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Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor • Agfa Paratronic Solitar S 1:2.8/40
Ilford Pan 400 film developped in Caffenol CLCS 80min @15°-20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 2400dpi with Silverfast AI Studio
Luxembourg
Caffenol CLCS
500 ml Filtered Water
8gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
5gr Vitamin C
0.5gr KBr
20gr Instant coffee ("Cora")
60 sec. slow agitations then let stand for 79 minutes
Olympus E-500 ( KODAK CCD sensor ) + Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 50mm f/2.0 Macro
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Agfa Optima Sensor
Agfa Optima Sensor 535
Agfa Optima Sensor 335
Three sisters of a family of eight.
The Agfa Optima Sensor, left, was made in Portugal.
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, vice president of engineering and research at Lockheed's Skunk Works, visited USAF air bases across South Korea in November 1951 to speak with fighter pilots about what they wanted and needed in a fighter aircraft. At the time, the American pilots were confronting the MiG-15 with North American F-86 Sabres, and many felt that the MiGs were superior to the larger and more complex American design. The pilots requested a small and simple aircraft with excellent performance, especially high speed and altitude capabilities. Armed with this information, Johnson immediately started the design of such an aircraft on his return to the United States.
Work started in March 1952. In order to achieve the desired performance, Lockheed chose a small and simple aircraft, weighing in at 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) with a single powerful engine. The engine chosen was the new General Electric J79 turbojet, an engine of dramatically improved performance in comparison with contemporary designs. The small L-246 design remained essentially identical to the Model 083 Starfighter as eventually delivered.
Johnson presented the design to the Air Force on 5 November 1952, and work progressed quickly, with a mock-up ready for inspection at the end of April, and work starting on two prototypes that summer. The first prototype was completed by early 1954 and first flew on 4 March at Edwards AFB. The total time from contract to first flight was less than one year.
The first YF-104A flew on 17 February 1956 and, with the other 16 trial aircraft, were soon carrying out equipment evaluation and flight tests. Lockheed made several improvements to the aircraft throughout the testing period, including strengthening the airframe, adding a ventral fin to improve directional stability at supersonic speed, and installing a boundary layer control system (BLCS) to reduce landing speed. Problems were encountered with the J79 afterburner; further delays were caused by the need to add AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. On 28 January 1958, the first production F-104A to enter service was delivered.
Even though the F-104 saw only limited use by the USAF, later versions, tailored to a fighter bomber role and intended for overseas sales, were more prolific. This was in particular the F-104G, which became the Starfighter's main version, a total of 1,127 F-104Gs were produced under license by Canadair and a consortium of European companies that included Messerschmitt/MBB, Fiat, Fokker, and SABCA.
The F-104G differed considerably from earlier versions. It featured strengthened fuselage, wing, and empennage structures; a larger vertical fin with fully powered rudder as used on the earlier two-seat versions; fully powered brakes, new anti-skid system, and larger tires; revised flaps for improved combat maneuvering; a larger braking chute. Upgraded avionics included an Autonetics NASARR F15A-41B multi-mode radar with air-to-air, ground-mapping, contour-mapping, and terrain-avoidance modes, as well as the Litton LN-3 Inertial Navigation System, the first on a production fighter.
Germany was among the first foreign operators of the F-104G variant. As a side note, a widespread misconception was and still is that the "G" explicitly stood for "Germany". But that was not the case and pure incidence, it was just the next free letter, even though Germany had a major influence on the aircraft's concept and equipment. The German Air Force and Navy used a large number of F-104G aircraft for interception, reconnaissance and fighter bomber roles. In total, Germany operated 916 Starfighters, becoming the type's biggest operator in the world. Beyond the single seat fighter bombers, Germany also bought and initially 30 F-104F two-seat aircraft and then 137 TF-104G trainers. Most went to the Luftwaffe and a total of 151 Starfighters was allocated to the Marineflieger units.
The introduction of this highly technical aircraft type to a newly reformed German air force was fraught with problems. Many were of technical nature, but there were other sources of problems, too. For instance, after WWII, many pilots and ground crews had settled into civilian jobs and had not kept pace with military and technological developments. Newly recruited/re-activated pilots were just being sent on short "refresher" courses in slow and benign-handling first-generation jet aircraft or trained on piston-driven types. Ground crews were similarly employed with minimal training and experience, which was one consequence of a conscripted military with high turnover of service personnel. Operating in poor northwest European weather conditions (vastly unlike the fair-weather training conditions at Luke AFB in Arizona) and flying low at high speed over hilly terrain, a great many Starfighter accidents were attributed to controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). German Air Force and Navy losses with the type totaled 110 pilots, around half of them naval officers.
