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There's no doubt about it...
I miss my gear.
I went out last weekend without my D300 and the 35mm 1.8 lens that's pretty much always affixed to it and I felt naked... I felt like I was missing something... it was an odd feeling really.
It'll be a while before I can go on 'Soul-Patrol' and bring back some shots to share with you.
I gotta feeling that everything's gonna work out just fine.
Being a 'cameraless person' has kind of led me to do some deep thinking about what photography means to me... 'my' photography... what it's meant to me in the past... maybe what it's always meant to me...
Photography has been nothing short of a journey for me... I've done it for so many reasons... I've thought about it in different ways... but it's one thing that's always been a part of my life.
In college I shot medium format film... all black and white... using a Mamiya 645 and a Mamiya C330 twin lens reflex camera... the finest film camera I've ever owned.
I picked up a 35mm Minolta 7700 in Japan when I was a student there.
I've loaded my own 35mm film and developed it and printed it in my own darkroom, a bathroom with a towel shoved under the door... my first digital camera was a Sony Mavica... a 2 megapixel deal where you used 3.5" floppy disks to store your images.
I've taken some cool shots with it and a range of point and shoot cameras.
The Nikon D70 was my first DSLR... and it was kind of a dog... I didn't like the color rendition... the tiny screen on the back sucked... and sometimes it just wouldn't shoot a frame if it didn't think it was right.
I hated that.
The camera and I fought really... it said 'no' and I said 'go.'
It always won.
But when I got my hands on a Nikon D300... that's when everything caught fire.
Nothing before could ever come close to comparing to what that camera and I could do together.
Like everyone I've used photography to document the moments in my life that I thought were worth documenting.
I rarely share those pictures.
If my photography had a theme in the beginning... it was that there was beauty everywhere.
I tried to take pictures that showed that.
Just having the camera in my hand made me look for beautiful things to shoot.
Color and light caught my eye.
This picture was one of the first shots I took with my D300 and it's color rendition was spot on.
It's my favorite color picture I've ever taken I think... at least in my top five.
The D300 is the first camera I've ever shot with that saw color like I did... SOOC even.
And it captured the intricacies of the light that attracted me to photograph things.
That excited me... to have a camera that saw it the way I did, without any adjustment or processing.
It gave me images that were to me much more real than anything I'd ever produced with any other camera, film or digital.
I fell in love with that D300.
I wanted every piece of glass that Nikon made.
I shot something like 1.4 million frames with that camera.
Most of them not even noteworthy.
But every once in a while... every thousand shots or so things would line up just right.
I'd be staring at a shot that took my breath away.
Color and light were the focus of my personal photographic drive.
2010 was a terrible and painful year in my life.
My world was shattered and my soul took a grave hit.
Sometimes I'm suprised that I survived it.
My photographs from that time were introsepective and they got darker.
Those images helped me to deal with what turned out to be the greatest crisis in my life.
I made it through that crisis and towards the end of 2010 I was looking forward to living a new life.
The future was looking good.
I was much more open to the world.
I began to explore it and myself... looking for my place in it all I suppose.
My excitement for life and living returned and you can see it in the images that I posted... there was this 'transition' where I went from documenting the beauty of the world as I saw it, to examining myself and my place in it.
I shot some self portraits... and though they were of little artistic merit, they had a pretty profound effect on me.
It was like I was looking at a stranger when I looked at those pictures... only a 'stranger that I knew intimately' if you can understand that.
Something deep inside of me was bubbling to the surface because of it.
By April of 2011 I'd seen much of myself, my life and my surroundings portrayed in images that I shot.
Then something made me turn the camera on other people.
I began to shoot strangers.
I started shooting people on the street.
The effect on my soul was immediate, it was deep and it was broad.
It was real.
I witnessed this 'revolution in my soul' and I couldn't begin to detail it here... but it was nothing short of a revolution.
It changed me as a human being.
It opened my eyes to a world of reality that either I'd never seen before or that I just didn't notice.
