The Borgward Isabella is a medium sized two door saloon that was manufactured by the Bremen based auto-manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward GmbH between 1954 and 1962. Initially the car was badged, like its predecessor, as the Hansa 1500, but within the company it was known from the beginning by the code name, Isabella (after Carl Borgward's wife), and cars produced after 1957 bore the ‘Isabella’ name, inscribed eye catchingly within the rhombus at the centre of the front grill: in retrospect the car produced from 1954 is known as the Isabella to differentiate it from the (first) Hansa 1500/1800 which the company produced between 1949 and 1954.

Despite its aspirational positioning in the marketplace, the Isabella had a smaller engine (and was marginally shorter) than its immediate predecessor. Late in 1952 the firm had launched their six cylinder Hansa 2400 model. The larger car never found many buyers; but in 1954 it made commercial sense to keep the two models from competing too directly with one another.

Initial sales volumes were not maintained. Responding to a sales decline of almost a third between 1955 and 1956, Carl Borgward decided to produce a more beautiful Isabella with a shortened roof line. The Borgward Isabella Coupé was developed, and the four hand built prototypes were well received by the press. Borgward gave one of these prototypes to his wife, Elizabeth, who would continue to drive it into the 1980s. Commercial production of the coupé, powered by the more powerful TS version of the engine first seen in the cabriolet, commenced in January 1957. The coupe appears to have achieved it’s marketing objective of further distancing the Isabella’s image from similarly sized competitors from Opel and Ford.

(Wikipedia)

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Die Borgward Isabella ist ein Mittelklassewagen der Carl F. W. Borgward G.m.b.H. in Bremen-Sebaldsbrück, das erfolgreichste Modell der Borgward-Gruppe, das ab 10. Juni 1954 zunächst unter dem Namen „Hansa 1500“ vom Band lief.

Der spätere Name „Isabella“ war nicht das Ergebnis von Marktuntersuchungen, sondern eine spontane Eingebung von Carl F. W. Borgward selbst. Gefragt, was man auf die noch streng geheimen Vorserien-Modelle schreiben solle, wenn sie Probefahrten im öffentlichen Verkehr machen, soll Borgward geantwortet haben: „Das ist mir egal; schreibt meinetwegen Isabella drauf."

Ab 1957 war der ursprüngliche Tarnname im Borgward-Rhombus des Kühlergrills zu lesen.

Die moderne Konzeption und die gefällige Erscheinung des Hansa 1500 (Isabella) wurden bei der Vorstellung 1954 enthusiastisch begrüßt. Der Wagen traf den Publikumsgeschmack und war vom ersten Tag an ein Verkaufserfolg. Der Wagen war nach einer Entwicklungszeit von nur zehn Monaten anfangs mit zahlreichen Kinderkrankheiten behaftet, die jedoch nach und nach abgestellt wurden.

Als 1956 der Absatz der Isabella gegenüber 1955 um fast ein Drittel zurückgegangen war, entschloss sich Carl Borgward, ein „schönes Auto“ mit verkürztem Dach zu bauen. Daraufhin entstand das Borgward Isabella Coupé, von dem zunächst vier Prototypen in die Öffentlichkeit gelangten und das Interesse der Presse weckten. Einen dieser handgefertigten Prototypen schenkte Borgward seiner Frau Elisabeth, die ihn bis in die 1980er Jahre fuhr.

Die Serienproduktion des Coupés (mit dem TS-Motor) begann im Januar 1957. Karl Deutsch in Köln wandelte auch dieses Modell in ein Cabriolet um, das aber den Schriftzug „Coupé“ am Heck behielt. Die Coupé-Cabriolets kosteten zwischen 15.600 und 17.000 DM.

(Wikipedia)

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-...

The year is 1937 and a new armory has been built on the Mississippi riverfront in Rock Island, IL. In the foreground is the old Milwaukee Road depot and toward the middle right is the old Burlinton Railroad depot. Both are long gone as is the railyard, the manufactured gas plant and the Hotel Harms(right of depot) The armory was demolished in 2009.

College of DuPage recently welcomed 243 high school students to campus for the second annual Manufacturing and Engineering Technology Career Expo. Students from Downers Grove South, Glenbard West, Glenbard East, Willowbrook, Fenton and York high schools visited with employers, watched a robotics demonstration and learned about educational paths for careers.

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.

