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I found the podcast “Mapping” to be interesting to listen to because I’ve known about “This American Life” for a couple months through episodes on Netflix. I thought the episodes were very enlightening because they shed light on the unique lifestyles of American people that you might not ever hear about otherwise. This particular podcast relates to the overall theme of the show – to examine the unknown lifestyles of people in this country. In this case, people are replaced with the five senses.
I really liked the part where the narrator explained that the podcast intended to demonstrate how people have become desensitized to society, that we live throughout the day in a catatonic state and miss all the glorious details that are present in virtually everything. This reminded me of a topic I wrote about in a previous class that had to do with our increasing reliability on technology to communicate. We rely so heavily on texting, Facebook or blogging to express ourselves (ironically stated through a blog for class…hehe), and many people are choosing to hide behind a virtual alias instead of having an organic, face-to-face conversation with someone. This podcast is similar in that we are decreasing our interaction our surroundings; we’re not having as many face-to-face conversations with nature as we used to, so to speak. We’re missing out on little details that have the same level of importance as the big picture.
I loved the part about the electronic nose, as weird as it was to listen to. I think mapping the world based on smells would be a really cool way to teach about the diversity of world cultures, or to even explain history. The development of our country could be explained through smells that had to do with major events, like the smell of gunpowder from the American Revolution or explosives for mining in the nineteenth century.
I agree with the podcast’s message that people need to learn to pay better attention to their surroundings. It’s so easy to miss a beautiful moment by simply keeping your eyes forward. Stop and look around once in a while, and you may even find something new and wonderful about a familiar place.
From May 1st to June 30, 2026, by episodes, I brought along with me my brand new Pentax 17 camera (see details below) loaded with a 36 (=72 for the half ormat 17x24mm) exposure negative color film Washi-X.
Washi-X color film (spooled in France) is likely Kodak Aerocolor IV Negative Film 2460, a film still in use for general use in medium- to high-altitude aerial-mapping and aerial-reconnaissance photography. It is suited for geological, pollution, archeological, crop and forestry studies; traffic control; city planning; railway, highway, and hydraulic engineering; oceanography; and remote sensing, as well as other areas where photogrammetry is use.
I own the Pentax 17 camera since April 2025. I appreciate a lot its image quality despite de 17x24mm format. It is the sort of camera remaining simple but capable to photography in almost all current conditions. It very compact, light and a joy to use. The Pentax 17 was equipped with a protective 40.5 screwed polarizing filter. For the camera transportation, I used a small camera bag ThinkTank « Mirrorless Mover 5 » that was well protecting the camera from possibly damaging vibrations when using my bicycle.
The expositions were automatically metered by the camera system using the « P » program modes with, or without, flash. For very bright scenes the exposition was corrected by +0.3 to +1EV to compensate the biais induced (and reversely -0.3 to 0.7 EV for very dark scenes to objects).
Film side leaks due to the polyester base of the film conducting light from the film leader.
July 1, 2026
69004 Lyon
France.
After completion (78 frames), the film was given to local lab service for C-41 color processing.
Single-frame digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm at approximate reproduction ratio of 1:2. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 15.4 of June 2026) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
Since last Christmas 2024, it was on display in the middle of « reusable » cheap camera’s in the window of my local photography store. But this camera is not cheap and sold at 10-times the price of those « reusable » film camera’s. The Pentax 17 is a novel film camera released by Pentax (a brand belonging to Ricoh Imaging, Japan) in June 2024.
The history of « Pentax » name is still something worth to mention. After the WWII, in Dresden (that was heavily destroyed by the bombing of Feb. 13-15, 1945), Germany, The Zeiss Ikon company could not produce anymore the legendary original Contax (a high-reputation professional range-finder 35mm released in 30’s) camera that was taken by Russia and transferred to Kiev, Ukraine, in the USSR. However the brand name Contax survived and the German engineers designed something completely new within several years : the Contax S (S for « Spiegel mirror reflex ») that integrated a pentaprism for a full redressed reflex viewer observation. Zeiss Ikon Dresden registered to new trademarks derived from the words « Pentaprism » and « Contax » that were « Pentax » and « Pentacon ». If Pentacon became the new name of the company in Dresden, the trademark Pentax was bought by Asahi Optical Company in Japan, and became a formidable industrial and commercial success. Asahi Pentax, then Pentax alone, produced amazing quality camera’s including the legendary « Spotmatic » (a 35mm SLR) and stunning medium-format camera’s heavily used by professional photographers. Many of these camera’s of the past century are still operative and appreciated by film photography enthusiast’s.
Production of film camera’s vanished progressively in the mid 2000’s, as digital camera’s became of better quality and finally of generalized appliances in photography. The Pentax 17 was introduced to the market in June 2024, it was a big surprise for all the film photography lovers. Seeing a newly engineered brand-new film camera was a sort of renaissance of the film photography today of a growing interest worldwide.
The camera is a « half-frame » format on the traditional double-perforated 35mm film giving 17x24mm photograms. This format was not as popular as to classical 24x36mm (full-frame) format of most of the 35mm camera’s. However famous and quality half-frame camera’s were produced in the past including, the long series of Olympus Pen for example. Then, the Pentax 17 immediately attracted the attention of experimented film photographers and camera collectors, probably more than the officially targeted customers of the younger generations. Less than a year after, the future of the Pentax 17 and the film photography project of Pentax is questioned today. The chef-engineer who conducted the project in Ricoh company recently left and the marketing of Pentax 17 is now a question.
