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For the first film with my new Pentax 17 film camera (see the details about the camera below) , I loaded a Washi-X 100 ISO color film that is likely a Kodak Aerocolor film based on a Kodak Ektar formula coated on a maskless PET (polyester teraphtalate) base, spooled by the French film company Washi. This will give normally 72 views and finally gave 80. Due to the optical properties of PET basis that conduct light from the film leader outside the cartridge, the first 3 frames may have some a blue parasite cast (orange on the positive).
The film was exposed for 100 ISO over 5 consecutive days. The Pentax 17 was equipped with an Anti-UV 40.5mm Hoya HMC filter or, when indicated below, a circular polarizing filter.
For the camera transportation, I used a small camera bag ThinkTank « Mirrorless Mover 5 » that was well protecting the camera from possibly damaging vibrations when using my bicycles.
The expositions were automatically metered by the camera system using the « P » program modes with, or without, flash. For very bright scenes the exposition was corrected by +0.3 to +1EV to compensate the biais induced (and reversely -0.3 to 0.7 EV for very dark scenes to objects).
40.5mm screw-on circular polarizing filter and +1EV correction
Place de Jacobins, April 7, 2025
69002 Lyon
France.
After completion the film was processed by a local lab service using the standart C-41 color protocol. As a result, all the frames are very nicely exposed with a very remarkable definition and contrast without noticeable flare even without any shade hood used.
Single-frame digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm at approximate reproduction ratio of 1:2. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.2) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
Since last Christmas, it was on display in the middle of « reusable » cheap camera’s in the window of my local photography store. But this camera is not cheap and sold at 10-times the price of those « reusable » film camera’s. The Pentax 17 is a novel film camera released by Pentax (a brand belonging to Ricoh Imaging, Japan) in June 2024.
The history of « Pentax » name is still something worth to mention. After the WWII, in Dresden (that was heavily destroyed by the bombing of Feb. 13-15, 1945), Germany, The Zeiss Ikon company could not produce anymore the legendary original Contax (a high-reputation professional range-finder 35mm released in 30’s) camera that was taken by Russia and transferred to Kiev, Ukraine, in the USSR. However the brand name Contax survived and the German engineers designed something completely new within several years : the Contax S (S for « Spiegel mirror reflex ») that integrated a pentaprism for a full redressed reflex viewer observation. Zeiss Ikon Dresden registered to new trademarks derived from the words « Pentaprism » and « Contax » that were « Pentax » and « Pentacon ». If Pentacon became the new name of the company in Dresden, the trademark Pentax was bought by Asahi Optical Company in Japan, and became a formidable industrial and commercial success. Asahi Pentax, then Pentax alone, produced amazing quality camera’s including the legendary « Spotmatic » (a 35mm SLR) and stunning medium-format camera’s heavily used by professional photographers. Many of these camera’s of the past century are still operative and appreciated by film photography enthusiast’s.
Production of film camera’s vanished progressively in the mid 2000’s, as digital camera’s became of better quality and finally of generalized appliances in photography. The Pentax 17 was introduced to the market in June 2024, it was a big surprise for all the film photography lovers. Seeing a newly engineered brand-new film camera was a sort of renaissance of the film photography today of a growing interest worldwide.
The camera is a « half-frame » format on the traditional double-perforated 35mm film giving 17x24mm photograms. This format was not as popular as to classical 24x36mm (full-frame) format of most of the 35mm camera’s. However famous and quality half-frame camera’s were produced in the past including, the long series of Olympus Pen for example. Then, the Pentax 17 immediately attracted the attention of experimented film photographers and camera collectors, probably more than the officially targeted customers of the younger generations. Less than a year after, the future of the Pentax 17 and the film photography project of Pentax is questioned today. The chef-engineer who conducted the project in Ricoh company recently left and the marketing of Pentax 17 is now a question.
This finally decided me to buy an exemplary from my local shop and to discover this strange machine. The camera is of course guaranteed, even with a there-year extension after the camera registration on the Pentax website. The whole ergonomic is clearly derived from classical past 35mm camera’s with a fully mechanical film advance and rewind, a collimated Albada viewer, no digital display at all, only levers, barrels, crank and wheels… However inside is a automatic electronic exposure system with flash, the focusing is manual but the electronic mechanism moves the whole optical group with a micro motor.