16763U Celebration 3 ba/2 bed 1,178 sf

June 20, 2019. Gazipur, BANGLADESH. Bay Economic Zone Konabari, Gazipur BEZA. Photo: K M Asas / World Bank

Manufactured by Agfa Kamerawerk AG, Munich, Germany

Model: 1937, Isolette (as the name writing as Jsolette produced in only 1937)

note: The writing of Isolette looks like Jsolette because it is written with an old German capital letter "I" which resembles a "J", pronounced Isolette, and later changed with the new form of the "I" , in 1937 info from: Old German Letters

all Isolette 1936/37-1942

Stamping on the front plate leatherette: Agfa and Jsolette

Folder film camera, film 120 roll, format 6x6 and 6x4.5 w/ a built in internal mask halves

Lens: Agfa Anastigmat Igestar 85mm f/6.3, uncoated, ( writing as Jgestar)

filter slip-on, art deco front plate

Aperture: f/6.3-f/32, (no click stops), setting: lever and dial on the lens-shutter barrel

Focusing: manual front element focusing, guess the distance,

ring and dial on front of the lens

Focus range: 1-10m +inf,

3m and 10m are red coloured, a reminder for portrait and group shots

Shutter: Vario leaf shutter (I guess, because the very early models have Vario, but not named on the lens-shutter barrel), speeds: 1/25-1/125 + T&B (no click stops)

setting: lever and dial on the lens-shutter barrel

Cocking and Shutter release: by the same small knob on the right of the top plate,

pressing this button cocks the shutter and release it on the same time

Viewfinder: simple optical direct vision finder,

a small lever on the back of the top plate adjusts the finder for 6x6 and 6x4.5 formats

Winding knob: on the left of the top plate

Flash PC socket: none

Cold-shoe: none

Self-timer: lever on the lens-shutter barrel

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

w/ two red windows with a lid, an Agfa Isopan film sticker inside of the back cover

Bellows: auto opens by a small knob on the left of the top plate, closes by pressing the struts

Tripod socket: old 3/8'' w/ 1/4'' adapter

Strap lugs

Body: metallic, top plate: a plastic called Trolitan

Weight: 504g

serial no. none

The Agfa Isolette is a horizontal-folding medium format camera made by Agfa from 1936/37 until 1950. This folder first came on the market as the Isorette (the name writing as Jsorette) but the name changed to Isolette (the name writing as Jsolette,

quite soon. From late 1937 the name's writing changed again to Isolette.There are two distinct models the early one and the later (post WW2) one.

Isolette (Jsolette) early model: The camera here is from the first production year of the Isolette series. It was called in Germany during the WWII times the "Soldatenkamera" (soldiers camera) also.

One of the very distinctive features is the top plate which is made of a pre-war plastic called Trolitan. There were so many different lens/shutter combinations.

On the early Isolettes the front focusing element were frozen in time which is aparently typical.

The Agfa Isolette models include:

Isorette (the name writing as Jsorette) 1936 (Some sources say 1937)

Isolette (the name writing as Jsolette) 1937

Isolette (Early model, lens f/6.3) 1937-42

Isolette (Late model of Isolette f/6.3, the lens was only f/4.5, the name writing was somewhat arbitrary at that times like Isolette or Jsolette) 1946-50

Isolette I 1952-60

Isolette V 1950-52

Isolette II 1950-60

Isolette III 1952-58

Isolette L 1957-60

more info about Isolette: Agfa Isolette

+original leather ever ready case and strap

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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

The Sea Fury was a British fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Hawker. It was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, and also one of the fastest production single piston-engined aircraft ever built. Developed during the Second World War, the Sea Fury entered service two years after the war ended. The Sea Fury proved to be a popular aircraft with a number of overseas militaries, and it was successfully used during the Korean War in the early 1950s where it could keep up with 1st generatiom jet fighters like the MiG-15.

After the end of hostilities, the 'Turbo Furies' were quickly phased out since it had become clear that they had become too vulnerable in battlefield conditions.

General characteristics

Crew: One

Length: 36 ft 2 in (11.05 m)

Wingspan: 38 ft 43⁄4 in (11.69 m)

Height: 15 ft 101⁄2 in (4.84 m)

Wing area: 280 ft2 (26.01 m2)

Empty weight: 10.500 lb (4.767 kg)

Loaded weight: 14,100 lb (6.400 kg)

Max. takeoff weight: 15,650 lb (7.105 kg)

Powerplant:

1× Allison T56 turboshaft engine rated at 2.206 kW (3.000 hp) plus 750 lbs of residual thrust

Performance:

Maximum speed: 490 mph (427 knots, 790 km/h) at 18,000 ft (5,500 m)

Range: 700 mi (609 nmi, 1,126 km) with internal fuel;

1,040 mi (904 nmi, 1,674 km) with two drop tanks

Service ceiling: 35,800 ft (10,910 m)

Rate of climb: 4,320 ft/min (21.9 m/s)

Armament:

4× 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk V cannons in the wings

Eight underwing hardpoints for an external load of 4.000 lb (1.814 kg),

including bombs, unguided rockets, napalm tanks or drop tanks

The kit and its assembly:

Well, the combination of a WWII figher design and a C-130 Hercules sounds like an unlikely combination, but that's what I built. The idea of revamped piston-engine aircraft for a post-WWII-use has its charm and continually brings forth impressive designs, so here's another contribution to that wild bunch of whifs.

Inspiration came with a set of 1:72 aftermarket C-130J resin engine nacelles from OzMods, which I had bunkered a while ago. One idea had been to modify a P-51 Mustang, as an alternative to the Cavalier Enforcer. But then I remembered the very succesful Hawker Sea Fury and its many international users - and a check with a fuselage confirmed that an engine swap might be rather easy!