This finally decided me to buy an exemplary from my local shop and to discover this strange machine. The camera is of course guaranteed, even with a there-year extension after the camera registration on the Pentax website. The whole ergonomic is clearly derived from classical past 35mm camera’s with a fully mechanical film advance and rewind, a collimated Albada viewer, no digital display at all, only levers, barrels, crank and wheels… However inside is a automatic electronic exposure system with flash, the focusing is manual but the electronic mechanism moves the whole optical group with a micro motor.
The lens is a Cooke triplet 1:3.5 f=25mm equivalent to a 37mm of a 24x36mm format. The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York. It was the first lens system that allowed the elimination of most of the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of the image. It likely for this reason that the lens is unscripted curiously « Traditional » on the front lens ring… It is known that a Cooke triplet lens could give surprisingly good results with only three separated optical elements. The Cooke Triplet is still widely used in inexpensive cameras, including variations using aspheric elements, particularly in cell-phone cameras. The Cooke triplet consists of three separated lenses positioned at the finite distance. It is often considered that the triplet is one of the most important discoveries in the field of photographic objectives
The lens receives 40.5mm diameter thread filters that I use for my Zorki / Leningrad lenses Jupiter-8 2/50mm, Jupiter-11 4/135mm and Jupiter-12 2.8/35mm. The metal shade hood Minolta D42KA could mounted on the filter but I have to check is there is vignette induced.
The camera size is close to the original dimensions of a thread-mount Leica (called also the original Barnack Leica) which are, in a way, a sort of « Gold » size in the 35mm camera’s. I compared with my Zorki 1D year 1954 that is a straight reproduction of the Leica Iic. The upper deck of Pentax 17 is designed very clearly as a classical 35mm and we even find the original logo of Asahi Optical Company. The rewind crank is also a revival of past design seen on old Pentax SLR as my year-1971 Spotmatic SP in this seres of pictures.
The Pentax 17 is very light (about 300g) compared to those old ancestors that weight easily the double or the triple. It is then an effortless camera to carry. The Pentax 17 fits in the small ThinkTank bag (called « Mirorless Mover 5 ») that I recently bought to safely carry a film back of my Hasselblad or my Bronica 6X6 camera’s. In this tiny bag, the camera is protected for the element and vibrations due to cycling for instance.
Reference
analoguewonderland.co.uk/blogs/film-photography-blog/pent...
Key features and specifications
* Half-frame image capture (17 x 24mm)
* 37mm (equiv.) FOV F3.5 lens
* Zone focusing system with 6 zones
* Circular leaf shutter (F3.5-16)
* Built-in flash (6m/20ft at ISO100)
* Optical tunnel viewfinder with frame lines
* Exposure from 1/350 sec to 4 sec (+ Bulb)
* Supports films from ISO 50 to ISO 3200
Specifically the lens has:
1. HD coating, which maintains high performance of the lens, by using this PENTAX multi-coating. This also enables high contrast and high definition right to the edges.
2. SP coating (Super Protect) which helps to repel water and oil from the lens.
The fact that the focusing on the Pentax 17 is electronic i.e. the lens only moves when you half-press the shutter gives me faith that autofocus was already considered in the R&D stage.
OSHA and Hazard Mapping classes facilitated by Jack Angel, Nathan Maynard and Warren Rasmussen, mid-July 2014 in Carlsband, N.M.
Participatory budgeting has the potential of shifting resources to social good while at the same time strengthening local democracy and participation by community members.
The street was so hot that I could neither ride the bike nor walk on it anymore, walking on the gras shoulder was very slow and no shade... After about 4 km I run out of water and was at my limits. GPS told another 10 km to the next town. I was considering to call to get a lift. The ones who know me well would understand that I would not do that easily. I must have looked very exhausted, standing at the side of the street In the shade of that little tree. Many cars passed by of course I would not attempt to stop any. Funnily, a harley davidson biker looked at me and decided to stop. My first thoughts were, what I would tell him when he asked me whether I am fine. Surely I would have answered, i am alright just need a little rest. Actually, that was not his question but he was saying: "the street is not good" and we immediately where discussing and he could tell me for how long the street will be like that and when there will be downhill and shade. This helped me so much that I could continue and made it half an hour later into the town. That chat was all the help i needed. I would have refused likely any other help ( my wife know best) and i belief he knew.
OSHA and Hazard Mapping classes facilitated by Jack Angel, Nathan Maynard and Warren Rasmussen, mid-July 2014 in Carlsband, N.M.
Oyster reef restoration in Mobile Alabama, Dog river mouth.
20110121@15:41, High tide.
30.57562, -88.07847
Mapping for Grassroots Mapping & LA Bucket Brigade.
Photos of Cesar Harada, Prof. Leo Dento and Prof. Dawn McKinney
www.100-1000.org/map/helen-wood-park
100-1000.mobilebaykeeper.org/prepping-helen-wood-park
Volunteers will be deploying approximately 23,000 bags of oyster shells to create new reefs and habitat at the mouth of Dog River.
Left at 10:45 - return 20:30
Milleage : start 761963 - end 764803
$35 of unlead
Video mapping on Chicago's Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park. AV Chicago provided technical engineering in conjunction with the artists Luftwerk to create this 10 day art installation that transformed the surrounding plaza and sculpture into a constantly changing pattern of light and geometric shapes, set to original music.