I connected powerfully and meaningfully with that world through the lens.
The future is a book unwritten I'm sure.
But in my personal journey through life with a camera... I was certain that in the 'now', on my own photographic journey, that I'd found my destination.
This was where it all came together.
This was where I belonged.
It's a place where the world, the camera and I exist in this perfect harmony.
As if it was everything that was ever supposed to be.
I am certain that I'll have another camera in my hands soon.
But in the meantime, I've really enjoyed, and profited immensely from examining what it all means, what it's all meant to me.
I have no doubt at all that when the time is right and I've got a new camera to shoot with that I will take some incredible and meaningful pictures.
The time I've had to abstain from capturing those moments...
That time has only made me appreciate everything about 'my' photography more...
On such a deeper level.
I so look forward to hearing the sound of that shutter again.
I will savor the moment, the light, the reality around me and my ability to capture it like never before.
The moment will never be taken for granted by me again.
Every moment will mean something.
Looking back, I can see from the images that I've created how my life has changed.
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Latin name: Branta sandivensis - Hawaiian Geese or Ne-ne
Taken on our trip to Pensthorpe Nature Reserve in Norfolk.
This is a species of goose endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The official bird of the state of Hawaiʻi, the nene is exclusively found in the wild on the islands of Oahu, Maui, Kauaʻi, Molokai, and Hawaiʻi.
The Hawaiian name nēnē comes from its soft call. The specific name sandvicensis refers to the Sandwich Islands, an old name for the Hawaiian Islands.
It is thought that the nene evolved from the Canada goose (Branta canadensis), which most likely arrived on the Hawaiian islands about 500,000 years ago, shortly after the island of Hawaiʻi was formed. This ancestor is the progenitor of the nene as well as the prehistoric Giant Hawaiʻi goose and nēnē-nui (Branta hylobadistes). The nēnē-nui was larger than the nene, varied from flightless to flighted depending on the individual, and inhabited the island of Maui. Similar fossil geese found on Oʻahu and Kauaʻi may be of the same species. The Giant Hawaiʻi goose was restricted to the island of Hawaiʻi and measured 1.2 m (3.9 ft) in length with a mass of 8.6 kg (19 lb), making it more than four times larger than the nene. It is believed that the herbivorous Giant Hawaiʻi goose occupied the same ecological niche as the goose-like ducks known as moa-nalo, which were not present on the Big Island. Based on mitochondrial DNA found in fossils, all Hawaiian geese, living and dead, are closely related to the giant Canada goose (B. c. maxima) and dusky Canada goose (B. c. occidentalis).
Did you know: Its strong toes have much reduced webbing, an adaptation to the lava flows on which it breeds.
Taken with my Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5.6-6.3 Di VC USD A011 Lens and framed in Photoshop.
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Sony Alpha 77V, Tamron SP AF XR DI 28-75mm 2.8 @ 75mm, f: 3,5, t: 1/80 s ISO 400
Develeoped in LR CC
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• v.tr. [sogg-v-arg] 1 Detto di persona, venire a contatto con qlcu. o con qlco., con le mani, con una parte del corpo o con un oggetto tenuto in mano: non t. il gatto; t. la sabbia con i piedi, l'acqua con un bastone; t. la mano a qlcu.; in contesto noto l'arg. può essere sottinteso: non toccare! || t. l'avversario, nella scherma, colpirlo | t. terra, detto di persona, scendere da navi o aerei; di imbarcazione, approdare; di velivolo, atterrare | t. ferro, come gesto scaramantico || figg. far t. qlco. con mano a qlcu., in costr. causativa, convincerlo di qlco., fornendogliene le prove | t. il fondo, trovarsi nella situazione peggiore | t. il cielo con un dito, essere al colmo della felicità
2 Di oggetto, essere a contatto con qlco.; raggiungerlo o arrivarvi: i rami dell'albero toccano il balcone
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A Roman relief of Minerva, the Roman identification of the Celtic goddess Sulis who was connected with the spring. Minerva in her turn here shares a few of the attributes connected with Athena, the Greek goddess she was identified with (note the Gorgon head on her chest). This relief was found during excavations of the Great Bath in 1882.