One general contributing factor to the high attrition rate was the operational assignment of the F-104 in German service: it was mainly used as a (nuclear strike) fighter-bomber, flying at low altitude underneath enemy radar and using landscape clutter as passive radar defense, as opposed to the original design of a high-speed, high-altitude fighter/interceptor. In addition to the different and demanding mission profiles, the installation of additional avionic equipment in the F-104G version, such as the inertial navigation system, added distraction to the pilot and additional weight that further hampered the flying abilities of the plane. In contemporary German magazine articles highlighting the Starfighter safety problems, the aircraft was portrayed as "overburdened" with technology, which was considered a latent overstrain on the aircrews. Furthermore, many losses in naval service were attributed to the Starfighter’s lack of safety margin through a twin-engine design like the contemporary Blackburn Buccaneer, which had been the German navy air arm’s favored type. But due to political reasons (primarily the outlook to produce the Starfighter in Southern Germany in license), the Marine had to accept and make do with the Starfighter, even if it was totally unsuited for the air arm's mission profile.
Erich Hartmann, the world's top-scoring fighter ace from WWII, commanded one of Germany's first (post-war) jet fighter-equipped squadrons and deemed the F-104 to be an unsafe aircraft with poor handling characteristics for aerial combat. To the dismay of his superiors, Hartmann judged the fighter unfit for Luftwaffe use even before its introduction.
In 1966 Johannes Steinhoff took over command of the Luftwaffe and grounded the entire Luftwaffe and Bundesmarine F-104 fleet until he was satisfied that the persistent problems had been resolved or at least reduced to an acceptable level. One measure to improve the situation was that some Starfighters were modified to carry a flight data recorder or "black box" which could give an indication of the probable cause of an accident. In later years, the German Starfighters’ safety record improved, although a new problem of structural failure of the wings emerged: original fatigue calculations had not taken into account the high number of g-force loading cycles that the German F-104 fleet was experiencing through their mission profiles, and many airframes were returned to the depot for wing replacement or outright retirement.
The German F-104Gs served primarily in the strike role as part of the Western nuclear deterrent strategy, some of these dedicated nuclear strike Starfighters even had their M61 gun replaced by an additional fuel tank for deeper penetration missions. However, some units close to the German borders, e.g. Jagdgeschwader (JG) 71 in Wittmundhafen (East Frisia) as well as JG 74 in Neuburg (Bavaria), operated the Starfighter as a true interceptor on QRA duty. From 1980 onwards, these dedicated F-104Gs received a new air superiority camouflage, consisting of three shades of grey in an integral wraparound scheme, together with smaller, subdued national markings. This livery was officially called “Norm 82” and unofficially “Alberich”, after the secretive guardian of the Nibelung's treasure. A similar wraparound paint scheme, tailored to low-level operations and consisting of two greens and black (called Norm 83), was soon applied to the fighter bombers and the RF-104 fleet, too, as well as to the Luftwaffe’s young Tornado IDS fleet.
However, the Luftwaffe’s F-104Gs were at that time already about to be gradually replaced, esp. in the interceptor role, by the more capable and reliable F-4F Phantom II, a process that lasted well into the mid-Eighties due to a lagging modernization program for the Phantoms. The Luftwaffe’s fighter bombers and recce Starfighters were replaced by the MRCA Tornado and RF-4E Phantoms. In naval service the Starfighters soldiered on for a little longer until they were also replaced by the MRCA Tornado – eventually, the Marineflieger units received a two engine aircraft type that was suitable for their kind of missions.
In the course of the ongoing withdrawal, a lot of German aircraft with sufficiently enough flying hours left were transferred to other NATO partners like Norway, Greece, Turkey and Italy, and two were sold to the NASA. One specific Starfighter was furthermore modified into a CCV (Control-Configured Vehicle) experimental aircraft under control of the German Industry, paving the way to aerodynamically unstable aircraft like the Eurofighter/Typhoon. The last operational German F-104 made its farewell flight on 22. Mai 1991, and the type’s final flight worldwide was in Italy in October 2004.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 54 ft 8 in (16.66 m)
Wingspan: 21 ft 9 in (6.63 m)
Height: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Wing area: 196.1 ft² (18.22 m²)
Airfoil: Biconvex 3.36 % root and tip
Empty weight: 14,000 lb (6,350 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 29,027 lb (13,166 kg)
Powerplant:
1× General Electric J79 afterburning turbojet,
10,000 lbf (44 kN) thrust dry, 15,600 lbf (69 kN) with afterburner
Performance:
Maximum speed: 1,528 mph (2,459 km/h, 1,328 kn)
Maximum speed: Mach 2
Combat range: 420 mi (680 km, 360 nmi)
Ferry range: 1,630 mi (2,620 km, 1,420 nmi)
Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m)
Rate of climb: 48,000 ft/min (240 m/s) initially
Lift-to-drag: 9.2
Wing loading: 105 lb/ft² (510 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.54 with max. takeoff weight (0.76 loaded)
Armament:
1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61A1 Vulcan six-barreled Gatling cannon, 725 rounds
7× hardpoints with a capacity of 4,000 lb (1,800 kg), including up to four AIM-9 Sidewinder, (nuclear)
bombs, guided and unguided missiles, or other stores like drop tanks or recce pods
The kit and its assembly:
A relatively simple what-if project – based on the question how a German F-104 interceptor might have looked like, had it been operated for a longer time to see the Luftwaffe’s low-viz era from 1981 onwards. In service, the Luftwaffe F-104Gs started in NMF and then carried the Norm 64 scheme, the well-known splinter scheme in grey and olive drab. Towards the end of their career the fighter bombers and recce planes received the Norm 83 wraparound scheme in green and black, but by that time no dedicated interceptors were operational anymore, so I stretched the background story a little.