The kit I used is the simple but solid Sea Fury from Pioneer2/PM Models. The Hercules engines are an almost perfect fit - the original fuselage just had to be cut away behind the original exhaust reflectors. Some sculpting had to be done on both sides, and the wing roots filled up in order to match the new, more narrow engine, but things went really smoothly.

For the turboprop's exhaust I drilled up oval holes on the fuselage flanks, under the cockpit, and inserted styrene tubes - the best position I could think of?

The spinner comes from the OzMods set, too, but the C-130J sickle-shaped propeller blades were just a bit too modern and too large for the Sea Fury. I was lucky to have some spare blades from a Pavla propeller set for the Academy B-24 Liberator - these were attached to the pointed spinner, and it looks menacing!

Otherwise, only littel things were changed. In the cockpit a new seat and a dashboard cover were added. The underwing hardpoints were new, too, and I added some antennae for a more modern and purposeful look of the aicraft.

All pylons are new, and the bomb ordnance was puzzled together from the spares box.

Painting and markings:

It took a while to settle on a user and a respective livery. The Netherlands had been a serious option, Myanmar and Morocco, too, but I eventually settled for Pakistan because the timeframe would provide a plausible story, and the PAF would also provide a good, if not unique, paint scheme.

Most PAF Sea Furies had been painted in Mid Stone/Dark Earth/Azure Blue, but some had the dark brown tone replaced by an "Olive Green". I was not able to turn up a photo of such an aircraft, only a profile, though, so there's some guessing involved.

Basic colors are Humbrol 84 (Mid Stone), Modelmaster #2091 (RLM 82) and #2087 (RLM 78), later shaded with Humbrol 83 (ochre), 102 and FS 35414.

The cockpit interior was kept in very dark gray, the landing gear is in Aluminum.

Decals come 100% from the Pakistani option from PM Model's Sea Fury T.61 trainer - they were printed slighlty offset, but I rolled with it as the flaw is not very obvious.

In the end, the "Turbo Fury" looks very conclusive, and the whole thing was tinkered together in less than 3 days (plus some time for the pics). And the conversion is rather easy to realize - there are more potential users of this whiffy creation...

[From Wikipedia]

The Citroën Bijou is a small coupé manufactured by Citroën at the premises they had occupied since 1925 in Slough, England. The Bijou was assembled from 1959 until 1964. It was based on the same platform chassis as the Citroën 2CV, sharing its advanced independent front to rear interconnected suspension. The car's appearance was thought to be more in line with the conservative taste of British consumers than the unconventional and uncompromisingly utilitarian rural look of the standard 2CV.

The body was made of fibreglass, and the car featured the two-cylinder 425 cc 12 bhp engine also seen in the 2CV. Only 210 were produced, plus two prototypes. It incorporated some components from the DS, most noticeably the single-spoke steering wheel.

It was designed by Peter Kirwan-Taylor, by now already known as the stylist of the elegant 1957 Lotus Elite, another fibreglass-bodied car. Bijou bodies were initially moulded by a company called "Whitson & Co", close to Citroën's Slough premises, but it later proved necessary to transfer this work to another supplier.

Disappointing sales levels for the UK's own Citroën seem to have been down to the Bijou's price, which at the time of the 1959 motor show was £674. At this time the British market was acutely price sensitive, and buyers could choose a Ford Popular with four doors, four seats and a much larger engine for £494.

The Bijou's more modern styling gave it a higher top speed and lower cruising fuel consumption than the equivalent 2CV; however, the greater weight of the bodywork had an adverse impact on the car's more general performance, especially its acceleration. The Bijou was considered expensive by the testers. It was also more expensive than the Austin Mini, but the Bijou was supposed to be more distinguished.

As of 2013, nearly 150 Bijous were on the 2CVGB club register, but fewer than 40 are still on the roads.

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When I was growing up, the president of the Citroen owners club for the city that I lived in, lived up the road. He had a whole bunch of kooky cars that he owned, or that regularly came to visit, but a pale yellow small car always sat near the fence, with its butt poking out. I never knew what it was until the interweb allowed some research, and I discovered it was on of these Bijou. One of only 210 built.

