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I was trying out my iPhone 11's ultrawide camera recently, seeing if I could get any half decent shots with it in anything other than bright sunlight. It is sort of possible, but not with Apple's in-built Camera app; this tends to apply a huge amount of denoising and other sorts of processing which results in extremely mushy images.
This was taken from within Lightroom Mobile which does a lot less processing of the files.
This was with the studio lights turned right up, and balancing the phone on the top of a chair for some vague stability.
It's still nowhere near the quality of what I can get with my other proper cameras, but it's a passable alternative, and great to have that 13mm equivalent focal length for wide shots like this.
For anyone that doesn't know, I'm a sound engineer at the BBC in London, and since the pandemic I've still been going in to the studio every day to record, edit and mix programmes made by Radio Current Affairs. These days I've been making our weekly programmes like More Or Less, The Briefing Room and How To Vaccinate The World, all on Radio 4.
Here we see Bart van Leeuwen in one of the landstudio's of Radio Mi_Amigo during the proces of his daily radioshow in the morning on Radio Mi Amigo. We cleary seen two Garrrards 401's turntables with SME tonearms. We see also one Revox A77 and a not familiar to me TEAC taperecorder. Also we see a pair of TEAC cassette recorders a A450 and a A-170 or A-140? in front of Bart. and a unknown audiomixer. Bart is using probably a Sennheiser MD431 microphon. The spotmaster not visible although the big stacks with cards on his left are evidence that there are spotmaster in use in this nice radio studio.
An interesting interior view of the BBC's first home in Leeds and a building they themselves vacated in the early years of the 20th Century after which is was remodelled by architects Fielden Clegg. The actual building, now known as Old Broadcasting House, was origianlly a Friends Meeting House (for the Quakers) and had been constructed in 1866-68 and designed by Edward Birchall. The BBC must have acquired it as they strengthened their regional presence in the 1920s and '30s as this image dates from c1933/4 and shows the work undertaken by the Leeds based architect John C Proctor.
It is suitably 'modernist' as was the case in London's Broadcasting House of 1930/32 and has obviously been designed, understandably, with acoustics in mind. Otherwise, as suited radio broadcasting at the time, it has elements of a well heeled drawing room of the period with very fine chairs and matching furniture to allow broadcasters and artists to sit, rest and read! No doubt this interior was, in turn, much modified in BBC days especially with the introduction of TV broadcasting but it is a glimpse into radio history when the medium was 'new' and 'important' as seen it its design and architecture.
Since coronavirus and lockdown I decided I wanted to stay in the same studio every day at work and not have anyone else using it. It helps me feel a little bit safer and happier about coming into the building everyday.
I went with the end studio, S48, and I’ve been pretty happy there for the past three months. I get to have it nice and chilly, plus I have the lights set to an ‘art gallery’ level of dimness which suits my light-sensitive eyes nicely. I've shot this view before, and this is merely an update of a very similar snap of the studio which I took 5 years ago. This time I have the small benefit of shooting on a tripod at the camera's base ISO ...
The little music recording studio.
Link: ideas.lego.com/projects/a6ded12f-0703-4eaa-8e30-3b7739473a0f
The maintenance person having a look at the power box, and the guy chilling on the bench with his bluetooth speaker.
Link: ideas.lego.com/projects/a6ded12f-0703-4eaa-8e30-3b7739473a0f
You never knew where the Summer Fun Patrol would show up!
I saw them in person once when they stopped at the Anchor beach in Milford. The Summer Fun Patrol truck was driven that day by Brian Phoenix, one of my favorite DJs. It was extremely cool to meet him in person AND to win a New Waves Boogie Shirt as well as a large package filled with promotional photos of all the jocks!
BBC NI journalist Mark Simpson interviews the newly-re-elected Sammy Wilson MP on the phone during the BBC Radio Ulster programme "Evening Extra", on Friday 20th December 2019. Shot handheld in Studio 4, BBC Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast. I was duty reporter, and I grabbed a minute to get the shot!