The model is the very nice Italeri F-104G/S model, which is based on the ESCI molds from the Eighties, but it comes with recessed engravings and an extra sprue that contains additional drop tanks and an Orpheus camera pod. The kit also includes a pair of Sidewinders with launch rails for the wing tips as well as the ventral “catamaran” twin rail, which was frequently used by German Starfighters because the wing tips were almost constantly occupied with tanks.
Fit and detail is good – the kit is IMHO very good value for the money. There are just some light sinkholes on the fuselage behind the locator pins, the fit of the separate tail section is mediocre and calls for PSR, and the thin and very clear canopy is just a single piece – for open display, you have to cut it by yourself.
Since the model would become a standard Luftwaffe F-104G, just with a fictional livery, the kit was built OOB. The only change I made are drooped flaps, and the air brakes were mounted in open position.
The ordnance (wing tip tanks plus the ventral missiles) was taken from the kit, reflecting the typical German interceptor configuration: the wing tips were frequently occupied with tanks, sometimes even together with another pair of drop tanks under the wings, so that any missile had to go under the fuselage. The instructions for the ventral catamaran launch rails are BTW wrong – they tell the builder to mount the launch rails onto the twin carrier upside down! Correctly, the carrier’s curvature should lie flush on the fuselage, with no distance at all. When mounted as proposed, the Sidewinders come very close to the ground and the whole installation looks pretty goofy! I slightly modified the catamaran launch rail with some thin styrene profile strips as spacers, and the missiles themselves, AIM-9Bs, were replaced with more modern and delicate AIM-9Js from a Hasegawa air-to-air weapons set. Around the hull, some small blade antennae, a dorsal rotating warning light and an angle-of-attack sensor were added.
Painting and markings:
The exotic livery is what defined this what-if build, and the paint scheme was actually inspired by a real world benchmark: some Dornier Do-28D Skyservants of the German Marineflieger received, late in their career, a wraparound scheme in three shades of grey, namely RAL 7030 (Steingrau), 7000 (Fehgrau) and 7012 (Basaltgrau). I thought that this would work pretty well for an F-104G interceptor that operates at medium to high altitudes, certainly better than the relatively dark Norm 64 splinter scheme or the Norm 83 low-altitude pattern.
The camouflage pattern was simply adopted from the Starfighter’s Norm 83 scheme, just the colors were exchanged. The kit was painted with acrylic paints from Revell, since the authentic tones were readily available, namely 75, 57 and 77. As a disrupting detail I gave the wing tip tanks the old Norm 64 colors: uniform Gelboliv from above (RAL 6014, Revell 42), Silbergrau underneath (RAL 7001, Humbrol’s 127 comes pretty close), and bright RAL 2005 dayglo orange markings, the latter created with TL Modellbau decal sheet material for clean edges and an even finish.
The cockpit interior was painted in standard medium grey (Humbrol 140, Dark Gull Grey), the landing gear including the wells became aluminum (Humbrol 56), the interior of the air intakes was painted with bright matt aluminum metallizer (Humbrol 27001) with black anti-icing devices in the edges and the shock cones. The radome was painted with very light grey (Humbrol 196, RAL 7035), the dark green anti-glare panel is a decal from the OOB sheet.
The model received a standard black ink washing and some panel post-shading (with Testors 2133 Russian Fulcrum Grey, Humbrol 128 FS 36320 and Humbrol 156 FS 36173) in an attempt to even out the very different shades of grey. The result does not look bad, pretty worn and weathered (like many German Starfighters), even though the paint scheme reminds a lot of the Hellenic "Ghost" scheme from the late F-4Es and the current F-16s?
The decals for the subdued Luftwaffe markings were puzzled together from various sources. The stencils were mostly taken from the kit’s exhaustive and sharply printed sheet. Tactical codes (“26+40” is in the real Starfighter range, but this specific code was AFAIK never allocated), iron crosses and the small JG 71 emblems come from TL Modellbau aftermarket sheets. Finally, after some light soot stains around the gun port, the afterburner and some air outlets along the fuselage with graphite, the model was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.
A simple affair, since the (nice) kit was built OOB and the only really fictional aspect of this model is its livery. But the resulting aircraft looks good, the all-grey wraparound scheme suits the slender F-104 well and makes an interceptor role quite believable. Would probably also look good on a German Eurofighter? Certainly more interesting than the real world all-blue-grey scheme.
In the beauty pics the scheme also appears to be quite effective over open water, too, so that the application to the Marineflieger Do-28Ds made sense. However, for the real-world Starfighter, this idea came a couple of years too late.