Interior of bus with seats, with photograph facing the end of bus

Manufactured by Yashica Camera Co., Japan (lens made in Japan, body Hong-Kong )

Model: c.1983 (produced 1973-1987)

35 mm film Rangefinder camera

Lens: Color-Yashinon DX, 45mm f/1.7, six elements in 4 groups,

filter thread: 55mm, slip-on: 57mm

Aperture: f/1.7 - f/16 setting: ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel w/ exposure symbols

Focusing: helical focusing, matching yellow rangefinder images,

ring and scale behind the lens, easy use handles on the ring, w/ DOF scale

Focus range: 0.8-6m +inf

Shutter: Copal electronic leaf shutter, stepless 30-1/500 +B, very quiet,

only works on 1/500 without the battery, setting: auto, solid state electronic brain sets the shutter speed, according to the light intensity measured by CdS sensor

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

Shutter release: on front of the winding lever, w/ cable release socket, w/ locking lever

Frame counter: window beside the cocking lever, advance type, auto reset

Viewfinder: Fully coupled viewfinder / rangefinder, w/ bright frame for parallax compensation,

red and yellow arrows for over and exposure in it

appears when half-pressing the shutter release

Exposure meter: CdS cell meter, located to the right of the rangefinder

Exposure setting: aperture priority auto, + Bulb and Flash modes,

setting ring on the lens-shutter barrel, over and under exposure LEDs on the top-plate,

after winding and half pressing to the shutter release lights the LEDs, orange: under exp.

red: over exp. no lighting: correct exposure, turn the aperture ring to find the correct exp.

this setting is also possible by arrows in the viewfinder

Film speed: ASA 25 - 1000, setting dial on the top plate

Re-wind: folding crank, on the left of the top plate, turns when winding

Re-wind release: small button on the bottom plate

Self-timer: lever on the lens-shutter barrel

Flash PC socket: left upper side of the camera, X sync at all speeds

Hot-shoe

Back cover: Hinged, opens by lifting the re-wind knob

Battery: 5.6v PX32 (4 NR 52) mercury battery, compatible with 6v PX28A (476A/4LR44 alkaline or 4 piece 1.5v, for this battery, the chamber must be arranged with a spiral wire

Battery chamber: lid on the bottom plate

Battery check button: on the back of the top plate, green lamp in the frame counter window

Tripod socket: 1/4''

Engraving on the top plate: Electro 35

Engraving on the bottom plate: Kyocera

Body : metal, Weight: 750g

Strap lugs

serial no: 2524777

+ Original strap and ever ready case

Photos by the camera

Manufactured by Krasnogorsky Mekhanichesky Zavod (KMZ) ,(Красногорский механический завод = Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk), Moscow, USSR

Stamping on the Black metal plate: Зоркий-5 (= Zorki-5), means Sharp Sight

Model: 1959, type 5b, (produced between 1958-59)

All Zorki-5 Cameras produced between 1958-59, quantity 236501

As to Alexandr Komarov

35mm film Rangefinder camera

Engravings on the back of the top plate: KMZ logo, serial no. and

СДЕЛАНО В СССР ( = SDELANO V SSSR = MADE IN USSR)

Lens: KMZ Industar-50 (ИНДУСТАР) 50mm f/ 3.5, collapsable,

Mount: M39 screw mount, filter slip-on, serial no.5948733

Lens release: simply screw anti-clockwise

Aperture: f/3.5-f/16, no click stops; setting: ring and dial on front of the lens

Focus range: 1-20m +inf

Focusing: matching rangefinder images in the finder, lever and scale on the rear of the lens, w/ DOF scale; Focusing lever locks on infinity

Shutter: horizontal travelling focal plane, rubberized silk double cloth curtain;

speeds: 30-500 +B; setting: dial on the top plate, lift and turn

Shutter release: on the cocking lever knob

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

Frame counter: on the cocking lever knob, additive type, manual reset

Viewfinder: coupled rangefinder/ viewfinder, blue rangefinder images, orange glass, very bright

Diopter adjustment lever: beneath the re-wind knob

Re-wind knob: on the left of the top plate

Re-wind release: via a small knob beside the shutter speeds dial

Flash PC sockets: two, bulb and X, on the left side of the top plate

Cold-shoe

Memory dial : on the re-wind knob

Self-timer: none

Film loading: bottom loading like old Leicas,

Bottom plate opens by a pop-up lever on it,

Engravings around the opening ring:

3aKP - ОTKP (= Zakr - Otkr = Close - Open). ОTKP is an abbreviation for ОТКРЫТЫЙ

Special take up-spool, removable

Tripod socket: Old type 3/8''

Strap lugs

Body: metal, Weight:604g

serial no. 59073510 (first two digits correspond to the production year)

+ original leather ever ready case

On Zorki, as with other Soviet-era rangefinders, the shutter speed selector rotates when the shutter is released, and should not be changed until after the shutter has been cocked. If you change the shutter speed without cocking the shutter first, the setting pin can be broken when you advance the film and cock the shutter.

The Zorki-5 is one of the less known Zorki model. Some collectors consider it (and its successor Zorki-6) one of the best Zorkis ever made.

Zorki-5 is a modified Zorki 2S (similar to the FED-2): a longer rangefinder base, an advance lever instead of knob, a combined viewfinder and rangefinder window, and an adjustable diopter.

The Zorki-5 comes in two versions with 7 types. The first version with a square rangefinder window and Industar-50 both collapsible or rigid lens. The second version is very similar to the Zorki-6. With a round rangefinder window and Industar-50 f3.5/50mm lens.

There are at least 2 different body coverings.

