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Late 70's shot of a load of used Chryslers. I have another view of this rig but I found this better pic on FB.
A cosy box, Crewe Steel Works still has a good number of working levers, with its crossover and access to and from the Electric Traction Depot.
It's a 1935 built LMS type.
These tiny leaves are sort of peculiar. I don't know if the plant is dehydrated or if it's just a part of the physiology of the plant, but the stem of the leaf looks rather flat, doesn't it? Plants are such bizarre creatures in the first place when you compare them to animals.
Almost exclusively do they not rely on other animals for direct nutrition. Almost all of them are rooted in one way or another to a substrate. Their gross anatomy is so unlike ours.
Then again. Earth teems with plants. Maybe we're the odd ones.
Konica Autoreflex T3
Fuji Superia 100 expired (date unknown)
AR Hexanon 1.8/40
PP in Pixlr-O-Matic
I must be one of the very few people who don't like the Petri Color 35. There, I've said it. Don't get me wrong, from the collector's standpoint it is a great camera: Great looks, intuitive design, a marvel of camera engineering, all this from a maker of budget cameras who tried (and partially succeded) to come up with a "Rollei 35 killer" at a time when Rollei was still a premium name in the camera business.
Me, I like to judge cameras as a user first and the Color 35 has a very serious drawback for a viewfinder guess-focus camera: There is no way to focus the lens without bringing the camera to your eye, as there is no distance scale on the retracting lens barrel. You have to either keep the camera at eye level throughout focusing (with the added risk of getting your finger in your eye while turning the focusing knob at the back) in order to watch the needle move over the distance indicators in the viewfinder, or use it hyperfocally which somehow defeats the whole purpose of having manual control over aperture and thus DOF. All this led me to sell the Color 35 I had and declare the original Rollei 35 (which gives you the opportunity to fully control every aspect of shooting without the need to bring the camera at eye level other than at the exact moment of framing) as the undisputed winner of this duel.
Now to the camera pictured here: After the commercial success of the Color 35, Petri decided to release another camera based on it, retaining some of its virtues (compact size, retractable lens) but replacing the fully manual exposure with a fully automatic one which would make the camera much more appealing to the casual user. This way, the Petri Color 35E (for "Electronic") was born. Wisely enough, Petri added a distance indicator on the lens barrel, correcting the fundamental drawback of the Color 35. With time, the name changed a bit, the camera also existed as "Petri 35E" then renamed "Petri Micro Compact" which also involved a change in finish from the classic chrome to black. The latter can also be found as "Carena Micro Compact".
Sadly, as the camera evolved, it slowly lost the good build quality that characterised the first Color 35, probably reflecting the gradual decline of Petri into bankruptcy. Although the size is identical to the Color 35 and features like the completely removable back or the freely rotating strap lugs remain, almost all metal has been replaced by plastic, resulting in an overall feel very close to a toy camera, much worse than what pictures of the camera online suggest at first glance. Everything feels very flimsy and easily breakable. The VF is decent but without any exposure or distance indicators at all and the only amenity to the user is a battery test button. Perhaps the early Color 35E model retains some of the quality of its mechanical sibling, but working ones are rather uncommon to find at low prices, probably a spill-over effect from the reputation and collectability of the original Color 35.
The small size of the Black Hills Central's Baldwin 2-6-6-2 tank locomotives--38 foot wheelbase-- can really be seen from above--in this aerial view, #108 has topped the steep initial climb out of Hill City and is now winding between the hills on a light downgrade before the drop into Keystone.
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.
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
Date taken: 3rd June 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
It started with the LC-A, that I got in a 2nd hand shop in Budapest 2 years ago, I took it to test it the next days on my way by train across Bulgaria/Romania to Istambul, and I finally figured out that P&S were the way to travel without worries. always ready, and in a simple pocket. SET
Eventually the lc-a fell and so I could try to fix the frame counter it had to get a new dress.
Also, missing some shots because of the zone focus it was not ideal, so I started looking for some cheep AF ones, and they had to be as pocketable as the lc-a, on that area the mju II is the winner.
I don't think this collection will grow much more, unless I stumble upon some expensive models or so, for very cheap (ricohs gr, minolta TC-1 etc...) I'm happy with these ones for now, let's see what comes next.
(1 week after)
I just came back from the fleamarket with some more P&S cameras, Mju I (another),
Ricoh FF70(it's a DOA after all), Fuji HD-M, Konica EU-min and a Porst 135AE
#2 UPDATE
additions : Olympus XA2, Ricoh FF-1, Leica C2-zoom, Nikon AF600, Rollei 35B
A very basic Compact. Top spotting points if you see one of these now.
Plate comes back to a Piaggio T5 (a scooter?)
From where I sit at this moment, Orkney seems so remote. It's easy to forget that it sits just off John o' Groats and was a bit of Scotland nibbled away and submerged at the end of the Last Glacial Period. Prior to that, the lowered sea levels left Doggerland high and dry — a convenient stepping stone for humans to repopulate Britain from the rest of Europe. Yes, I've been to the very north of the archipelago, to North Ronaldsay. Today I'm away to South Ronaldsay — ironically juxtaposed at opposite ends from its northern namesake. This won't take me to Orkney's most southerly isle, Stroma, which to be honest has less water between it and Scotland that it has between itself and the rest of Orkney.
Here's a reminder of how compact these islands are. This is the northern tip of Glimps Holm looking back across Lamb Holm to Mainland. By now I've crossed two of the causeways constructed as navigation barriers in WWII. There are what appears to be military installations, there on the cliffs of Lamb Holm. In the middleground lie relics of the block ships sunk here early in WWI. I think this was the SS Numidian, an almost 5000 ton steel hulled steamer scuttled here on 30 December 1914. She was sunk in the company of SS Aorangi, SS Thames and SS Minieh with, I think, Numidian in the shallow water near this spot. I could be wrong. If you need a better answer there's a kind of trainspotters' guide to the wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Orkney is so user-friendly. It's a small place, compact, packed to the gunwales with history; so much that with sea level rise its, Plimsoll line is in peril of disappearing beneath the waves. Getting about is quick and easy; all that and it has a village named Twatt.
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Date of first registration: 17th March 1999.
Region of registration: Swansea.
Latest recorded mileage: 13,578 (MOT 28th March 2019).
Date taken: 16th August 2019.
Album: Street Spots
Car: BMW 316 Compact (E36/5)
Date of first registration: 6th March 1995.
Registration region: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Latest recorded mileage: 61,125 (MOT 9th November 2018).
Date taken: 19th March 2019.
Album: Street Spots
The news of the passing of the Dutch engineer who invented the audio Compact Cassette, Lou Ottens, got me to thinking how useful and handy these were back in the day and efficient - even a provision to prevent accidental ereasure. The quality of the audio wasn't up there with reel-to-reel, but they paved they way for portable music. Even after portable compact disc (which Mr. Ottens was involved in the development of) players came out, portable cassette players were the best way to go - easier to fit into a pocket and slower battery drain - though it took many years to get the player down to the size of the cassette itself. Until at least MP3 players came out, which like everything else digital revolutionized everything.
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Date of first registration: 20th May 1999.
Registration region: Chelmsford.
Latest recorded mileage: 126,397 (MOT 10th June 2019).
Last V5 issued: 20th June 2020.
Date taken: 8th July 2020.
Album: Carspotting