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My father.
Picking up on his RAF days as a navigator in World War Two, John was a keen amateur radio enthusiast.
His amateur station call sign was G3UJK.
WEEK 1 – Memphis Kmart Closing, I
A look at the barren electronics department, which had also gradually become home to mattresses and appliances as Kmart's selection of electronics dwindled down. Not much of any of the three departments remained.
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MFOS Sound Lab Mini-Synth in progress... Detail of one of the easier kludges on the PLUS. You can find more information on its progress at www.glacialcommunications.com.
Hazleton, PA. August 2016.
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This shot shows the Petri Color 35 in my hand to give you an idea of it's compact size (though being all metal it weighs in at a fairly heavy 395 grams).
The Petri Color 35 has been described (most notably by Stephen Gandy of cameraquest.com fame) as the camera that Rollei should have made instead of their Rollei 35 series of cameras.
It certainly has a unique and extremely useable user interface, perhaps the best user interface of all the super compact 35mm cameras that became increasingly popular during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
All the main controls user controls (aperture, shutter speed and focus are located on the top plate and are easily operable with your eye to the viewfinder. The viewfinder itself has a match need system for the completely manual exposure and a focus scale.
The exposure meter is coupled to both shutter speed and aperture which makes it easy to set your exposure in either a shutter speed or aperture priority fashion.
Focusing is guesstimate scale focusing. The thing that always puts me off scale focusing cameras is that without any reminder to focus in the viewfinder I usually just forget! But the focusing scale in the viewfinder of the Petri make this far less likely to happen, and the depth of field of a 40mm f2.8 lens mean super accurate focusing isn't necessary.
There are lots of really stylish and/or thoughtful touches like the beautiful rewind crank and the four little metal 'feet' on the baseplate which makes it unlikely to get scratched.
There are a couple of things I don't like: the metering system is turned on when you wind on, and off when you take a picture. The is a bit of a problem if you habitually wind on after every exposure to make sure you're ready for the next shot, because if you shoot like this the exposure meter is always on! But this is just a matter of retraining your muscle memory so you habitually wind on just before taking a shot rather than after.
The focusing dial also extends the collapsable lens, which is a bit time consuming to extend, but this doesn't really matter: you just alway leave the lens extended most of the time... you only collapse the lens for storage while travelling (and even then only if you really want to.
I also don't like the fact that you have to open the camera back in order to change the battery... tough luck if the battery runs out with a film in the camera!
But despite these minor issues, this is a genuinely likeable and usable small camera.
This is the later "Petri Color 35 D" model... but the only different between this and the earlier "Petri Color 35" model is the very slightly faster top shutter speed (1/300th compared to 1/250th) which in practice make no difference.
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A few months searching & the correct 1960's Paddy Hopkirk wheel presented itself in Surrey, the original horn centre fits like a glove, much better than the later aftermarket ones, you can't beat waiting for the correct parts
Elektron Analog Four Teardown. You can see the CoolAudio VCAs in this photo. They are the 8 16 pin packages (V2164 -- recreations of the SSM 2164)
(I had never heard of this brand.) Not the the Schneider-Kreuznach lenses.
From the Deutsches Film-und Fototechnik Museum in Deidesheim, Germany.
this picture kind of reminds me of EPCOT in the whole futuristic section. you know... where the big golf ball is? well, at first glance, it looks so crisp and clean. typical new-age (almost futuristic looking) technology. but if you look closer,its a filthy mess. all of the corners packed with disgustingness that the workers just sweep behind in the mornings since they're too lazy.this picture goes right along with their laziness, quite proudly.if you look closely, my ipod has a food smudge on the screen, the keys are kind of dirty, and the screen of the laptop is filthy... this whole mess was, of course, my fault for deciding to "myspace" right after lunch. savvy?