The very early models of Zorkis are Russian Leica II inspired cameras, but later models like Zorki-4 are quite different from the Leicas. Zorkis are very nicely made and finished. The results are as good as any Leica.

KMZ founded in 1942, in order to produce optical equipment for the war needs.

KMZ factory began making cameras, starting with the Moskva folding camera in 1946.

They began producing FED cameras to cover the low production of FED factory in 1948.

The factory made some design and technical changes on FED, so the production of the Zorki began in 1949. KMZ factory is the manufacturer of the Zenit and Moskva cameras also.

In 1952, KMZ created an SLR based on some modifications of the Zorki, and thus the Zenit was born.

more info: in Sovietcams, in Camerapedia, in Cameraquest

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Manufactured by VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, at the Ernst Abbe Factory- Eisfeld, Thüringen, East Germany

Model: 1964, type 3c, (produced between 1961-64)

all Werra produced between 1954-66

35mm film Rangefinder camera

Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8, four elements in there groups, interchangeable, mount: special bayonet, filter thread 30.5mm, serial no. 6782463,

w/ special lens hood, also usable as a sealing cover the whole lens with removable front cap

*There is a logo on the lens, Q coupled with 1, means "Erste Qualität" (=first quality). This was a designation for East-German exports to the West. Models produced for the home market lacked this logo.

**There were Flektogon 35mm f/2,8 and Cardinar 100mm f/4 lenses for this camera

***After mounting the lens, by turning the aperture setting ring, the lens diaphragm couples with the aperture setting ring on the shutter

Aperture: f/2.8-f/22,

Aperture setting: scale and ring on the shutter, coupled with the shutter speeds ring, it is usable independently by pressing small ratchet (coupling key) on the ring; also coupled with the diaphragm of the lens

Lens release: turn to left the clamping milled ring just behind the lens on the shutter then simply remove the lens, after mounting the lens the aperture ring must be turned once to the left and once to the right when simultaneously pressing the coupling key

Focusing: rangefinder split-image, match the images; focusing ring, distance and DOF scales on the lens

Focus range: 0.8-12m +inf, (2.3-40 feet)

Shutter: Prestor-RVS central leaf shutter, speeds: 1-1/750 +B,

setting : Coupled with the aperture ring, speeds and scale ring on the shutter barrel;

it is usable independently by pressing the coupling key, (there is no knurling or serrated edge on the shutter speed dial !).

*There are ASA/DIN scales on the speeds ring also, adjusting by a small lever on the thin sliding ring, just front of the speeds ring

**This mechanism allows constant speed/aperture settings according to light value system, a popular feature at that times

Cocking : Turning the leatherette covered ring around the lens cocks the shutter and advanced the film in one motion.

Shutter release: on the top plate of the camera, w/ cable release socket, (only control on that place)

Frame counter: on the bottom plate, manual setting, advance type

Viewfinder: Coupled rangefinder/viewfinder, rectangular split image field on the center, frames for 35-50-100mm, w/ diopter adjusting ring around the eyepiece

Re-wind lever: folding crank type, on the bottom plate of the camera

Re-wind release: small silver knob on the bottom plate

Flash PC socket: on the right side of the camera, flash sync all speeds, X and M,

setting: flash type selector lever below the lens-shutter barrel, M-X-V index on the bottom plate, select X or M (bulb)

Cold-shoe: none

Self-timer: select V on M-X-V index by flash synchro selector lever, (V = Vorlaufwerk)

Back cover: opens with the bottom plate, by knurled ring around the tripod socket on the bottom plate, turn left with thumbs until it clicks, index point of the ring and index mark on the tripod socket must be in opposite position, then slide out back with both thumbs until it lifts off easily

Tripod socket: old type, 3/8''

Strap lugs

Body: metal, Weight: 544g

serial no. 579665 (inside of the camera)

+original leather ever ready case

Werra type 3c special features: Black cover, rewind crank, chrome ring around the viewfinder.

Werra is the name of a small river close to the Eisfeld factory.

The cameras offer a high degree of control with a minimum number of levers, knobs or rings. Werras were minimalist designed cameras. Nearly all the controls are located in rings around the lens. Werras were known as Volkskamera also.

Werra was an only and unique camera that it was developed and released by a lens manufacturer, Carl-Zeiss Jena, not by Zeiss-Ikon of the West Germany.

Lenses marked Carl Zeiss Jena, only Jena or T depending of the period they were made or the target markets.