Here a radiostudio of 64 KFI around the 1990's. We see a (idlerdrive) or captstandrive Rusco Studio-Pro and an Technics SP-15 Direct Drive turntable just in the same studio! 50's and 90's technic all too gether. The DJ (name unknown) used a Sennheiser MD-421 microphon and a Koss Pro-4AA headphone. BE card machine's and a MCI JH-110B taperecorder. The amazing equipment where radio was made of back than in the USA.
Who was the DJ? possing in the radiostudio of "46 KFI".
Jan van Dalen in the old RK1 studio with EMT turntables and 3x M15a Telefunken taperecorders. A LCD-Philips mixer and the smaller Onyx-mixingconsole. And the Chiradain 6 channel mixer. Loudspeakers by Klein uns Hummel. More or less the NOS (standardised) radio equipment in the Netherlands back than.
The BBC Radio Blackburn studio. Here the control room in 1974. Seen here two Thorens TD124 turntables with Lenco tonearms ! ( modification from mono to stereo? ) a AKG microfoon, a pair of Spotmasters? cardmachines. Two BTR or Otari BTR-5 taperecorders ?. Mixer of a unknown mark and brand, who knows? . This was all so the Dymo letterstickertape era because I spot a nummer of lettertape's on the mixer and the cards. Original posted on the net by Chopsaw ... in a forum off Lenco and other idler tuntables. The plateaus driven by a rubber capstan. Who is the lady at the controls? Feel free to react an correct.
This scan is from a small photo in the Encore yearbook for 1978. That's a rack of carts in the background where all the jingles and promos were stored on the radio version of 8 track tapes. Those square headphones are so 1970s!
Radio was completely analog back them. No automation computers like today. You had to know how to back-queue records, fire them up at just the right moment after a jingle, talk them up to the vocal, remove the previous record, get the next tune ready for airplay and think of something clever to say. You also had to handle the phones for requests and write an entry in a log of the songs you played. It took work and experience to make everything sound completely seamless and effortless. I loved every second of it!
Camera used: Halina Vision XF
Film used: Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 400
Location: Croydon, Victoria, Australia.
Really hard to photograph this building, it was really hard to get a good angle.
In one of the many wirebroadcast NRU radiostudio's (Netherlands Radio Unie) in the Netherlands. We spot 3 open reel taperecorders, 2x Philips EL 3500 and 1 Nagra. There's a turntable left from the gentelemans back. There is even a typewriter after the woman. and between a radiotuner mark and type unknown. Low res photo and info via Rene Koks.
Seeing as I had my Fuji wide angle lens with me today, I thought it was time I took another studio photograph.
My home for today's mix session was studio S42 on the fourth floor of the Beeb's New Broadcasting House, part of the W1 campus of buildings.
I'm a Studio Manager for the BBC's Radio Current Affairs department, recording, editing and mixing programmes predominantly for the Radio 4 and World Service networks.
Having spent a dozen years prior to joining the BBC in an independent production company with much more modest facilities (AKA pretty cheap), I still appreciate the relative luxury of these studios (we have 8 of them), and get a kick out of working there most of the time ;)
We mix using the SADiE digital editing system (v6) and the mixing desks are Studer OnAir3000 systems.
Brief History of Rockhampton.
Rockhampton (and Ipswich) were the first towns gazetted outside of Brisbane once self government for Queensland was obtained in 1859. When the Archer brothers, Charles and William arrived at the Fitzroy River where Rockhampton now stands in 1853, it was home to the Darumbal Aboriginal people. Their clan totem was the water lily, reflecting the abundance of this plant in the billabongs and lagoons that characterise this region of Central Queensland. The Archers saw the pastoral prospects of the region and the site’s potential as a major city port. They soon established their run called Gracemere, but rocks prevented them from sailing further upstream, hence the name of the town. Two bush pubs opened near Gracemere and in 1857 the town site was surveyed. It was gazetted as a government town in 1859.
A small gold rush in 1858 saw 8,000 diggers travelling through Rockhampton. The river and Keppel Bay were alive with more than 70 ships. Rockhampton settled into a period of remarkable growth and prosperity. In 1861 the town had 700 people. By 1865 construction of the railway linking Rockhampton to the interior of Central Queensland had begun.
