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Rollei RPX 25 shot at box speed with Chroma Double Glass 24mm f/11 lens on Leica Ic. Developed in Cinestill Df96 monobath for 7.5 minutes at 70° F.
British Ministry of Defense issued an urgent operational requirement for a 7.62x51 mm NATO semi-automatic rifle that could effectively eliminate targets from 500 to 800 meters. The gun was to perform the role of a sharpshooter rifle, as well as have the ability to be used in close-quarters battle conditions, including rapid tactical fire. This was of particular importance to British forces in Afghanistan. In the British Army, sharpshooters are one step down from full-fledged snipers.
Although the Accuracy International L96 bolt-action is suitable for a sniper, the sharpshooter may end up in situations where more rapid firepower is needed. The British wanted a modern rifle that was a significant improvement over the FN-FAL-based Self-Loading Rifle issued to British troops prior to the adoption of the L85A1 bullpup in 5.56x45 mm NATO. The competition was fierce, and many of the top modern riflemakers competed, including Heckler & Koch (H&K), Fabrique Nationale (FN), Knights Armament Co. (KAC), Sabre Defence, Oberland Arms and Lewis Machine & Tool (LM&T). The final two entrants in the trial were the LM&T LM7 and H&K 417.
The testing protocol was different from the U.S. Army and Marine requisites. American rifles, such as the Knights Mk 11 and the M110 SASS (both in the SR-25 family), were developed around match-grade ammunition (M118 and M118LR), which restricts interchangeability with standard M80 ball. The British wanted their rifle to fire standard Radway Green 7.62x51 mm NATO L2A2 ball ammunition and maintain consistent hits on a man-size target at 800 meters. There were three main areas in which the rifles were scored: the company’s response to the solicitation; the company’s technical and manufacturing capabilities; and the operators’ assessments. In the end, the best rifle had to be made by a reputable company with the ability to mass-produce military-grade rifles. The design selected as the L129A1 was the LM&T LM7 7.62x51 mm NATO MWS (Modular Weapon System).
Lewis Machine & Tool is owned by Karl Lewis, and the ISO 9001:2008 certified company has its manufacturing facility in Milan, Ill. The company has extensive experience as a government contractor and OEM manufacturer for many top defense contractors in the United States making 5.56 mm rifles and M203 grenade launchers. LM&T took the industry by storm with the introduction of the first Monolithic Rail Platform upper receiver (MRP). Not only were the upper and fore-end machined as one piece, but the barrel could be removed, and any length barrel could be installed in different calibers, bringing the Stoner-designed system to the next level.
The L129A1
The LM&T L129A1 is based on the AR-10 design with direct-gas operation and a multi-lug rotating bolt. The U.S. Ordnance Corps tossed the AR-10 on the scrap heap in the late 1950s, only to see it reintroduced by Gene Stoner and Reed Knight in the early 1990s. Sadly, Stoner would not live to see the adoption of his AR-10 —as the SR-25-based Mk 11 and M110 SASS—by America’s most elite soldiers a half century after its initial rejection.
The LM&T’s upper receiver is made from a single 7075 T6 aluminum forging, and there are quad STANAG-4694 rails allowing accessory attachment. All the sides are solid, ensuring zero retention on the rails, which are numerically indexed. There are also five mounting points on the upper receiver for quick-detachable sling swivels.
The heart of the LM&T MWS is the quick-change barrel that can be swapped out at the user level. By removing two bolts, the free-floating barrel can be removed and replaced with one of a different length or even a different caliber. The L129A1 has a 16-inch-long stainless steel barrel rifled in a 1:11.25-inch twist. Each barrel is test-fired with a proof cartridge and then magnetic-particle-inspected for stress fractures. The prong-style flash suppressor is manufactured by SureFire and is capable of accepting a sound suppressor.
The L129A1 comes with Knight’s Armament’s new rear micro back-up iron sight (BUIS), which is adjustable from 200 to 600 meters and is significantly lower in profile than KAC’s previous designs. The folding front sight is also manufactured by KAC. The charging handle has the LM&T-designed enhanced charging-handle latch, which is shaped to shield the shooter’s face from gas when the rifle is fired suppressed.
