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Manufactured by Voigtländer & Sohn AG, Braunschweig, West Germany
Model: 1959, (Produced between 1958-60)
35 mm film Rangefinder camera
Engravings on the top plate: Voigtlander Prominent II
Lens: Voigtlander Ultron 50mm f/2 , interchangeable w/ 35-50-100-150mm lenses, Prominent bayonet mount , serial no.4704441
Aperture: f/2 - f/16, setting ring and scale on the lens
Focus range: 3.5 - 60 feet (1-18m), +inf
Lens release: a latch on the lower front side of the lens, push and turn simultaneously to anti-clockwise, mounting: push the latch and simultaneously mount and turn the lens
Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder, by turning the knob on left of the top plate, the distance and DOF scale on the knob
Shutter: Synchro-Compur leaf shutter, speeds 1-1/500 +B,
setting ring and scale on the shutter, just behind the lens
Shutter release: on the top plate
Cable release socket: on the top plate, just back of the shutter release button
Viewfinder: coupled rangefinder, bright frame lines for parallax correction of 35,50,100 and 150mm lenses, (the second largest frame is for 50mm),
very bright sight, a special feature of the Voigtlander view- and rangefinder cameras
Cocking lever: also winds the film, long stroke lever on right of the top plate,
must stroke two times for cocking the shutter and winding one frame
Frame counter: coupled with winding lever, beneath it, advance type, manual setting
Film release button: only for re-loading of the partly exposed films, on the back of the top-plate, covered with the winding lever
Re-wind release button: just beside the winding knob and turns when winding
Re-winding: by a pop-up semi-circle shaped lever located on the focusing button
Re-winding indicator: small chrome part with red screw like middle, turns when re-winding, on the bottom plate
PC sync socket: on the right uppper side of the shutter
X & M sync: setting by a green lever on the shutter, all speeds
Self-timer: a lever on the shutter
Cold - shoe
Strap lugs
Film memory indicator: on the bottom plate
Backcover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left side of the camera
Tripod socket modern 1/4'', w/ an adaptor screw for old types 3/8''
Body: metal; weight: 970g
serial no. C 78010
Prominent II is one of the best mechanically and optically design Rangefinder with interchangable lens system camera, the first of this type and has a unique appearance.
It was made by Voigtlander for the competition with Leicas and Contaxes.
It had a very special and unique reflex-housing part and turnit finder as accessories,
Voigtländer is one of the the world's oldest companies for optical instruments. Founded by Johann Christoph Voigtländer in the year 1756 in Vienna (Austria), it was the first factory for optical instruments and precision mechanics there.
1931 Voigtländer entered the mass market with the BESSA camera for 6x9 format.
1939 the VITO, their first camera for 35mm film, was well received by the customers.
1970 Voigtländer was merged with Zeiss-Ikon.
1974 Voigtländer became part of Rollei .
Since 1987 Ricoh and Chinon make cameras for Voigtländer.
In 1994 the last part of the original Voigtländer company in Braunschweig was closed.
In 1995 Ringfoto bought Plusfoto and the Voigtländer brand.
In 1999 the popular 35mm viewfinder camera body Bessa L was introduced, developed and produced by Cosina
During the 20th century the Skopar and Color Skopar lenses became the standard lenses for Voigtländer's own cameras.
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The only snowflake in yesterday’s wonderful snowfalls that showed any prominent “thin film interference” colours, and right in the center. View large and read on!
We’ve had some very warm weather lately so the last images I’ve been posting were from my “archives”. Snowflakes that that never got around to editing that were photographed in the past, even though I try to keep the series as current as possible. They’d never been previously seen, but they weren’t necessarily “fresh”. I have over now over 800 snowflakes that I have not edited. If global warming sets in, fear not – this series, at least, can continue. :)
Yesterday, we got our first snowfall of the year that gave large elaborate crystals mixed in with small snowflakes with unique characters. I shot plenty of both and I’ll be sharing them over the coming days, but colourful crystals always get my attention first. The center of this snowflake is like a rainbow in the snow, so a good chunk of time today was spent focus stacking and editing this snowflake to showcase its beauty from tip to tip.
“Thin film interference” plays out when a snowflake has two layers of ice that are very thin, usually created by a bubble or cavity forming in the ice. A full primer can be found here (skycrystals.ca/img/optical-interference-pages.jpg ) but in this case it’s because the snowflake split itself in two. The very center reveals solid ice, but when things get lighter it’s because a bubble has formed based on the “branching instability”, the same physics that causes branches to from the corners also causes the center of facets to grow slower. As the edges of the facet expand more, the center is left behind, and two new layers of ice are formed. If the thickness is just right, light reflecting off of different layers of ice can interfere with eachother out of sync, creating the colours you see.
