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If there’s one company in Australia with heaps of dino compactors, that company will be Suez, or SITA as I wish they were still known. Maybe in the past the company had more dino work on a national scale, but the high majority is now subject to their Sydney operations, with most of their bulk bin trucks indeed dino roll-offs. I’m sure the company has a good couple hundred open top containers, compactor containers and integrated units in Sydney, a lot of which appear to be young or freshened up. However, a few years ago I came across one of their older pieces of equipment outside their Wetherill Park transfer station, just sitting on the road unattended while its transporter was somewhere else. I love seeing a compactor just sitting on the road out from a dock, especially at night in the Sydney CBD haha It’s not often you would find a compactor of this capacity being used for garbage, so I think it’s safe to say this is a dry waste container or more likely one for paper and cardboard. You can tell this one is an oldie, with very faded paint and signage, plenty of scratches and a decent amount of rust. You can see the front of the container has been punched inwards... a result of the many times this steel box has been pushed into its resting position by the bail hook and frame. I reckon the “No Parking Day Or Night” signs should feature an additional “Offending Vehicles Will Be Towed” - not hard to do with the truck!

DS-Escape-&-Compactor by Eric DRUON

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Instructions for my custom models for the Death Star Escape & Compactor are now ready. You can buy downloads on my website

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r2 by mark mcdonald

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Abstract lights . X20 . by AKromatiCK

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Compact «Expert» Fujifilm X20, Lightroom 5.

Dômes de la Société générale, Limoges.

Compact remembrance by U-ichiro

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Nocturn. by candido baldacchino

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Sony Cyber-Shot.

Vast Compact Sand. by Algeria888 ( G.Zouaî )

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20151206-0T5A6840.jpg by ponok2

Minolta Hi matic by vania francesca

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Compact Osprey by Mark Von Raesfeld

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A V-22 Osprey unfolds it's rotors as the crew preps the aircraft for departure from the California International Air Show.

Sony RX0 by LOGAN W

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Rootstein Lipstick & Compact by Ivan

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"compact SD35 packages" by JeffMast98

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Not many if any places to see a pair of SD35's running now days in the US, here GLC 383 and 384 work the interchange with the Ann Arbor RR at Osmer siding just north of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nice compact packages these SD35's seen from above, if only EMD had cataloged an SD30, that would have been a pretty swell looking unit - August 23, 2024.

Sycamore by Tony Kemplen

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Six consecutive frames taken with the Olympus Pen EE-3 camera that I previously used in week 293 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:

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Homemade redscaled Agfa Vista 200 film from Poundland, developed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

Scanned to include the sprocket holes.

Compact space by Grace Zhang

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Hanimex VEF Compact. by Donald Poirier

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Hanimex Vef Compact. Objectif Hanimar 20mm f/4 Wide Angle. Petit bouton pour 3 ouvertures f/11, f/6.3, f/4. Film 110 vitesse 1/125. Année 1977.

Fujica Compact 35. by Donald Poirier

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Fujica Compact 35. Objectif Fujinon 38mm f/2.8 Vitesses 1/30 1/250.

Posemètre au sélénium qui contrôle les conditions d'éclairage correctes, en plus du mode automatique, la possibilité de régler manuellement. Synchro X sur la face avant du boîtier. Année 1967.

Agfa Compact by Paulo Moreira

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This was the Agfa of salvation, the one that would keep the brand afloat as a camera maker. Presented in 1980, it was the stubborn Germanic answer to the Japanese tsunami that killed the German camera industry in the 60’s and 70’s. This was a moment of hope for AGFA, a return with a very interesting camera, where the attention to the design was surprising. The styling is very pleasant, a very small and original shape created by Schlagheck design of Munich. It faithfully follows the Bauhaus credo, from follows function, but the result here is an original and pretty camera. The master stroke is the sliding On/Off switch that covers the camera’s viewfinder. Slide it and the camera comes alive, the lens cover opens and the Solinar pops out, very neat. All this done electrically, something that would become the norm up to the present days. The lens was brand new, but it was another variation of the old Solinar, AGFA’s version of the Tessar. Here we have a rather surprising 39 mm /2.8 lens. I believe it to be a 40 mm lens, they chose the 39 mm to clearly send the message that this lens wasn’t the old Solitar 40/ 2.8 of the Optimas of old. The big splash was the electric motor responsible for popping out the lens and wind the film at a speedy 2fps. This looked like a cracking little camera destined for fame and success. Sadly, it was not to be.

It is easier to find a person born in the 19th century and breathing than to find an Agfa Compact in working condition. This lack of reliability eventually killed the camera and AGFA as camera maker in 1983. It seems underdeveloped, that scale focusing is out of pace with the rest of the camera, as is the viewfinder devoid of any sort of info, just a red lamp for flash turn on. While the manually wound previous Optima series had an automatic loading of the film, with this one you get a motor but you have to put the film tip in the reel’s slot. The flash is just like the Olympus XA, Canon MC or Minolta AF-C, a separate unit that connects to the left side of the camera. There is provision for a cable release, but oddly no self-timer. The electric motor emits a noise as If all the gears were about to break when the camera is switched on. Film winding is not exactly silent either, but not remotely comparable to the Canon ML

The camera’s Bauhaus design might be impressive, beautiful, functional, daring, but the Konica C35 AF already existed and had what people really needed, autofocus, integrated flash. No electric motor, a very dull design, but a coherent concept. Still, this little AGFA is very engaging, but I am not very sure that it works well, fingers crossed for the Tmax 100!

Compact diesel generator by Gergely Baranyai

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Inquisitive Labrador by Dion Thompson

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rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone by Jasmin

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Compact farming by John Murphy

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Kilkenny model toy show

Compactor Trash 127 by Princeton Trash

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Mobile garbage compactor after residential customer collection.

Wien by János Harninger

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Liebherr 506 Compact

Trying to get my head around a New Camera. by ~Tavistock~

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Why cant these camera manufacturer's produce a Owners Manual that not only names the buttons, levers & dials but actually tells you what each of them does and why you would want to use them in the first place, some of us are NOT techies or Rocket Scientists.

Compact by patriciazzz

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Playing around in Paros

BMW 316i Compact by Andrew 2.8i

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Car: BMW 316i Compact.

Year of manufacture: 1999.

Date of first registration in the UK: 20th May 1999.

Place of registration: Chelmsford.

Date of last MOT: 7th April 2021.

Mileage at last MOT: 100,621.

Last change of keeper: 9th August 2020