price 2.050€. NATO strap styling by Worn & Wound. Read the review wornandwound.com/2014/02/12/alpina-startimer-pilot-manufa...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is defined by ASTM as the 'process of joining materials to make objects, usually layer by layer, from 3D CAD data'. Additive processes include Selective Laser Melting (SLM), Laser Metal Deposition (LMD), Stereolithography, Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) and 3D Inkjet Printing (3DP). Each technology is often distinguished by the raw materials used (including powder, wire, photosensitive liquid resins, thermoplastic filament, printing inks) or by the method of consolidation (including laser heating and melting, photo polymerisation, conduction heating, chemical reaction).

AM is seemingly opposite to subtractive manufacturing approaches that remove material to form the shape of a work piece. The traditional metal removal processes such as milling, turning, grinding, electrical discharge machining (EDM), fall into this category.

For more information www.twi.co.uk/technologies/welding-coating-and-material-p...

If you wish to use this image each use should be accompanied by the credit line and notice, "Courtesy of TWI Ltd".

I took this image in Huntsville, AL., during a tour in/from the US Space & Rocket Centre (I think - looking at the site on GoogleEarth I note there appears to be no connection between the Centre and the adjacent Redstone Arsenal where I would expect such activities to take place). Regrettably I did not make a note of what was being constructed! - but it looks like it might have been a module for the International Space Station.

What I find fascinating about this shot is that everyone seems to be working in clean-room conditions - and yet here were us space tourists in our ordinary outdoor clothing, standing in an overview position inside the room (I don't remember anything like a screen or plexiglas wall between us and what you can see above, although there may have been...).

From a different angle of a shot I posted earlier in the week. Scanned from a negative.

Manufactured by Argus, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan & Chicago, Illinois, USA

Model: c.1956 (produced between 1939-1957)

All Argus C series produced between 1938-1966

35mm film Rangefinder camera

Lens:Argus Coated Cintar 50mm f/3.5 three elements filter slip-on serial no.none

Stamping on the lens front: Made in U.S.A

Aperture: f/3.5-f/16setting: ring and scale on the front of the lens

Focus range: 3-50 feet +inf

Focusing:match the rangefinder images in the rangefinder eyepiece, rangefinder coupled to the lens with a gear

Shutter: leaf shutter, speeds: 10-300 +B

setting: dial on the left front of the camera (B setting is separate from the dial, by a collar beneath the shutter release, set to B, for speeds set to I.)

Shutter release: on the top plate, w/ cable relese socket

Cocking lever: on the right front of the camera

Frame counter: manual reset, not works wo/film in the camera, on the top plate

Winding knob:Hold down the film catch and turn the winding knob about a quarter of a turn then release film catch and continue to turn winding knob without forcing until it stops. Make sure not to hold down the film catch for more than a quarter turn, or the film may advance past one or more exposures; on the top plate

Film catch knob: beside the film counter dial

Viewfinder: coupled rangefinder, but separate eyepieces for reverse telescopic finder and rangefinder

Re-windknob: on the bottom plate

Re-wind release: no special knob, just rotate the re-wind knob; the film counter dial on top of the camera will rotate bacwards

Flash PC socket: none-PC, two holes on the left side of the camera for dedicated flash unit

Cold-shoe

Self-timer: none

Back cover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left of the camera

Embossing in the film winding spirockets hole: MPC and US patent numbers

Tripod socket: ¼"

Strap lugs: none

Body: metal; Weight: 749g

serial no.1512649

+Original ever ready leather case

The Argus C series had been called "the brick".

C3 is similar to the C2, but with flash sync attachment holes on left end.

More info:

Argus Collectors Group

Argus C survey byArgus Collectors Group

Manual

in Camerapedia

in Matt Denton site

Argus serial No.s

Acrylic on Canvas (2008) - 100cm x 89cm

Manufacturing

Here’s an ugly and overlooked fact: Not only did America lose nearly six million manufacturing jobs in the last decade but the decline as a share of total manufacturing jobs (33 percent) exceeded the rate of loss in the Great Depression. Despite this unprecedented negative performance, most economists, pundits and elected officials are remarkably blasé, largely because they attribute this job loss to superior productivity performance of U.S. manufacturers. The notion seems to be manufacturing has just gotten incredibly productive over the last decade, and while it may be tough on the workers who are let go, this is the price of success. All that is needed, if anything, are better programs and policies to help laid-off production workers.

