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Stan Brock, left, Founder and President of Remote Area Medical, listens to Dr. Teresa Gardner Tyson, Executive Director of The Health Wagon, talk about the RAM Clinic that begins Friday, July 20, 2018 at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise Virginia.
Strobist: Monolight w/ 3x2 softbox camera left behind subject pointed at backdrop and back of head. Monolight w/ 2x3 softbox 6' tall, pointed down, 30* from camera, 3' from subject.
That black object in my hand is my Nikon remote.
Remote transmitter site for the G.C.I unit at Scarinish
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Very misty in the morning so took a few more photographs in the afternoon when it cleared a bit.
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Door at East end of main building is NM 00817 43986
West End is NM 00787 43984
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South tower - NM 00804 4974
North tower - NM 00801 43993
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Engine House - NM 00807 43966
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Main building aligned on 260° Magnetic
23930 MM x 6830 MM
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North tower 3000 MM x 3000 MM
6550 MM from side of building
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South Tower 2970 MM x 3010 MM
6010 MM from side of building
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The wall inside the room at the East end is 20000 MM from doorway (Laser Rangefinder)
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South room of engine house - 4805 MM x 3017 MM (internal)
Middle room - 4800 MM x 4590 MM
North room - 1825 MM x 1825 MM
Okay it's just a simple remote so why bother taking a picture? Because it's the best remote ever! It's a remote control for my Christmas tree lights. Yeah no more crawling under the tree to plug the lights in.
Being an educator means needing a lot of time to prepare lessons. But that doesn't mean your preparation has to always take place behind a desk!
Just like in this photo, with me, by the pool, reading up for my next lesson on biodiversity!
Saint Gelynnin's church - high up in the Conwy valley (about a thousand foot up). Where the parish live, I don't know!
A geocache is in the area, hence my photograph. More information at this URL
www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1feb75a4-...
Super toy-tanks last all summer long
Posted Feb 11, 2005, 9:43 AM ET by Ryan Block
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Is it just us, or is the military doing their best to lure kids who never got over G.I. Joe and Transformers into their fold? Because seriously, when we were like 7 years old, we would have given our left leg to play with a heavily armed remote controlled mini-tank attack drone. And what’s perhaps most bizarre of all is one of our nation’s greatest instutions of higher learning, as usual, won the $26 million defense contract to design the things—Carnegie Mellon U.
This thing is crazy -- it controls about everything in the room except the cat and the lizard. That's Lora's '72 Chevelle on the wallpaper.
Mk2 of the remote intervalometer thingy for my 7D.
Techy bit:
An atmel attiny13 micro runs some custom firmware that reads a 16 position rotary dip switch and pulses the IR led the canon fire shutter command at the appropriate interval. All run off a 3v coin cell battery that will run continuously for days (Stopped test after 5 or 6).
Need to find a way of showing the dial numbers on the housing so who know what you have set - laser etching it would be cool! Currently mapped intervals or 1 to 30 seconds which should cover me pretty well.
A trial timelapse is in progress right now...
The Pentagon 17 (see below for details about the camera) is equipped of a 1mm jack connector for the use of remote shutter release. This jack is generic and used on many other camera's (at least Ricoh camera's and Canon).
I found for 7€ a no-name device with a reference "RS-60E" (this is so far a Canon reference). The remote command reproduce the two-level contact of the shutter release and could blocked for long exposure in the B mode.
April 22, 2025
69004 Lyon
France.
About the camera Pentax 17:
Since last Christmas, 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.
For the first film, I loaded a Washi-X 100 ISO color film that is probably a Kodak Aerocolor film based on a Kodak Ektar formula coated on a maskless PET (polyester teraphtalate) base, spooled by the French film company Washi. This will give normally 72 views and I just exposed 44 in 2 days both during a bicycle tour and a photowalk. I’ll do the rest for testing all the functions of the Pentax 17 soon.
My final idea of this first approach of the 2024 Pentax 17 is a very interesting camera for film camera lovers but will it seduce the potential customers who discover film photography?
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.