The waters at Bath were very popular already in Roman times, and they in their turn took after the Celts who had built a shrine dedicated to the goddess Sulis. The Romans built both temples and baths and called the town Aquae Sulis (the water of Sulis).
According to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle the baths were destroyed in the 6th century. But not totally - the spring continued to draw attention to its healing powers, and it is now housed in a 18th century building, one of the central features of Bath. And extensive archaeological research to the Roman remains has also been made.
Peñafrancia Tours and Travel Transport 186
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Operator: Peñafrancia Tours and Travel Transport Inc.
Fleet No.: 186
Type of Service: Tourist Transport Service
Route: Naga City to any point in Luzon
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Maker: Hyundai Motor Company
Model: D6CC
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Ogunquit, Maine
Hasselblad 500 C/M, Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 C T*, Fuji Velvia 50
“Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.” ~ Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
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We stopped at this scene after the light got really nice and intense. And after more casual shooting at several other locations the workshop participants got a feeling of what it's like to chase the light. After the cars came to an abrupt stop we had less than 5 minutes to capture this scene. We always prefer more time yet whether you are alone, in a group or leading a group sometimes things go differently than expected. I think this was a good final spot to stop for the evening.
I can remember it perfectly, it was fantastic watching this sunset in the Palouse amongst the machine gun rapid fire of the camera shutters going off in the group. It's the kind of sunset you can see yourself sitting on a big farm country style front porch on a warm summer night doing nothing but watching natures beauty as another long day comes to a close. Thanks for taking a look and hope you enjoy this view.
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Without a health and safety sign the veils between worlds seemed to have grown thin and even ragged around the demonic clawed gateways. I had no idea that this was in existence til I stumbled into the empty room. All of the apparitions were well behaved and posed nicely for these rushed mobile phone images.
I have been feeling out of this world ill and these bright painted darkly lit mobile phone images have been an unusual joy to edit.
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Legends Nightclub and Bar
www.oldtownpubco.com/our-bars/legends-bar-edinburgh/
Rock has been housed in 71 Cowgate since the dawn of time.
Legends
71 Cowgate
Edinburgh
EH1 1JW
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In walking the spiral
moving 'I inwardly
and can feel 'with all your senses
The center of my being
In walking the spiral
I leave the old
and lay it in the column
Mother Earth's womb
In walking the spiral
I recognize the life
and to begin to weave
what will emerge anew
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Both the single spiral and the double helix are among the most sacred symbols of Neolithic Europe. They appear on megalithic monuments such as stone circles, temples, burial mounds, loose stones, menhirs - across the continent and the British Isles.
Spiral "oculi" - these are double coils, which have a similarity with the eyes, come mainly from places like the threshold stones from New Grange in Ireland and the temple of al Tarxien, Malta. Similar double coils also feature the Ionic columns of classical Greece.
The "spiral maze" is a commonly used symbol that occurs in all of Europe, from Finland to Cornwall and from Crete to Chartres. Also in northern South America it is present. Spirals placed the snake keeper of the Sumerian temple dar.
The spiral is connected with the idea of death and rebirth, with entry into the mysterious depths of the earth, the encroachment until his heart and leaving the womb in the same way. Sacred dances have imitated this movement, and therefore so use many folk dances, dating from pagan times, the spiral line, move on to the dancers.
"Spiral labyrinth" pattern in churches were taken over by older cult places about which they were built. Labyrinths are not mazes spiral - there is only one way into it, to the center and out again. Not just a cycle, but a journey inward and a return to the outside.
Today we think of the maze only we get lost. In reality it is a InitiationWay - and on the inward journey, it is easier to run than in a maze - even if it seems to be only one way.
Spirals have to do with snakes, with the blood flow, are ecdysis and symbol for instauration. Humans have always been fascinated by the moulting of snakes, it was said that the snake never die, they renew themselves constantly.
