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Brookwood Point is a conserved park with access to Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, N.Y., seen on May 24, 2015. Otsego Land Trust has worked with both Scenic Byways and National Park Service grants to improve features of the park. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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For the first black-and-white film with my new camera Pentax 17 (see below for the details about the camera), I loaded a special film given to me as a gift by « Ateliers de Marinette », Lyon, France. The film was spooled for 30-exposures (60 expected for the Pentax 17 that a half-frame camera) and is a bulk Ilford PanF Plus expire in 2005. The film is however well conserved and it could shot for the original 50 ISO sensitivity.
The Pentax 17 was equipped with an Anti-UV 40.5mm Hoya HMC 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).
Confluence Saône-Rhône, April 14 2025
69002 Lyon
France.
After completion the film was processed according the Marinette advice in Adox Adonal developer at 1+25 dilution for 7min at 20°C.
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
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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.
SolarWall was created by Conserval Engineering many years ago. Today they are used on many larger facilities to provide large volumes of pre-warmed fresh air that saves energy and provides heat to the building from the sun. Typical SolarWall customers save anywhere from 20 to 30 per cent on their heating bills.
This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
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Yellow Damson Almond Conserve with Amaretto. 950g of fruit, 500g of sugar, 100g of almond, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 3 tablespoons Amaretto. French method of macerating overnight to draw out fruit juice.
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Des stalles du château de Gaillon sont conservées dans la basilique Saint-Denis près de Paris. Ce château était la résidence de loisir des archevêques de Rouen. Commandées au début du XVIe siècle par Georges d’Amboise, ces stalles ont été construites lorsque cet archevêque, devenu légat du pape et premier conseiller de Louis XII a fait transformer le château médiéval en palais de la Renaissance. Seules stalles en France à présenter de nombreux panneaux de marqueterie et une iconographie inédite, elles forment un mobilier unique, chef-d’œuvre de cette période charnière entre gothique et Renaissance, arborant une grande mixité de styles. Ces stalles sont les chaires qui étaient destinées aux trois chanoines qui officiaient dans la chapelle haute du château de Gaillon, dédiée à saint Georges. Elles étaient ceintes d’une clôture en boiset constituaient ainsi le chœur liturgique de l'édifice.
Les stalles en chêne sont composées de deux rangées disposées côté nord et sud du transept de la basilique de Saint-Denis. La rangée nord présente un ensemble de six stalles, la rangée sud de cinq stalles et une isolée. Seules douze stalles ont été créées au XVIe siècle alors que le programme iconographique en prévoyait quatorze. De 2,83 m de haut, elles composées d’un siège et d’un dorsal, ce dernier comprenant deux registres : un bas-relief surmontant un panneau de marqueterie. Tous les éléments sont sculptés ou marquetés. De manière unique, les dossiers, les dorsaux et les voussures des dais sont galbés. De même les chaires ont des largeurs variées, fixées par celles des bas-reliefs des dorsaux. Pour s’adapter, les largeurs d’autres composants ont été rectifiées. La mixité de style se retrouve dans la globalité, les interdorsaux et deux dais étant gothiques alors que les faibles reliefs sont apparentés aux grotesques de la Renaissance, les bas-reliefs et les marqueteries des dorsaux étant quant à eux à la fois d’inspiration péninsulaire et septentrionale.
Sont illustrées sur les bas-reliefs originaux des dorsaux deux scènes de la vie d’Anne et Joachim, parents de la vierge Marie, cinq scènes de la vie de saint Jean-Baptiste le précurseur et sept scènes de la vie de saint Georges selon les textes d’Évangile ou de la Légende dorée. Nombre d’autres saints sont présentés en pied, sous forme de statuettes sur les interdorsaux ou de bas-reliefs sur les soubassements des jouées, notamment les quatre évangélistes sur ces derniers. Sur les panneaux marquetés des quadrants des parcloses sont figurées les affres des enfers des condamnés selon les sept péchés capitaux, avec les planètes et leurs influences. Les représentations sont inspirées des gravures du Calendrier des bergers imprimé à cette époque.