As the thickness of the ice changes, so too does the colour we see. This brings up a curious question: why do the colours deviate where each branch begins? Why does the pattern change in these areas?
The pattern changes because the thickness of the ice changes; a logical deduction. This is the “how”, but what of the “why”? It’s the first I’ve seen thin film interference present itself this way, but it stands to reason that the corners of the plates growing outward were also growing thicker. This is how “ribs” are formed encircling the center of a snowflake, which causes many fun features including inward crystal growth – if you’ve been following along with previous posts you’ll nod, if you haven’t here’s some clues: skycrystals.ca/img/circles-in-the-snow.jpg
If conditions were subtle enough to cause the corners to get thicker but not the full width of the facet, you’d see something like this. It’s undetectable any other way that with the colours from the optical interference. If you need proof that corners can grow faster vertically than other parts of a snowflake, I’m happy to provide that to you as well: www.flickr.com/photos/donkom/16781523325/
There are a ton of mysteries in a single snowflake. All of these mysteries can be explained, even if I don’t have the ability to do so. The more challenging the explanation, the more fascinated I am with the winter gem I’ve discovered. For more snowflake science musings and all the photographic techniques required to make images like this, you’ll was to hold a copy of Sky Crystals in your hands: www.skycrystals.ca/book/ - it’s worth the read, and with the website in Canadian Dollars… anyone in the US can get the book for a steal right now! The exchange rate takes $10 off the price when paying in USD (as of this writing, CAD$44.99 = USD$34.34)
Excerpt from historicplaces.ca:
Description of Historic Place
The Armoury is prominently located near the War Memorial in downtown Brantford. The large volume of the drill hall is fronted by a monumental, fortress-like façade of brick and stone, with projecting crenellated end pavilions. The main entrance is housed in an octagonal, castellated corner tower. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
Heritage Value
The Armoury is a Recognized Federal Heritage Building because of its historical associations, and its architectural and environmental value.
Historical Value
The Armoury is closely associated with the pre-World War I building campaign and the reform and expansion of the volunteer militia. The alterations and enlargement of the building reflect government policy to provide improved local training facilities for the militia.
Architectural Value
The Armoury is valued for its good aesthetic design. Alterations to the original armoury resulted in a monumental and ordered design, which introduced references to medieval military architecture. The distinctive exterior massing encloses a large drill hall, messes, classrooms and storage facilities. The good quality masonry work features medieval military detailing, including buttresses, dentilated stringcourses, corbelling and crenellations.
Environmental Value
The Armoury, located near the War Memorial, reinforces the historic character of its town park setting. A prominent building, the Armoury is a familiar landmark in the city.
Character-Defining Elements
Its good aesthetic design and fortress motif, good functional design, and good materials and craftsmanship, for example:
- the massing consisting of a two-storey, gable-roofed hall with two-storey flat roofed ancillary blocks at the end and side;
- the front block, with its crenellated profile, prominent chimneys, projecting end pavilions, and three-storey corner octagonal tower;
- the symmetrical, regular pattern of the wood sash windows and the doors;
- the materials, including the smooth-faced, red-brick with sandstone, set upon a rusticated limestone base;
- the masonry work with medieval military detailing, including buttresses, dentilated stringcourses, corbelling and crenellations;
- the wood porch construction with a bracketed cornice, paired pilasters and columns with bosses and brackets;
- the open spatial volume of the drill hall.
The manner in which the Armoury reinforces the historic character of its town park setting and is a familiar landmark as evidenced by:
-its distinctive exterior massing and prominent scale relative to the adjacent heritage district and near the War Memorial, which contributes to the overall historic character of the park setting;
-its monumental, fortress-like appearance and high standards of construction which reinforce the importance of the building within the community;
-its familiarity and visibility within the region given its large scale, prominent location and known historical associations.
Alexander’s Castle circa 1886 located in Fort Worden State Park is thought to be haunted. It’s available to rent if you’d like to perform a paranormal investigation or just soak up the view of Puget Sound from its prominent location on a hill top within Fort Worden State park. Direct Positive Paper, developed in camera using Eco Pro developer and fixer.
The Maple Prominent is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found throughout Britain and mainland Europe. The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The moths are on wing from May to July depending on the location. The larvae feed on Acer campestris and sometimes Acer pseudoplatanus.
This moth was found at only five locations in Gloucestershire in 2014 - all on the Cotswold Hills. This 15mm third instar caterpillar was bred from an egg laid by an adult Maple Prominent moth at Thrupp, Gloucestershire, in July 2015.
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I got the idea for this image from this Flickr capture (www.flickr.com/photos/irene2727/27450548901/in/dateposted/) not long before heading out for my trip out west to Saguaro National Park. What I loved about the original image posted was the seemingly wide open spaces one could take in and the mountains as a backdrop. Luckily, I was able to chat with that photographer who gave many a good idea on places to explore and hike on both sides of the national park!
