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Test Shots on Harman EZ35 with Kodak Ultrmax 400. Dumfries March 2021. C-41 processed and scanned by AG Photo labs
After admiring some of Shobrick's fantastic e-taped creations, I decided to try my hand with e-tape. This was the result. It's not a very good 'fig, but it proved to me that e-tape is actually an extremely useful material. I think I'll use it more in the future...
Die Werbung ist vollmundig:
Perfekte Passform durch nahtfreie No Sew Speedframe - Verstärkte Gummisohle mit Gripniveau auf befestigten Untergründen - Komfortabel dämpfende CMEVA-Zwischensohle mit Oversize Dämpfung - Early Stage Meta-Rocker Geometry.
Sie kann einen schon mal erschlagen, diese Werbesprache. Aber was steckt dahinter?
Das leichte und stylish-graue Obermaterial des Schuhs ist verklebt statt genäht und hat damit keine potentiellen Scheuerstellen.
Die weiche Gummisohle ist sehr profiliert und nur an wenigen Stellen mit abriebfestem Gummi verstärkt.
Das wird sicher in punkto Haltbarkeit im Langzeittest erst mal bestehen müssen. Die Sohle ist, eben das Markenzeichen der HOKA ONE ONE Schuhe extrem dick und auch optisch sehr gewöhnungsbedürftig. Die Geometrie soll mit der geringen Sprengung und der Sohlenform für ein gleichzeitig natürliches und stabiles Abrollverhalten sorgen.
Mit gerade einmal 235g in Größe 44 kommt der neue Clifton 2 daher. Doch kann dieser auffällige und besondere Schuh auch den besonderen Erwartungen stand halten?
Dies ist mein erster Kontakt mit der Schuhmarke HOKA ONE ONE. Ich habe die Schuhe zwar schon öfters bei mir bekannten Läufern gesehen und auch alle, die diese Schuhe liefen waren durchweg mehr als zufrieden, aber würde es mir genau so gehen?
Ich war nahezu 6 Monate verletzt und davon 4 Monate lauftechnisch völlig außer Gefecht. So kam es zu einem sehr jungfräulichen Kontakt mit einem völlig anderen Laufschuh.
Trotz der hohen Sohle liegt der Clifton 2 federnd leicht in der Hand und fühlt sich eben so am Fuß an. Ungewöhnlich und für mich völlig ungewohnt: Bei den Schnürsenkeln braucht man keinen Doppelknoten. Sie halten einfach. Warum geht das nicht auch bei anderen Herstellern?
Das Fußbett ist breit, genau richtig für meine Platt-, Senk- und Spreizfüße, allerdings fällt der Schuh recht groß aus. So muss ich die Schnürsenkel fest schnüren und die Schuhlasche passt auch nicht 100%. Ich würde beim nächsten Mal eine halbe Nummer kleiner wählen.
Wichtig für mich: Hat der Schuh für den Wiedereinstieg genügend Dämpfung und führt er meinen mittlerweile wieder ungeübten Fuß stabil genug ohne zu schwabbeln? Der gezackte Rundkurs auf unserer Hotelanlage stellte hohe Anforderungen an die Seitenkräfte und diese meisterte der Schuh nach anfänglichen Gewöhnungsproblemen souverän. Die Angst vorm Umknicken sank nach jeder durchlaufenen Kurve. Mein Tempo war niedrig, meine Schrittfrequenz aber hoch, der Schuh akzeptiert jede Laufstilkorrektur ohne murren.
Nach einigen gleichmäßig langsamen Testläufen wurde ich mutiger und fügte einige Steigerungsläufe in die Trainingsroutine ein. Der Abdruck veränderte sich und ist erwartungsgemäß längst nicht so direkt wie bei meinen Wettkampfschuhen von Brooks (Racer ST5), aber immer noch im akzeptablen Bereich. Durch die Leichtigkeit kann der Schuh auch hohe Tempi sehr gut vertragen.