In our world we are talking about levels, increase of stairs, up, up ... The spiral stands for cycles, but not as "plain-repeat", but the circle and the development is along the spiral.
Everything is cyclical, but nothing is as it was.
She Weeps Without Tears.
She Weeps Without Tears.(Linoleum Cut).
She Sits there hours.
Without uttering a word.
She has a hard time processing what happened.
No Tears are left.
Alone with her thoughts.
Almost in a trance like state.
Not conscious of her surroundings.
The time freezes in her mind.
Hopefully she shall come out of this tragic experience,
Not only stronger,
but in a position to help others,
that need help.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Marble, on the wall of a church, (outside), in Chiavari, ( Genova).
It was under a glass . so the photo is not very clear
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Link to Cincinnati Zoo..............
Also a new group to join for anyone who has Ohio Zoo pictures!
www.flickr.com/groups/ohio_zoos/
Also check out Zoos Around the World group!
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This pic is uncropped! Flickr seems to be a bit slow today when I try to open and comment on a picture that has a lot of comments already !
Might have a triple crown winning horse for the first time in 30 years. Hope this will be a safe and history making race. He's not the jockey by the way!
Update on the race...
Big Brown didn't win and ended up finishing last. The jockey pulled him up when he felt that things weren't quite right with the colt. There are a number of things that could have affected his run but probably won't know anything right away because the owner or trainer never spoke to anyone after the race. Please pray, those that are horse and animals lovers that nothing serious is wrong with this gorgeous horse. No triple crown winner this year so maybe next year a horse will make history.
A pair of Class 153s seen passing through Llansamlet with the 1W62. 11.05 hrs Milford Haven to Manchester Piccadilly (Photo By Steve Powell)
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Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta A, catalog number 531. Prewar, with uncoated 75/3.5 Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar. Coupoled rangefinder, Albada finder. Note the Zeiss-Ikon nameplate, some have this, some have the more usual impression in the leather. Note also the polished aluminum edges; this was done after the camera left the factory, probably because the black enamel became chipped (very common problem). In this case, and a few others I have seen, the removal of enamel and polishing were done so nicely that it looks almost like it was meant to be that way.
Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 531
Made from 1937 to 1956, the Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 531 is the smallest of the Super Ikonta series. It is very light and fits easily in a pocket. The model shown on the picture has a Compur Rapid shutter with speeds up to 1/500 s but without flash sync. The lens is a coated 75 mm f/3.5 Tessar. The shutter release is on top of the body. The film advance knob has a double exposure prevention system. A coupled rangefinder and albada viewfinder are located on top of the body.
This camera is splendid and very pleasant to use. One can wonder what prevents today's camera makers to bring this concept up to modern standards.
Characteristics
Format
4.5 x 6 cm (120 rollfilm)
Lens
Zeiss Tessar 75 mm f/3.5, coated
Shutter
central, Compur Rapid, from 1/500 s to 1 s, B pose, self-timer
Carl Zeiss AG is a German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measurements and medical devices, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by Carl Zeiss, Ernst Abbe, and Otto Schott. There are currently two parts of the company, Carl Zeiss AG located in Oberkochen with important subsidiaries in Aalen, Göttingen and Munich, and Carl Zeiss GmbH located in Jena.
The organisation is named after a founder, the German optician Carl Zeiss (1816–1888).
Carl Zeiss is the premier company of the Zeiss Gruppe, one of the two large divisions of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The Zeiss Gruppe is located in Heidenheim and Jena.
The other division of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, the glass manufacturer Schott AG and Jenaer Glaswerk, is located in Mainz and Jena.
Carl Zeiss is one of the oldest existing optics manufacturers in the world.
Zeiss corporate history
The manufacturer Zeiss in Göttingen
Carl Zeiss opened an optics workshop in Jena in 1846. By 1847 he was making microscopes full-time. By 1861 Zeiss was considered to be among the best scientific instruments in Germany with about 20 people working under him with his business still growing. By 1866 the Zeiss workshop sold their 1,000th microscope. In 1872 physicist Ernst Abbe joined Zeiss and along with Otto Schott designed greatly improve lenses for the optical instruments they were producing. After Carl Zeiss's death in 1888, the business was incorporated as the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung in 1889.