The lens is a Cooke triplet 1:3.5 f=25mm equivalent to a 37mm of a 24x36mm format. The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York. It was the first lens system that allowed the elimination of most of the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of the image. It likely for this reason that the lens is unscripted curiously « Traditional » on the front lens ring… It is known that a Cooke triplet lens could give surprisingly good results with only three separated optical elements. The Cooke Triplet is still widely used in inexpensive cameras, including variations using aspheric elements, particularly in cell-phone cameras. The Cooke triplet consists of three separated lenses positioned at the finite distance. It is often considered that the triplet is one of the most important discoveries in the field of photographic objectives
The lens receives 40.5mm diameter thread filters that I use for my Zorki / Leningrad lenses Jupiter-8 2/50mm, Jupiter-11 4/135mm and Jupiter-12 2.8/35mm. The metal shade hood Minolta D42KA could mounted on the filter but I have to check is there is vignette induced.
The camera size is close to the original dimensions of a thread-mount Leica (called also the original Barnack Leica) which are, in a way, a sort of « Gold » size in the 35mm camera’s. I compared with my Zorki 1D year 1954 that is a straight reproduction of the Leica Iic. The upper deck of Pentax 17 is designed very clearly as a classical 35mm and we even find the original logo of Asahi Optical Company. The rewind crank is also a revival of past design seen on old Pentax SLR as my year-1971 Spotmatic SP in this seres of pictures.
The Pentax 17 is very light (about 300g) compared to those old ancestors that weight easily the double or the triple. It is then an effortless camera to carry. The Pentax 17 fits in the small ThinkTank bag (called « Mirorless Mover 5 ») that I recently bought to safely carry a film back of my Hasselblad or my Bronica 6X6 camera’s. In this tiny bag, the camera is protected for the element and vibrations due to cycling for instance.
Reference
analoguewonderland.co.uk/blogs/film-photography-blog/pent...
Key features and specifications
* Half-frame image capture (17 x 24mm)
* 37mm (equiv.) FOV F3.5 lens
* Zone focusing system with 6 zones
* Circular leaf shutter (F3.5-16)
* Built-in flash (6m/20ft at ISO100)
* Optical tunnel viewfinder with frame lines
* Exposure from 1/350 sec to 4 sec (+ Bulb)
* Supports films from ISO 50 to ISO 3200
Specifically the lens has:
1. HD coating, which maintains high performance of the lens, by using this PENTAX multi-coating. This also enables high contrast and high definition right to the edges.
2. SP coating (Super Protect) which helps to repel water and oil from the lens.
The fact that the focusing on the Pentax 17 is electronic i.e. the lens only moves when you half-press the shutter gives me faith that autofocus was already considered in the R&D stage.
Bathrooms...
This summer, I was quite lucky. My friend Debra worked out at the marina restaurant and ended up serving two gentlemen who she heard talking about the old Glasgow Air Force Base. They wanted to renovate it and were especially interesting in revamping several of the abandoned buildings and homes. They needed a photographer for before and after shots. Debra immediately gave me their number and in the end, five of us ended up getting to explore the old movie theatre and hospital, including my friend Brittany who is starting to get into photography. It was a fantastic and spooky experience and we loved every moment. And Brittany's husband Todd held himself in check enough to only jump out and scare us once :) Unfortunately it seems that the plans for renovating this place fell through, but at least my friends and I got our chance to explore it!
Home of the Adventurous is probably the perfect slogan for this place. When I begin to write something down about this place I honestly don't know where to begin. So I guess I should start by saying that almost everything you will be seeing in these photos is abandoned. This is a former cold war air force base that was basically left to rot by the government after less than 10 years of use. There are a few families that live in the condos still, but I would say 90 or more percent of these homes are empty. The schools are decaying, as is the hospital and all other buildings except those owned by Boeing. Boeing owns the runway and uses it for test purposes. And instead of moving their employees into the empty condos they set up manufactured homes for them.
The weather in Saint Marie is especially brutal, terribly hot dry summers and fierce awful winters. Saint Marie is like an island of condos and abandoned buildings in a great sea of prairie--nothing else is around it for miles and miles. It is true desolation. And when you drive the broken streets and see the condos with those big windows looking at you like empty eyes it is like you are in another world entirely. Then you see the signs set up by Boeing saying not to go any further and that essentially they are watching you--it's like something from a movie. I encourage you to look up other people's photos of Saint Marie and the things you will see will haunt you. Operating tables and beds left up in the hospital. Robes left hanging in the church. Everyone just walked away one day and this is what remains. If you are especially adventurous you can move here--the condos are a steal. A beautiful one fully furnished just sold for 30,000 dollars and there are others for much less than that.