Les miséricordes figurent des scènes des Métamorphoses d’Ovide ainsi que les arts libéraux selon la Margarita Philosophica de G. Reisch. Les artisans se sont inspirés de gravures d’ouvrages imprimés au début du XVIe siècle, par exemple le soldat romain Caius Mucius Scaevola devant le roi Étrusque Porsenna y étant représenté exposant ainsi des thématiques propres à la culture antique. De manière également tout à fait inédite, les 7 vertus, cardinales et théologales, et 7 sibylles sont figurées et représentées sur les panneaux de marqueterie du premier registre des dorsaux. Les allégories et les prophétesses sont encadrées d’architectures identiques deux à deux qui les mettent en concordance. Les sibylles ont été choisies parmi celles du manuscrit des Heures de Louis de Laval dont les auteurs ont cité les prophéties. Ces dernières proviennent du manuscrit des Institutions divines de Lactance qui était de nouveau traduit et que le cardinal a lui-même fait enluminer. Ce grand rhéteur du IVe siècle ayant quant à lui repris les oracles rédigés dans les Oracles sibyllins.
Georges Ier d’Amboise n’a pas manqué de faire valoir qu’il était le commanditaire des stalles en demandant à ce que ses armes et sa devise y figurent à de nombreuses reprises. Le légat a donné pour modèles aux artisans des stalles des enluminures ou gravures de manuscrits faisant partie de sa splendide bibliothèque, digne d'un grand érudit humaniste. Il fit venir l’Italie en choisissant la marqueterie figurative en sus de la sculpture, seule technique utilisée à l'époque en France. Sans renier la tradition en faisant figurer les saints, il a fait représenter de manière inédite leur cycle de vie, dont il a choisi des événements bien spécifiques. De plus, il a incité les fidèles à s’instruire et à étudier les auteurs antiques en faisant sculpter des allégories des arts libéraux et des personnages mythiques ou héroïques. Enfin, par le dialogue des sibylles et des vertus, il a montré que la rhétorique de Lactance était convaincante. Il a ainsi non seulement introduit en France la mode italienne dans le mobilier, le décor et les ornements du château de Gaillon, mais surtout donné corps à l’esprit humaniste en faisant de ses stalles les messagères qui appellent à une vie vertueuse, dans la foi au Christ annoncé à tous les hommes (cf. wikipédia, merci Glass Angel pour la photo).
La Cité interdite (Chinois : 故宫; pinyin : gùgōng) est le palais impérial au sein de la Cité impériale de Pékin dont la construction fut ordonnée par Yongle, troisième empereur Ming, et réalisée entre 1407 et 1420. Ce palais, d'une envergure inégalée — il s'étend sur une superficie de 72 ha — fait partie des palais les plus anciens et les mieux conservés de Chine. De nos jours, il est devenu un musée qui conserve les trésors impériaux de la civilisation chinoise ancienne.
Ce site monumental a plusieurs dénominations :
Son nom complet est la « Cité pourpre interdite » (traduction du chinois Zǐjìn Chéng, 紫禁城), en référence à l'étoile nommée Zǐwēi Xīng (紫微星, la petite étoile violette) dans l'astronomie chinoise, c'est-à-dire l'étoile polaire de l'astronomie occidentale. En effet, comme le palais impérial se trouve au centre de Pékin et représentait le centre administratif de l'État, on lui donna un nom évoquant l'étoile qui est au centre de la rotation du firmament céleste.
Le nom le plus courant est « Cité interdite », qui vient du fait qu'en tant que résidence des empereurs chinois, de leurs familles et de ceux qui étaient à leur service, son accès était interdit au peuple.
En Chine actuellement, ce site est le plus souvent appelé Gùgōng (故宫), ce qui signifie « l'ancien palais ».
Le musée qui est actuellement abrité dans ces murs est appelé « Musée du Palais ».