By World War I, Zeiss was the world's largest location of camera production. Zeiss Ikon represented a significant part of the production along with dozens of other brands and factories, and also had major works at Dresden.
In 1928 Hensoldt AG was acquired by Carl Zeiss and has produced the Zeiss binoculars and riflescopes since 1964., occasionally resulting in twin products being offered under both the Hensoldt and Zeiss brand names. The Hensoldt System Technology division (resulting from a merger of the military optics operations of Leica and Hensoldt) was continued by Zeiss under the Hensoldt name until 2006.
As part of Nazi Germany Zwangsarbeiter program, Zeiss used forced labour during the Second World War. The destruction of the war caused many companies to divide into smaller subcompanies and others to merge. There was great respect for the engineering innovation that came out of Dresden—before the war the world's first 35 mm single-lens reflex camera, the Kine Exakta, and the first miniature camera with good picture quality were developed there.
At the end of the war Jena was occupied by the US Army. When Jena and Dresden were incorporated into the Soviet occupation zone, later East Germany, Zeiss Jena was assisted by the US army to relocate to the Contessa manufacturing facility in Stuttgart, West Germany, while the remainder of Zeiss Jena was taken over by the (Eastern) German Democratic Republic as Kombinat VEB Zeiss Jena. As part of the World War II reparations, the Soviet army took most of the existing Zeiss factories and tooling back to the Soviet Union as the Kiev camera works.
The western business was restarted in Oberkochen (in southwestern Germany) as Opton Optische Werke Oberkochen GmbH in 1946, which became Zeiss-Opton Optische Werke Oberkochen GmbH in 1947, but was soon renamed to Carl Zeiss. West German Zeiss products were labelled Opton for sale in the Eastern bloc, while East German Zeiss products were labelled "Zeiss Jena" for sale in Western countries.
In 1973, the Western Carl Zeiss AG entered into a licensing agreement with the Japanese camera company Yashica to produce a series of high-quality 35 mm film cameras and lenses bearing the Contax and Zeiss brand names. This collaboration continued under Yashica's successor, Kyocera, until the latter ceased all camera production in 2005. Zeiss later produced lenses for the space industry and, more recently, has again produced high-quality 35 mm camera lenses. The eastern Zeiss Jena was also well known for producing high-quality products
Following German reunification, VEB Zeiss Jena—reckoned as one of the few East German firms that was even potentially able to compete on a global basis—became Zeiss Jena GmbH, which became Jenoptik Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH in 1990. In 1991, Jenoptik Carl Zeiss Jena was split in two, with Carl Zeiss AG (Oberkochen) taking over the company's divisions for microscopy and other precision optics (effectively reuniting the pre-war Carl Zeiss enterprise) and moving its microscopy and planetarium divisions back to Jena. Jenoptik GmbH was split off as a specialty company in the areas of photonics, optoelectronics, and mechatronics.
The Hensoldt AG was renamed Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbH on 1 October 2006.
The companies of the Zeiss Gruppe in and around Dresden have branched into new technologies: screens and products for the automotive industry, for example. Zeiss nonetheless still continues to be a camera manufacturer, and still produces the Pentacon, Praktica, and special-use lenses (e.g., Exakta).
Today, there are arguably three companies with primarily Zeiss Ikon heritage: Zeiss Germany, the Finnish/Swedish Ikon (which bought the West German Zeiss Ikon AG), and the independent eastern Zeiss Ikon.
Innovations
The Zeiss company was responsible for many innovations in optical design and engineering. Early on, Carl Zeiss realised that he needed a competent scientist so as to take the firm beyond just being another optical workshop. In 1866, the service of Dr Ernst Abbe was enlisted. From then on novel products appeared in rapid succession which brought the Zeiss company to the forefront of optical technology.
