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I initially wanted to have a few small cars that would fit into an autorack, similar to the Vert-A-Pac. The train car didn't work out, but the regular cars did. I will now use them for my LUG's city layout.
My daughter and I ordered two sets of these Sailor Moon gashapon compacts back in October and they arrived yesterday! We love them!
When I featured the Fujica Compact this time, I also introduced the Compact S and Compact D. I mentioned that since both the S and D I own are in perfect working condition, I wouldn’t be modifying them. However, to my (perhaps happy?) surprise, the D turned out to have a faulty shutter. So, I immediately took out the lens. Since it’s equipped with a large-aperture Fujinon 45mm f/1.8, I just couldn’t resist getting my hands on it.
Fujica’s rangefinder/leafshutter cameras with large-aperture lenses include the following:
Fujica 35 SE ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.9
Fujica 35 EE ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.9
Fujica 35 VⅡ ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.8
And now, this one:
Fujica Compact D ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.8
All of these lenses are truly outstanding performers — that’s Fujinon for you!!!
Fujica Compact Deluxe
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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
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.
A long time ago… in galaxies far far away, the first stars were born in the early universe. But when and how? That’s a mystery Webb is one step closer to solving.
Using Webb, researchers have found two early galaxies that are unusually bright, one of which could contain the most distant starlight ever seen. The galaxies are thought to have existed 350 and 450 million years after the big bang (respectively, from top to bottom). Unlike our Milky Way, these first galaxies are small and compact, with spherical or disk shapes rather than grand spirals.
Webb’s new findings suggest that the galaxies would have had to begin coming together about 100 million years after the big bang — meaning that the first stars might have started forming in such galaxies around that time, much earlier than expected.
Follow-up observations with Webb’s spectrographs will confirm the distances of these primordial galaxies and help us learn more about the earliest stars. More: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-draws-back-...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
[Image description: Two vertically stacked views of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 as seen by the Webb telescope. Both views feature countless galaxies of all shapes and sizes speckling the black backdrop of space. Some are spiral, some more disk-shaped and others spherical. Farther galaxies are only seen as dots. Their colors include blue, pink, orange, and white. The view at the bottom is differentiated by bright white stars with long diffraction spikes, unseen in the view at the top. Towards the left of both views, there is a small white box highlighting a notable galaxy. These two tiny boxes have diagonal lines connecting them to close-ups of their contents, placed in much larger inset boxes on the right. The close-up box on the top, labeled as 1, shows a red dot along with some surrounding streaks of foreground galaxies. This red dot is a never-before-seen galaxy thought to have existed 350 million years after the big bang. The close-up box on the bottom, labeled as 2, shows a central red disk with a few other blurry and fuzzy foreground galaxies. This disk is another never-before-seen galaxy, this one thought to have existed 450 million years after the big bang.]
A nearby compact blue dwarf galaxy, NGC 5253 was imaged with Hubble's High Resolution Channel (HRC) on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to produce this image. A lot of hydrogen gas is present here and is most evident in the narrowband H-alpha filter which appears here in vivid reddish magenta. Numerous young, massive star clusters full of massive stars are visible as mottled, bright, blueish patches.
This is a very close look at the nucleus and star-forming region of the galaxy. Just enough detail is revealed for me to guess at what I'm looking at, and yet not quite enough for me to feel sure. One of the bright patches near the center is rounder and slightly yellower, causing me to suspect it is an old globular cluster. What is interesting to me is that some of the bluer clusters visually appear to have comparable diameters and densities. Pretty impressive. I suspect they contain fewer but brighter, more massive stars.
I am fond of these old ACS/HRC datasets because they are comparatively rare since the HRC stopped functioning in June 2006 and never came back online even after the servicing mission which repaired the rest of the ACS. The observations comprising this image were acquired five months prior in February 2006.
Glancing at the abstract for this paper, we might expect this to one day be observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Data primarily came from the following Proposal: Sizes, Shapes, and SEDs: Searching for Mass Segregation in the Super Star Clusters of Nearby Starburst Galaxies
Note: Some lower resolution ACS/WFC data from LEGUS (Proposal 10765) was used to fill in the missing data where the occulting finger was. Some older WFPC2 F656N data from Proposal 6524 was used to slightly enhance the ACS/HRC F656N data.
Red: ACS/HRC F814W + ACS/HRC F656N
Green: ACS/HRC F550M
Blue: ACS/HRC F435W + ACS/HRC F330W
North is NOT up. It is 25.4° clockwise from up.
A compact fluorescent light bulb, shot for a story explaining the benefits of CFL's over incandescent bulbs.
Creating this shot was a fairly involved process. To see how this photo was lit and shot, click here.
© 2006 David Hobby
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
slinks away
and grinning, makеs his way up
i grasp the pieces of rose
and your raven locks of hair
i hear the turn of the key
as I hiss my final prayer
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
Botanical name : Lilium auratum var. rubrovittatum
Japanese name : 紅筋山百合 (ベニスジヤマユリ Benisujiyamayuri)
Lens : COMPACT-MACRO LENS EF 50mm 1:2.5
The MRK III Compact was
an attempt by manufacturers Slayn & Korpil to build on the success of the earlier MRK I (and to a lesser extend the MRK II), retaining the heavy armament of the original while improving manoeuvrability and reducing maintenance.