Anywho for this image, I wanted to capture that wide open feel I saw that first day too. I've learned from past images to work to avoid flattening mountains out that often happen with a wider angle images. Here I angled my SLR camera downward slight, capturing more of the desert plant life nearby. The eyes would then slowly work across this setting, probably focusing on the saguaro cactus prominently standing out, before settling on the rugged and jagged peaks off in the distance of the Santa Catalina Mountains. I later converted to black & white as I found the color filters in Silver Efex Pro 2 brought out a rich tonal contrast.
This hill might not be of any significance in most places; however, in a place so flat like the state of Florida it is looked upon as an actual mountain.
Sugarloaf Mountain is the fifth highest named point in the state of Florida. At 312 feet (95 meters) above sea level it is also the highest point on the geographic Florida Peninsula. The mountain is in Lake County, near the town of Clermont. Comparatively, Florida's highest point, Britton Hill, rises to 345 feet (105 meters) above sea level in the Florida Panhandle. However, Sugarloaf Mountain is the most prominent point in the entire state.
Sugarloaf Mountain, located along the western shore of Lake Apopka in Lake County, Florida, is the northernmost named upland associated with the Lake Wales Ridge, a series of sand hills running south to Highlands County. The mountain, really a ridge with rolling dome-like peaks, rises abruptly from the surrounding flat terrain. Its prominence is thought to be 245 feet (74 meters), with its highest peak having a local prominence of approximately 200 feet (61 meters) relative to the surrounding ridge. Despite not being the highest point in Florida (which is Britton Hill near the Alabama border, the lowest high point of any U.S. state), Sugarloaf Mountain's summit is the most prominent peak in the state, and in a national ranking, is more prominent than the most prominent hills in both Louisiana and Delaware.
Prior to the 20th century, Sugarloaf Mountain was a wilderness dominated by sandhill and flatwood pine forests. By the 1920s, logging had stripped the mountain of its hardwood vegetation, permanently altering its native environment. Scrub began to grow on the mountain’s slopes, in addition to grapes, which were planted mostly to the south of the mountain for a decade or so.
By the 1940s, grape farming had declined due to fungal diseases, and it was replaced by citrus farming. Citrus plantations flourished on the flanks of Sugarloaf Mountain, providing the basis for the local economy until the 1980s, when freezes began to systematically devastate local groves. As the citrus industry faded, property on the mountain was rezoned for residential development, with value seen in the mountain’s panoramic views of the surrounding area. Other lands abutting the mountain, primarily along Lake Apopka, were preserved with the intention of restoring long absent ecologies. Only a few citrus plantations and vineyards managed to persist to the present day.
Sugarloaf Mountain’s geology is tied to the formation of Florida’s sand ridges, specifically the Lake Wales Ridge. The mountain consists of relict sand ridges and dunes formed in a marine shoreline environment approximately 2 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. Since the Pleistocene, the sands comprising the mountain have probably been uplifted due to isostatic rebound of the crust beneath the Florida Platform. The uplift is attributed to the karstification/erosion of the platform, which is reducing the weight on the underlying basement rock, triggering a process similar to post glacial rebound.
Sugarloaf Mountain was recently recognized for its scenic, cultural, and historic value. The state of Florida designated the Green Mountain Scenic Byway, which primarily traverses the eastern side of the mountain. The route offers rare panoramic views of the surrounding landscape and access to newly acquired ecological preserves and historic sites. Biking along the Byway as well as on other roads on the mountain has become popular, due to the challenge imposed by the relatively rugged terrain of the mountain compared to the surrounding area.
Sugarloaf Mountain also featured a golf course designed by the firm of Coore & Crenshaw. The course, part of the proposed private Sugarloaf Mountain Golf Club residential development, was somewhat unusual in Florida, and took advantage of the relatively prominent topography. The golf course was closed in 2012 due to low turnout and the inability for the planned development to take hold following the 2008 housing bubble and has remained abandoned since.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
The prominent ridge of emission featured in this image is known as the Cygnus Wall. Part of a larger emission nebula with a distinctive shape popularly called The North America Nebula, the ridge spans about 10 light-years along an outline that suggests the western coast of Mexico. Constructed from narrowband image data, the cosmic close-up maps emission from sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms to red, green, and blue colors. The result highlights the bright ionization front with fine details of dark, dusty forms in silhouette. Sculpted by energetic radiation from the region's young, hot, massive stars, the dark shapes inhabiting the view are clouds of cool gas and dust with stars likely forming within. The North America Nebula itself, NGC 7000, is about 1,500 light-years away. (Text from NASA APOD).