ITIF presented a comprehensive analysis that disputes this sanguine view and reveals the stark truth about the troubling state of U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.

Manufactures Building, from Horticultural Hall. Large photographic print from The White City (As It Was), photographs by William Henry Jackson. World's Columbian Exposition 1893.

Digitial Identifier: GN90799d_JWH_002w

World's Columbian Exposition Collection at The Field Museum

Manufactured by F.E. Dzerzhinsky factory, Kharkov, Ukraine, CCCP

Model: 1951, Type 11a, (produced between 1949-52), Produced pieces 120000

as to Alexandr Komarov

all FED NKVD and FED-1 produced between 1934-55

Engravings on the top plate:

ФЭД завод им. Ф.Э. Дзержинского (= FED Zavod IM. F.Z. Dzerjinsky) and serial no.

Zavod means factory, IM. is the abbreviation of "imeni", means in the name of

35mm film Rangefinder camera

Lens: FED 50mm f/3.5 (ФЭД M/M), collapseable,

mount: Leica 39M screw mount, filter size 32mm slip-on

Aperture: f/3.5-f/16, setting: ring with a lever and scale on front of the lens

Focusing: Matching yellow rangefinder images in the rangefinder window, left one on the back of the top plate, lever and distance scale on the back side of the lens, Focus lever locks on infinity

Focus range: 1.25-20m +inf.

Shutter: Horizontal focal plane cloth shutter, speeds: 1/20-1/500 +Z (= B, Bulb)

Setting: Old style shutter dial, on the top plate, lift and set, turns when cocking

Shutter release: old style with short collar, beside the winding knob

Cocking and Winding knob: on the top plate, right-hand,

Frame counter: Beneath the cocking knob, additive type, manual setting

Viewfinder: seperate view finder and rangefinder windows, right one is viewfinder, fairly bright, left one is rangefinder window

Re-winding knob: on the left side of top plate, turns when winding

Re-wind release: lever just front of the shutter release,

markings are Cyrillic: B re-wind, and У wind

Flash PC socket: none

Self timer: none

Cold-shoe

Film loading: bottom loading like old Leicas, bottom plate opens by a ring on it

Engravings around the opening ring: 3aKP - ОTKP (Zakr- Otkr = Close - Open). ОTKP is an abbreviation for ОТКРЫТЫЙ

Special old style take up-spool

Tripod socket: Old type 3/8''

Body: all metal, weight: 544g

serial no. 277239

+ Lzos Yellow filter, 36 JS-17 (ЖC) + Lens cap

The early Leica cameras, and the other Leica inspired cameras like Canon III, FEDs and Zorkis, and almost any camera which winding also causes the film speed selector turning, always cock the shutter before changing film speeds.

When FED camera production resumed in 1946 the NKVD engravings were replaced by a simple Cyrillic FED logo on the top. This version is known as the FED-1.

Fed -1 is a Leica II inspired camera, first models was the true clones but later some properties remained the same, but some improvments were made, eg. rangefinder far more better than Leica II, easy to use, cause there is a seperate rangefinder window.

LZOS (Лыткаринский завод Оптического Стекла) (=Lytkarino Optical Glass Factory) is based in Lytkarino, 100 kilometers north of Moscow. It was a KMZ satellite plant. LZOS was the most famous for manufacturing various lenses for KMZ cameras.

Brief FED History: The FED was introduced in 1934 by factory of the Dzerzhinsky Commune in Kharkov, Ukraine, CCCP.

FED are the initials for F. E. Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the NKVD, in honour of him the camera was named.

The NKVD was the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (= Народный комиссариат внутренних дел Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, НКВД (=NKVD ), a public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union later known as the KGB.

The factory was originally an orphanage workforce was based on youths living and working together in a commune.

After the groundbreaking introduction of the Leica II in 1932, Soviet leaders stopped the import of photographic equipment and set the FED factory to its task of creating a Leica of their own.

Only 18 months later, in 1934, the FED factory began churning out its first clone of the Leica II rangefinder camera. Since then, they have produced millions of cameras, some good and some not so good.

The early FED is a true copy of the Leica II, itself only introduced less than two years earlier.

Camera production resumed in 1946 the NKVD engravings were replaced by a simple Cyrillic FED logo on the top. This version is known also as the FED-1.

The variations in the engravings on the FED camera tops make it worth a special mention, reflecting the changes within the Soviet Union.