Getting showered in mud, grass & god knows what else as this Army Air Corps apache departs. Think the sensor needed a clean after this!
In March 2014, the flight Near-Infrared Camera was installed into the flight Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) for the James Webb Space Telescope. NIRCam joins the flight Fine Guidance Sensor/ Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) which are already integrated into the ISIM. The flight Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) will be installed next.
The NIRCam is JWST's primary imager and will be returning beautiful images of the universe.
Read more: jwst.nasa.gov/nircam.html
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
El sensor que está en segundo plano es inductivo y detecta cuando el piñón de ataque del prelanzador está en reposo (LED verde) y cuando está accionado (LED rojo). Este único LED está encima del panel de instrumentos al lado del cuenta revoluciones del rotor y se ilumina en verde o rojo según el sensor detecta o no el piñón de ataque. Es un elemento que nos indica que una vez prelanzado, el piñón a descendido completamente y se puede iniciar el despegue al pasar de color rojo a color verde.
Today I decided to take the opportunity to use a Sony NEX-7 [Crop-Sensor] with a Sony-Zeiss Full-Frame 35mm 1.4f lens.
I have recently read that using a full-frame lens with a crop sensor may not produce better results than using a lens designed from a crop-sensor camera and in fact the images will be less shary.
When starting out, many photographers choose to go with a crop body and invest in full frame lenses. This is usually recommended as a good approach as you can keep your lenses and swap out your body for something newer down the road, eventually leading to that high quality full frame sensor that you always wanted. However some experts, especially Tony Northrup, claim that starting out with the full frame lens and crop bodies does not provide you with the sharp images.
In my case I had a top end full frame camera [Canon 1DSIII] with a set of very expensive glass and I was not at all happy as the combination was way too heavy and totally unsuitable for street photography. About five years ago I decided that I needed a better solution and after using a Sony NEX-5 for about a year I decided to purchase a NEX-7 and switch from DSLR to Mirrorless [at the time that was a big gamble]. In theory it would be possible to use my Canon lenses with the NEX-7 but in reality it was not a workable solution. The NEX-7 featured a crop-sensor so I purchased a set of suitable Sony lenses and they were not expensive.
My reason for getting the NEX-7 and associated lenses was greatly reduced weight coupled with the fact that my equipment did not attract unwelcome attention.
The NEX-7 performed way beyond my expectations and I was really pleased and then towards the end of last year because the camera was giving problems at random I threw all logic out the window and took an ever bigger gamble by purchasing a Sony A7RMkII full frame mirrorless camera which is larger and heavier than the NEX-7.
To be honest, there is no comparison between the two cameras, the A7R is very much superior and while it is heavier it is actually easier to use. Also the Canon lenses actually work with the A7R but using the necessary adaptor was a pain and added weight. However the Canon lenses showed what the A7RMkII could do so I decided that maybe I should consider getting some native Sony FE prime lenses and then I discovered that they all were expensive and heavy [ unless I got manual focus lens such as the Loxia ]. Anyway I ended up with a set of primes [and no cash] but I now have serious weight issue especially when I travel.
I was planning to use the NEX-7 as a backup or when I travel but the crop-lenses are not very good so it would make no sense to leave my full-frame lenses behind so a possible solution would to bring along one of the FE primes [35mm 1.4f] but then I came across discussions online claiming that FE lenses underperform when used with a crop-sensor. Of course there is another issue in that the NEX-7 is at the end of its life and needs to be replaced by something like the A6300 but as I already said I have no spare cash.
Vintage Digital - 2 (of 14) - Sony Cybershot DSC F-717 (2002) with Karl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar F:2.0-2.4 9.7-48.5 mm (35 mm equivalent 38-190 mm) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Over the next few weeks of February and March 2020, I made lots of trips to the VA hospital to see my doctor, my cardiologist, and more testing gear. I had ultrasound and CT scans of my heart followed by consultations on what they saw. They say that surgery will probably not be necessary but prescribed more meds. My doctor decided to get me a heart monitor to wear for several weeks. They showed me how to apply the sensors, hook up and turn on the gear, and take it off for wet personal hygiene and showers.
There are four sensors that are placed in specific places that are wired to a small RF transmitter on a lanyard around my neck. The transmitter talks to a modified cell phone that has to be within ten feet or so and sends the data to a medical monitoring station near Chicago. A couple of times a tech called me up to ask why my heartrate was up. The first time was probably due to a stubborn shit that needed urging. The second time I felt nothing and had no explanation. Ultimately, the three week test proved that I did have occasional rapid heartrate episodes at random times.
Besides having to take time to unhook every time I needed to get cleaned up and then hook up again, I had to keep the monitor phone at my bedside, in my purse, on a belt holster, or on the kitchen countertop, dinner table, vanity table, etc. If you click to magnify the photo, you can see icons on the phone that match white, red, green, or black sensor locations.
I was issued the monitor set in March just before the COVID lockdown. I remember hearing BBC reports of a mysterious virus in China during the Christmas 2019 holidays. By January the epidemic was in full swing in China, but the US was paralyzed in its response due to incompetence by Trumputin. I wondered how my VA hospital was going to react to what was obviously a pandemic that would strike Houston.
