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The new Amtrak NORTH STAR between Chicago & Duluth began operation on April 30, 1978 as a through train equipped with sleeper, Am-dinette, coaches and baggage service. Although it was well-patronized, the overnight portion of the trip between the Twin Cities and Chicago was discontinued a short time later on October 25, 1981 as part of a major Amtrak schedule adjustment. Trains 9 and 10 continued to run between Midway and Duluth as the NORTH STAR with coach and snack service. On July 6, 1980 Amtrak Number 10 (BN 761) sailed above the Nemadji River lead by F40PH 325 handling baggage car, sleeper, full diner and three coaches. The Great Northern bridge at MP 14.2 had stability issues and was restricted to 25 MPH. The Soo Line bridge became available in 1986 and the BN built a new connection to it that was opened in October, 1988. The former GN bridge was then abandoned and removed.
Highest Position in Explore #436
Thanks to gbenard for the crop suggestion
This is a shot of an ordinary pedestrian underpass in Munich - very ugly and lonesome, but I think that it offers nevertheless some potential for an interesting shot. Although ugly it's good fun to try to give such places an interesting look. The dark figure in the shot is actually myself and I just used the tripod + timer, no copy and paste here.
I wish I could have done this as a self portrait but using the timer was just impossible so.. I had to get my dad to hold the camera and shoot on continuous. It's kind of cheating but he did a great job and I'm really grateful for him helping out. =]
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another archival shot...this one is a wider angle view of a sunset I posted a few months ago. I packed up and left the beach at fort desoto thinking the light show was over when the sun disappeared below the horizon. As I was driving out of the park, the sky exploded into this incredible color. Having stowed my gear, I pulled over, grabbed my G9 and set it on a bean bag on the roof of the car and took several shots with the timer. I feel really fortunate to have seen this one.
You know sometimes despite being a man you feel you've just got to get into a dress. I admit my desire to wear a dress does go a bit further as I also enjoy wearing makeup, a wig, high heels and shaving my legs and chest...I rather love to pretend I'm a woman.
This is a self timer shot I took in August 2008 capturing a moment of real transvestite delight as I had seen this dress and knew I simply had to buy it and wear it. Most men do not desire this but some of us do and I simply could not resist.
OMV Tankstelle - Waldhäuser Strasse und Berliner Ring
am Abend - etwa halb zehn Uhr.
Tü-Bus, Stadtverkehr Stuttgart
ON explore/2014/12/30 / stats
Dec 30, 2014 #275, flickr time.
Soul of Snow
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Explore is a Flickr feature
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Inventors: Butterfield; Daniel S.; (San Francisco, CA) ; ff
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Highest position: #269 on Wednesday, December 31, 2014
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Exif data
Taken on December 29, 2014 at 9.36PM CET
Camera Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
Easy Mode Fireworks
long shutter, Langzeitbelichtung
Auto ISO 47
Format 16:9
Original (4449 x 1858)
CC
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons
Check all sizes
Cropped Image Height 2592
Exposure 15
Self Timer 2 s
Image Stabilization On (2)
without tripod
Scene Capture Type Night
Focus Range Infinity
AFPoint Manual AF point selection
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 3.8 mm - aka 21 mm analog
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias +3 EV
There was a time when zooms were content with focal lengths maxing out in the triple figure department.
No so the Canon PowerShot SX60 HS, an all-in-one complete with a 65x zoom lens (21-1365mm equivalent) that encompasses a versatile range.
Ultra Wide-angle, landscapes, portraits, far-away subjects - super-close-macro and tele-macro, it's all possible from this superzoom.
Makro - TELE-macro
super-close-macro
0cm @21 mm
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Telemacro
3 cm @ 85 mm
20 cm @ 300 mm
1,2 m @ 500 mm
1,8 m @ 1365 mm
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Scene Capture Mode SPORTS
for high speed snapshots -
6-8 frames per second
ultra fast SD card
speeds of up to 9.3 fps and the removal of buffer time, you can get your best shot in full resolution
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Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC UHS-I)
(SDHC UHS-II)
(SDHC UHS-III)
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SD
Class 10 10 MB/s
U1 UHS Class 1 10 MB/s
U3 UHS Class 3 30 MB/s
. Die sogenannten
Highspeed-Karten mit UHS-I-Schnittstelle
erreichen mittlerweile bis zu 80 MByte/s beim Schreiben, Karten mit UHS-3-Schnittstelle (U3) sogar 90 MByte/s.
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online manual
www.manualowl.com/m/Canon/PowerShot-SX60-HS/Manual/443741...
and
www.manualowl.com/m/Canon/PowerShot-SX60-HS/Manual/443741...
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SanDisk Extreme PLUS SDHC/SDXC UHS-I Memory Card
Up to 80/60MB/s read/write speed,
video speed C10, U3
BEST review
www.dpreview.com/articles/7192763593/2015-superzoom-camer...
