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This car was one of the entrants in the Cheshire Concours d'Elegance a the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.
It's the 1935 Rover Speed 14 Streamline Coupé of Malcolm Mountain. The original Rover 14 P1 was introduced in 1933 with a 1,577cc 6-cylinder inline engine with a single Solex downdraught carburettor. The Streamline Saloon and Streamline Coupé were offered as alternative bodies in 1934, and in the same year the Speed 14 Streamline Coupé was produced with a tuned engine and triple SU carburettors. Production of this car continued until 1936 and 380 were manufactured in total.
I went down to Laguna Seca late last month to check out the Speed Ventures track day and Radical Sports car and EXR races. I took a bunch of photos digitally (to be posted shortly), but also brought along a new-to-me old film SLR; a Nikon F-801s. I thought this was supposed to AF with all of my Nikkor lenses, but it wouldn't work for me; so pardon some missed-focus shots; I had to do it manually. If R1 is in the image name, it was taken on Agfa Photo Vista 200; R2 was Ektar 100. Taken with one of the following lenses:
Nikon 24mm f/1.8G
Nikon 50mm f/1.8D
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II
Nikon 300mm f/2.8 VR I
Most of these could be improved in Lightroom or whatever, and I may do that eventually, but I'm posting these raw scans as-is, because that was the point of shooting the film for me, and I'm spending plenty of time in LR for the digital photos anyway. ^_^
This is for the Macro Monday group, the subject was speed. I know I sure need my morning cup of Joe to get some speed for my day! =)
I keep trying to try shots with water and a pellet and here is why I don't think I will ever get a good shot.
The beautiful water patterns of falling water become a blast of mist when the pellet hits. The water is milliseconds and the the pellet is microseconds.
There were some beautiful photos published recently where the target was a water drop. I liked the photos a lot, but saw that the pellet had to be going much slower than a "typical" pellet. When I contacted the photographer, he verified that the pellet was about 100fps rather than this pellet which is going at about 800fps.
I will keep playing with the idea, but am dubious that I can get it to work.
For Tony.
The camera is 15mm (actually more like 18mm) focal length f60. I use a padded back to press the film forward onto the light chamber to obtain the short focal length. The shutter is from an Ilford Sporti and has a flash contact so the camera can do flash macro pinhole shots.
I went down to Laguna Seca late last month to check out the Speed Ventures track day and Radical Sports car and EXR races. I took a bunch of photos digitally (to be posted shortly), but also brought along a new-to-me old film SLR; a Nikon F-801s. I thought this was supposed to AF with all of my Nikkor lenses, but it wouldn't work for me; so pardon some missed-focus shots; I had to do it manually. If R1 is in the image name, it was taken on Agfa Photo Vista 200; R2 was Ektar 100. Taken with one of the following lenses:
Nikon 24mm f/1.8G
Nikon 50mm f/1.8D
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II
Nikon 300mm f/2.8 VR I
Most of these could be improved in Lightroom or whatever, and I may do that eventually, but I'm posting these raw scans as-is, because that was the point of shooting the film for me, and I'm spending plenty of time in LR for the digital photos anyway. ^_^
Equatorial diameter of Earth of 7927 miles X Axial tilt of 23.5 degrees = 186284.5
Light takes just over 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun.
(The above image = the first frame of 37)
This is a photo of my father, William B. Charlton astride a motorcycle of unknown make. I note that this one has a hand shifter beside the fuel tank. It was taken at the "Barriefield Barracks" which I understand is now CFB Kingston. The fuel tank has "C.O.C.T.C" hand written in white paint and there is an inscription on the album page indicating that this was during the "Motorcycle Course". The photo has "Speed demon Charlton and his trusty steed, July 1943" written in his hand on the back.
COCTC on the fuel tank stands for Canadian Ordnance Corp Training Centre.
These bikes appear to be Harley Davidson 43WLCs:
www.motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic_bikes/harley_da...
A few more pics on the friday from the 2011 festival of speed
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Tried a few shots at some camellia buds. OK enough.
After this, I tried some other shots which all failed due to triggering problems. Got me all pissed off, wasting shots.
It once again looks like crud getting under and around the SD5600 opto-schmidt triggers on the CameraAxe projectile sensor.
Me and my messy ways.
I am really going to have to slime proof this set-up.
I took this photograph at Mc Lean's corner during the Invited Pre-1961 Sports & GT Cars Race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011. It's Ned Spieker in his 1948 Frazer Nash High Speed leading the 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 of James Campbell. The Frazer Nash, which is chassis 421/100/004, has a 2-litre Bristol engine and was originally delivered to a Frantisek Dobry of Czechoslovakia in December 1948. After Harold Adlington and Norman Culpan finished in third place at the 1949 Le Mans 24 Hour race in Frazer Nash High Speed chassis 421/100/008 subsequent cars were known as Frazer Nash Le Mans models.
I took 20 or more shots with diff apps and speeds... and kept 3, lol this was one..didn't want to miss the colours in this sunset.......
Off to the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2019, ostensibly a chance to test out a new lens but also a chance to leave the house:
women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/2019/07/goodwood-festival-o...