So gingen also die ersten gut 50 Testkilometer mit kurzen Läufen zur Wiedereingewöhnung herum. Nachdem ich dann zu Hause mit einigen Schuhwechseln hin und her wieder mit langen Läufen begann, um "meinen" Rodgau50 bestreiten zu können, traf ich eine mutige Entscheidung:
Ich ließ die ursprünglichen Sohlen im Schuh und legte meine eigenen orthopädischen Sohlen darüber, so dass die Passform besser wurde (Danke an Christian Brenner für diese Idee)
Was als Experiment startete ist rund herum gelungen: Im Wettkampf werde ich, des direkteren Abdrucks wegen, zwar wieder zum Racer ST5 greifen, aber meine Langen Trainingsläufe gehören dem HOKA ONE ONE Clifton 2, mit dem ich immer besser zurecht komme.
Mittlerweile verstehe ich auch, warum HOKA ONE ONE bei Triathleten so beliebt ist. Siehe hier!
Abnutzungserscheinungen sind nach 260 km noch nicht zu erkennen, aber ich bin gespannt, ob der Schuh länger als die für meine Füße üblichen 600 km durchhält. Und das wird sich nach Lage der Dinge schon bald herausstellen!Disclaimer: Dieser Schuh wurde mir unentgeltlich zu Testzwecken zur Verfügung gestellt. Dieser Testbericht gibt ausschließlich meine persönliche Meinung wieder. Gerade bei Laufschuhen sind die Empfindungen sehr individuell und ich kann jedem Läufer raten, sich unbedingt vorher im Fachgeschäft dazu beraten zu lassen.
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Test Shot
Strawling a long the beach in Patong, Thailand I met Jane (tourist from Russia). I was looking for models to shoot and there she was doing a shoot with an other photographer. I made this test shot and the next day we did our 1on1 shoot.
Model(s):
- Jane Love, MM #
Location:
Phuket - Thailand
Strobist info:
N/A
PP: Lightroom
Trent Barton ADL Enviro 200 MMC 206 - YY18 TPF is unusually pictured off route in Milton Street, Nottingham on test, being driven by fitters.
Another view of the Keolis/MBTA test train led by GP40MC 1117 in sparkling fresh paint from its recent overhaul at the MBTA's Wareham shop with four cars including two MBB cars still wrapped in CTRail imagery from their time leased for Hartford Line service. They are on the causeway that cuts across Terry Brook Pond at about MP FS 4.9 just north of the Copicut Road grade crossing, but alas it is too brushed in to see the water on either side of the train.
This route into the city of Fall River opened in 1846 and saw continuous passenger service under the auspices of the Fall River Railroad and then the Old Colony system until the latter was folded into the New Haven Railroad in 1893. The NH continued daily service to Boston until September 1958 when all passenger service ended to south of Middleboro including to the famed whaling port of New Bedford. In June of 1959 Middleboro lost service along with the other former Old Colony branches to Plymouth and Greenbush. Commuter service returned to Middleboro and Plymouth in 1997 and Geeenbush a decade later but the extension south had to wait.
Fortunately both lines were never fully abandoned, and remained active as freight only branch lines served by the New Haven and successors Penn Central, Conrail, and CSXT. In latter decades they saw no more than a lonely local freight two or three days a week and both the Fall River and New Bedford Secondary's track conditions deteriorate until speeds were limited to 10 mph on the two lines that were not even an afterthought in the vast CSXT system. In 2010 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts purchased the two routes totaling 38 miles from the Jacksonville based Class for $21 million as the first step in the long dreamt of plan for a passenger train revival. Concurrent with that deal CSXT turned around and sold its perpetual freight easement to Mass Coastal which since then has provided exclusive freight service on both lines, interchanging with CSXT at Cotley Junction in Taunton. For the past decade the MC dispatched and maintained the lines on behalf of the state while they remained 10 mph branches served a couple times a week.
Finally in 2020 the transformation of the lines began in earnest at a cost to exceed $1 billion and by mid 2023 track and station work was largely completed on the Fall River Secondary include a new Freetown station about 1/2 mile behind me here. The first week of August this year Keolis assumed dispatching responsibilities from Mass Coastal once the new CTC signal system was commissioned and PTC testing and crew qualification trips have been running daily as seen here.
To learn more about the project these links will take you to the state's official sites:
www.mbta.com/projects/south-coast-rail
Freetown, Massachusetts
Friday August 16, 2024
strobist: one alien bee 1600 socked beauty dish camera left, reflector camera right, Yongnuo Triggers
What new gremlins await my model railroad whenever I make changes to the track and wiring?