Description
Depuis le début du quinzième siècle, le cœur de Pékin se trouve autour de la Cité interdite, aussi appelée Palais impérial des Ming et des Qing. Il s'agit du plus vaste complexe architectural de Chine : une véritable ville dans la Cité impériale, dans laquelle l'Empereur de Chine et son entourage étaient quasiment assignés à résidence, ne sortant de l'enceinte que dans de très rares occasions.
Elle couvre 72 ha dont 50 ha de jardins, qui s'étendent sur 960 m de long du nord au sud, et de 750 m de large d'est en l'ouest, entourée d'une muraille de 10 m de haut, elle-même cernée d'une douve large de 52 mètres.
La cité compte selon la légende, 9 999 pièces (en réalité, 8704, d'après une enquête menée en 1973). Le chiffre de 9 999, s'explique par le fait que selon la traditon, seules leurs divinités avaient le droit de construire un palais comprenant 10 000 pièces. Les hommes, de ce fait, essayaient ainsi de se rapprocher aussi près que possible de leur idéal de perfection. Le nombre 10 000 représente symboliquement « une infinité dénombrable » en Chine.
La construction de la Cité interdite a duré 14 ans et plus d'un million d'ouvriers réduits à l'esclavage y auraient travaillé. Entre 1420 et 1911, un total de 24 empereurs y ont résidé. Avant 1924, année où elle a été ouverte au public, personne d'autre que l'empereur et sa cour n'avait le droit de s'en approcher ni même de la regarder. Aujourd'hui, la Cité interdite est l'un des sites les plus visités en Chine.
L’architecture a divisé la Cité Interdite en deux parties :
La Cour extérieure (partie sud), constituait la partie officielle de la cité, où le souverain recevait ses ministres et présidait les grandes cérémonies officielles. Elle abrite notamment : la salle de l’Harmonie Suprême (Taihe), la salle de l’Harmonie Parfaite (Zhonghe) et la Salle de l’Harmonie Préservée (Baohe), ainsi que les bâtiments latéraux principaux, dont la salle de la Gloire Littéraire (Wenhua) et la Salle des Prouesses Militaires (Wuying).
Elle est parcourue d'ouest en est par une rivière artificielle dénommée Jinshui He (c'est-à-dire : la « Rivière aux Eaux d'Or ») provennant d'une dérivation des douves et servant aussi bien de décoration que de réservoir d'eau en cas d'incendie. Son rôle à également pour but de servir de dernier rempart symbolique protégeant la Salle de l'Harmonie Suprême.
La cour intérieure (partie nord), formait la partie privée, et servait donc aussi bien de cabinet de travail pour l’empereur, que d’appartements à la famille impériale et aux concubines. Elle comprend surtout le palais de la Pureté Céleste (Qianqing), la salle de l’Union (Jiaotai) et le palais de la Tranquillité Terrestre (Kunning), qui sont entourés respectivement par les « six Palais de l’Est » et les « Six Palais de l’Ouest ».
Construction (1406-1420) :
Le lieu où se trouve la cité interdite faisait partie de la cité impériale mongole Khanbalik depuis la dynastie Yuan. Quand la dynastie Ming lui succéda, Hongwu le premier empereur transféra la capitale à Nankin, en 1369, et ordonna que le palais mongol soit rasé. Son fils Zhu Di fut nommé Prince de Yan, et s’établit à Pékin. Un palais princier fut construit dans cette ville. En 1402, Zhu Di renversa son neveu Jianwen et devint empereur sous le nom de Yongle. La capitale retourna à Pékin.