The FED-1 was continuously improved and produced in great quantities until 1955 at which point series production of the FED-2 commenced.

more info:

Sovietcams Oscar Fricke

Helping to lead the economy out of the Bush recession, America’s manufacturing base has grown with 136,000 manufacturing jobs added in 2010, the first increase since 1997.

www.uic.edu/orgs/LockZero/cmd_sketch.html

Manufactured by Zeiss Ikon AG, Stuttgart, West Germany

Model: c.1953 Catalog no. 517/2 (Nettar-2 models produced between 1949-58)

Folder film camera, film 120 roll, picture size 6x9cm

Lens: Novar - Anastigmat 105mm f/4.5

Aperture: f/4.5 - f/32 , no click stops,

setting: lever and dial on the back of the lens-shutter barrel

Focusing: front element manual focusing, guess the distance, distance and DOF scales on the lens

Focus range: 1.5-15m +inf

Shutter: Gauthier Prontor-S, speeds:1-1/250 +B, no click stops,

setting ring and dial on the lens-shutter barrel

Shutter release: two, a lever on the shutter and a knob on the left of the top plate

Cable release socket: on the lens-shutter barrel

Shutter cocking lever: on the lens-shutter barrel

Viewfinder: Direct vision optical viewfinder, no parallax correction

Winding knob: on the left of the top plate

Bellows: Single extension, Automatic opening, button on the right of the top plate

closing: press the black vertical parts on the struts

Flash PC sync socket: on the lens-shutter barrel,

A lever and index on the lens-shutter barrel for M F X adjusting

Self timer: Lever on the lens-shutter barrel

Cold-shoe

Back cover: Hinged, w/ Red window and built in lid, opens with a latch on top of the camera

Film loading: special spool mounting mechanism

Tripod sockets: Two, bottom and front cover, modern 1/4'' type

Lugs for Leather hand grip

Body: metal, Weight: 753g

Serial no. T 68047

There are endless variations of Nettars, with endless combinations of lens, shutters, and formats. It is hard to find the exact model of these Nettars.

Zeiss Catalog Numbers of the Nettar series variants and models:

Nettar - 10.3014, 510/, 510/2, 515/, 515/16, 515/2, 517/16, 517/2, 518/16, 518/2, Nettar 2 - 517/16, 517/2, Nettar II, Signal Nettar - 518/16

w/ special ever ready leather case and strap

Recueil factice non daté. Pagination discontinue. Constitué d'au moins deux séries incomplètes (?) de spécimen. 32 x 25 cm. 176 pages.

Advanced Manufacturing Industry - Session II session at the Industry Strategy Meeting 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, 16 March. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Marc Bader

Manufactured by Mamiya Camera Co.,Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Model c.1980, (produced between 1975-87)

Medium format SLR film camera, Film 120 / 220 roll, picture size 6x4.5 cm

Engraving on the top: Mamiya logo

Lens: Mamiya-Sekor C 80mm f/2.8, Automatic diaphragm,

w/ AE meter coupler, multi-coated, M645 bayonet mount, Auto / Manual diaphragm setting lever, (on manuel you can see the DOF), filter thread 58mm, serial no.68318

Aperture: f/2.8 - f/22setting: ring and scale on the back side of the camera

Focus range: 2.25-30m +inf

Lens release: by the small silver knob, on the front-left side of the camera,

Lens mount: allign the red dots

Focusing: via Fresnel matte screen, w/ centered microprism with a fine focusing collar, interchangeable with 5 different screens, ring and scale on the lens, w/ DOF scale

Shutter: electronically controlled cloth focal plane shutter, not works wo/ battery

speeds: 8-1/500, +B, (a red dot is for the AE finder)

setting : dial on the left side of the camera

Shutter release: Two shutter release buttons, one on front of the camera, w/ safety lock collar, the other on top of the body; shutter locks when no film in the camera

Cocking lever: folding crank type, also winds the film, single turn, (continuous on ME setting), on the right side of the camera

Frame counter: Progressive, auto-reset, on the right side of the camera

Multiple exposure lever: setting to ME unlocks the shutter, behind the cocking lever

Mirror lockup lever: on front of the cocking crank

Viewfinder: SLR pentaprism, type FH, w/ hot-shoe connections, interchangeable w/ metered and waist level finders

Finder release: a knob on the right of the eyepiece, turn and press and then lift the finder

Exposure meter: none

Flash PC sockets: two, on the left side of the camera, X and FP,

Flash sync 1/60 sec. (red on the speed dial),

Hot-shoe: on the finder

Memory holder: on the back cover

Self-timer: none

Back cover: hinged, opens by pressing the memo holder and moving the latch to the right

Film loading: follow the drawings in the film insert part, (somewhat difficult, try to learn with an used film or paper)

Film insert: special vertical type, (interchangeable w/ 220 film insert),

removing: press from the two sides of the 120 marking then pull-out

Engravings on the bottom plate: Mamiya Camera Co.,Ltd., Japan and serial no.