Acquisition: Sept - Oct 2017
Chiswick, London, UK.
13.5 Hours total Exposure
19x1800sHa, 5x1200sSII, 7x1200sOIII
OIII SII and OIII bin 2x2
Equipment:
T: Takahashi FSQ106ED @ f/8
C: QSI683ws Mono CCD @-25C
F: Astronomik Ha (6nm)
M: Celestron Advanced Vx
G: QHY5-II
Software:
PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6
Not posted any images for a while as I have been building a new homemade observatory so I can now leave the scope permanently mounted on the roof. Hope to post some more details of that soon. This is the first image taken from it. Hopefully many more to come!
Wingspan 40-45 mm.
A common species appearing as an adult between May and August in either one or two broods depending on latitude.
It frequents a range of habitats, but has a preference for damper localities, where the caterpillars feed on sallow (Salix) and poplar (Populus).
The caterpillar is greyish or brownish, and like most of the prominents, feeds with the tail segment held up in the air.
A prominent landmark near the northernmost point of Ireland is the Fanad Head Lighthouse. Construction was originally completed in March, 1817. Conversion to electric power was completed in 1975.
County Kerry - June 2022. From the very north east of the island to south west to see this beauty. My first visit to Co Kerry was delayed by two years, but worth the wait.
This stunning species as thought to be extinct in both Britain and Ireland, until it was rediscovered in the woods around Lough Caragh in 2008. You can see more about the refinding here: www.allenmellon.com/project-collection/2016/11/29/read-ab....
Thanks to all who helped me to see this iconic species and many more special moths.
This is one of the really big rocks at Castle Hill. It's absolutely huge and reminds me of either a duck or a chess piece (maybe not quite from this angle though).
The Chateau de Cenevieres has a prominent spot perched high above the River Lot from its terrace you get a wonderfully panoramic view of the Lot Valley. The Chateau was founded in the twelfth century but was heavily restored in the sixteenth century. We had a guided tour of the Chateau just Mary and I accompanied by a member of the family who still live there. Which made it very intimate
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Shenandoah National Park, VA
Typical 10-Point Whitetail Buck
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View of Champagne Pool, a prominent geothermal feature within the Wai-O-Tapu geothermal area, near Rotorua, Bay of Plenty Region, North Island, New Zealand.
The name Champagne Pool is derived from the abundant efflux of carbon dioxide (CO2), similar to a glass of bubbling champagne.
The orange colour originates from deposits of arsenic and antimony sulfides.
Any tree that is not an olive tree really stands out here 😅
Camera: Nikon FE2
Film: Ilford Delta 100
Developer: Ilfotec LC29 1+29
North Antrim - May 2023. This species is much less common than the similar Lesser Swallow Prominent in Ireland. I only get one or two a year up here, so it was a pleasant surprise to get one in the garden recently.
The great south door and the main entrance to the church. Don't be fooled by the prominent date of 1631, that's the date of a repair!
The door has been carbon dated to 1361 and as the church was consecrated in 1372, it is believed to be the building's original door, still proudly doing its job and fit for purpose.
This thick (oak?) door is decorated with a wonderful ironwork; an inventive Tree of Life, complete with roots, and two leopards, an emblem of the Plantagenet kings and a symbol used since at least the 1200's in heraldry and often transmogrified over time to the lion, still on the Coat of arms of England.
Prominent and distinctive buildings on the seafront at Cromer north Norfolk uk.
Two different view points.
With two sunspots and multiple prominence's.
Lunt LS80Tha/B18/DSII with 2.5x Powermate and Grasshopper 3 camera
Sitting prominently at the north end of the former CNR yard, old 81 shines bright on a cold Christmas night.
To each and everyone, have a Merry Christmas!
CNR 81
Palmerston, ON.
North Antrim - May 2023. This species is much less common than the similar Lesser Swallow Prominent in Ireland. I only get one or two a year up here, so it was a pleasant surprise to get one in the garden recently.
This prominent temple in the heart of Shanghai gave the Jing'an District it's name.
Jing'an Temple (静安寺) was originally built in 247 and located besides Suzhou Creek. Because the original location was deemed unstable due to erosion and flooding the temple was moved to it's current location in 1216.
In 1860, during the Taiping Rebellion, the temple was destroyed and in 1880 re-build.
In 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, the temple was converted to a plastic factory and during this usage the main hall burned down in 1972, the temple was in ruins.
Religious activities began again in 1979, and the temple was choosen as the key Buddhist temple in China. Restoration began in 1984 and the first phase lasted until 1991. The second (still ongoing) reconstruction phase began in 1998. From the outside the temple appears complete, but inside one still sees the reconstruction works ongoing.
Because the Df has an extremely good working automatic white balance, the photo was taken with a forced "Daylight" setting to enhance the golden tones.
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