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Gateway Technical College - Reader Precision Machining and Manufacturing Center - Ribbon Cutting - Wednesday, April 20, 2016
for the Traveling Shots Series
A little easier to see "into" this one, perhaps, through the lightbox, here.
These two first-year laughing gulls didn't seem to get along particularly well., although they kept close together.
I have a ton of these little ruby red hummingbirds around my yard. I have been itching to photograph them. Canon T2I with Canon 60mm macro lens on tripod, ISO 400, F6.3, 1/125th, Remote trigger on shutter, external flash on hot shoe set at -2/3 power, indirect. This was the best photo of the lot will keep experimenting. This is a female Ruby Red Humming bird. They are typically larger then the male, though the male has made this his territory and will normally try and chase off any other hummingbird. I have actually even seen the male chase a bumble bee away. To make homemade nectar, simply boil 4 parts water to one part sugar for approximately two minutes, let it cool. On really hot days change the nectar every three days. Nectar can be stored in a refrigerator for up to two weeks.
This is the "film d'essai" (test film) of my newly-arrived FOCA PF2B, a French range-finder 35mm camera manufactured in 1948.
The finder of the camera is quite foggy and, while the range-finder is indeed operating, it is almost impossible to use it for focusing and even framing is uncomfortable. When necessary (distances bellow ca 5-6m), exact distances were measured using a LASER meter and reporting the result to the camera distance scale. Due to the same finder problem, I used my external FOCA Universel finder during all the test.
The focal shutter operates smoothly at all settings from B to 1/1000s .
The camera was loaded with an Rollei Superpan 200 (Agfa Aviphot 200) 36-exposure film. It was exposed for 200 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta lightmeter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The Oplar lens was equipped with a generic 1A push-on 42mm protective filter and a generic cylindrical shade hood.
Rollei Superpan 200 (i.e. Agfa Aviphot 200) is a super-panchromatic film coated on a thin polyester teraphtalate (PET) base with a water-soluble black anti-halation coat on the back that should be removed by two or three presoaking bathes before developing. The film sensitivity is extended to the near infrared to 780 nm.
May 17, 2023
69004 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+25 and 20°C for 8min. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. I used here for the first time a new light LED source (NEEWER RGB61 Mini portable LED light). The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera :
This Foca PF2B is an early series (circa 1948) of the Foca PF2B 35mm range-finder camera appeared in 1947. The PF2B model of Foca has the 36mm screw mount of other Foca PF (PF standing for "Petit Format"). Foca camera's were constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) in the OPL factory of Chateaudun (Eure) starting from 1946. This factory still exists under the name of SAFRAN a French company producing aerospace devices and systems.
The camera is equipped with a collapsible OPLAR lens 1:3.5 f=5cm.
Submitted to Flickr Monthly Scavenger Hunt for June 2008 under Going for the Prize.
Judges measure figures that Steve is describing in the air with his kite.
Precision EMD GP9 #1706 at Farmingdale, NY.
Taken on January 31st, 1976.
Photo by Waldo H. Kingston.
Collection of the GFMRRC.