Tripod socket: 1/4''

Strap buttons

Body: metal, Weight: 1580g

Battery: 6v Silver oxide, alkalines like 476A or 4LR44 are OK

Battery chamber: on the bottom of the camera, opens a thumb whell just beside it

Battery check button: red button on the right top of the body, green signal LED on the left-top of the body, if lights it's OK

On/off switch: none

serial no. J 70661

+ Grip holder, w/ accessory shoe, fits to special sockets on the bottom of the camera, marked Mamiya Japan + special Focusing handle, marked Mamiya Japan

Mamiya M645 is the first series of 4.5×6 SLRs made by Mamiya. The finder and screens are interchangeable, but there is no magazine back, only preloadable film inserts. All the M645 models share the same accessories (finders, screens, lenses, grips and inserts). The lenses and inserts can also be attached on the later Mamiya 645 models.

More info: Manual in Butkus org , in Wikipedia, in Camerapedia

The manufacturing and printing of textiles formed the basis of the industrial revolution in Catalunya. Beyond the actual fabric, it is the machinery of its production and the people who operated it—especially women—that underpins Regina Giménez’s presentation of her graphic works as part of the Compositions programme. Taking place in one of the buildings that comprises Can Trinxet, a former textile factory complex that once employed the largest workforce in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Giménez’s intervention comprises painted compositions that are derived from schematic representations of machines and their components. Her abstractions have been applied on transparent panels that lean against a scarred factory wall, becoming devices that reanimate the marks and memories embedded in the building. An accompanying poster evokes the clamour that once would have filled the workshop in typographic form. Giménez has titled her project “La Constancia” (2016) in tribute to the labor union that called a general strike in 1913 to protest the conditions of the female and child workers who undertook the textile industry’s most monotonous and arduous tasks. – Latitudes

Regina Giménez (Barcelona, 1966) has exhibited individually at: ‘Architecture d’aujourd’hui’, The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2015); ‘Art de foc art de badoc’, Nadala 2015 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2015); ‘Simbols Convencionals’, Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona (2012). She has recently participated in the following group shows: Biennal de Valls, Tarragona (2015); ‘Modernitat Amagada’, Casa Capell, Mataró (2013); ‘La casa de la playa’ para ‘Cas de estudi’, Can Felipa, Barcelona (2013).

Giménez is represented by Ana Mas Projects, L’Hospitalet/San Juan (Puerto Rico) and by Galería Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona.

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“La Constancia” (2016) was commissioned for the second edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend (29 September–2 October 2016) as part of the “Composiciones” programme.

Curated by Latitudes for the second time (see 2015 edition), the project further explores Barcelona as a rich fabric of the historic and the contemporary, the unfamiliar and the conspicuous. Resisting an overall theme, and instead developing from the artists’ responses to the specificity of each context—people as well as places—the five art projects form a temporary thread that links evocative locations and public space, running parallel to the Weekend’s exhibitions in galleries and museums.

In its second edition, "Composiciones" presents interventions by Lúa Coderch (Club Billar Barcelona); Regina Giménez (Antigua Fábrica de Can Trinxet, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat); Lola Lasurt (Biblioteca Pública Arús); Robert Llimós (connecting all the participating galleries) and Wilfredo Prieto (Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona). Their projects offer moments of intermission, intimacy and bewilderment throughout the weekend, highlighting some lesser-known aspects of the city’s cultural heritage and municipal life.

Conceived and curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org

Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones2016/

Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-five-commissions-curated-...

Ficosa Viladecavalls plant

Surface finish and cutting fluid combine to refract light into rainbows on a batch of ballscrew bearing housings after machining at Haas Automation.

Scenes from the Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Manufacturing Camp held July 18-22 through Sandburg's Workforce Development and Community Education.

BODY:

Manufactured by Nippon Kogaku K. K., Japan (Nikon Corporation since 1988)

Model: c.1968, model Photomic FTN that produced between 1968-1974.

