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I always make a joke when my friends use their signets. Imagine that signets have a power of magic! That's how a new catoon born!
:D Just for fun. Hoping that my friends will never laugh at my crazy ideas.
Signet for the transport enterprise United Van Lines Inc. Artist(s) Lippincott & Margulies, Inc. USA. From Gebrauchsgraphik No. 6, 1966. Blogged at Aqua-Velvet.
Front view, in field case. Fast f2.8 three element, 44mm Kodak Ektanar lens, coupled aperture and shutter rings
Produced from 1958 to 1962, the Kodak Signet 80 was the last serious rangefinder Kodak made. It was an interchangeable lens camera: in addition to the 50mm lens, 35mm and 90mm lenses were available. It had a unique film take-up mechanism that did not require a film spool. Designed by Arthur Crapsey, it was a striking example of mid-century design aesthetic.
The Kodak Signet 35 was Kodak's top American-made 35mm camera of the 1950's and the first of the Kodak Signet camera line. The Signet 35 has a coupled coincident image rangefinder, an excellent Ektar 44mm f3.5 lens with rear helicoid focus, automatic film stop counter with double exposure prevention, all built into a sturdy cast aluminum alloy body. The manually cocked Kodak Synchro 300, shutter works well, but compared with the shutters on equivalent German and Japanese cameras of the period, it has significantly fewer speeds (B, 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, and 1/300). However, time has proved the shutter to be very reliable, especially when compared to some of Kodak's leaf shutters of more impressive specifications.
- After originally giving birth to six Sygnets only two now remain. Last year the entire bevy were lost, so we're hoping these survive long enough to become independent young adults. Kennet & Avon Canal, Devizes.
Alberto Moravia: The time of indifference.
Signet 1955.
Movie tie-in starring Clark Cable and Marilyn Monroe.
Cover art by James Avati.
Open day photos from Advocates Library which sits behind this, out of view:
William Henry Playfair, 1830. A 2-storey and basement, Tudor collegiate, purpose-built advocates' library and associated rooms. Excellent decorative scheme with many original features. Library with exceptional deep square-coffered ceiling with central pendants. Deep decorative plaster cornice with patera design. Timber bookcases and shelving. Some moulded stone and marble fire surrounds.
The Advocates Library, founded in 1689, is widely regarded as the finest working law library in the UK. It has an exceptionally fine decorative interior by the renowned architect W H Playfair and an unusual Tudor collegiate bay-windowed façade to the North. The Advocates Library building forms an important part of the extensive and significant 19th century improvements to the Judicial buildings of Edinburgh in Parliament Square. The Advocates Library is also of historic importance as it was the forerunner to the National Library of Scotland.
W H Playfair was an renowned and eminent architect and a leading figure in Edinburgh's Enlightenment. An expert exponent of the Greek Revival style, his buildings helped to create the Enlightenment character of Edinburgh.
William Makepeace Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond.
Signet Classics 1964.
Cover art by James Hill.
Never Kill a Cop by John B. West. 1964. 3rd printing. Mysteriously signed B. Barye Phillips? Atypical if so...
Produced from 1958 to 1962, the Kodak Signet 80 was the last serious rangefinder Kodak made. It was an interchangeable lens camera: in addition to the 50mm lens, 35mm and 90mm lenses were available. It had a unique film take-up mechanism that did not require a film spool. Designed by Arthur Crapsey, it was a striking example of mid-century design aesthetic.
Produced from 1958 to 1962, the Kodak Signet 80 was the last serious rangefinder Kodak made. It was an interchangeable lens camera: in addition to the 50mm lens, 35mm and 90mm lenses were available. It had a unique film take-up mechanism that did not require a film spool. Designed by Arthur Crapsey, it was a striking example of mid-century design aesthetic.