The Werra series was discontinued in 1966 after Carl Zeiss Jena was assimilated by VEB Pentacon in 1964.

more info about Werras and typing/dating :

Les Werra in Krg website, mediajoy,

Butkus manuals, UKcamera

Manufactured by Voigtländer & Sohn AG, Braunschweig, Germany

Model: c.1938, produced between 1938-41

Bessa 66 and Bessa 46 (4.5x6cm format) series also known as Baby Bessa,

all Baby Bessa series produced between 1938-41, 1945-50

Folder film camera, film: 120 roll, picture size: 6x6cm

Stylised "V" embossed on a disc fitted to the centre of the front cover

Lens: Voigtländer Voigtar 75mm f3.5, three elements, uncoated

w/ hinged Moment yellow filter, serial no.none

Aperture: f/3.5-f/16, setting: Lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Focusing: Manual front focusing, guess the distance,

Focus range: 1-30m +inf

DOF scale: a turning knob, on the right of the top plate

Shutter: Gauthier Prontor II speeds: 1-1/175 + T&B setting: ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Cocking lever: on the lens-shutter barrel

Shutter release: lever shape like, on the front cover, retracted when the camera is closed

Cable release socket: on the lens-shutter barrel

Winding knob: on the left of the top cover

Viewfinder: simple folding frame finder

Front cover: Opens automatically by a button on the bottom plate of the camera,

closing: pushing upwards the red buttons on the struts

Flash PC socket: none

Self-timer: lever, on the lens-shutter barrel

Back cover: Hinged, w/ red window and built-in lid, cover opens by two steps, first rotate the locking lever under the camera 90 degrees and then press the two spring tabs in on the left side of the camera

Locking lever: on the bottom plate, also serves as a camera leg when extended

There is a sticker in the back cover: Voigtländer Film

Engravings on back cover: Voigtländer logo, Bessa 66, Germany

Tripod socket: old type 3/8''

Strap lugs : none

Body: metal, Weight: 471g

Serial no.none

Bessa 66 was in a long series of Bessa cameras and offered with a vast combination of shutters and lenses. Hinged yellow filter was on very early models.

It was replaced by Perkeo in 1950, it had a more modern look.

There were two camera models with two sizes each in Baby Bessa series:

* Bessa 46 and Bessa 66 with optical viewfinder on the top plate (deluxe model)

* Bessa 46 and Bessa 66 with simple folding frame finder.

More info: Mario Groleau, Voigtlander collection, Alan Macpherson's Classic Cameras

Rangefinder manufactured 22 April 1959 by the Arsenal factory in Kiev (Ukraine, then Soviet Union).

Officially the camera is a Type Kiev 3A (sn #5829479) with Jupiter-8 5cm f/2 (sn #5904897), but the camera appears to be an odd hybrid / cross-over model.

DESCRIPTION

The camera body is that of a Kiev 4 (KNEB subtype 2a (recognisable by the fold-lines for increased rigidity on the top plate of the light meter and the stop bolt on the cold shoe [see Alexander Komarov's Fotoua site]), (standard subtype 2a here) with the sn# 5829479.

     The removable camera back, however, is that of a Kiev 3 / 3A (with the typical fold-out stabilisation foot [see Alexander Komarov's Fotoua site]), the prominent lock levers and the exposed rewind release.

     The shutter speed lettering is executed black, while slightly later Kiev 4 seem to have red lettering. Maximum shutter speed: 1/1250th sec. (later Kiev 4 have only 1/1000th).

     The camera comes fitted with a with Arsenal-made Jupiter-8 (ЮПИТЕР-8) f/2 50mm sn #5904897 (and not the Jupiter-8M that is normally associated with a Kiev 4. The lens is a Type PT3570 released by Arsenal in 1957-1959. HOWEVER the lens mounted on this unit differs from the standard Type PT3570 inasmuch as the outside of the front lens ring is not silver but black, a feature that is normally associated with Type PT3580 , the Jupiter-8M.

     The camera has a Russian name plate. The selenium light meter still works and is quite accurate!

ADDITIONAL DATA

This is not some later haphazard commingling of various pieces, however. That this is original configuration is evidenced by the card board tag as well as by the camera "passport" which both state the unit to be a Kiev IIIA and which list the correct body and lens serial numbers. To further add to the confusion, the camera "passport" exhibits a quality assurance date of 22 April 1959. It was sold on 2 November 1962 in shop N14 Kalinin (now Tver) in Russia. As the Kiev 3A production finished in early 1959, it is likely that the camera was assembled from Kiev 4 (body) and Kiev 3A parts (back and lens). (I am indebted to Alexander Komarov (Ukraine)] for some of the data).

OTHER EXAMPLES

In this post three other examples of such a cross-over model are mentioned and one depicted. These cross-over models are very rare.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

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Manufactured by Fuji Photo Film Co.,Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Model: 2004 (produced between 2003-2005?)

