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Testing on self to see how this would work before calling model in. Wanted to capture the feel of a dry river bed.
I took my car for its test today to the ITV centre at San Bartholeme.
First off you go to the office to register and pay and then wait in a queue for your test. When your car is called, you drive into the garage.
1. You sit in the car and follow the instructions whilst the technician checks the lights, front wipers, seat belts and the horn are working and he also checks the oil level.
2. The technician then drives your car forward for the brake tests on a rolling road.
3. He then moves your car forward again and performs the emission and noise level tests.
4. You get back into the car and drive it over a pit where a quick visual check is performed of the underside.
That is it - less than fifteen minutes in total. All that is left is for you to park the car up and collect your certificate and the all important sticker for the windscreen.
Nikon D600 + Nikkor AF-S 60mm micro
Test du capteur donc accesible en full size (Pas de grosses retouches, Dérawtisé avec LR 4.2)
© Landry NOBLET
a last minute plan photoshot with raeesa sya.received a short notice from her last friday and she ask me to shot her for her purpose. start to shot around 730am in the morning.that was early aight?didnt get a chance to sleep.but heck.im not sure if ray,zul and raeesa herself love the view.but me myself,i really enjoy the beatiful,peaceful earlier morning view from my private lake housing area.so yeah.it was worthy i shall say.
im currently testing the tone colour.moreeeeeee pictures will be uploaded.cheers
polaroid 600se handmade back
Gossen digisix setting
film PX 70 FF "125 iso"
80 iso and 125 iso test setting
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80 iso
f11
exposure time = 1/2s
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2.125 iso
f11
exposure time = 1/8s
On approach to Rothesay HarBour, Isle of Bute.
MV Argyle, is a ro-ro ferry, owned by Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited and operated by Caledonian MacBrayne on the route between Wemyss Bay and Rothesay (and sister ship to the MV Bute. (Superficially there is very little to differentiate Argyle from Bute. Argyle has a second lift from the car deck and the passenger lounge is a little larger than on her sister.) MV Argyle has a semi-open car deck with a clearance height of 5.1m. Like the MV Coruisk before her, she has bow and stern access and in addition she has a starboard vehicle ramp aft which was used at Rothesay before the pier was converted to allow end-loading.
Built in Poland , and bought for £9 million, she is the seventh Clyde ship to have the name Argyle. Until 2007, there had not been an Argyle on the Clyde for over a hundred years, but the present vessel is the seventh of the name. The first was a paddle steamer built only two years after the pioneer steamship PS Comet appeared on the river in 1812. The second was commissioned in 1815; the third and fourth had connections with Loch Fyne, while the fifth was a cargo steamer sailing to the Outer HebrideS.
Tonnage:approx 2,612 tonnes
Length:72 m
Beam:15.3 m
Draft:5 m
Speed:18 knots
Capacity:450 passengers, 60 cars.
ISO 200, f4.5, 1/80, 18mm, auto white balance
Nikkor AF-S DX 18-105/3.5 - 5.6 G ED VR
no image editing. picture directly out of cam!
I wrote an article about the test. Please check here for German speakers: www.doreen.es/2008/09/09/nikon-d90-test/
PS: Sorry I didn't care about image details // Bitte nicht auf Bildausschnitte achten, hab ich auch nicht gemacht ;)
Product testing is designed and developed to test any software product for complete functional coverage, usability testing, UI testing via manual or automated.
About two weeks ago i got a Nikon Tilt Shift lens to testing at the newest skateboard pool... not easy to use in action photography!
A test of the EOS M with 22mm f/2 lens (not pictued) I bought at a low price. It isn't perfect, but it is hard to beat without paying three times as much.
I combined several exposures to make this image to go through all the regular processing I do. As a result, it is a good test for the lens, although I did correct for chromatic aberration, but not a good test for the camera.
The FLM Centerball ballhead in the picture has been great for macro photography. While I lock the sphere in place, it doesn't move unless it is very lose and I don't support the camera. This means I don't have to make several attempts to compose the image because the ballhead keeps pointing the camera somewhere I didn't.
testing and getting used to the Sony RX100 in preparation for the vacations trip, so shooting to whatever I find on my way :-).. these are my classic Persol sunglasses… love them as much as I love the new camera :-P
These are for a project-in-progress, but I like the way they were subconsciously assembled when I moved them.
www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3210878/1000-we...
1,000 weather balloons take to the skies daily, UN agency says amid US-China ‘spy balloon’ row
▫️ Weather balloons released every day from 900 locations worldwide to help global real-time data gathering exercise, World Meteorological Organization says
▫️ Report comes as US-China ‘spy balloon’ spat continues, with top Chinese diplomat calling the US reaction ‘absurd and hysterical’
Around 1,000 weather balloons are released every day from 900 locations worldwide to provide crucial real-time data, the UN climate cooperation agency has said, as the “spy balloon” row roils US-China relations. “Free-rising latex balloons” are a key component of a vast global climate observation system, with their “valuable input” aiding the formulation of computer models to forecast weather and research climate processes, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. However, the devices still provided just a tiny fraction of the “millions of observations gathered worldwide daily” by other devices under the Global Observing System, the WMO said in its report on Friday. The report came as Beijing and Washington continued to spar over the shooting down of a Chinese balloon off the US east coast earlier this month, with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi labelling the US reaction as “absurd and hysterical”.