During my first morning in the hospital, I complimented the guy cleaning my room. I told him I noticed how clean everything was, and that his job would soon be part of a life or death situation. I said I spent as much time in the Army with a broom, mop, and toilet brush as with a rifle and machinegun. He was an Army vet, too and laughed. I said the Army makes a fetish out of cleanliness because in most wars, disease kills more people than battle. I wished him luck because I knew that in a few weeks, lots of patients would be dying, and he would have to clean up after them. I was right.
Harris County has lost more than 8900 people to COVID. Texas has lost more than 69,000 people mostly due to Governor Abbott's bungling and interference with local officials trying to enact public health measures like masking in public places. That's more than we lost in the Vietnam War and all of our useless oil wars in the Middle East combined. Nationwide, the US has lost more than 732,000 deaths due to the Trumputin Covfefe Virus pandemic because Trump and his fellow RepUGLUcan idiots didn't believe in science and wanted to kill as many poor and non-white people in the cities as possible. It is evident that "conservatism" is simply another word for BACKWARDNESS because they oppose all public health measure like mask mandates, prohibitions against indoor crowds, and mandatory vaccinations that could have controlled this disease many months ago.
Agfa Optima 500 Sensor - Kodak Ektachrome.
More shots with this camera: www.flickr.com/photos/mattiacam/sets/72157639616449233/wi...
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So there I was, standing in front of a very formidable very intimidating wall of sand, Exactly what I was hoping for on this particular trip to Death Valley. (see my last post for an idea of what I mean - www.flickr.com/photos/chasenthesunset/7688579276/ ) I had my camera stashed in a rain bag or poncho, then zipped in my old camera backpack, and a rain fly over that. I had hoped that this would be sufficient in keeping the dust out until it calmed down a little bit. Into the storm I went. It was every bit as bad as it looked in the heart of the storm. I couldn't hear anything except wind, kept my head down to protect my eyes, and struggled to keep my footing on the dunes. But every so often the dust would move on and leave a most interesting scene in front of me with sensational light to boot. Sometimes there was no sand blowing. Sometimes it was so bad I had to retreat to a shrub nearby and wait for it to subside. Never the less with a little patience and a lot of mis-timed shots, I came away with a few nice looking compositions. I did a decent job of keeping the dust out of my gear but had to clean my sensor as soon as I got home and ended up just tossing out the old bag. As always thanx for looking and your thought are much appreciated!!!
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And now for something completely different - a very compact plastic camera with an oversized finder and semi-wide-angle lens, ideal for street shooting. The finder has a magnification of about 0.80x (slightly larger than the Leica M6 which had 0.85x) and has a brightline incorporated (Albada type, i.e. self-illuminating, with the frameline on the inner surface of the eyepiece lens). Exposure is fully automatic (using No. 625 batteries) and programmed. Zone focusing with click stops for 3 positions, and there's still a proper distance scale as well.
The lens is a 4-element air-spaced type like the Goerz Dogmar of 100 years ago (which has been used more often during the 80's and 90's because of the better correction that can be obtained when elements don't have to be cemented, as in the Tessar design, where the two rear elements are cemented).
The compactness of the camera (105mm wide, 69mm high, 55mm deep) has been achieved by placing the finder over the take-up spool, as in the legendary Rollei 35. Unlike that camera however, which had a very awkward lever wind on the left (right above the finder) this camera has a convenient lever on the right hand side (the Rollei 35 was of course more compact - 97x60mmx32mm though more awkward). The release is the red flexible plastic dome on top of the winder, which they called a "sensor" (and not the black knob near it, which is just the rewind selector).
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She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
ALL THE BEST on your Epic Hero's Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Sony A7R RAW Photos of Tall, Thin Pretty Brunette Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens ! Lightroom 5.3 !
Pretty goddess reading the Great Books & Classics! Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey, and Shakespeare!
Modeling the new black & gold & "Gold 45 Revolver" Gold'N'Virtue swimsuits with the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
With the Johnny Ranger McCoy Celtic Cross on the back of the bikini! All the best on your epic hero's journey from JR MCCOY!
MOC: Sensor GTR. A variation of the theme from my previous Supercar - I wanted to see if I could build something a supercar that looked a bit more like it was meant for the road than for the track. Very happy with the result.
Made in ?? ; 1978 - ... . For 126 cassette . Simple viewfinder camera with fixed focus and aperture . Two shutter speeds . Socket for flipflash flashbulb bar .
Shot with:
Canon 1000D \XS\ REBEL
Canon 70 200 F4 L Non IS
SOOC
The colors on this particular flower were so saturated, that I just gave up.
If you see, the petal, from where they emerge look fused. I tried everything, right from setting WB, changing focus mode etc.
Nothing worked.
I guess full frame sensors can record such details?
The flower was pretty anyway, so worth some upload out of several shots :)
Have a great week ahead friends !
