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A Start that lead to a dead end. This is a camera made to compete with Prakticas and Exaktas at the time. It might look like a Zenit, but is not one, far from it. It wheighs a ton, the chromes are bright and well machined. It has all slow speeds and even a top shutter speed of 1/1000th, something that the Zenit never had. The shutter button is located à la Praktica/Exakta way with a huge prong. The lens has a bayonet mount, not screwthread. The prism is interchangeable and the viewfinder image reasonably bright. A very welcome surprise to my limited knowledge of FSU cameras.
The start line of the 50th Ailsa Craig Race from RUYC in Bangor. Nudging up to the start line and trying not to be over it before the start gun fires. A long over night race in heavy rain ahead of them with the course taking them round the island of Ailsa Craig.
Dire photography conditions :-(
Fisheye view of the starting grid where the mechanics are busy preparing the cars for the race.
SONY NEX-6 + Samyang 8mm; 1/2000 sec; f/5.6; ISO 400; Single exposure.
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Here we go again back to Fifty Years ago this week and starting off with a trip to the Isle of Wight and a visit to Bembridge and Britten-Norman's BN-2 Islander production line where a real mixture was found including 4X-AYC
www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/49304884467/in/photoli...
along with numerous primer painted examples with Class B registration marks and some simply with a construction number only.
There also was their BN-3 Nymph G-AXFB, a foray into the single engine monoplane market that came to naught
Back to the mainland and at Gatwick a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer G-APHX was present (see Keith Harper's photo of her:
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On the 24th of April 1970, Heathrow produced a West German Luftwaffe Hansa Jet 16+06 - a strange looker with their unique forward swept wings
(see Ken Meegan's shot of her now preserved:
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plus an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 CCCP-65639
A day later Pakistan International's Boeing 720 AP-ATQ (recorded incorrectly by me as AP-APQ) - check out Carl Ford's image of her:
(www.flickr.com/photos/53277566@N06/16407342111/in/photoli...) was present along with an Olympic Airways Boeing 707.
Alitalia's DC-8 I-DIWA was also in (see Manuel's vintage photo of her:
www.flickr.com/photos/10264618@N03/2127784514/in/photolis...)
A USAF C-47 was seen dropping into Northolt which I found out years later was an HQ USAFE VC-47 0-51116 and apparently 1970 was the last year USAF C-47's were seen in Europe
On the 28th April, Belgian Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar CP-30/OT-CBJ was a nice find while passing through Gatwick and then later, seen passing overhead Heathrow, USAF MAC's Lockheed
C-141A Starlifter 65-9400 routed Clacton-Woodley-Strumble for the USA
Also in at LHR that day were a pair of Scandinavian Airline System's DC-8's LN-MOG and SE-DBB.
Czechoslovakian CSA's ILyushin Il-62 OK-ZBC arrived and another aging piston treat was Martinair's lovely old Douglas
DC-6 PH-MAM (see Ken Fielding's great photo of her:
www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/17013455367/in/photolis...)
and a Yugoslavian Ilyushin IL-18 YU-AIB
A day later Dutch MS.760 Paris PH-MSV arrived from Germany on a medical task carrying a donor kidney, yet another PanAm 747 N733PA arrived and last but not least,
West German Luftwaffe's Lockheed Jetstar 11+01 arrived and parking Northside.
The latter I managed to get a reasonable photo of courtesy of some fellow ATC colleagues and a BAA Austin Champ:
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Oh, Barbie. Not the livestock.
CWD Assignment 2. Visual Joke or Pun. So many of us play with this each week. Make us laugh with your image. Tag with cwd152.
During tests as part of the on-going restoration of the sole remaining Prototype HSDT power car 41001 by the 125 Group under the name of Project Miller, 41001 gives a display whilst the engine block warms up.
:)
Explored 17/09/12!!
Related (in the Power of Positive Relationships group): the place to start
Connected (in the Connect group): waiting for a metro train.
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The boy is age 5 or 6, no more. I wonder if he can even read yet? The device he's holding could be a child's game. And, this was seen at a favorite mall coffee bar, with a shoe store in the background.
There's a pretty full range of b/w tones here, and I'm pleased with the capture. Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday!
The 2nd round of the 2015 Pearl iZUMi Tour Series took place in Redditch on Tuesday 19th May. Here we have the race about to start in earnest with Madison Genesis and ONE Pro Cycling to the fore.
This talisman is modeled after a traditional Japanese doll used to help a person focus on personal goals. Filling in one eye starts the process.
Manufactured by Karl Pouva AG in Freital, near Dresden, Saxony, former East Germany
Model: Second model, produced between c.1956-59
All Pouva Start produced between 1952-73
Medium format film viewfinder like Box camera; film: 120 roll, picture size: 6x6cm
Lens: Duplar f/8, (2 elements in 2 groups), plastic, collapsable screw tube, no name on the lens
Aperture: cloudy f/8 and sunny f/16; setting: by a lever on front of the lens
Focusing: fixed focus
Shutter: simple spring rotary shutter, one speed 1/30 +B ; setting: by a lever on front of the lens, B and M (instant)
Cocking and Shutter release: by the same knob, press and release; on the top plate
Cable release socket: beside the shutter release, w/ safety lock lever
Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder
Winding knob: on the top plate
Flash PC socket: none
Self-timer: none
Back cover: remowable, w/red window; opens by a lever beside the winding knob
Tripod socket: ¼”
Strap lugs : none
Body: Bakelite; Weight: 221g
serial no. none
The second model was offered also with yellow lens front, viewfinder and rewind knob and there are some cosmetic variations (also called model 3 and 4) . The first model has only a sports frame finder.
