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Post by hifidez on Mar 17, 2017 17:08:37 GMT
Old cameras? I sold my Zorki 4K recently for a fiver. It was in need of some serious adjustment and a thorough service, hence low price. We have my wife's first camera, a late 60s Kodak Instamatic 104(?). Dating from the early days it has a metal body and a glass lens and used flash cubes. It took good pictures and probably still would. I have an Olympus Trip as well as an Olympus OM10 (inherited them from my wife's Dad, no longer with us). The standard Olympus 50mm lens is a stunner IIRC. I also have my Pentax P30T SLR as well as my Dad's Pentax P30 (that was the original model with the Seiko shutter mechansim). I am using 'old' Pentax lenses on my modern DSLR regularly; the 50mm f1.7 and 135mm f3.5 are really, really good lenses. Bought them 2nd hand for about £18 each. Attachments:
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Post by sekar on Mar 17, 2017 19:49:14 GMT
It was my long hobby - electrical powered models of a railway trains 1:120 ( TT ) scale. All models had been manufactured in GDR ( German Democratic Republic ) only .
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 17, 2017 19:54:43 GMT
A very well known violinist that I knew, was a man called Hugh Bean. He was around for years and following a job, I went back to his house where he introduced me to his train set. It ran from inside his house all the way around his garden. All over the place. It was quite amazing. They even puffed steam out there!!
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Post by sekar on Mar 17, 2017 20:36:21 GMT
There are a lot of scales for models of electrical trains from very small "N" scale very badly detailed through "TT" and well known more detailed "HO" to huge "O" with great precision accuracy and typography ! It's really so amusing to create new schemes if you have a lot of free space ! There are a lot of new possibilities now you may use microprocessors to control trains , you may put small camera in the locomotive and transmit footage through bluetooth or some other way , you may try to apply artificial intellect or may be neural networking to control complicated topology just to observe how it works ! So many ways to elaborate your creative skills now ..... Some prefer to use smartphones and spent time in social networks
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Post by sekar on Mar 17, 2017 20:47:01 GMT
My old and lovely mountain workhorse :
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Post by drumdrym on Mar 17, 2017 20:51:06 GMT
Love the attachments Derek, great jog to old memories down the line. My first camera was a pinhole when I was in the scouts........happy days. Then my uncle came back from the 2nd World War with an Agfa Billy Record and I managed to persuade him to give it to me. No idea where it went. About the same time I was given this one......pic below and I still have it. Various other camers came my way before I bought an A1 by Canon, great camera which eventually I passed to my son on buying a Canon T90. That was the "Daddy of em all" wish I still had it. Today instant snaps courtesy of the ubiquitous smartphone are mine at any given moment. Rubbish quality but sitting in my shirt pocket.........sooo......handy....video an added bonus that's provided many laughs I also use a Canon Powershot again easy in the pocket and unobtrusive......reasonable quality. Serious stuff and I get out my Nikon D70 which my GLW bought me on our retirement. I've walked many many miles with the Nikon in my right hand, taken thousands of shots since retirement in 2003. I generally have my Sigma 70-300mmD lens attached, the definition from this lens is exceptional, great for reasonably close wildlife work, portraits and candid shots. Not very active in photography for some time (not very active period.) fortunately the old brain still ticks away.
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Post by drumdrym on Mar 17, 2017 21:02:43 GMT
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Post by drumdrym on Mar 17, 2017 21:11:57 GMT
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Post by sekar on Mar 17, 2017 21:45:41 GMT
All I could do here is to ask excuses for quality ( or better say for absence ) of my pictures having been posted .... really .
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 1:15:27 GMT
My old and lovely mountain workhorse : Nice bike! Jamis always seem to spec their models with intelligence. This is my trusty steed, built for the urban environment..
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Post by sekar on Mar 18, 2017 14:26:01 GMT
2 goggs Your bike looks very stylish and brutal in some way There are no any unnecessary parts . It fits very well for urban freeriding without any extremal tricks you need just to add powerful front light IMHO ( and rear one for safety reasons - indeed ! ). I regret there was no way to find black coloured spokes of proper size at the moment to mount the wheels for my bike. My bike is totally custom made. The frame is Jamis Dakar , hydraulic rim brakes are Magura HS33 Tomac , rear shox is entry level Rock Shox , front shox is Rock Shox Duke air one. The system is Deore level. Bike is a bit on the heavy side it's total weight is about 16 kg. After installing powerful Chinese 3 beam front light night riding become real pleasure. I have been waiting some time to add my old contact pedals it needs old skills to be renewed .
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 17:08:10 GMT
I think your bike looks great. I really like Jamis framesets, nice welding. My bike's a Cube Hyde Pro, from Germany. It's heavy though but most of that's in the hub gears. I do have lights but they're quick release. I don't have mudguards but I live in the south of France so no need for them so far. Is that a slick tyre you have on the front? The front hub is interesting too, what is it?
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Post by sekar on Mar 18, 2017 22:28:20 GMT
The front tyre is a kind of not very fat slick 2.1" manufactured by Chinese Kenda and has a bit strange mashroom shape. It's very heavy and sturdy one gives you very very comfortable riding you feel in some way as you just floating very softly . You need to be very careful though as this tyre ( as all slick types do) is prone to glide on the thin ice or on a bit frozen surface or on a layer of mud it's sometimes a hard to climb up to borders . The front hub is from older GT Tempest bike . The frame of GT Tempest looks really gorgeous polished shining Alu but very heavy about 2.7 kg and 20.5" tall as i could recall . Old GT bikes manufactured in the end of 90th were very strong and unbreakable also as for their double suspension ones . A bit later i'll remove old GT frame from closet and make some pictures of this treasure You see astounding quality of welding ! Couple a years ago i saw some models of German Cube double suspension bikes . They were equipped with Magura rim brakes and looked great .
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Post by oldson on Mar 26, 2017 17:52:33 GMT
fish keeping is another of my hobbies. we have a 400 litre discus tank and, as of today, a 60litre nano reef.
years ago we had a 450 litre reef tank but had to get rid as i found cleaning the calcerous algae off the glass difficult, due to my hnpp. the nano should be easy.
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Post by marveltone on Jun 7, 2017 2:14:16 GMT
My wife is directing a community theater production and informed me she needed a painting of a duck as done by a fictitious Dutch master... Now! I pulled out my brushes and acrylic paint. This is the result of four hours of work. Yes, it's a rush job!
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