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Contax 139 Quartz with 139 Winder II and Yashica ML 1.7/50.
Meanwhile you can even find Contax SLRs made in Japan on the flea market for little money. Mostly a little gear in a camera bag. Unfortunately always someone has discovered the bag before you and fished out all the Zeiss and Yashica prime lenses. So here, I bought this 139 Quartz with a simple 2.8/28 ("Super-Danubia") and the Yashica ML 80-200 (by Tokina). Unfortunately on the market one week before I had the chance to buy a Yashica SLR "in pieces", but with a proper ML 1.7/50 for just 10 ā¬, but I didn't do it because I didn't know that I wanted this lens one week later. So I visited a photography fair to find a standard lens: I found lots of f/1.9 and f/2 and DSB lenses, one 1.4/50 for 45 ā¬, a 1.7/50 like new for 40 ā¬, but finally I went for the lens above, very dusty, but only 15 ā¬.
The 139 Quartz was introduced in 1979, it was the second Contax by Yashica, 6 years after the prestigious Contax RTS. And as far I know, it is the first SLR camera with quartz controlled shutter speeds. It's a classical SLR with two peculiarities: the shutter speed dial is around the rewind crank and the exposure meter is not activated by the shutter button, but by an extra button on the front, intended to be pressed with your middle finger. Most of the admiring comments on the internet are true, the advance lever is super smooth, the shutter sounds like music and looking through the viewer just makes you smile. Compared with contemporaries with about the same price tag, Nikon FE and Minolta XD7, the Contax is probably the most modern camera, but the other two are providing a much more solid feeling.
My copy has trouble to determine the set f-stop correctly. The f-stop number is displayed in the viewer by a mechanically device, it is not a "Judas window". When I turn the aperture ring in direction of smaller numbers, the f-stops are shown correctly. When I turn the ring in the other direction, the device jams and and shows the black space between two numbers. So over-exposuring for a half step will be the result. The camera shows this behaviour for all three lenses I have.
UPDATE after one roll of film: really a fantastic camera. Unfortunately I didn't notice a light leak at the hinge of the back, so most pictures show red, vertically stripes or fantastic colors. But I really enjoyed to use this camera, and if you like small SLRs with aperture priority AE like the Pentax ME super or Minolta X-300, you perhaps try this one.
In the manual I found two features of the camera, you probably won't discover by just using it. Firstly, the unlock of the exposure correction doubles as multi-exposure switch. Secondly, the AE-lock lever clicks into place when the film advance lever is in "stand-by" position. Sounds simple, but it is brilliant and I cheerfully praise the designer who had that idea. When the advance lever is moved again - pushed back to the body or the film is advanced after your shot - the AE-lock lever jumps back. I think this feature is intended to use in combination with a winder, but I used it without one, and very often.
The 1.7/50 ML lens: I haven't a final opinion about it yet. Sometimes it is superb, sometimes the blurred parts of the pictures behaves somewhat strangely.
Pictures: sharp-unsharp,
one with Super-Danubia 2.8/28 lens.
Locality: Allevard, Isere, France
Size: 80mm Wide
Part of the Gem and Mineral Hall Collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Eidahl Collection
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Fluorite with Quartz, on Cassiterite. Calcium fluoride. Hartās Mine, Torrington, NSW, Australia.
Minerals Collection at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia. Focus stacked composite.
Designer: Sergio MuƱoz
Parts: 30
Paper's size: 1:3
Another form of assembly
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One of the nicest Chinese reproductions, with quartz movement (which is cheating history). Your grandfather never had a watch that didn't require winding. The cost was only CA$5.60 with shipping included. It's amazing they can sell them that cheap.
Here's a cool example of Quartz crystals included with Lithium, nice zoning on the terminations. Minas Gerias, Brazil, 5cm.
Locality: Ganesh Mountain, Dhading, Nepal
AKA Himalayan Quartz
Size: Main Crystal is 4.2 inches long.
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From flight into Wadd, 2018. Climbed the left skyline from the other side, 2004
North ridge (facing the camera) and the west couloirs remain unclimbed afaik
Bloodstone is a chert-like rock that is composed of cryptocrystalline quartz. It consists of a mix of deep green and deep red quartz. By itself, deep green cryptocrystalline quartz is called "plasma", and the deep red variety is called "jasper". Bloodstone, or "heliotrope", is plasma with spots or streaks or patches of jasper.
I have never in my life seen a bloodstone sample with provenance information. Surprisingly, there is little to no technical geologic literature on bloodstone - at least, none that is available and out in the open.
This specimen has zero information about its locality and geologic context. Many claim that most bloodstone comes from India. If this sample is Indian in origin, it is possibly derived from a fracture fill in Deccan Traps basalt lava flows (= Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary times), and possibly from the Kathiawar Peninsula in western India.
Bloodstone is also supposedly known from California and Italy.
Quartz var, Amethyst. Red Feather Lakes. Larimer Co., Colo. (Collection of the Mines Museum of Earth Science. Golden, Colo.)
Another of my random shots from this afternoon , just one of a number of pieces of quartz on hand .
A little tune for S&S
Quartz (Amethyst), Silicone dioxide. Uruguay.
Minerals Collection at the Australian Museum.
Focus stacked composite.
Clear quartz which has been heated, cooled and dyed, but purported to still have the healing properties of clear quartz.
Quartz boulders are not uncommon among the mudstone conglomerates that form the cliffs at Motukiekie, and are often found embedded in sand on the beach.
This quartz/agate geode is actually only 1.5" (3.8 cm) wide. It also contains a spray of tiny metallic needles that could be any one of a variety of different metallic sulfides or oxides
Rhodochrosite and Quartz. Rhodochrosite is manganese carbonate. Emma Mine. Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana. (Collection of the Mines Museum of Earth Science. Golden, Colo.)
Quartz var. Amethyst. Piedra Parada. Tatatila Municipio, Veracruz, Mexico. (Collection of the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum. Golden, Colo.)
This is a ~1.75 X 1.5 X .25 in. (45 X 39 X 7 mm) slice of quartz, zinc, and silver. The parts reflecting are silver ore. I acquired this in one of the first summers I spent in Creede CO.