Compact, SLR like (bridge) digital camera

Lens: Super EBC Fujinon 35-210mm (7.8-46.8mm), f/2.8-3.1, 6X optical zoom, w/ super macro, collapsable, Mount: fixed lens, (EBC: electron beam coating)

Aperture: f/2.8-f/8, ten steps with 1/3 EV increments, setting: Auto, manual possible

Focus: TTLcontrast type, Auto, manual possible

Focus range:

**normal: 50cm wide-angle, 90cm telephoto to inf,

**macro: 10-80cm, super macro: 1-20cm

Shutter: electronic focal-plane, speeds: Auto 1/4 - 1/1000, manual 15-1/10.000

Viewfinder: 0.44 inch electronic viewfinder, and 1.8" LCD monitor

Photometry: TTL 64 zones metering, w/ multi,spot,average

CCD: 4th generation 1/1.7 inch Super CCD HR,

File format: Still image: DCF-compliant

Compressed: Exif Ver.2.2 JPEG, DPOF-compatible

Design rule for Camera File System compliant DPOF compatible,

Uncompressed: CCD-RAW (RAF)

Number of total pixels: effective 6.63 megapixel, recorded 12.3 megapixel

Number of recorded pixels:

Still image: raw recorded 4048 × 3040 (12.3 mega pixels) / 2848 × 2136 pixels / 2016 × 1512 pixels / 1600 × 1200 pixels / 1280 × 960 pixels (6M, 3M, 2M, 1M)

Movie: 640 × 480 pixels (30 frames per second with monaural sound),

320 × 240 pixels (30 frames per second with monaural sound)

Color modes: Standard, chrome, B&W

White balance: Auto, manual possible

Exposure Setting Modes: Manual, Aperture priority, Shutter priority, Program, Auto, Scene mode (portrait, landscape, sports, night scene), Movie

Sensitivity: Auto 160-800 ISO; Manual: 200, 400, 800 ISO

Flash: pop-up autoflash, w/ flash control sensor, with many modes

Video: Output: NTSC/PAL, format: AVI Motion JPEG

Audio: WAVE format, Monaural sound

Dual Storage media:

**xD-Picture Card

**Compact Flash Type II Microdrives up to 2GB.

Self-timer: 2 sec-10sec

Hot-shoe, Tripod socket: 1/4'', Strap lugs

Body: Weight: 500g wo/ batteries

Power supply: 4 AA alkaline or Ni-MH batteries or AC Power Adapter AC-5VH/AC-5VHS On/off switch: around the shutter release

Input / Output Terminals:

**A/V output socket 2.5 mm dia. jack

**USB (mini-B) socket For file transfer to a computer

**DC Input Socket for specified AC Power adapter AC-5VH/AC-5VHS (sold separately

serial no. 34A36144

Fujifilm made two conversion lens kits available, a 1.50x tele conversion lens and a 0.79x wide-angle conversion lens, both of which come with a 55mm thread diameter adapter extension tube.

Fujifilm S7000 is a Bridge camera.

The term Bridge camera means that it fills the gap between the SLRs and the Point-and-shoot cameras. They are often comparable in size and weight to the smallest Digital SLRs, but almost all digital bridge cameras lack an optical viewfinder system (film bridges generally had a lighter version of a reflex finder). In addition, SLRs normally feature interchangeable lenses, while current bridge cameras do not. The term has been in use at least since the 1980s for film cameras, and continues to be used with digital cameras.

more info: Bridge camera in Wikipedia, FinePix S7000 in Wikipedia, S7000 manual, Steve's Digicams

Photos by the camera

Manufactures Plate

I-5 Design and Manufacture created a themed environment for this gaming floor area at the Little Creek Casino in Shelton, WA. One of the main ceiling elements was the two large suspended ‘salmon’ swimming in the center of the soffit ceiling area, that gives the feeling of a flowing river. The fish housed concealed LED illumination and a custom ‘guardian of the sun’ chandelier was in between them. Click here to see more examples of casino design

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This bike is just GORGEOUS!

The Yamaha YZF-R1, or R1, is an open class sport bike, or superbike, motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha Motor Company since 1998.

REVIEW:

Motorcycle News Overall Vedict 5/5:

This is like no in-line-four cylinder sportsbike ever produced. It’s simply sensational. The Yamaha R1’s ultra-short-stroke engine has a cross-plane crankshaft, with its crank pins set at 90° and has irregular firing intervals, which is technology lifted directly from Valentino Rossi’s factory YZR-M1. At a standstill the motor spins up like a two-stroke and on the move the R1’s ability to accelerate, no matter where you are in the revs is astonishing. Thanks to the clever engine design it grunts off corners like a V-twin, while giving superb feel through the rear tyre, and howls along straights like the mad, bad in-line-four it really is. Best of all it sounds just like Rossi’s M1 at full chat.

Engine 5/5:

In addition to its new cross plane crankshaft, (all other in-line-fours have a 180° flat plane crank) the Yamaha R1’s engine now has the shortest stroke of any 1000 as well as the previous R1: 2007/8 R1: 77 x 53.6mm, 2009 R1: 78 x 52.2mm. That would normally make for a peaky power delivery, but new crank and firing order fill in the low and mid-range grunt. Peak power remains the same as before, but torque is up by 2ftlb. Power: 179bhp@12,500rpm. Torque: 85ftlb@10,000rpm. The most noticeable difference compared to previous R1s is how quickly it accelerates out of corners.

As before, the motor has forged aluminium pistons, fracture-split conrods, ceramic composite plated cylinders, titanium inlet valves and exhaust and a slipper clutch. The piggy back generator has been moved down to the end of crank to make room for the new, lower fuel tank.