For several months I have been weathering some of my bright and shiny Kato Unitrack using felt tip paint pens from Woodland Scenics. I paint the steel rails a brown-black color and some of the wooden crossties (sleepers in UK rail terminology) a dark brown color. That makes the track look a lot more realistic, but the paint must be removed from the top of the rails, the rail joiners, and certain parts of the switch points in order to maintain electrical continuity between the trains and track. After the paint has dried, I rub an abrasive Bright Boy along the tops of the rail, the metal portion of the Unijoiners, and the inside surfaces of the switch points.
I snap the Unijoiners back onto each piece of track and connect each weathered piece of track with my test rig. The 12 volt DC power is fed via the blue and white wires from my power supply to an unpainted S62F feeder track upstream from the items to be tested. In this case, I am testing a right hand #6 switch and a piece of curved track to make sure I have continuity. The red and black wires control the switch motor. I run the engine forward and backward on each route of the switch several times to insure a good electrical path. All of my newly painted track is tested on my work table before I install them on the layout.
I have finished painting the visible portions of my westbound (lower) staging yard, my entire mainline, passing siding, and industrial tracks. Next I must paint the visible part of my eastbound (upper) staging yard before I install it on my layout. It is easier to paint and test track before installation. Then I need to temporarily remove all the track from my layout, install Styrofoam sub-roadbed in order to elevate the track above the streams I plan to build and connect the lower and upper staging yards by a long 2% grade on my mainline.
Test shoot with Zara. She is so gorgeous & natural in front of the camera!
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Shot through the window of a moving vehicle so it is not as sharp as it should be. This is the "classic chrome" setting.
Basic Underwater Demolition/Seals students swim 100 meters with bound hands and feet as part of their first-phase swimming test. The test is used as a tool to examine how comfortable each student feels underwater. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Shauntae Hinkle (Released) navy.com/
This photo is more of a test than anything. Ive always enjoyed shooting HDR photos. When I got the 7D, I was excited to learn it brackets shots at up to +/-3 stops. Both my previous camera's could only bracket +/-2. This is huge in terms of capturing an scenes dynamic lighting range. So I went for a photo walk this afternoon, snapping a wide range of scenes just to test out the how the camera handled shooting with HDR images in mind. Another feature I really like about the 7D and its exposure bracketing ability is not only can you shoot the 3 bracketed photos, but you can then move the AEB sequence +/- 8 stops in either direction to shoot more if needed! This photo was just 3 shots, bracketed at +/-3 AEB. Processed in Photomatix Pro 3.2 and touched up in Photoshop CS3 for a bit of sharpening and tone adjustments. It had been a while since I shot any HDR. I think i might put it to use more often now.
The Lincoln Park Observatory as the early morning light starts to arrive.
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A shot I made back in April...
This model was great...She could pose super well and had a very engaging expression in every photo. This was a lighting test, so the lights aren't placed very well, but I liked the frame and decided to post.
R211 no. 4065 (Kawasaki, 2019-present) is the lead motor on a 5-car test train seen passing through 59th St Station on the 4th Avenue Line. These cars, along with the other 5 that are currently on the property, are undergoing a slew of performance tests and evaluations prior to entering revenue service in the system. Upon successful completion of the tests, production will commence on the rest of the R211 order as well.
Test Car 1, ADW150375
Test Car 2, ADB975397
Mentor, ADB975091
Test Car 6, ADB975290
Test Car 10, ADB975814
at RTC, 1987 [Photo used in my book courtesy of Serco]
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Haji Lane comes alive after hours - some of the places only open at 4pm and keep crankin' until 1 or 2am - so wandering around in the daytime can be surreal.
This odd mosaic-design pattern on the pillar of an Italian-themed bar resembles the old TV test patterns that would be aired when the station was off-air.
With information overload now the norm and stations broadcasting around the clock, soon the university crowd will have no idea what a test pattern is! If you're interested, check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_card
Test Car 6 (TC6) was converted in the mid-1970s at the RTC Derby from one of the first production order British Rail Mk II FK vehicles (S13396), being renumbered ADB975290 with TOPS code QXA.
Read about how and why trains were tested in the 80s and 90s in my RAIL VEHICLE TESTING book - ISBN-9781999935603.
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