Abbe was instrumental in the development of the famous Jena optical glass. When he was trying to eliminate astigmatism from microscopes, he realised that the range of optical glasses available was insufficient. After some calculations, he realised that performance of optical instruments would dramatically improve, if optical glasses of appropriate properties were available. His challenge to glass manufacturers was finally answered by Dr Otto Schott, who established the famous glassworks at Jena from which new types of optical glass began to appear from 1888 to be employed by Zeiss and other makers.
The new Jena optical glass also opened up the possibility of increased performance of photographic lenses. The first use of Jena glass in a photographic lens was by Voigtländer, but as the lens was an old design its performance was not greatly improved. Subsequently the new glasses would demonstrate their value in correcting astigmatism, and in the production of apochromatic lenses. Abbe started the design of a photographic lens of symmetrical design with five elements, but went no further.
Zeiss' domination of photographic lens innovation was due to Dr Paul Rudolph. In 1890, Rudolph designed an asymmetrical lens with a cemented group at each side of the diaphragm, and appropriately named "Anastigmat". This lens was made in three series: Series III, IV and V, with maximum apertures of f/7.2, f/12.5, and f/18 respectively. In 1891, Series I, II and IIIa appeared with respective maximum apertures of f/4.5, f/6.3, and f/9 and in 1893 came Series IIa of f/8 maximum aperture. These lenses are now better known by the trademark "Protar" which was first used in 1900.
At the time, single combination lenses, which occupy one side of the diaphragm only, were still popular. Rudolph designed one with three cemented elements in 1893, with the option of fitting two of them together in a lens barrel as a compound lens, but it was found to be the same as the Dagor by C.P. Goerz, designed by Emil von Hoegh. Rudolph then came up with a single combination with four cemented elements, which can be considered as having all the elements of the Protar stuck together in one piece. Marketed in 1894, it was called the Protarlinse Series VII, the most highly corrected single combination lens with maximum apertures between f/11 and f/12.5, depending on its focal length.
But the important thing about this Protarlinse is that two of these lens units can be mounted in the same lens barrel to form a compound lens of even greater performance and larger aperture, between f/6.3 and f/7.7. In this configuration it was called the Double Protar Series VIIa. An immense range of focal lengths can thus be obtained by the various combination of Protarlinse units.
Rudolph also investigated the Double-Gauss concept of a symmetrical design with thin positive meniscii enclosing negative elements. The result was the Planar Series Ia of 1896, with maximum apertures up to f/3.5, one of the fastest lenses of its time. Whilst it was very sharp, it suffered from coma which limited its popularity. However, further developments of this configuration made it the design of choice for high-speed lenses of standard coverage.
Probably inspired by the Stigmatic lenses designed by Hugh Aldis for Dallmeyer of London, Rudolph designed a new asymmetrical lens with four thin elements, the Unar Series Ib, with apertures up to f/4.5. Due to its high speed it was used extensively on hand cameras.
The most important Zeiss lens by Rudolph was the Tessar, first sold in 1902 in its Series IIb f/6.3 form. It can be said as a combination of the front half of the Unar with the rear half of the Protar. This proved to be a most valuable and flexible design, with tremendous development potential. Its maximum aperture was increased to f/4.7 in 1917, and reached f/2.7 in 1930. It is probable that every lens manufacturer has produced lenses of the Tessar configuration.
Rudolph left Zeiss after the First World War, but many other competent designers such as Merté, Wandersleb, etc. kept the firm at the leading edge of photographic lens innovations. One of the most significant designer was the ex-Ernemann man Dr Ludwig Bertele, famed for his Ernostar high-speed lens.
With the advent of the Contax by Zeiss-Ikon, the first serious challenge to the Leica in the field of professional 35 mm cameras, both Zeiss-Ikon and Carl Zeiss decided to beat the Leica in every possible way. Bertele's Sonnar series of lenses designed for the Contax were the match in every respect for the Leica for at least two decades. Other lenses for the Contax included the Biotar, Biogon, Orthometar, and various Tessars and Triotars.