One of the problems with shooting at f/22 is the amount of cack that is revealed on the sensor. I spotted many of the worst offenders away, but the sky was nice and dramatic for an 0.8s exposure.
Agfa Sensor Cameras
Agfa Silette LK Sensor
Agfa Optima 200 Sensor
Agfa Optima 500 Sensor
Agfa Selectronic Sensor
Agfa Selectronic S Sensor
Agfa started that series in the early 1970ies, the new identifier of all models was the red-orange dot as shutter button, a feature Agfa used successfully for all following cameras. The name "Sensor" refers to that shutter button, the new design should guarantee a very soft and shake-free release.
All models share basically the same body, which includes another characteristic feature: with the film advance lever at the bottom also the exposed film has to be rewound. Furthermore the exposed frames have an extra container in the film chamber, so they are protected when the door is opened accidentally.
Other shared characteristics are a manual focus lens with the minimum focus distance of 1 m, an f-stop range from f/2.8 to f/22 and the lack of a filter thread. All models have an exposure meter, a bright frame viewfinder with parallax marks, a cable release thread (due to the red button it's on the back), a hot shoe, a tripod bush and a frame counter at the bottom, which has to be reset manually.
In the mid 70ies these cameras were replaced by the very compact Optima Sensor Electronic models, which kept some features like the peculiar rewind mechanism.
The models in detail:
The Silette LK is clearly the budget model, fully manual and fully mechanical (no battery required), 3-element 2.8/45 Color-Agnar lens in Parator shutter, unlike the other models the lens barrel is plastic made. Shutter speeds from 1/30 to 1/300 s and B, coupled exposure meter with Selenium cell whose needle is visible in the viewer and on top, ISO range from 25 to 400.
Optima 200: 3-element 2.8/42 Color-Apotar lens in Paratic shutter, zone focusing. Like all previous Agfa Optima cameras the Optima 200 has a programmed automatic exposure, in the viewfinder a red/green signal displays sufficient light. Shutter speeds from 1/30 to 1/200 s. A Selenium cell is used, so the camera also doesn't require a battery, ISO range (of the variant here) 25 to 160. If a flash is mounted in the hot shoe, the camera uses 1/30 s and switches into flash-matic mode, guide number (m) from 11 to 27.
Optima 500: like the Optima 200, but with a CdS-cell for the exposure meter instead of a Selenium cell, so a 625 PX battery is required. ISO range from 25 to 400, shutter speeds from 1/30 to 1/500 s. Furthermore the shutter features a B-setting with the full f-stop range. Afaik the Optima 500 was the only model which was available in black and silver.
Selectronic: 3-element 2.8/45 Color-Apotar lens in Paratronic shutter. Aperture priority automatic exposure mode, the f-stop ring has no click-stops. Both F-stop and shutter speed (1/500 to 1/30 s, symbol for slower speeds) are displayed in the viewfinder. Slowest shutter speed up to 15 s. CdS-cell (behind the right one of the two eyes), two 625 PX batteries are required, ISO range from 25 to 400. Behind the left eye is a light bulb, it is lit when the shutter is open, it also indicates full batteries when the test button is pressed.
Self-timer, no B-setting, no flash-matic mode.
Price about DM 350,-
Selectronic S, the top model. Like the Selectronic, but with 4-element 2.8/45 Color-Solinar lens and rangefinder.
Price about DM 450,-
Taken from the balcony of the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Seoul, South Korea. This is the result on the setup shown earlier in the week.
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS – mit 65-fach-Zoomoptik
Megazoomriese
"Sonnenkamera" - Die Kamera mit kleinem Sensor braucht halt viel Licht!
Crop #003
Edit by Aviary
vivid Colors and sharper
distance: 40 m
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Wozu so eine 65-fach Zoom Kamera taugt!
What you can do with a 65x optical zoom Bridge Camera.
Zoom optisch / digital: 65,0fach / 4,0fach ( ~ 260,0fach)
Der rückwärtig belichtete CMOS-Bildsensor der Canon PowerShot SX60 HS ist 1/2,3 Zoll groß und löst 15,9 Megapixel auf (4.608 x 3.456 Pixel) auf. Zwischen ISO 100 und ISO 3.200 lässt sich die Sensorempfindlichkeit einstellen, die Wahl ist dabei in ganzen oder in Drittelstufen möglich. Die Bilder und Videos werden von einem Digic-6-Bildprozessor verarbeitet. Dessen Integration sollte für eine schnelle Arbeitsgeschwindigkeit sowie eine gesteigerte Bildqualität bei höheren Sensorempfindlichkeiten sorgen.
Ebenso können der Makromodus mit 0cm Naheinstellgrenze und der manuelle Fokus mit Fokuslupe und Peakingunterstützung überzeugen.
Belichten kann die PowerShot SX60 HS zwischen 15 Sekunden und 1/2.000 Sekunde, die Belichtungskorrektur ist um plus bis minus drei Lichtwerte möglich.