La construction de la Cité Interdite commença en 1406, sur les plans d'architectes en chef comme : Cai Xin et d'un eunuque annamite Ruan An, assistés des ingénieurs en chef que furent Kuai Xiang et Lu Xiang. Les travaux durèrent 14 années en mobilisant environ 200 000 ouvriers. L’axe principal du nouveau palais est tracé à l’est de l’ancien palais des Yuan, dans l’intention de « tuer » l’ancien emplacement à l’ouest, selon les principes feng shui. De même, la terre issue de l’excavation des douves a été amassée au nord du palais pour créer une colline artificielle, la colline du parc Jingshan (surnommée la Colline de Charbon), protégeant le palais de la mauvaise influence du nord.
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Recent Improvements in Washing Machine Designs to Save Pollution
Conserving freshwater that is not contaminated with something ugly is a major concern for most cities. Even in places where the municipal water supply is reused many times before discharge into the larger environment, the number of passes through our cities and our selves increases the level of contamination.
Conserving water decreases the amount of energy spent on pumping. It also decreases the reliance upon rivers, streams and lakes. Such bodies of water can be pumped too low for already stressed animal populations to survive the other impacts of pollution - notably algal blooms in estuaries.
Since much of a household's water budget is spent on laundry, it makes sense to address this water "sink" as the "source" becomes more erratic due to climate change. Water service is also quite costly. Since the 1970s, some washing machines have been designed to use a fraction of the wash water by recycling gray-water from one load to another and using fresh rinse water.
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Beetroot & Cranberry Conserve is tangy, sweet and slightly earthy, not to mention a brilliant colour! A nice Chianti makes it a little savoury, perfect for the holidays.
For the first black-and-white film with my new camera Pentax 17 (see below for the details about the camera), I loaded a special film given to me as a gift by « Ateliers de Marinette », Lyon, France. The film was spooled for 30-exposures (60 expected for the Pentax 17 that a half-frame camera) and is a bulk Ilford PanF Plus expire in 2005. The film is however well conserved and it could shot for the original 50 ISO sensitivity.
The Pentax 17 was equipped with an Anti-UV 40.5mm Hoya HMC 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).
Glycine ***
Jardin Botanique de Lyon, April 17, 2025
Parc de la Tête d'Or
69006 Lyon
France.
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*** Bolusanthus speciosus (tree wisteria) is a species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It is the only member of the genus Bolusanthus
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After completion the film was processed according the Marinette advice in Adox Adonal developer at 1+25 dilution for 7min at 20°C.
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.
British High Commissioner to India, Sir Dominic Asquith on Wednesday visited KIMS-Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases in Hyderabad and interacted with patients undergoing treatment at the facility.
Sir Dominic also released the 20th quarterly issue of ‘Pink Connexion’, a publication by Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation, which features the inspiring story of Radha Kantipudi, a young accomplished breast cancer survivor who underwent oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery.
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Field visit to Long beach and Skadar Lake Important Plant Areas
Visite sur le terrain des Zones importantes pour les plantes de Long Beach et du lac de Skadar
Montenegro - 27 October 2016
1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week “Building a regional network to conserve plants and cultural diversity”
1re Semaine de la conservation des plantes méditerranéennes “Construction d’un réseau régional pour la conservation de la diversité culturelle et végétale”
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Taken in the Commons of Conserve school with the same camera "Timid" was taken with. Photoshop darkroomed the image. The name stems from the halo-like quality surrounding her (mainly the light reflection off her white pants)
This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
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Lynn McClean, Head of Textile and Paper Conservation at National Museums Scotland, works on conserving the fragile linen wrappings of the mummy of Iufemanun, a priest in the Temple of Karnak.
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September 29, 2016 - "What used to be an eighteenth century monastery is today the Las Conceptas Museum, or Museo de Monasterio de las Conceptas. The building has been beautifully conserved and the original building materials - such as the brick floors and the pillars, window frames and doors that are made from a coarse wood - still adorn the structure. According to the records the construction of the Las Conceptas Museum started in 1682, but the monastery was only completed in 1729. During the 1800’s, other structures were added, such as the infirmary that was built in the year 1875. Fortunately, the Museo de Monasterio de las Conceptas survived the years in relatively good condition and renovations to open the monastery as a museum started in 1982. On 3 November 1986 the museum opened its doors to the public. It is now a favorite amongst the attractions in Ecuador and many tourists flock to the museum each year.