The last important Zeiss innovation before the Second World War was the technique of applying anti-reflective coating to lens surfaces. A lens so treated was marked with a red "T", short for "Transparent". The technique of applying multiple layers of coating was developed from this basis after the war, and known as "T✻" (T-star).
After the partitioning of Germany, a new Carl Zeiss optical company was established in Oberkochen, while the original Zeiss firm in Jena continued to operate. At first both firms produced very similar lines of products, and extensively cooperated in product-sharing, but they drifted apart as time progressed. Jena's new direction was to concentrate on developing lenses for the 35 mm single-lens reflex camera, and many achievements were made, especially in ultra-wide angle designs. In addition to that, Oberkochen also worked on designing lenses for large format cameras, interchangeable front element lenses such as for the 35 mm single-lens reflex Contaflex, and other types of cameras.
Since the beginning of Zeiss as a photographic lens manufacturer, it has had a licensing programme which allows other manufacturers to produce its lenses. Over the years its licensees included Voigtländer, Bausch & Lomb, Ross, Koristka, Krauss, Kodak. etc. In the 1970s, the western operation of Zeiss-Ikon got together with Yashica to produce the new Contax cameras, and many of the Zeiss lenses for this camera, among others, were produced by Yashica's optical arm, Tomioka. As Yashica's owner Kyocera ended camera production in 2006, and Yashica lenses were then made by Cosina, who also manufactured most of the new Zeiss designs for the new Zeiss Ikon coupled rangefinder camera. Another licensee active today is Sony who uses the Zeiss name on lenses on its video and digital still cameras.
Reputation
Now over 150 years old, Zeiss continues to be associated with expensive and high-quality optical lenses. Zeiss lenses are generally thought to be elegant and well-constructed, yielding high-quality images. Even old lens designs such as the Tessar demonstrate engineering elegance and in the modern age of plastic parts, many Zeiss lenses are still made with predominantly metal components.
Zeiss licenses its technology to be manufactured by third-party companies and indeed, many have done so. Notable names include Hasselblad, a famous name in medium format professional cameras. Rollei, Yashica, Sony, Logitech and Alpa amongst others, have used or manufactured lenses under Zeiss license. The Contax line of 35 mm cameras, first produced by Yashica and subsequently Kyocera until 2005 are perhaps the most well known to fit Zeiss lenses. Notably absent from this list are Canon, Nikon, and Pentax, who by and large produce their own lenses.
On 27 April 2005 the company announced a collaboration with Nokia in the camera phone market. The first product to emerge out of this collaboration is the Nokia N90.
Outside the world of cameras and imaging, Zeiss also produces spectacle lenses, particularly lenses made from high refractive index glass, allowing people whose prescriptions require stronger spectacles to use thinner lenses. These are sold in many countries. As of 2010 Carl Zeiss eyeglass lenses are sold in the United States through Carl Zeiss Vision Inc.
The Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology subsidiary is a respected source of coordinate measurement machines and mutidimensional metrology systems. Zeiss is a recognized partner to the automotive industry.
A unique triplet of ultra-fast 50 mm f/0.7 lenses originally created by Zeiss for NASA's lunar program had the distinction of being reused by Stanley Kubrick in the filming of his historical drama, "Barry Lyndon". The period atmosphere of the film demanded that several indoor scenes be filmed by candlelight. To facilitate this, Kubrick had, with great difficulty, the lenses modified to mount onto a cinema camera and two of them subsequently further modified in separate ways to give wider angles of view.
Zeiss is currently in the process of designing the optical components for the James Webb Space Telescope set to replace the Hubble Space Telescope sometime in 2018.
