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Season of Touit - picture 17
Week 41, Wednesday
I’ve been using the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50M in different scenarios and while it is a lens with great versatility, it is also difficult to come up with right kind of pictures that demonstrates its marvelous macro capabilities and still be interesting enough from photography’s point of view. To demonstrate these macro capabilities I wanted to do at least one picture at minimum focusing distance just to have a concrete example how close one can get with 2.8/50M and what kind of magnification does it offer. So here is a regular housefly, the most common of all domestic flies at minimum focusing distance (and as filthy as they tend to be in the real world visible with human eyes). I had to approach this one very carefully not to scare it away and because of that I cannot say this picture is exactly at minimum focusing distance, but it’s there at least by 95 percent (the fly was about 8 mm long and I’ve cropped the picture just a little bit for better composition). I kind of like how this turned out even with as ordinary subject as this. With the original unresized file one can see individual photoreceptor units of the fly’s compound eyes and expect even greater details with newer sensors like the 24 mpix sensor inside the Sony Alpha 6000 (I’m working with older generation Sony Nex-5N which only has 16 mpix sensor). Not only does this picture exemplify the Touit 2.8/50M’s great 1:1 reproduction scale, it also shows how nicely the lens resolves even at aperture of f/14 where most other lenses would already had a diffraction kicked in. Also, notice the very smooth and buttery background bokeh which I absolutely love with this lens.
Looking at this picture as a simple photograph it brings up an interesting recollection from my childhood in me. Being a five or six years old I remember sitting in from of TV and watching a nature documentary about houseflies. The voice from documentary told that houseflies are very difficult to kill with a flyswatter because they see much larger field with their compound eyes and perceive time differently. Then the documentary showed a slow motion scene of typical apartment room where woman is trying to kill a fly with the flyswatter. Everything is slowed down to extreme and I remember seeing at least a flickering TV-screen and some people talking with their pitch lowered to unrecognizable sounds. Then the woman swings her hand with flyswatter and it takes from 10 to 20 seconds – of course she misses and the fly gets away. For some reason I remember that the claim about fly’s different perception of time had to do something about having so much more eyes than human. Despite of being all grown up today this sort of question of subjective perception of time has certainly fascinated me ever sense. Particularly one thing in this slow motion analogy intrigues me: it makes it look like the fly sees outside world in ‘slow motion’, but at the same time is able to think and reason within its inner cognitive world in ‘standard time’ – otherwise the explanation that the flyswatter misses because the fly has so much more time to see it and react to it, would be false. This sort of paradox of two different times filled up my mind as a child, but today I see it just a bad example of popularization of science. However, I’m still not sure how one should conceptualize it, but I’m pretty sure – if the phenomenon exist – it has nothing to do with eyes. Still, makes me wonder how this particular fly perceived me photographing it in that particular moment..
Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
The clock and the company's logo at the backdrop - a shot during last festive season. Decorations for the long break....I miss it already. Sorry for the blatant signage....I thought I had enough bokeh to mask it out!
Super Ricohflex, Riken/Ricoh Anastigmat 1:3.5 8cm, Kodak Ektar 100 @ 160 ASA
The 353 pulling up to top off its water tank. Taken at the WMSTR (Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion) in Rollag, Minnesota. They even have their own steam engine #353 and railroad track that travels through the grounds. On the car behind the engine and coal/water car is an early 1900's Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company tractor.
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Amazing Stories / Magazin-Reihe
- Richard Tooker / The Tomb of Time
- John W. Campbell, Jr. / Beyond the End of Space
- Jack Williamson / In the Scarlet Star
- Richard Rush Murray / Stellarite [Radicalite]
- Dean Collins / Stallion's Trappings
- Hal K. Wells / Flame-Worms of Yokku
cover: A. Sigmond
Editor: T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D.
Teck Publishing Corp. / USA 1933
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
'Til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
The NSW XPT waits patiently for departure time from Melbourne's Southern Cross Station to head back to Sydney, NSW.
Was I a good moc? No you were a pain in the arse.
So this moc started out as a test of my limited engineering skills one Christmas, when I came home from university. Since then I've graduated, found myself a partner and live in our own flat.
This tower however, has sat in my former room, then been moved into another room and collected dust for and been in the way of my sibling for 4 years.
Because of lockdown I've been able to sort out a space in my new home for Lego, so when I visited my family I packed it down.
Long story short, I'm alive and hopefully coming out of my dark age. I'd love to rebuild this... But at a much more manageable size. I've uploaded photos of the deconstruction process, so check them out... If anyone's still here?
Before time began - Live the dream time.
Aboriginal Art of Australia.
Exposition: Art & History Museum (Brussels, Belgium).
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment too late to expose film -- only time enough to expose our hearts.
-- Minor White
people having a gala time on the broken jetty, Calicut beach,India
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A number of older Wrights deckers are due to be transferred to the North West during July from FWY, in return Leeds are to receive 6 Scania / Wrights single deckers, (possibly only temporary until after the Olympics). First out was 60177 on the 5th July 2012 on a morning peak board seen here at Yeadon.
3 of the Killer whales swimming together, pretty sure Makiao and Katina are in the mix, mother and son, seen here in the pool which has the large viewing window round the back of the Shamu Stadium.
Killer Whales at SeaWorld, no routine to do, just having a swim together.....lovely to watch them, very peacefully swimming around. Summer holiday 2014.