In keeping with the original AR-10 design, the bolt and bolt carrier are chrome-plated. Chrome is much easier to clean than most finishes, is corrosion-resistant and has self-lubricating properties. The rifle uses an H3 buffer with three tungsten weights. The bolt carrier has a captive firing pin retainer pin—a major plus when cleaning a rifle in the desert. A cotter pin is easy to lose in the sand, and this design prevents that. The bolt, like the barrel, is test-fired with a proof cartridge, magnetic-particle-inspected and marked “MP” to indicate the testing was done. Also, Lewis improved the hammer/trigger pins by incorporating a swell on one end, making them easier to remove.
The lower is made from an aluminum forging as well, and the selector lever is ambidextrous with the settings marked with colored pictograms. The magazine release is also ambidextrous, and a lever under the magazine catch lifts upward on the catch from the left side. The bolt catch is necessarily heavy duty to halt the heavy 7.62 bolt group, and both the take-down and front pivot pins are captive. The trigger is a two-stage match unit. The receiver extension end plate has mounting on either right or left side for a one-point sling, and the extension has seven-positions of adjustment for length of pull.
The stock is a tan LM&T SOPMOD design with two battery compartments and a removable rubber butt pad. A detachable sling swivel may be inserted on either side of the stock. The pistol grip is a tan ErgoGrip. The rifle is delivered with eight 20-round-capacity Magpul PMags, although the L129A1 may come with KAC 20-round steel magazines and will function properly with CProducts steel magazines as well. The right side of the magazine well is marked with the NATO Stock Number (NSN), which is 1005-99-226-6708. Beneath that is “LEI” for Law Enforcement Int’l, the importer of the rifles into the United Kingdom. The left side is marked “LMT CAL. 7.62x51 mm L129A1.”
Optics For Sharpshooters
The primary optic chosen by the British for the L129A1 is a Trijicon ACOG 6X 48 mm powered by both fiber optics and a tritium lamp. The ACOG’s body is of 7075 T6 aircraft aluminum, the same as the rifle’s receiver. The fiber-optic powers the reticle during daylight hours—the tritium lamp in low or no light—and its chevron’s brightness is adjustable by the user. The unit’s reticle has a built-in bullet drop compensator for 7.62x51 mm NATO from 100 to 1,200 meters. Each adjustment is one click per 1/4 inch at 100 yards. To transition from long range to close-quarter battle, there is a Picatinny rail on the ACOG’s top that accepts a 1.2-ounce Trijicon 1X LED Rugged Miniature Reflex sight with a red dot powered by a CR2032 battery. The RMR’s housing is of 7075 T6 aluminum. Additional accessories include the OTIS 7.62 mm Sniper Cleaning System, a small Dewey rod to clean the chamber, a front sight adjustment tool and a rail-mounted, quick-detachable sling mount so the sling may be mounted anywhere on the rail.
UNNAMED AUTOMATIC RIFLE: An 8mm support weapon from the first World War. Feeds from a 20-round magazine (courtesy of Captain Psycho). Comments are nice, I like answering questions.
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Recreation of handgun seen here fav.me/d2yg609 credit to warrenlouw.deviantart.com/
I enjoyed photowalk with Chikakosan, Yumikosan, Takahirosan and friends of approximately 40 of Google+ in Kichijoji on that day.
If a ladle is held up to this, LED will blink and water will come out.
On September 8, 2012 in Musashino-hachimangu shrine of Kichijoji.
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この日僕は40人ほどのGoogle+の友達と吉祥寺でフォトウォークを楽しみました。
ひしゃくをかざすとLEDが光って水がでるんですよ。
2012年9月8日、吉祥寺の武蔵野八幡宮にて。
I love this BMW classic, it is such a pleasure to see a wholesome car like this being well looked after and not neglected. Wish more car owners were like this BMW owner
Vehicle make BMW
Date of first registration 11 April 1986
Year of manufacture 1986
Cylinder capacity (cc) 2788cc
CO₂Emissions Not available
Fuel type PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status Tax not due
Vehicle colour BLUE
Northbound CSX Q434 breezes past the Automatic 41 signal on the River Line at Iona Island, N.Y., on its way to Selkirk Yard near Albany.
And here is where it all fell apart. I switched to the Auto setting in the photo on the right for Shutter Priority exposure, and it was difficult to wrap my head around the difference in what I was determining by eyesight (1/60 at f8) and what the camera meter was reading. I had to drop the shutter speed down to 1/30 in order to get the meter to come off of pegging at f1.7, settling at f4.
As you can see, the film became very contrasty being around three stops overexposed.