The US claims the balloon was a Chinese high-altitude surveillance vehicle while China insists it was a civilian meteorological research craft that had been blown off course, and has accused the US of sending balloons into Chinese airspace more than 10 times since last year.
The WMO said weather balloons were fitted with battery-powered instruments to transmit data to ground receivers, and were released simultaneously every day from different places around the globe.
Such balloon flights usually last for around two hours, during which time they make weather measurements including pressure, wind velocity, temperature and humidity from above ground to heights of up to 35km (22 miles), according to the UN agency’s report. They could travel “many kilometres” before bursting and falling back to Earth under a parachute, it added.
However, the 1,000 or so balloons account for just a small percentage of the total observations gathered daily and offering vital information to climate monitors and forecasters, by devices including Earth or space-based instruments such as ships, aircraft and satellites. The “millions of observations” gathered every day included data from space by over 50 satellites, from the ocean by 400 moored buoys, 1,250 drifting buoys and 7,300 ships; by 4,000 aircraft from around 40 commercial aircraft companies, 7,300 ships and 10,000 automated and land-based observing stations, the report said. The US claimed the Chinese “spy balloon” shot down by its military was part of a global aerial surveillance programme run by China in more than 40 countries across five continents.
It later shot down three other unidentified flying objects in both American and Canadian airspace, but President Joe Biden said they were “most likely tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions”.
The search for debris from all four objects has been concluded, the US military said late last week. Remains from the balloon shot down on February 4 would be examined further, the Pentagon said, after “all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces”, including the balloon’s antennas, were located.
Recovery efforts for the other three were called off by US and Canadian authorities after they failed to locate any debris.
The top Chinese and US diplomats met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, the first face-to-face exchange between Wang and Secretary of State Antony Blinken since the balloon row worsened already tense relations. Washington was warned that it would “bear all the consequences” if it escalated the incident, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday’s meeting, citing “the damage caused to China-US relations by the abuse of force”.
And while Blinken emphasised that the US was not looking for a “new cold war”, he said the balloon incursion was an “irresponsible act” and unacceptable violation of US sovereignty that “must never again occur”, according to State Department spokesman Ned Price. The meeting came hours after Wang, in a presentation at the annual security conference, slammed the US handling of the crisis as driven by “prejudice and ignorance”.
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00482-7
High-altitude balloons: a scientists’ guide to what’s up there and why
The US has shot down four flying objects over fears of spy balloons. But what else are high-altitude balloons used for?
By far the majority are weather balloons: these are launched twice a day simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide, according to the US National Weather Service. They transmit data about temperature, humidity, pressure and location, and are disposable. The thin balloons — typically made of biodegradable latex — expand at altitude to about 6 metres in diameter. Flights are designed to go straight up to about 30 kilometres, and last for only a few hours.
Some scientists use much larger, longer-lasting balloons, for example to get a clear view of space, or to test instruments destined for high altitudes. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia manages the launch of about 10–15 scientific balloons each year worldwide. These can carry around 3,000 kilograms, expand to be larger than a football stadium and fly to an altitude of 37 kilometres.
Other balloon users include science students, companies and amateur enthusiasts. Jason Krueger says his company StratoStar in Fishers, Indiana, has helped students and companies to launch more than 1,000 high-altitude balloon missions since 2006. Student projects have included investigating whether Post-it notes are still sticky after a flight to near-space and the impacts of high-altitude radiation on blood samples.
Corporate uses of balloons include providing Wi-Fi in remote regions, and some amateur enthusiasts launch picoballoons. These silver-coloured, plastic Mylar balloons typically measure less than 1 metre in size and are harmless, says Krueger, carrying amateur radios and payloads of just a few grams. But these shiny balloons would “light up radar like nobody’s business”, says Krueger, and their typical flight altitude is around 12 kilometres.
Blame game
Many balloons can be discounted from the list of those shot down: weather balloons make short flights and don’t drift at 12-kilometre altitudes, for example. But that still leaves plenty unaccounted for worldwide. “There are flights every day of research, corporate and hobbyist balloons,” says Robert Rohde, a scientist at the environmental non-profit organization Berkeley Earth, who lives in Zurich, Switzerland. “I suspect that what they shot down are related to one of those categories.”
The US Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t require tracking devices for payloads under 5.4 kilograms, or for launches or flight paths for such loads to be declared. But even small packages can use large balloons. If such objects start to attract military attention, perhaps they, too, should be tracked, says Rohde. “I don’t feel like it’s necessary from a safety point of view, but if there’s a legitimate concern about small balloons from other states, we should probably make sure these things are identified.”
Krueger doesn’t think that’s needed. Instead, he says, the US government should “get better at assessing what is a threat”.