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Transport For Wales DVT 82216 leads the 3A04, 14.16 hrs Hereford to Landore through Skewen test train 67008 was on the rear and had worked up this morning 24/5/2023 (Photo By Steve Powell)
The three tin foil bowls on the end of the lower arms indicate that this space vehicle has feet and is intended to land somewhere. This is reinforced by the fully-extended digger arm (surface sampler arm in NASA-speak) that today hangs even lower.
The Surveyor programme was run by NASA from June 1966 to January 1968, sending seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Seen above is a test article, a full-scale mock-up, which is now suspended from the ceiling in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington DC.
The programme's primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The Surveyor craft were the first American spacecraft to achieve soft landing on an extraterrestrial body. The missions called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, a journey that lasted 63-65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft landing.
The programme was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo programme. JPL selected Hughes Aircraft to develop the spacecraft system which was launched into space aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket. The total cost of the Surveyor programme was officially $469 million.
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is also on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
There is no sense of scale in the picture, but the whole craft is 3m high and 3.5m wide. Its sisters weighed 283 kg as they landed on the moon.
Rather than taking photos of all 50+ current Mascoteers, I had the idea to try my hand at rendering the models.
Right now I'm struggling with the lighting and materials used on the model. Left to right shows the progress made so far.
I have a number of M42 screw mount lens for my Pentax Spotmatic bodies, so I thought I would test them on my Canon 7D Mark II as I have a M42 to Canon adapter.
The image is of my Kodak Retina III c Rangefinder with its amazing Schneider-Kreuzmach Retina-Xenon 50mm f2.0 lens. The Retina III c is a beautiful camera.
The M42 lenses I tested are tack sharp, inexpensive and fun to use, the only potential down side is the manual focus which I personally do not see as a downside at all.
I shot and compared a number of my M42 lenses to see how they would behave at maximum DOF-Depth of Field and to see what type of background bokeh they would render.
The winner in my opinion ... the very inexpensive Meyer-Optik Gorltiz Domiplan 50 mm f2.8 lens, which is the image posted here.
Other M42 lenses tested:
- Asahi Super-Takumar 55mm f1.8
- Asahi Super-Takumar 55mm f2.0
- Asahi Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5
- Asahi SMC Super-Takumar 55mm f1.8
- Carl Zeiss Jena DDR MC Flektogon 35mm f2.4
No it’s not a Rorschach Test but it sort of reminded me of one!
Today was another glorious day on the water and the sunrise was a memorable one as well! This however, is the sunset from the last week’s journey to the bayou which was also quite spectacular! This is a shot taken looking due east toward Clear Lake City from just west of Bay Area Park! This is a wide part of the bayou that eventually turns into Mud Lake and heads toward Clear Lake close to Johnson’s Space Center!
We eventually reached about 72ºF today! It was a wonderful winter day! Bring on the spring!
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Hitachi`s IEP class 800 , 800101 passes Colton on a test run from Doncaster`s Carr LIP to Newcastle (5X10) 18/05/2017.
Tested another camera today. Kiev IIIa on Wolfen UN54 film. Jupiter 8 lens. Developed in HC110 dil. b
The Railway Technical Center (Derby) liveried, Test Coach Iris RDB975010 (ex-Derby Lightweight unit M79900) on display at BREL Crewe Works, whilst in the background is a MK1 Sleeper Car.
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Sandra @ MonroeModels Photographer: Juan Sánchez Castillo Stylist: Javier Navia Assistant: Abel Belmonte
ere are all of my hybrid tests from last night. ♥
Got the OE head off easily, since it sits on a double sided ball joint peg. The other heads are sticky-tacked, since I couldn’t work out anything else at the moment to hold them all on. Obviously some heads will need the neck hole widened so they sit lower.
I dig the owl one and the rabbit after all, but their necks would need to be modded. Easy fix~
The cyclops one was much cuter than I thought! Other Yosd sized heads (or 6-7 wig size heads) would probably fit well with this body, proportionately.)
My idea for getting the bjd heads to stay on seems strange, but it might work. The body’s neck has basically like a cup, that the ball joint sits in. So I thought maybe I could drill a hole in the bottom of the cup, and force down a knotted loop of elastic (glue it down in there maybe too?), that I could string through the head then s-hook that shit.
(also as a side note/bummer, when I removed the DD Alaqua head, her neck peg shoved inside her head, and now I can’t get it out, or the head back on. :/ Guess she’s due for a body upgrade sooner than I anticipated. WHOOPS!)
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Some tests with bleaching I was doing last week.
I usually prefer doing it after precreasing but before collapsing the model (as the blue paper on the left). This time I also tried to bleach some completed models, as I had done with this.
I did it on some old ones, as I felt they did not look so interesting now, compared to the most recent ones.
Anyway, the bleaching solution was prepared for a sheet of blue Efalin paper, and it didn't turn out to be ideal for all 4 colors of Elephant-hide paper.
I will publish some results soon!
Leicaflex SL
50mm Summicron
Ilford FP4 in Rodinal (1:50)
-- I encounter these guys (actually girls) on one of my test trails. They are so big they actually stand their ground. Through body language, she told me, 'Hey bub, what you doing in my house?'
Testing my newly acquired Olympus Pen EE-2. The EE system wasn't working when I got it; shutter fired, but at one speed and aperture was stuck at f/16. However, I managed to clean the aperture blades and the EE system luckily came back to life again. It all works now.
Olympus Pen EE-2, test
Kodak Gold 200
Unicolor
Epson V550
New Transport for Wales Class 197 unit 197001 passes Ffynnongroyw near Mostyn with a Chester to Llandudno Junction test run.
Test coach "Iris" RDB 975010 (M79900) and from memory,being used on N.R.N radio testing in the area.
Whats in the back ground?
A multitude of " Departmental " wagons all waiting maintenance under the careful guidance of Mr Gerry Musgrove and his wagon staff.
Seacows, Gunnels,the odd Moda, Oh and the yellow peril !
Taken on 1 ramp, Eastleigh TMD, a picture no longer possible today.
On hire from DRS and working in place of the New Measurement Train, class 68s 68005 and 68017 work the Derby to Derby via London Euston test train before returning to the RTC
When I get a color test film, one of my first shots is always our calico, Luna. This one is the Generation 2.0 Impossible 600 film.
This concludes the test of the camera and lens. This Konica Autoreflex T is the second one I own, and all shutter speeds seem good, advance, spacing, rewind all work well, and meter appears accurate. Flash is fine too. Lens is smooth, clicky and snappy. Both solid pieces of photography gear.
Konica Autoreflex T, #2, first roll
Konica Hexanon 57mm f/1.2
Fujicolor C200, expired, frozen
Unicolor
Pakon F135