This is not a great photo, and I apologize. But I had to share what I was able to see on a recent visit to the Badlands near Drumheller. The Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel is not extraordinarily rare, but is extremely uncommon prepared to its cousin, the Richardson's Ground Squirrel, AKA Prairie Gopher. If I wasn't 'on a timer' I would have stayed longer to get a nicer shot - it was a truly beautiful critter. But this is the best, there you go...
film: Kodak Portra 160NC
cam: Rolleiflex TLR 75/3.5
I was a fortunate or unfortunate to spent 1 month of my life here in Newton, Iowa. However, once I had a day off I was able to find some interesting places like this one.
After our meal, the grotty weather we'd woken up to improved massively, so we decided to go for a little walk. I couldn't have lived with myself if I didn't try and timer shot while we were out, but as usual, things don't always go quite right!!
This represents the start (and end) of my modelling career. A friend of mine here in town owns and runs a costume rental business. She asked a group of folks to come by this past Sunday and serve as costume models for a website she's developing. I asked if I might bring my camera and tripod and shoot alongside her. When I wasn't being "glam" myself, of course. As a matter of fact, I spent most of the four hour "shoot" photographing.
One of the costumes I wound up posing in was the Henry VIII outfit. I kind of liked it although the costume was both heavy and cumbersome. In addition to slippers and hose (the hose kept slipping down; I know now why Tudor gentlemen wore garters just below their knees), I was wearing a tunic, a shirt, a ruffed collar, a heavy overmantle with (synthetic) fur collar and a "fat suit" -- a type of heavily padded vest worn under the tunic to give me that authentic, "Henry-the-Eighth-in-old-age" paunch. (What?? You thought that was all "me?" Fie upon thee, thou cank'rous poltroon!)
I shot this with a self timer just before the "shoot" began. The light in the studio wasn't great, so I had to use "PhotoShop" to coax the image "out."
It was a most amusing experience... but the Ford Agency hasn't called... Drat!
Cross Filter & Self Timer - 1 (of 5) - Sony A77 II with Hoya Cross Screen Filter on Sony DT 55-200 mm 1:4.0-5.6 Zoom - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
GMCR GP9 804 and VTR GP40-2 307 are at MP 3.15 on Washington County Railroad's M&B Division crossing the Winooski River with a handful of empty gons destined for the top of The Hill at Websterville for loadout at Northeast Materials granite quarry.
The particular rails this train is on are ex Central Vermont, first laid in 1875 when the 1849 branch into the capital city was extended to Barre. In 1957 Sam Pinsly's Montpelier & Barre purchased them and he quickly consolidated the parallel CV and old Montpelier & Wells River (later Barre &Chelsea) routes between this point at Barre. The state purchased these rails in 1980 when the M&B petitioned for abandonment and they've had multiple contract operators over the years until finally setting on Vermont Rail System's Washington County Subsidiary about two decades ago.
But changes are coming to this location. Sometime within 5 to 6 weeks of this photo the last train will pass over these rails, and in a strange twist of fate a little over a mile of the old Montpelier & Barre (ex Barre & Chelsea, nee Montpelier & Wells River) will be coming to life. From about the point where I am standing, once known as Barre Transfer (where the CV, M&WRR mainline and Barre railroad branch to the quarries all met), west a little over a mile toward Montpelier rails are being relayed on the old right of way that was torn up in 1958 shortly after the M&B bought the CV branch.
Consequently a bit over a mile of the old CV including the bridge that this train is on, will be abandoned and removed. The purpose is to eliminate two aging bridges over the Winooski River, this one and a thru girder bridge to the west. Both of these ex CV bridges are at the end of life and arein need of major repairs to continue to safely support heavy loads of granite coming down from the quarries. It was determined to be cheaper for VTR to purchase the old RofW and relay the rails along the north side of the river than it would be to repair or replace the two bridges.
Montpelier, Vermont
Friday April 24, 2020
I love Cocarette’s and this makes number two! I already own the larger format model. On first inspection this one appears to be in perfect condition!
Zeiss Ikon Cocarette 519/2
120 6x9cm Folding Camera
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 105/f4.5
Scale-focusing lens
Compur B, T, 1-1/250 Leaf shutter
Self-timer
Made in Germany (1926-30)
Late model
Sometimes we lose context in our critiques and judge these vintage cameras like they are new models on the shelf. It shouldn’t matter now what the comparisons were between them 50 to 100 years ago, or how they may compare to cameras made today. Now they are all beautiful collector items and an important part of history!
In 1958 the Spanish company 'Metalúrgica de Santa Ana SA' started to built Land Rover Series under license. Initially this happened in CKD form: parts were shipped and assembled in the Spanish plant.
From 1968 the company started to built their own versions of the Land Rover models. From then the company was renamed as 'Land Rover Santana'.
Over the years the Land Rover Santana versions had more and more own produced parts, with different technical solutions and different details.
Santana Motor Company ended in 1983 the license agreement but continued producing Land Rover-like vehicles.
The last Land Rover model (a Defender) was manufactured in 1994, when the company chose for a cooperation with Suzuki.
Official Introduction Land Rover Series I: Amsterdam Motor Show 1948.
Production Series II (redesigned by David Bache, 1925-1994): 1958-1971.