All Nikon F produced between 1959-74

35mm film camera, fully mechanical, (except posemeter)

Engraving on the top plate: Nikon and serial no. 6944460

Lens Mount: Nikon F bayonet type

Lens release: by a button on the right front side of the camera, just beside the lens mount

Focusing: screen Matte fresnel Split-image prism rangefinder, Type A, provided as standard, interchangeable with 16 other type finder screens

Shutter: Mechanical, horizontal-travel, titanium foil focal-plane shutter

speeds: 1-1/1000, +T and B, for X sync 1/60 is red

setting : dial on the top plate, coupled with the speed dial of the finder Photomic FTN

Shutter release: Threaded collar, accepts Nikon F, F2 type cable release, on the top plate

Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke type, retractable,

automatic film advance possible when motor drives F36 or F250 are used.

Frame counter: on the cocking knob, Additive type, auto-reset

Reflex mirror: Automatic instant-return type

Mirror lock-up: by a lever on the right side of the lens mount

DOF preview: by a button, on the right front side of the camera, just beside the lens mount

Viewfinder: Photomic FTN, metered, SAI, eye level SLR pentaprism,

center-the needle pointer, shutter speed and apertures index visible in it, to f/32 and T&B settings, T appears as 4 sec. and B appears as 2 sec. in the finder,

Maximum aperture scale: on front of the finder:

After setting the lens to f/5.6 or lower, mount the lens on the camera and cycle first back and then forth between the minimum and maximum apertures, some spring-loaded gizmo in the finder automatically communicates the maximum lens aperture to the metering circuit

(check the maximum aperture scale)

For Nikon F cameras classic Eyelevel prism finder was standard, interchangeable with 7 other types including 4 metering prisms

Finder release: main prism release is the small silver button on the back of the top plate and second is a lever on the right side of FTN, pushed in towards the finder after the main prism release is pushed-in.

Meter switch On/Off: On button on the right side of the finder, Off button on the top-right of the finder, when the on button pressed, the meter switch-off button will pop up and a red line around its circumference will be visible. This serves as a warning that the meter is on.

Battery check: depressing the off button while the meter is off, which will cause the meter needle to move slightly right of the center notch if the battery is still good.

Exposure meter: Cadmium Sulfide cells (CdS) in prism, through-the-lens, center-weighted exposure metering, (corresponds to the 12mm in diameter ring on the screen),

Film speed range: ASA 6-6400, setting: dial on the finder

Metering range: EV 2-17

Exposure setting: manual, set the ASA then center-the-needle pointer moving between horizontally arranged +/– (over / under exposure) markers at the lower part of the viewfinder, by turning the aperture ring or speed dial, speed and aperture are visible in the viewfinder.

The needle array was duplicated on the top of the finder head to allow exposure control without looking through the viewfinder

Re-wind lever: folding crank type,

A red dot on top of the shutter release button rotates while the film is being rewound,

Re-wind release: by switching the shutter release collar to R

Flash PC socket: Possible at all speeds up to 1/60 sec with electronic flash; sync terminal provided for off camera or multiple-flash photography; sync terminal is switchable to work with flashbulbs at speeds of up to 1/1000 sec (type 6 flashbulbs)

Hot-shoe: special Nikon F-type located at base of rewind knob,

adaptors available to convert to ISO or F3-type shoes

setting: the flash sync, lift up on the milled ring around the shutter speed dial and rotate, left or right, setting which visible in the small window just forward of the shutter speed dial,

For electronic flash sync 1/60th or slower, set the white and red letters FX,

the rest of settings for using flashbulbs

Memory dial : for ASA 25-1600, on the left of the bottom plate

Self-timer: dual purpose, a lever-type, rotate it clockwise, small black tick marks for an approximately 3, 6, 10 second delay, on the ring surrounding the self-timer hub, an aid for hand held exposures at slow speeds also

activates by pressing the small silver button appears when you moving the self-timer lever

Back cover: removable with bottom plate, opens by turning open/close folding lever,

interchangeable with 250 exposure magazine back (and motor) F250

Engraving on the bottom plate: MADE IN JAPAN

Tripod socket: 1/4''

Strap lugs

Body: Weight: 1049g, approx with Tn or FTn finder

Battery: Two PX-625 1.3V mercury battery (accepts PX625A / LR9, but better is 1.35v Zinc/air), for light meter only

Battery chamber: on the bottom of the finder

F body serial no / manufacturing year data, F body features / typology are as to:

Richard de Stoutz

LENS:

Zoom-Nikkor Auto 43-86mm f/3.5

Manufactured by Nippon Kogaku, Japan

Mount: Nikon F bayonet type non-AI lens , automatic diaphragm ,

Solid meter coupling prong, (no nostrils), single coated, filter thread: 52mm,

serial no. 486556

as to this serial no. Lens model is c.1967

All of this 43-86mm F mount lens manufactured between 1963-74 with many modifications

Aperture: f/3.5-f/22, on the scale number 16 blue coloured

Focus range: 1.2-20m +inf

Focus and zoom ring is same, zooming by sliding it,

scale with coloured lines 43-50-60-70-86mm

F mount with 5 slot screws, Chrome lens Barrel, scalloped aperture setting ring

White coloured LENS MADE IN JAPAN engraved on the black focusing ring,

the character M has vertical sides

The distance scale on the focusing ring is calibrated in feet and meters. Infinity setting is on the left side. The feet scale is yellow and is situated above the white meter scale.

The lens manufacturing year / serial no. data, model features / typology are as to:

Rolands Nikon Pages

and Richard de Stoutz

For Nikon F cameras the lenses 50mm f2 Auto S Nikkor and later 50mm f1.4 Auto Nikkor-S was standart.

Non-AI lenses fit on the Nikon F, early F2, Nikkormat FT, FTN, FT2, EL and ELW, and the Nikkorex F. They can be used without meter coupling on the earliest AI camera bodies such as the FM and FE, but they must not be mounted on later ones such as the FM2, as it is possible to damage the camera body.

Nikon brought semi-automatic aperture indexing (SAI) from the Nikkormat FTN into the professional F with the FTN finder.

The F is the first member of the long line of Nikon F-series professional level 35 mm SLRs that began 1959 and followed each other in a sort of dynastic succession as the top-of-the-line Nikon camera. The other members were the F2,F3,F4,F5 and F6 (2004–present).

The F-series do not share any major components.

All Nikon professional F-series SLRs are full system cameras. This means that each camera body serves as only a modular hub.

Due to that New Jersey was the slowest on phasing out the bad old outdated red trapezoid Children slow crossing warning blades that word IF-SAFE STOP THEN-GO because of some mean teachers at school forcing some ice cream trucks to keep their red trapezoid and made a bad and mean-spirited law of ice cream trucks requiring those bad old outdated red trapezoid children slow crossing warning blades that word IF-SAFE STOP THEN-GO which is extremely confusing to people who are death, color blind, can't read or don't speak English in some of New Jersey, I hereby MOST Amazon warehouses in New Jersey to all be converted into Blue's Clues Handy Dandy Notebook prop replica manufacturing plants, Corbeil School Bus manufacturing plants, Chalkboard Manufacturing Plants to bring back the good friendly schools with green chalkboards and electric mechanical wall bells FOREVER and convert most Amazon prime trucks in New Jersey into better and safe updated ice cream trucks with the good awesome current updated yellow trapezoid children slow crossing warning blades that word CHILDREN SLOW CROSSING and School bus stop signs which are octagon shape for the state of New Jersey to also include disabled people in the future too and tear apart the last remaining of the ice cream trucks with the bad old outdated red trapezoid children slow crossing warning blades that word IF-SAFE STOP THEN-GO and recycle all of them into brand new Blue's Clues Handy Dandy notebook prop replicas and reuse the arm the bad old outdated red trapezoid Children Slow crossing warning blades that word IF-SAFE STOP THEN-GO for the brand new stop signs of the new school buses of the future. And for this Schools will also bring back green chalkboards and electric mechanical wall bells and Corbeil school buses and adding in more Disney Snow White and Pinocchio stuff, Corduroy the Bear with two buttons on his green corduroy overalls, Blue's Clues Steve Notebooks, Little Golden Books and other kind-spirited stuff FOREVER quickly and also for schools to get rid of mean teachers, that mean scary looking grumpy face with the freaky spikey eyelashes, triangular eyes and razor blade forehead wrinkles they used to have on Gordon in the old live action model version of Thomas and Friends, Bogen Multicom 2000 systems, mean-spirited angers like Frankie Foster's anger in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Chief Wiggums meanly aiming his guy in modern Simpsons, and other mean-spirited stuff FOREVER quickly.

Tutaev Bells Factory, Russia

Manufactured in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1949 through 1951.

From my collection of classic toys.