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EXKURS:
Mit P-S-A-M Menü - with Nikon, Minolta, Konica Minolta, Sony, Olympus, Sigma
P - TV - AV - M - with Canon, Pentax, Leica
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Das ist die Abkürzung für einen Programmstandard, den auch jede DSLR mitbringt.
Übersicht aller DSLR - DXO Sensor und Performance:
The DxOMark Sensor Score measures the RAW image quality data without considering the resolution, speed or lens sharpness.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_single-lens_reflex_...
P = Programmautomatik, die Kamera steuert die Verschlusszeit und Blende automatisch ( +/- Belichtungen können vorgegeben werden)
Es wird immer eine gute Belichtung erreicht.
... (The difference between Program mode and Full Auto mode is that in program mode, only the exposure is automatic, while other camera settings (e.g. shooting mode, exposure compensation, flash) can be set manually; in Full Auto mode everything is automatic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_camera_modes)
Tv - Tv (for "time value"
Shutter speed priority
You may specify the shutter speed while the camera sets the corresponding aperture
S = TV = Blendenautomatik, Du wählst die Verschlusszeit vor und die Kamera steuert die dazu passende Blende automatisch (Halbautomatik)
Verwacklungsfreie Bilder:
- Tierfotografie,Teleaufnahmen, Sportphotografie 1/500 oder 1/1000 als Vorgabe.
- oder lange Belichtungszeiten zum Einfrieren von Bewegtem -
Quellwasser sieht dann auch wie Eis
Nachteil ISO geht bei wenig Licht in den Keller und das Foto wird grieselig.
A - Av: Aperture priority or 'Aperture value'
A = AV = Zeitautomatik, Du wählst die Blende vor und die Kamera steuert die dazu passende Verschlusszeit automatisch (Halbautomatik)
Ideal zum Freistellen und Bokeh, wenn f/1.8 etc. möglich.
oder für mehr Schärfentiefe bei f/8 oder kleinerer Blende.
M = Manuelle Einstellung, Du wählst die Blende und Verschlusszeit manuell. Die Kamera gibt Empfehlungen, passt aber nichts an.
(Man kann " MF save" einstellen, damit total falsche Belichtungen wie in P korrigiert werden.)
Gut für Experimente und wenn keine Schnappschüsse gewünscht werden.
Raw:
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Deine SX60 speichert bei RAW die Belichtungszeit (Verschlußzeit), Blende und ISO.
Alle anderen Einstellungsoptionen wie Kontrast, Weißabgleich, Farbsättigung, digitale Schärfung usw. fallen beim Fotografieren mit RAW weg, weil diese Einstellungen erst später bei der Nachbearbeitung auf dem Blechotto (Konvertierung am PC) vorgenommen werden.
Nachteil:
Die vom Kamera-Bildprozessor im RAW-Format nicht durchgeführte Rauschunterdrückung und Perspektiven-korrektur.
Bei JPEG greifen automatisch in der Kamera integrierte Routinen, die Du nun nachträglich am PC mit Spezialprogrammen zeitintensiv nachholen mußt.
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Advantage Bridge Kamera:
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Die Fehler des fest eingebauten Objektivs kennt der Hersteller genau und kann durch ein korrigierendes Eingreifen der Kameraelektronik die meisten Abbildungsfehler des Objektivs bei verschiedenen Brennweiten und Blenden automatisch korrigieren.
Selbst bei 21 mm Weitwinkel ist nichts oval oder bauchig!
www.ralfonso.de/Fotoschule/fotoschule160.html
■Hybrid Auto erstellt HD-Filmtagebuch
■Manuelle Steuerung Belichtungsparameter
Mit der Canon PowerShot SX60 HS Bridge-Kamera macht Fotografieren Spaß.
Dank 65-fachem optischen Zoom und Ultraweitwinkelobjektiv können Sie weit entfernte Motive ganz nach heranholen und bekommen weitläufige Landschaften optimal aufs Bild.
Falls Sie das Objekt beim Heranzoomen verlieren sollten, hilt Ihnen der Zoom-Assistent, das gewünschte Motiv gleich wieder zu finden.
Der integrierte Bildstabilisator gleicht Verwacklungen aus, sodass Sie bei Tag und Nacht gestochen scharfe Aufnahmen bekommen.
12 Testberichte – Durchschnitts-Testnote: 2,0
www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/4588931_-pow...
Auflösung bei ISO min 1.271 Linienpaare
Auflösung bei ISO 400 1.094 Linienpaare
Auflösung bei ISO 800 1.023 Linienpaare
Auflösung bei ISO 1600 934 Linienpaare
Textur- / Detailtreue bei ISO min 80 Punkte / 90 Prozent
Textur- / Detailtreue bei ISO 400 60 Punkte / 65 Prozent
Textur- / Detailtreue bei ISO 800 75 Punkte / 35 Prozent
Textur- / Detailtreue bei ISO 1.600 90 Punkte / 25 Prozent
BEST of of Flickr
taken by Canon Powershot SX60 HS IS
www.flickr.com/search/?q=sx60
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■ Ultraschallmotor für leises Zoomen und Fokussieren
■ Highspeed-Reihenaufnahmen
- CFM mode Creative filters mode
Mit maximal 8,3 Bildern pro Sekunde ist die Serienbildbildgeschwindigkeit hoch, diese Geschwindigkeit ist aber auf sechs Bilder in Folge begrenzt.