The most fashionable and widespread of all the camera types nowadays are compact digital cameras, which are now so affordable that almost every household has one. Designed to be stylish, with a moderate number of features they offer far more capacity than traditional, film-based models and give...
www.iheartcamera.net/why-are-compact-digital-cameras-so-p...
SET 3 – West Point Wal-Mart
Speaking of the Electronics department, indeed we find it right next door, occupying the center portion of the back wall. And yes, like I said, the large, open feel of the Photo Center results in a rather small, cramped feel for Electronics, at least comparative to how the department is set up in most Walmart stores, that is! It was pretty difficult to get good angles of this, so for this view I had to settle for a pic out in the actionway, with that annoying price sign getting in the way. You should still be able to get the overall gist, though, and I also like how we can see a fair deal of the black shelving in the aisles as well as the video game shelving on the far left.
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Half-frame cameras were in vogue in the 1960s, and some predicted that, with their advantages of compactness, film economy and depth of field, they would eventually supercede full-frame 35mm. Films, in those days, were available in 20 and 36 exposure lengths giving, in practice, 44 or 75 half-frame exposures. To those graduating from 8-on-127 Brownies, it seemed a blessing.
The diminutive Olympus Pen EE was the most popular half-frame camera ever. With its lapidary selenium cell baffle surrounding the lens, it was a familiar sight in camera shop windows.
The basic Pen EE, with automatic exposure, a single shutter speed and fixed-focus f3.5 lens was well-made, reliable and in good lighting conditions, foolproof to use. This example is a “Go Faster” EE-S model with a focussing f2.8 lens and two shutter speeds which like the aperture, were selected automatically. The bright-frame, portrait-orientated viewfinder was very clear but offered no exposure or focussing information. Usefully, the 30mm focal length (equivalent to 40mm full-frame) gave a semi-wide angle view.
By the 1970's the half frame format had had its day. Certainly they could produce good album-size prints and (projected on a small screen) very sharp colour slides. But for the more discerning, a good small image would always be beaten for quality by a good big one, and mass-market users, finding themselves with two Christmases and a Summer holiday on a still-unfinished roll of film, were better catered for by the new Instamatic format.
Bath, NY. June 2018.
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Olean, NY. May 2019.
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The EOS-1N RS shoots film on the left there so it is surrounded by some Ilford Delta 400 and HP5 400 and Fuji Superia X-tra 400 color negative film. $14 for 5 rolls of Fuji Superia X-tra 400 or $7 for one roll, hmm which to get??? The 1N RS is wearing the 17-40L.
5 rolls of 24-exposure color film sounds like a lot but the EOS-1N RS can shoot at 10 frames per second so it can shoot off an entire roll in 2.4s!!! The high-speed rewind takes another 5 seconds. Loading the next roll takes just another second or two so you can shoot off each roll in 10s if you're fast, less than a minute to shoot off all 5 rolls if you're quick on the draw.
Next is the EOS-1D II N wearing the 24-70L and the EOS-1D II with the 135L.
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Clarksburg, WV. June 2016.
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Agat 18K 35mm half-frame camera from Belomo from 1988 onwards. Industar 104 f2.8 28mm lens, exposure calculator for 25 - 1600 ISO, hot shoe for flash, removable take up spool can be replaced with a second 35mm cassette.
Store closed summer 2017
Charlottesville, VA. May 2017.
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As part of my further experimentation with rangefinder film street photography, I acquired a second hand Olympus 35 RC rangefinder camera. Here is what one web reference says about it:
A true classic among 1970's fixed-lens rangefinder cameras, the 35-RC is a traditionally built metal bodied 35mm rangefinder, with the superb fit and finish that were a hallmark of Olympus cameras before plastics and electronics became the norm. It is a basic no frills camera with desirable features for the serious photographer and novice as well. The 35-RC has an easy to use shutter preferred automatic mode, with a full manual override to allow for experimentation and compensation of tricky lighting. The 5 element Zuiko lens provides surprisingly sharp resolution and contrast when used in its intermediate aperture settings.