The manufacturing and printing of textiles formed the basis of the industrial revolution in Catalunya. Beyond the actual fabric, it is the machinery of its production and the people who operated it—especially women—that underpins Regina Giménez’s presentation of her graphic works as part of the Compositions programme. Taking place in one of the buildings that comprises Can Trinxet, a former textile factory complex that once employed the largest workforce in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Giménez’s intervention comprises painted compositions that are derived from schematic representations of machines and their components. Her abstractions have been applied on transparent panels that lean against a scarred factory wall, becoming devices that reanimate the marks and memories embedded in the building. An accompanying poster evokes the clamour that once would have filled the workshop in typographic form. Giménez has titled her project “La Constancia” (2016) in tribute to the labor union that called a general strike in 1913 to protest the conditions of the female and child workers who undertook the textile industry’s most monotonous and arduous tasks. – Latitudes

Regina Giménez (Barcelona, 1966) has exhibited individually at: ‘Architecture d’aujourd’hui’, The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2015); ‘Art de foc art de badoc’, Nadala 2015 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2015); ‘Simbols Convencionals’, Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona (2012). She has recently participated in the following group shows: Biennal de Valls, Tarragona (2015); ‘Modernitat Amagada’, Casa Capell, Mataró (2013); ‘La casa de la playa’ para ‘Cas de estudi’, Can Felipa, Barcelona (2013).

Giménez is represented by Ana Mas Projects, L’Hospitalet/San Juan (Puerto Rico) and by Galería Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona.

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“La Constancia” (2016) was commissioned for the second edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend (29 September–2 October 2016) as part of the “Composiciones” programme.

Curated by Latitudes for the second time (see 2015 edition), the project further explores Barcelona as a rich fabric of the historic and the contemporary, the unfamiliar and the conspicuous. Resisting an overall theme, and instead developing from the artists’ responses to the specificity of each context—people as well as places—the five art projects form a temporary thread that links evocative locations and public space, running parallel to the Weekend’s exhibitions in galleries and museums.

In its second edition, "Composiciones" presents interventions by Lúa Coderch (Club Billar Barcelona); Regina Giménez (Antigua Fábrica de Can Trinxet, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat); Lola Lasurt (Biblioteca Pública Arús); Robert Llimós (connecting all the participating galleries) and Wilfredo Prieto (Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona). Their projects offer moments of intermission, intimacy and bewilderment throughout the weekend, highlighting some lesser-known aspects of the city’s cultural heritage and municipal life.

Conceived and curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org

Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones2016/

Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-five-commissions-curated-...

Ominibus Aliados

BODY

Manufactured by Nippon Kogaku K. K., Japan (Nikon Corporation since 1988)

Model: 1976, Photomic, produced between 1971-1977

all F2 produced between 1971-1980

35mm film SLR camera, fully mechanical, (except posemeter)

Engravings on the top plate: F2 and serial no. 7802564

Nikon engraving on the front cover has flat characters , black coloured on chrome body, (covered with the front part of the finder)

Lens release: by pressing the knob left-front side of the camera, then turn the lens

DOF preview: via a button on the mirror-lock lever, on the rigtht-front side of the camera

Focusing: Screen Type K: Fresnel matte lens, w/ Split-image rangefinder with Microprism collar, w/ a 12 mm etched circle indicating the area of the meter center-weighting,

Type K is standard, interchangeable with many other type screens

Shutter: horizontal-travel focal plane shutter with titanium shutter curtains, mechanical

Normal speeds: 1 - 1/2000 +B, setting: dial on top of the camera coupled with the speed dial of the finder DP-1,

Automatic extra long exposure speeds: 2-10 seconds, setting: set the speed dial to B, then lift and turn the T-L fingerguard lever around the shutter release to T, then turn the self timer lever to desired exposure, scale on the lever, (also for self timer delay times), then press the shutter release

Manual T exposure: speed dial on B, T-L fingerguard lever on T

Shutter release: on the top plate, w/ threaded collar accepts Nikon F and F2-type cable releases, w/ T-L fingerguard lever (T for manual automatic long time exposures, L for locking the shutter, the normal position is the notche of the ring on the middle), make sure that after the time exposure set the lever to its normal position, otherwise the button will not pop-up

Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, retractable, also acts as a on/off switch

Frame counter: Additive type, auto-resets, window just front of the cocking kever

Mirror: Automatic instant-return type with lockup facility, lever on the rigtht-front side of the camera with DOF preview button on it