The fuel injection system, featuring electronically controlled variable length inlet trumpets, now has shower injectors in upper airbox like the Yamaha R6. The fly-by-wire throttle system is modified to give better control of air intake volume.

Mounted on the right switchgear, the new D-mode system lets you chose, via the fly-by-wire throttle, three levels of throttle response: A, B and standard. The engine makes the same power in each mode (unlike the GSX-R’s which cuts power in its power modes). On A mode, the throttles open 30% faster between quarter and half throttle and 30% slower for B mode.

Ride & Handling 5/5:

Compared to the previous Yamaha R1, the ’09 model is sharper steering but still retains the familiar Yamaha neutral feel. The R1’s twin-spar deltabox frame and swingarm, made up of die-cast and pressed sheets of aluminium has the balance and dimensions similar to the factory M1. It’s now stronger and weaker in all the right areas, like more flex in steering head area for better front end feel and more rigidity in swingarm pivot for control.

The engine is mounted 9° steeper and 8.2mm further forward than before, putting more weight on the front end. Weight distribution is now 52.4%, 47.6% front to rear. The riding position is more compact (bars are 10mm closer to rider, the seat 7.6mm further forward and pegs 10mm forward). The wheelbase is down 5mm to 1415mm.

An R6-type magnesium subframe, shorter titanium end cans and a shorter, lower fuel tank improve mass-centralisation. Footrests are now two-way adjustable, 155mm up and 3mm back.

43mm upside down forks now have independent damping, compression in left, rebound in right leg. Yamaha says this improves the damping response. As the forks are connected by the yokes and wheel spindle it’s all one unit, so is still balanced out properly. The rear shock has a new bottom link set-up and a new hydraulic preload adjuster. The steering damper is now speed sensitive, controlled electronically

The ’09 Yamaha R1 carries the same six-piston caliper (but on different design carriers) and 310mm disc set-up as the previous model Discs are slightly lighter than before. The master cylinder lever ratio is improved and lightened by 25g and the lever shape itself is new. The rear tyre profile is up from 50 to 55-section for better side grip.

Equipment 5/5:

The Yamaha R1 has it all: projector headlights with electronically-controlled internal reflectors to change them from high to low beam, ride-by-wire throttles, variable-length inlet trumpets, fully adjustable suspension, slipper clutch, six-piston brake calipers, variable power maps, lots of titanium parts (like exhaust and inlet valves), adjustable footpegs, the list goes on.

Quality & Reliability 5/5:

Yamaha R1s tend to be bomb-proof, even when raced and there’s no reason to suspect this one will be any different; in fact, the crank design helps the engine to spin more smoothly at high rpm. Build quality is right up there with the best.

Value for money 5/5:

For the first time in its history the Yamaha R1 touches the ten-grand mark. It’s a lot of cash, but when you think that the original was £9199 in 1998, we’ve actually had it very good for a very long time. Also, when you think how close the Yamaha R1 is now to a MotoGP machine, you’ll realise it’s a lot of bike for the money.

Source: www.motorcyclenews.com/mcn/bikereviews/searchresults/bike...

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When I think about it, the implications of living near a nuclear power plant are staggering. But, I've only recently moved into the area. Most people I've talked acknowledge the nightmare that could happen, but they no longer think about it. Those cooling towers are simply part of the landscape.

Manufactured by GOMZ , (Государственный Оптико-Механический завод. Gosularstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod = State Optical-Mechanical Factory), Leningrad, former USSR

Smena = Смена, means Young Generation.

Model: c.1960, type 3b GOMZ (produced between 1956-62)

All Smena series produced between 1953-1960 by GOMZ and c.1958 by MMZ with quantity of 1.774.847 units (MMZ model is not included).

First series of Smena is also known as Smena-1

35mm film Viewfinder camera

Typing is as to in Fotoua by Alexander Komarov

Lens: GOMZ T-22 (Triplet) 40mm f/4.5 filter slip-on serial no.355676

Aperture:f/4.5-f/22setting: ring and scale on front of the lens

Focusing: manual front focusing, guess the distance, ring and scale on the lens

Focus range: 1.3-10m +inf

Shutter: central leaf shutter, speeds: 1/10-1/200 +B

setting : ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Shutter release: on the lens-shutter barrel

Cable release socket: on the lens-shutter barrel

Cocking lever: on the lens-shutter barrel

Frame counter: manual setting, window on the top plate, not works wo/film

Winding knob: on the left of the top plate

Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder

Re-wind lever: none, two cassettes must use always

Flash PC socket: none

Cold-shoe

Back cover: removable, opens by a latch on the right side of the camera

Engraving on the back cover: GOMZ logo

Tripod socket: 3/8"

Strap lugs: None

Body: bakelite; Weight: 290g

serial no. on the lens

more info:

Camerapedia

in Fotoua by Alexander Komarov

in SovietCams Aidas Pikiotas