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The self portrait without the flowers overlaid on it. I was thinking what to write for this photo so I'm going to ramble a bunch of and pardon my language bullshit. I've felt so restless the last few days. A part of me wishes I could travel right now. I mean technically I can but then I'm thinking about covid in the back of my mind and I'm not so much afraid of covid but people around me not wearing masks to being responsible. Then on top of that my tummy has had some issues lately and traveling to a different part of the country with tummy issues sounds like an awful idea. Then to add on top of all of this my mental health has felt not great recently with the random crying at work. I think because my birthday is coming up and I'm still doing retail thinking I have some talent to photograph and blah blah wasting my life. Basically I'm having a pity party. Anyways I know I'll be okay or at least I want to be okay. I know I have the function of seeing what I want. I need to move towards goals and not be full of fear.
Singapore
Singapore National Day Parade 2011
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The fireworks show for the Singapore National Day Rehearsal is getting better and better. Mor colours, more patterns and duration last longer.
Singapore spending so much money on this celebration, i guess not just for the sick of the rehearsal. Two things for sure,
the show attracts more tourists to visit Singapore during this period increase the business in the travel industrial. Also, Singaporean get more chances to see the parade for the celebration of the country birthday compared to 10 years back.
One more rehearsal to the final day, be there early to get a good spot for the show....
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Some information about singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. Singapore is highly urbanised but almost half of the country is covered by greenery. More land is being created for development through land reclamation.
Singapore had been a part of various local empires since it was first inhabited in the second century AD.
Modern Singapore was founded as a trading post of the East India Company by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819 with permission from the Sultanate of Johor. The British obtained full sovereignty over the island in 1824 and Singapore became one of the British Straits Settlements in 1826. Singapore was occupied by the Japanese in World War II and reverted to British rule after the war. It became internally self-governing in 1959. Singapore united with other former British territories to form Malaysia in 1963 and became a fully independent state two years later after separation from Malaysia. Since then it has had a massive increase in wealth, and is one of the Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on the industry and service sectors. Singapore is a world leader in several areas: It is the world's fourth-leading financial centre, the world's second-biggest casino gambling market, and the world's third-largest oil refining centre. The port of Singapore is one of the five busiest ports in the world, most notable for being the busiest transshipment port in the world. The country is home to more US dollar millionaire households per capita than any other country. The World Bank notes Singapore as the easiest place in the world to do business. The country has the world's third highest GDP PPP per capita of US$59,936, making Singapore one of the world's wealthiest countries.
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Singapore Marina Bay is a bay near Central Area in the southern part of Singapore, and lies to the east of the Downtown Core. Marina Bay is set to be a 24/7 destination with endless opportunities for people to “explore new living and lifestyle options, exchange new ideas and information for business, and be entertained by rich leisure and cultural experiences”.
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... is like a day without alcohol!
Ahoi, captain obvious...
Oi mate, that's Captain Hook for you!
I mean, you need to compare it to something else, be it good or bad or funny.
Say what?
Like... is a lost day.
Ha, I don't remember how many days I've lost to alcohol.
Don't you ever drink anything else?
Like what?
What about water?
But that's unhygienic! There's sharks and ships in it!
Yeah, right.
Skål, ye landlubbers!
Cheers!
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A rare occasion of having unaltered collectable minifigures from three series (22,14,8) in one picture. This is the same background I used on the red King's Guard. Didn't bother yet to make it a real build, because it's easier to take pictures on an open stage.
Toy Project Day 3249
PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 200 ISO • Laowa 105mm F2 STF (Smooth Trans Focus)
Kenko Pz-AF UniPlus Tube 25
Jardin d'altitude du Haut-Chitelet • Vosges • France
基隆市大武崙外木山Keelung City
Camera Model : Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shooting Mode : Bulb
Tv( Shutter Speed ) : 50
Av( Aperture Value ) : 18
Metering Mode : Spot Metering
ISO Speed : 200
Lens : EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Focal Length : 16.0mm
White Balance Mode : Color Temperature(5600K)
AF Mode : Manual focusing
Picture Style : Landscape
Sharpness : 7
Contrast : 2
Saturation : 3
Color tone : -2
影像品質 : RAW(Adobe Photoshop Lightroom)轉JPEG檔
影像後製軟體 : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5
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