Sind diese erreicht, lassen sich allerdings weiterhin gute 6,2 Bilder pro Sekunde festhalten bis die Speicherkarte voll ist !!
Ps
Bei meinem Test waren 600 Bilder beim Start eines Rennlaufes mit AF-Verfolgung kein Problem!
Anders gesagt: Einmal clicken - 600 Fotos! in etwa eineinhalb Minuten.
www.flickr.com/photos/eagle1effi/15780278177/
Image Stabilization IS On (2), high.
Focus Distance Upper 39.69 m
Focal Length 247 mm - aka 1365 mm
"handheld" mit Kontrolle über den Schwenkmonitor
ISO Speed 100
handheld
distance 40 m
full optical zoom 65x
1365 mm
some small crop
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Exif data
Camera Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/6.5
Focus Continuous
Continuous Drive Continuous, Speed Priority -
Tv (for "time value"
Satellite: Sentinel-2. Sensor: MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument).
Visualization RGB: bands 8 (NIR), 4 (red), 3 (green). False color.
En la visualización en falso color la vegetación se ve en color rojo, mientras que las ciudades y el suelo desnudo se ven en tonos de ocre. En verde claro destaca la gran cantidad de sedimentos que deposita el río en el mar.
El delta del Irrawaddy comienza aproximadamente a 93 km por encima de Hinthada (Henzada) y a unos 290 km de su base curva, que da al Mar de Andamán. El distribuidor más occidental del delta es el río Pathein (Bassein), mientras que el más oriental es el río Yangon, en cuya orilla izquierda se encuentra la antigua capital de Myanmar, Yangon (Rangún). Como resultado de las fuertes precipitaciones que varían de 2000 a 3000 mm al año en el delta, y el movimiento y la carga de sedimentos del río, la superficie del delta se extiende hacia el mar de Andamán a un ritmo de unos 50 metros (54,7 yd) por año.(es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Irawadi)
Esta imagen ha sido procesada con el navegador EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) de Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub es un motor de procesamiento de datos satelitales, dentro del programa de observación de la Tierra Copernicus (copernicus.eu) de la Unión Europea, operado por la empresa Sinergise. EO Browser es gratuito y fácil de usar. El norte siempre está arriba.
This image has been processed using the EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) by Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub is a satellite data processing engine, within the European Union's Earth observation programme Copernicus (copernicus.eu), operated by the Sinergise company. EO Browser is free and easy to use. North is always up.
RAF Museum, Hendon, London
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www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/83-AF-1374-Boe...
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Outside air temperature sensor:
www.flickr.com/photos/edk7/25246323719/
www.flickr.com/photos/edk7/40201889544/
P4070812 Anx2 Q90 1400h 0.5k-1.5k
Arriva London South (LT734, LTZ 1734, Brixton/Streatham Hill (BN)-based) at Waterloo Station, Waterloo Road, Waterloo, London. Body no AL803, delivered new 20/03/2016 via Heysham Docks. Apologies for the mark on the left hand side of the photo, caused by a clump of sensor dust that got into one of the filters in my camera lens.
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Yoga goddess! Nikon D800 E Photos of Yoga Workout Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! Shot with the sharp, awesome Nikkor 70-200mm F/2.8 VR2 Lens! Tan lines can be hot!
Beauty will save the world." -Dostoevsky
"All the gold in the world is not worth virtue." -Plato
A tall, thin, fit, athletic yoga goddess on a most beautiful cloudy/sunny summer morning in Malibu on a deserted beach! Y'all will have to join us someday!
Here's some Nikon D800E and SONY NEX-7 videos of the goddess performing Yoga while modeling the Gold'N'Virtue Gold 45 Revolver swimsuit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-vqIBRvYs (Sony Nex 7 nice Bokeh)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqE1rA-foHA (Sony Nex 7 nice Bokeh)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts08YEY8wMs (Sony Nex 7 nice Bokeh)
Be sure to watch the goddess video in Full 1080P! She was modeling all seven of the Gold'N'Virtue Gold 45 Revolver swimsuit bikini designs! More photos/video to come!
With the black 45SURF surfboard! Black surfboards get HOT in the sun!
The epic photos were shot with my favorite lens the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom with a CP--the B W 77mm XS-Pro Kaesemann Circular Polarizer with Multi-Resistant Nano Coatingon, all on the amazing Nikon D800E Camera!
All the Gold'N'Virtue bikinis and 45surf clothes have the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
May the Hero's Journey Mythology Goddess inspire you (as they have inspired me!) along your own artistic journey! Love, love, love the 70-200mm F/2.8 Lens! :)
All the Best on Your Epic Hero's Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy & the yoga goddess!