Here are videos I took while exploring Saint Marie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrRJCKiXAW8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiY1O0rBhu0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtke7q9aYk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rmeK7KYBk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yy00FTiwvk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZL-NyrcBrg
If any of you are as fascinated with this place as I am I have compiled a list of other websites where you can see old and new photos of this place, as well as real estate listings for condos that are for sale:
www.city-data.com/forum/montana/152625-glasgow-montana-re...
stmariecondoassn.tripod.com/stmarie/smstuff.html
www.radomes.org/museum/thumbs.php?site=Opheim+AFS,+MT
www.airfields-freeman.com/MT/Airfields_MT_E.html
www.flickr.com/photos/walkaboutwolf/94704293/
CONDO INFO
www.northwest-national.com/glasgow_montana_recreational.htm
www.missouririverrealty.com/st. marie.htm
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan (July 22, 2020) - U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Sebastian Colon, a 35th Maintenance Squadron Phase Inspection section journeyman, applies gear lube to the F-16 Fighting Falcon at Misawa Air Base, Japan, July 22, 2020. To ensure the aircraft is in the best condition at the end of phase maintenance, the team also works closely with the other flightline shops. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class China M. Shock) 200722-F-SA178-1077
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U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Sept. 3, 2020, for the 324th Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
My own base on the right along with another actual Lego set (Think it's the Governor's Brig, had that since I was child as well) on the left, with the ironclad at the front.
Creator: Marcela Brina
Video Instructions: www.artisbellus.com/2012/01/flowery-box-new-video.html
Units: box is a 12" square, insert is a 6" square
Paper: box is from scrapbook paper and insert is kami
The extra petal insert is my addition.
PictionID:43824287 - Catalog:14_007713 - Title:Schilling Air Force Base Details: Missile LOX Blow Off; Missile Being Lowered Down into Silo; SAFB; Site 550-6 Date on Neg: 06/23/1962 - Filename:14_007713.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The docking platform is shown here in its lowest position. Ships fly in & are lifted up by the elevator mechanism so the Blacktron team can get to work.
The collapsed base from Sipho Mabona's Fauno crease pattern
I think collapsed it a little differently than Sipho, I'm still a beginner at collapsing CP's. I also shaped the model diffrent in my earlier practice folds.
An Illinois Air National Guard C-130 Hercules is being prepared for a late night mission September 2, 2017, from its home base in Peoria, Ill. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Todd Pendleton)
A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft from the 62nd Airlift Wing, deployed from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., follows a transient alert high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle to a parking spot during airfield operations at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, Uzbekistan, March 20, 2005, during Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol)
Recipe Name: BJ Base
Cone: 6 Color:
Firing: Surface: Semimatte
Amount Ingredient
20 Frit--Ferro 3134
20 Dolomite
20 Feldspar--Kona F4
20 Ball Clay--Old Mine #4
20 Silica
100 Total
Unity Oxide
.155 Na2O
.034 K2O
.288 MgO
.523 CaO
1.000 Total
.259 Al2O3
.182 B2O3
.005 Fe2O3
2.457 SiO2
.008 TiO2
9.5 Ratio
7 Exp
Comments:
ADD
5 Tin ox., 5 Zirocopax
Shown over RIO, Cobalt and Blue underglaze
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Calculations by GlazeMasterâ„¢
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New base is finished, hope you guys like, new video coming out soon, lower floor photos coming out shortly
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My LEGO display of part of the Battle of Hoth, which was displayed as part of the Brick.ie display at Kildare County Show in Athy, Ireland on 18 June 2017.
The rebel base and power generator are my own design. The AT-ATs are designed by raskolnikov (one built by davenocheese). The snowspeeders are based on brickdoctor's design.
So this is my base to marek's base contest! So this is in kashyyyk a few weeks before order 66, when they discover a small post from the clone wars when a giant transport leaves a squadron of droids attack them...
Dodworth Miners (orange and black) move the ball away from a scrum, at Quarry Lane, during the second half of a 20-18 defeat of Division Three rivals Upton in a closely-contested quarter-final of amateur rugby league's Yorkshire League Trophy. The visiting Miners had a player sent off in the 53rd minute, when they led 8-6, but managed to hang on for a memorable - if nerve-jangling - victory. Note the evidence of previous quarrying at the site.
Match statistics
Upton versus Dodworth Miners
Yorkshire League Trophy, Quarter-Final (level 11, 2.30pm kick-off)
Admission: free. Programme: none. Attendance: 210 (h/c). Upton 18 Dodworth Miners 20 (half-time 6-8). Scoring sequence: 6-0 (3mins); 6-6 (21mins); 6-8 (39mins); 6-14 (58mins); 12-14 (62mins); 12-20 (72mins); 18-20 (77mins). In the 53rd minute, Dodworth had a player sent off for repeated infringements