Production Series III: 1971-1985.
Spanish license number: 1975 (Córdoba).
Amstelveen, Legmeer, Bouwerij, Sept. 22, 2016.
© 2016 Sander Toonen, Halfweg / All Rights Reserved
I think this turned out pretty cool. I broke the center out of a modern light bulb and pushed a string of battery powered Christmas lights inside. The lights even have a built in timer. It cost me $6.50 to make it.
Leica M1 (KOOCT), serial number 956752, made in 1959
with
Cosina Voigtländer Color Skopar 21 mm f4, made in 2015
At a first glance, you might mistake this camera body for a M2. In fact the M1 is a de-scoped M2, with the rangefinder, self-timer and frame selector omitted. The now useless cut-out for the second rangefinder window has been covered with a plate engraved with the camera type.
They made almost 10,000 of these between 1959 and 1964. They made ten times as many M2s and 25 times as many M3s. They even made 40,000 model IIIg Barnacks.
I guess the intent was to offer a "low-cost" (by Leica standards) entry level model. I suppose the M1 could have been upgraded to an M2 (when the owner had saved up some more lolly?).
That doesn't make much sense to me. A Leica customer would buy a Leica precisely because of the precise rangefinder. A castrated camera would be relegated to use with slow wide angle lenses, where guessing the range would be good enough. But if that's all the owner wants to do, and if the price is a concern, would that kind of person buy a Leica in the first place? Hardly, I should think.
I put on the 21mm Color Skopar for now, but I think I will get a Summaron 35mm f/2.8 in due course and leave it on this body permanently. I won't even need the goggled version because the M1's viewfinder features 35 and 50 mm framelines. The Color Skopar is an excellent lens but it just doesn't have the required aesthetics, although it arguably is a perfect match for this camera, much more so than a faster lens with a longer focal length.
Why did I get this camera despite its rather obvious limited usefulness? Because it was offered in near-mint condition (far better than any M3 I ever saw) and because it has some rarity value. The early models have a rewind release button instead of the better known lever that you expect on thread mount, M2 and M3 bodies, and my relatively modest bid on Fleabay unexpectedly came out on top.
I don't think this baby was used much. I imagine that almost 60 years ago, some Leica-man must have purchased her for his wife, or perhaps his much younger female companion. If so, the gift apparently wasn't much appreciated. I hope she dumped him for being too cheap to buy her a real M.
All I can say is "Ta, Leica-Man, whoever you were." Because now that camera is mine and she's still in great shape. And I'm halfways through the first roll of PAN-F.
I have created a Flickr group for photos shot with and of this rare camera: --> Click
N56786 Boeing Stearman PT-18 Kaydet [75-521] (Flugaustellung L & P Junior) Hermeskeil-Flugausstellung~D 21/06/2011
When you are out in the field shooting, many landscape photographers tell you to go take a nap during the flat mid-day light. I disagree with that advice. Yes, the light from the sun coming from high angles does give rather flat lighting conditions. I say, "Use the light you have." You are on a photo trip, you've shot at sunrise and now you have to look for other targets of opportunity. This time of day is great for looking for things in nature that are more abstract. Things like patterns, textures and shapes. This is also a great time to seek-out close-up shots and do some macro shooting. You can find all these things during the mid-day. Keep a collapsible reflector handy in your camera bag or vest. Use it with your camera on a tripod with the remote shutter release or the self-timer feature. Even on an overcast day, you can use a flash.
I took this shot at about 11AM. Was the light flat? Not really. You can see a shadow from the Joshua tree. In winter, the sun is lower in the sky all day than it is in summer, so the lower angle of the sun gives some degree of cross-lighting. In summer, the higher sun angles give us flater lighting.
The clouds make this image interesting. If I had gone back to my trailer and taken a nap, I'd have missed a lot of opportunities to get some great images. For this image, I positioned myself and the camera to get the tree and clouds into a pleasing configuration. I lined up the clouds with the top of the tree. When you see a great sky, with dramatic clouds and a nice foreground, don't just bring your camera to your eye and snap. During this part of the day, you are not hurried by the sun coming up or going down. Now is the time to set-up the camera on the tripod and carefully frame and compose your shots. Remember the 'Rule of Thirds.' Use contrasting colors. Take into account the dominance of the elements of your composition. Make it all work together. Take lots of shots. Use your camera's display to check for composition and exposure.
Active Assignment Weekly: May 9 - 16: Self Portrait
WIT: I just got a new haircut, not sure if I like it yet, but here it is. Wanted to experiment with a very narrow DOF with focus on the eye. It was difficult as I had to use the timer, since for some reason my remote on my phone wouldn't work, so took some tries to get the eye in focus - I have rather short arms, and was using autofocus. I was also by a window, so used the natural light from there.
In post, brightened the colour a bit, softend the skin a bit (the camera is very unforgiving so close up!) and cropped to square, as I was going for a tight frame.
~Timer~
In 4 hours I made 9 tutus. They still need elastic waists and closing up. But I'm happy because that's 23.3 meters of lace hand pleated.