Viewfinder: Eyelevel SLR Pentaprism, Nikon Photomic Finder DP-1, (manufactured from 1971 to 1977), incorporates a precise center-weighted CdS exposure metering system which couples with the camera's lens aperture and shutter speed controls

w/ a small window on front of the DP-1 displays max. aperture of the lens

w/ flash ready-light contact, on the right side

DP-1 is standard for F2 Photomic, interchangeable with many other finders and focusing screens

Finder release: by pressing down the lever after depressing the knob on it, on the right of the finder, and then depressing the small silver knob on the back of the top plate, (the latter also releases the screen after removing the finder)

Exposure meter: TTL CdS two cell light meter, Shutter-priority control, 60/40 percent Center-weighted, full-aperture measurement,

ASA range: 6 - 6400, setting dial and ring on the DP-1, lift and turn

Metering range: EV 1 -19 on 100 ASA

Exposure setting: manual, center-the-needle pointer moving between horizontally arranged +/– (over / under exposure) markers, at the bottom of the viewfinder, by turning the aperture ring or speed dial, speed and aperture are visible in the viewfinder.

The needle array was duplicated on the top of the DP-1 head to allow exposure control without looking through the viewfinder.

Re-wind lever: folding crank type, vertical ribbing on its top, turns when winding

Re-wind release: button on the bottom plate

Flash PC socket: on the left-front of the top plate, X-sync.1/80

Hot shoe: special Nikon F2-type, at base of re-winding lever

Self-timer: Time setting scale on the lever, 2-10 seconds delay, (also for time eposures), activates by a small button behind the lever after cocking the shutter

Back cover: Hinged, removable, opens by turning O/C key on the bottom plate

w/ memo holder: cut and place your film's box's top cover

Motor drive coupling on the bottom plate

Engraving on the bottom plate: Made in Japan

Tripod socket: 1/4''

Strap lugs: chrome, reinforced with steel inserts

Body: heavy, all metal, Weight: 1134g w/ DP1, wo/ lens

Battery: only for exposure meter, 3v, (two 1.5v silver oxide, eg.SR44/EPX76 / two 1.5v alkaline eg.LR44 / 3v lithium), Battery chamber: on the bottom plate,

Battery check: when power is on, pressing the small button on front of the DP-1, moves the metering needle to left, the batteries are OK

On/off switch: the power is on: slightly pull-out the winding lever to uncover the red dot, off when it retracted.

F2 body serial no / manufacturing year data, F2 body features / typology are as to:

Richard de Stoutz

LENS

Nikkor-H Auto f=50mm 1:2, 6 elements in 4 groups (H means 6 elements),

Mount: Nikon F bayonet, non-AI lens,

Solid meter coupling prong, (no nostrils), single coated, filter thread: 52mm,

Focus range: 0.6-10m +inf

Aperture: f/2-f/16, on the scale number 16 blue coloured,

serial no.813027, according to this serial no:

Lens model is c.1969, (manufactured between 1968-71),

Surprise, a F1 lens on F2 body !.., seven years older than the body

The inner part of the barrel's front is chrome, a very unusual finish, (?)

A transition model between early and late versions of Nikkor-H for the Nikon F1,

F mount with 5 slot screws, Chrome lens Barrel, scalloped aperture setting ring

White coloured LENS MADE IN JAPAN engraved on the black focusing ring.

The character M has vertical sides.

The distance scale on the focusing ring is calibrated in feet and meters. Infinity setting is on the left side. The feet scale is yellow and is situated above the white meter scale.

The lens manufacturing year / serial no. data are as to:

Rolands Nikon Pages

The Lens model features / typology are as to:

Richard de Stoutz

Non-AI lenses fit on the Nikon F, early F2, Nikkormat FT, FTN, FT2, EL and ELW, and the Nikkorex F. They can be used without meter coupling on the earliest AI camera bodies such as the FM and FE, but they must not be mounted on later ones such as the FM2, as it is possible to damage the camera body.

The F2 is the second member of the long line of Nikon F-series professional level 35 mm SLRs that began with the Nikon F (manufactured 1959–1974) and followed each other in a sort of dynastic succession as the top-of-the-line Nikon camera. The other members were the F3 (1980–2001), F4 (1988–1996), F5 (1996–2005) and F6 (2004–present).

The F-series do not share any major components.

All Nikon professional F-series SLRs are full system cameras. This means that each camera body serves as only a modular hub.