The ship retained the originals ion and laser canons and featured a gunner turret capable of 360 degree rotation. As a compromise it required 2 crew; a pilot and a gunner.
Technological advances allowed the size of the s-foils to be significantly reduced, and the engine cluster to be minimised and positioned behind the crew pods.
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Car: Volkswagen Golf SE.
Year of manufacture: 2009.
Date of first registration in the UK: 15th December 2009.
Place of registration: Preston.
Date of last MOT: 4th November 2020.
Mileage at last MOT: 122,393.
Date of last V5 issued: 21st September 2020.
Date taken: 28th September 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
What might look like an abstract artwork is actually a novel antenna, small enough for a minisatellite, to track global ship traffic from orbit.
Commercial vessels are mandated to transmit Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals, which are used to track maritime traffic – the oceangoing equivalent of air traffic control. The system relies on VHF radio signals with a horizontal range of just 40 nautical miles (74 km), useful within coastal zones and on a ship-to-ship basis, but leaving open ocean traffic largely uncovered.
However, in 2010 ESA fitted an experimental antenna to Europe’s Columbus module of the International Space Station, demonstrating for the first time that AIS signals could also be detected from up in orbit, opening up the prospect of global ship tracking from space.
“Based on our testing, this new prototype designs offers a four-fold increase in ship detection performance,” explains ESA antenna specialist Nelson Fonseca, overseeing the project.
“The AIS detection system on Columbus employs a low-gain ‘whip’ antenna, receiving signals within a very broad beam, with corresponding potential for signal overlap and interference.
“This antenna design combines higher-gain with a more reduced footprint, allowing more of a focus on regions of highest interest, and can also discriminate between polarisations, increasing the likelihood of detection for any individual AIS signal within the antenna field of view.”
In addition, clever engineering has shrunk the overall antenna size to a size where up to five could be hosted on a single cubic-metre minisatellite.
“Despite its name, VHF is quite a low wavelength in space terms, implying a bulky antenna of about 1 m across and half-a-metre thick to operate ideally at that frequency,” Nelson adds.
“But the patterned square-shaped structure on the underlying face of our antenna changes the signal behaviour, enabling us to shrink the design to 50 cm width and 3 cm thickness – making it suitable for hosting on a smaller platform.”
The antenna was developed through ESA’s ARTES Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems – Advanced Technology programme with Italian companies CGS as prime contractor and MVG as subcontractor in charge of the electrical design.
“CGS and MVG are highly interested in moving forward with the optimisation and environmental qualification of this outstanding antenna element,” explains Andrea Di Cintio, managing the project at CGS. “The next step will be to identify a specific mission and then optimise the design and qualification accordingly.”
“Significant reduction of antenna dimensions and weight without compromising electrical performance was challenging,” adds Andrea Giacomini, lead antenna designer at MVG. “It required a radical change in the design and validation approach. We are proud to have been involved.”
Credit: ESA–G. Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Warszawa, Poland
Summer 19
Analog. Nikon L35 AF compact camera
Kodak Ektar 100
Links to all of my work. Instagram. Website. Behance. linktr.ee/ewitsoe
A very basic Compact. Top spotting points if you see one of these now.
Plate comes back to a Piaggio T5 (a scooter?)
This 1 3/8 inch figure is the DC Comics character The Flash as seen in the game HeroClix. The red and yellow streaks behind him are actually tissue paper.
I believe this is the first toy photo I've posted to Flickr that was lit by my camera's flash. I typically use lamps, flashlights, LEDs, etc.
This image is straight out of the camera: no tweaking, no color processing, no cropping, no nothing.
Submitted to the Flickr group 7 Days of Shooting.
The best thing to have a camera on any trip is COMPACT. Even if it's a morning jog or walk with the dog. I'd like to show you my everyday pocket "city walking camera" medium format. This is for a unexpected genre photograph, an environmental portrait, and land-photography itself.
Although it does have a rangefinder attached, it is great for discreet street hip shooting.
An objective factor in the analog camera market today is not a pofessionalism of the model. What decides is only the safety and condition of a particular specimen, in other words, the hands of a master in cleaning, lubricating and adjusting.
Subjective factor - emotions and affection - the camera should be liked, tactilely pleasant, you should want to keep it with you.
A good example of this viewfinder with a 6X6 rangefinder and parallax compensation. She has a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 8 cm f2.8 lens, and so many news ones for its time that I don’t remember who else had that many in 1937. She is as beautiful as a Swiss watch. When the film moves, it makes the same sound as a mechanical watch when wound.
It’s not hard to guess that I always feel sorry for taking it with me on an extreme expedition in such good condition....!! )))
I really like it, but I think it will take its rightful place in someone's collection and will be a great companion for walking around the city for many years to come. I'll sell it or trade it for something more suitable for my backpack and tropical rainforest.
So if you have any ideas, I'd love to see them. My email address is listed in my profile. or write to me also on Instagram - link here:
...for something in this price range of 350-400 euros and in good condition. I will provide also any photographs of the camera and scanned films, write to me!
Have a nice evening to all of us!
Could be a very cool Live/Work space… in Central Porto- just east of the Main Retail Shopping Street- kinda like how State Street in Chicago was during The Jane Byrne administration ( meaning mostly closed to Auto & Bus traffic)
The best words to describe HK's cityscape.
Recently fall in love with the skyscrapers and cityscape, I spent few weekends on wandering around Central to Wan Chai. Look up and look for sth fun!! :)