With a moderate price of only 16.50 Mark (east), it was affordable for the young people. Thus it became a typical beginner's camera in East Germany. Estimated 1.7 million Start were sold.
More info: in Lomography com, in Camerapedia, Karl Pouva in Camerapedia, in Photo Even, in Pouva net
Pouva start a telescoping camera for 6X6cm exposures on 120 film Z-M shutter Made in Germany by Karl Pouva c1956-59 (See Pouva Start two tone- www.flickr.com/photos/64947908@N05/8605114057/in/photostr... ( See Pouva Start 1951 model- www.flickr.com/photos/64947908@N05/8603116896/
After a small amount of up from the campsite where we started Malerweg stage 4, we had about a couple of kilometres through woodland and fairly level...after this the ups (and downs) started in earnest.
This was the start of the steps up to the Schrammstein viewpoint.
Higashiyama Hanatoro is starting soon, come enjoy performances and lanterns glowing in Yasaka Jinja!! ^^ Here is your taxi, maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kyoto/152/204/31
(more details later, as time permits)
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008 (which you can see in this Flickr set), and continued throughout 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 (as shown in this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, and this Flickr set)
): a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. These are the people in my neighborhood, aka "peeps in the 'hood."
As I indicated when I first started this project six years ago, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a zoom telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. Sometimes I find an empty bench on a busy street corner, and just sit quietly for an hour, watching people hustling past on the other side of the street; they're almost always so busy listening to their iPod, or talking on their cellphone, or daydreaming about something, that they never look up and see me aiming my camera in their direction.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep my camera switched on, and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. Indeed, some of my most interesting photos have been so-called "hip shots," where I don't even bother to raise the camera up to my eye; I just keep the zoom lens set to the maximum wide-angle aperture, point in the general direction of the subject, and take several shots. As long as I can keep the shutter speed fairly high (which sometimes requires a fairly high ISO setting), I can usually get some fairly crisp shots -- even if the subject is walking in one direction, and I'm walking in the other direction, while I'm snapping the photos.
With only a few exceptions, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are plenty of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. There have been a few opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. This is one example, and here is another example.
The other thing I've noticed, while carrying on this project for the past six years, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... unfortunately, there was just nothing memorable about them. They're all part of this big, crowded city; but for better or worse, there are an awful lot that you won't see in these Flickr sets of mine...
Старт (=Старт = Start) (logo stamped as Italics) means Start
Manufactured by KMZ ( Krasnogorsky Mekhanichesky Zavod = Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk), near Moscov, USSR
Model: 1963 Type 4c, ( produced between 1962-64)
All Start produced between 1958-64. Quantity: 76.503 units. There are 10 types
as to Alexandr Komarov
35 mm film SLR camera
Lens: KMZ Helios-44 (ГЕЛИОС) 58mm f//2, special bayonet mount, interchangeable; Serial no.0139286
Aperture: f/2-f/16, automatic diaphragm, DOF preview is possible by rotating the shutter release plunger on the lens
Focus range: 0.7- 20m +inf.
Focusing: by Fresnel matte glass screen with split-image rangefinder, focus ring and scale on the lens, w/DOF scale
Shutter: focal-plane shutter, horizontally run double rubberized silk curtain,
speeds: 1 - 1/1000 +B
Shutter release: knob on the right front of the camera, w/cable release socket
**Shutter can be released by a plunger on the lens also
Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, on the right of the top plate
Frame counter: additive type, manual reset, on the winding lever knob
Viewfinder: SLR pentaprism, matte glass with split-image rangefinder in the central focusing area, 100% frame coverage, finder and screen are interchangeable, there is a waist level finder
Viewfinder release: by a small knob on the back of the top plate
Mirror: note instant return
Re-wind knob: on the left of the top plate, also used for multiple exposures
Re-wind release: small knob near the winding lever
Memory dial: on the rewind knob
Self timer: activates by a small silver knob over the self timer lever
Flash PC sockets: two, for X and M, on the left front of the top plate, synch: 1/30s, separate on the speeds dial
Back cover: detachable with the bottom plate, with a film pressure plate made of black glass,
opens by two pop-up levers on the bottom plate
Film loading: removable take-up spool, there is also a special receiving cartridge
Film-cutting knife: handle on the left of the top plate
Strap lugs
Tripod socket: old type 3/8''
Serial no. 6300258 (first two digits of the serial number indicate the production year)
As with other Soviet-era rangefinders, the shutter speed selector rotates when the shutter is released, and should not be changed until after the shutter has been cocked. If you change the shutter speed without cocking the shutter first, the setting pin can be broken when you advance the film and cock the shutter.
The Start is a very well made and interesting system SLR camera, and entirely mechanical. It was aimed at the professional market. At its era there is no other system camera in the Soviet Union.
It was often referred to as the "Russian Exakta". At that time Start was the only competition to the Exakta available within the Soviet Union and the Soviet-dominated part of Europe. It was at least in principle, the only other system camera, providing not only interchangeable lenses, but also finders and viewing screens.
Helios-44 58 mm f/2 is similar to the Zeiss Biotar. But unfortunately this is the Start system's only manufactured lens. There is an adapter for M39 screw mount Zenith lenses, but this was not an attractive option, as such lenses did not have automatic aperture system.
more info:
Fotoua by Alexandr Komarov, SovietCams, Wrotniaknet by Andrzej Wrotniak, Communist Cameras by Nathan Dayton, Cameras by Alfred Klomp, Btinternet by Stephen Rotery