The economic development of Rockhampton progressed in the 1870's with the first meatworks opening in 1871, followed by a soap works, a brewery, a couple of foundries, bakeries, and sawmills. A bridge across the Fitzroy River was in place in 1881 by which time Rockhampton was a major city with government offices, a Supreme Court, and impressive banking and commercial buildings.
In 1882 gold was discovered at Mount Morgan, 45 km southwest of Rockhampton. This provided a stimulus for massive growth in Rockhampton. A building boom in Rockhampton followed this - the grand Customs House with its copper dome and spacious interior is an example (and now the Information Centre which we will visit this morning), but we will look at other magnificent Victorian buildings on our historical walk along the Rockhampton waterfront. The city also became the administrative headquarters for both the Anglican and the Catholic churches in Central Queensland. By the mid 1890's some prominent business leaders were calling for the establishment of a new colony of 'North Queensland', although a separate state movement had begun as early as 1861. Prosperity continued into the Federation Period and by 1901 the city had a population of 15,500. In 1909 the city's tramways opened, making it one of the few regional Australians cities with trams. The Second World War gave new growth to Rockhampton as thousands of military personnel were based here. This led to the establishment of the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area nearby.
Also the opening up of the brigalow scrub country to the west of Rockhampton made it the beef capital of Australia. Why is it the centre of the beef industry? Because there are over 4 million cattle in the region and the city has two major abattoirs processing works and it has the biggest turnover of beef cattle in Australia in its sale yards. The city processes half a million beef carcasses every year, worth over $200million in sales. Teys Meat Group currently employs around 900 people and is the city’s largest single employer.
Coal mining in the hinterland from the 1960s onwards made Rockhampton an even bigger city. There are now 6 major coal mines in the Rockhampton area. This helped the population to grow to 50,000 people by 1975. The 16,000 hectares of irrigated cotton from the Emerald district also is shipped from Rockhampton. The region now has 100,000 people, including 18,000 students enrolled at the University of Central Queensland (many are external students learning by distance education).
Was lucky enough to be invited by an old friend who's heavily into the blues to shoot a radio session at Saint FM by Sofie Reed, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev6Fp8LSe0U
Lenco turntables in a radio studio. In the local (pirate radio) studio) in the Netherlands Lenco's where familiair around the 1970/1980's.Fitted with slipmat holders. Akai cassette decks and a Sony taperecorder to the right. Photo from the mid 1970's and mixer was partial from Philips (not visible), Info via Peter de Geus.
The smaller radio studio at Aleksanterinkatu 46 in Helsinki, in use during 1927-1934.
Yleisradion Aleksanterinkatu 46:n pienempi studio Helsingissä, josta lähetettiin pienemmät ohjelmanumerot. Talon ylimmän kerroksen yhdeksän huonetta olivat radiotoiminnan käytössä vuosina 1927-1934.
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The Finnish Broadcasting Company 1927-1934, radio studio at the Aleksanterinkatu 46 premises.
Yleisradion kuuluttamo Aleksanterinkatu 46:ssa. Tila oli käytössä 1927-1934. Pöydällä Radion ohjelmatiedot -lehti.
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More about Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company: yle.fi/yleisradio/about-yle/this-is-yle
The Finnish Broadcasting Company 1927-1934, radio announcing studio at the Aleksanterinkatu 46 premises.
Yleisradion Aleksanterinkatu 46:n kuuluttamo, joka oli käytössä 1927-1934. Sokeripalamikrofoni.
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Fler skatter från Yles arkiv: svenska.yle.fi/arkivet
More about Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company: yle.fi/yleisradio/about-yle/this-is-yle
New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road - opened in 1976 by the Prime Minister.
Sadly now gone - as have those who dwelt within (to Salford).
New, New Broadcasting House is in central London - the development of the BBC's HQ at Portland Place.
Screenshot from the Philips el3500 wich was used in the radiostudio's in the Netherlands in the 50ties.And in the same docu recording the Radioplay Noodeloos Avontuur. For KRO Radio in Hilversum the Netherlands.