Camera Test
Minolta 7sII
Ilford Pan F ISO 50, 36 Exp
I love this BMW classic, it is such a pleasure to see a wholesome car like this being well looked after and not neglected. Wish more car owners were like this BMW owner
Vehicle make BMW
Date of first registration 11 April 1986
Year of manufacture 1986
Cylinder capacity (cc) 2788cc
CO₂Emissions Not available
Fuel type PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status Tax not due
Vehicle colour BLUE
pencil drawing with water colour
get the old mercedes on etsy!
www.etsy.com/listing/80925656/mercedes-benz-280-se-automatic
View of Sydney shot from a weather station on top of the Mathews building at the University of New South Wales, Kensington. Shot taken by the Climate Change Research Centre (ccrc.unsw.edu.au) at 2016 Aug 01 11:18.
Multiple cases being ejected as this US Army soldier blows through a magazine full of blanks with his M4.
In May last year there was an armed robbery on a valuables transport on the Meeuwenlaan in Amsterdam. The robbers fired automatic firearms and fled in several vehicles carrying the stolen precious metals. One of the robbers was killed and several others arrested. This is the Meeuwenlaan later in the day.
Garage door installation and repair services for either commercial, residential or industrial www.garagedoorswaikato.co.nz/garage-roller-doors
Manufactured by Kodak AG, Stuttgart, West Germany
Model: c.1962 Kodak type 032, produced between 1960-63 with quantity of 48.000 units
Small light meter window version
35mm film Viewfinder camera
Engraving on the top plate: Retina Automatic II
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Retina Xenar 45mm f/2.8 filter slip-on, serial no.6921888
Aperture: up to f/22setting: Auto (A) or manual (f numbers), ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel
Focus range: 1-12m +inf
Focusing: manual front cell focusing, ring, distance scale with 1, 2 and 3 dots for portrait, group and landscape and DOF scale on the lens.
These dots are indicated in the viewfinder by one, two or three yellow dots which correspond to focussing zones on the lens.
Shutter: Compur leaf shutter, speeds: 1/30-1/500 +B, setting : ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel
Shutter release: a lever, on the lens-shutter barrel
Cocking lever: also winds the film, long stroke, on the bottom plate
Frame counter: manual reset, additive type, window on the top-plate, setting:by a knob on the backof the top plate when pressing the small knob beside the counter window
Viewfinder: bright frame finder, with parallax correction lines
Exposure meter: Gossen Coupled Selenium cell meter, Shutter priority auto
Film speed range: ASA 10-1250, setting: ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel, ring releases by pressing the small lever on it
Exposure setting: Set the desired speed then set to A on the aperture ring. Check the needle window that the needle must be between the red marks. If not, set new speeds. This needle show the aperture that set automatically.
In low light a "STOP" sign comes up in the viewfinder and the shutter is locked.
Full manual overide is also available.
Re-wind knob: on the left of the top plate
Re-wind release: a button on the bottom plate
Flash PC socket: on the front panel
Cold-shoe
Memory dial : on the re-wind knob
Self-timer
Back cover: hinged, opens by a knob with security lever, on the bottom plate
Embossing on the back cover: Kodak Retina Camera
Tripod socket: ¼"
Strap lugs
Body: metal; Weight: 573g
Serial no. 67643
More info: McKeown's 12th ed. p.524, Collector Guide to Kodak Cameras p.141
in Kodak by Mischa Koning, in Wolfgang Brüsehaber website, in Kamera Museum by Kurt Tauber, in Camerapedia
A101DPB waits for the next trip up to the delights of Higher Blackley. YNA328M was a lively performer, converted to fully automatic by the previous owner, Sampson's of Hoddesdon.
This example of Konica's compact rangefinder has a meter that is responsive, and the automatic function appears to work correctly. The shutter is sluggish at full aperture, though, so it will have to be cleaned.
Secret trick against depression: Just pull that small string on the back of your head.
Self-Portrait, 2009.
Konica C35 Automatic, it replaced the very successful C35 in 1971. The new feature was an improved flash operation, the camera switches from automatic to flash mode, when a flash light is mounted in the hot-shoe. Therefore it was named "flashmatic" instead of "automatic" in Japan.
Though the camera is in a very good shape, it has the same problem Matt Denton describes on his site: corroded black cable at the battery chamber. That cables are really of bad quality. I cleaned the contact and resoldered the cable; Matt replaced the complete cable, which is the better idea.