The colonial structured Ecuadorian museum is home to a vast amount of paintings, sculptures, artifacts, crafts and furniture. Most of the art on exhibition dates back to 1830 and the museum also features a spectacular collection of musical instruments that were used in the colonial and the pre-Columbian times. Each room from the old monastery has been transformed into breathtaking exhibition halls and art galleries. The religious art section was placed in the nun’s room, where a rare collection of Gaspar Sangurima's crafted crucifixes are on display.
In addition to the artworks, there is educational information relating to the lives of the Nuns of the Conception, audio-visual displays, crafts and temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibitions that are located in each room each have a different theme attached to it. For example: angels, saints, furniture, toys and figurines, miniatures and glasswork and porcelain. Photographic displays and other mediums depict the history of the monastery and of the museum.
The Las Conceptas Museum gives visitors a rare opportunity to the insights of the past, religion and the extraordinary talents of artists that came before us. Of all the attractions in Ecuador the Museo de Monasterio de las Conceptas does not only display wonderful, visual pieces of history, but has history embedded in its walls and floors too"
Previous text from the follow website: www.ecuador.com/art-galleries/las-conceptas-museum/
A note in red means "Protest Against Security Bills". A note in the bottom means "Regaining Japan's power As Before The War" satirically quoting the PM Abe's election slogan "Regaining Japan's power". A note in top right means "The way to war".
Each spring, remote areas in Oregon's sagebrush steppe attract scores of greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) for elaborate mating rituals. These areas - called leks - provide wildlife biologists a golden opportunity for census-taking, because they host the largest annual gathering of male and female sage grouse.
Since the males are in full display - strutting their uniquely shaped pin-like tail feathers, inflating and deflating distinctive golden throat sacs, and cooing and clucking a range of sounds - they stand out in the landscape and are more easily identified and counted.
This counting is critical. The BLM and its partners are taking steps to protect the greater sage grouse and more than 350 other species that rely upon the sagebrush steppe landscape for their survival, and these annual censuses - called lek counts - provide vital information about sage grouse population health.
At one of many lek counts in the spring of 2016, wildlife biologists from the Bureau of Land Management and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife teamed up near Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon to count and record the population of greater sage grouse in two nearby leks.
The biologists traveled several hours to the lek site, arriving to begin their count at first light - a time when the birds are most active. Using spotting scopes, the biologists meticulously counted sage grouse and recorded them for later study.
The biologists also noted the presence of forbs favored by the birds, including some of the 17 species of buckwheat found near Steens Mountain. In addition to sagebrush, greater sage grouse rely upon many plants within the sagebrush steppe environment for food. Forbs - herbaceous plants (excluding grasses) with flowers and nutritious leaves - provide important seasonal alternatives to the sage grouse's year-round sagebrush fare.
Oregon is home to 6.3 percent of the nation's sage grouse population, but the effect of rangeland fire and invasive plants on sagebrush habitat continue to threaten the bird's survival. In 2015, following concerted efforts by the BLM and partners to address these and other threats, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that protection for the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act was no longer warranted, and they withdrew it from the candidate species list.
This decision was not an end to conservation measures, though. Within the next five years, the USFWS will conduct a status review to evaluate the greater sage grouse conservation efforts. That's where the importance of lek counts factors in. It is critical that the BLM has the capacity to document how greater sage grouse plans are being implemented and can demonstrate that they're effective at conserving the bird's habitat by reducing threats, minimizing new surface disturbance, and improving habitat integrity.
Lek counts are like a blood pressure monitor for the greater sage grouse and the sagebrush ecosystem: they provide important data that indicate health, and also inform prescriptive paths toward recovery.
- Story and photos by Greg Shine, BLM, gshine@blm.gov
For more information on greater sage grouse, visit www.fws.gov/greatersagegrouse/