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*** August 2024 Image and Video Thread ***

PJD said:
Apologies for the off-topic detour ...

Note the non-American license plate. Note also the duck! In 1972 my parents arranged to purchase a VW campmobile "long distance" from VW in Europe. My older brother and Uncle Joe took delivery of the VW during a European road trip vacation, and at the end of their vacation had the VW shipped to my family's home in NJ. In this photo, my parents pose with the brand new VW and 4 of my 5 sisters, and our family's pet duck Charlie. Our duck loved to travel in the VW with his head sticking out the window, like a pet dog, and startle drivers of cars passing us on the highway (our loaded-down VW always drove slowly). The photo was snapped at a property our family once owned in Tenants Harbor, Maine, where my siblings & I spent childhood Summers escaping the heat & humidity of our home in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.
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Awesome memories and great photos Peter! What a treasure to have those.
 
Pete_W said:
Gorgeous photos, TSJ! Beautiful light and I really love the film-like look of the shots and SOOC too! Very nicely done man.

The S9 and Sigma 45mm is a really great combo.
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Thanks Pete !!! You were really one of the first people, if not thee first...that got me to consider the 45mm. I was a little bummed to pass off the 50mm to my brother but, the Sigma made it ok.
 
Pete_W said:
I spotted this old Volkswagen Type 1 (split window Kombi / Microbus) while out walking this afternoon.

I should have taken the shot using Leica Monochrome given the overcast conditions but didn't think to do that at the time. So I post-processed the raw with DxO's Filmpack using the Ilford XP2 film simulation with a bit of grain added.

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Nice !!! I think this looks even better than Leica Monochrome haha. That grain is perfect !
 
PJD said:
n 1972 my parents arranged to purchase a VW campmobile "long distance" from VW in Europe.
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Thanks for more memories. I had a good friend who worked for Volkswagen of America that handled these European delivery sales back then. He also ordered an Audi for me for European delivery a few years later than your parents. (Volkswagen administers Audi sales in the US.) And I had a nice European driving vacation before shipping the car back to the US. That's about the time I sold my VW bus, moving on to something faster.
 
Travis Butler said:
Glad they brought back some great memories!

Here's a few more they had... (all with the Sigma fp and Vivitar 28/2.5)

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20230226-SDIM3798 by Travis Butler, on Flickr (Think I've posted this one before, but it's worth posting again.)

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20230226-SDIM3839 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
(This was the shoot where I first tried the Kiron-made Vivitar 28/2.5 and fell in love with it.)

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20230226-SDIM3853 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20230226-SDIM3858 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20230226-SDIM3811 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20230226-SDIM3836 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

They also had the pickup truck version of the Bus...
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20230226-SDIM3827 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20230226-SDIM3930 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And the pickup truck Golf...
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20230226-SDIM3924 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Even a Thing. :)
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20230226-SDIM3814 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
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wow, pickup truck version !!! sweet.
 
PJD said:
Apologies for the off-topic detour ...

Note the non-American license plate. Note also the duck! In 1972 my parents arranged to purchase a VW campmobile "long distance" from VW in Europe. My older brother and Uncle Joe took delivery of the VW during a European road trip vacation, and at the end of their vacation had the VW shipped to my family's home in NJ. In this photo, my parents pose with the brand new VW and 4 of my 5 sisters, and our family's pet duck Charlie. Our duck loved to travel in the VW with his head sticking out the window, like a pet dog, and startle drivers of cars passing us on the highway (our loaded-down VW always drove slowly). The photo was snapped at a property our family once owned in Tenants Harbor, Maine, where my siblings & I spent childhood Summers escaping the heat & humidity of our home in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.
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My Dad and one of my sisters using the VW in 1973 to remove a tree stump from our front yard in NJ. I'm surprised it worked!
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My youngest sister as a young child in 1965 posing with 2 VW buses ... an older model on the left, and the newer model which replaced it on the right. As kids say now, "Adorkable!".
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Yet another of my sisters in 1968 with the "new" VW (from the 1965 photo), on the car ferry Governor Curtis off the coast of Rockland, Maine.
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We now return you to our regularly-scheduled L-mount forum. :)

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Wow, great family images. Thanks for sharing man.
 
TOPSHELFJUNIOR said:
Nice !!! I think this looks even better than Leica Monochrome haha. That grain is perfect !
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Haha! Thanks, I do like the Ilford b&w film sims in DxO.
 
I suspect I use my S5 quite differently than most. I quite enjoy documenting my work projects, for both future reference, and for plain old enjoyment. This months project. Got two of these to do. I have to fit this (will lift 33T @ a meter)
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  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 16.0 mm
  • ƒ/4.5
  • 1/8 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • -0.7
  • ISO 200



To this. Times two
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  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 17.0 mm
  • ƒ/9
  • 1/10 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • -0.7
  • ISO 200


Time to break out the Fountain pen, Notepad, rulers, calculator, Laser level, tape measures, fire up the AutoCAD, & go to work :) Great fun. Once I've got a design & drawings worked out, fire it off to a third party engineer to get final approval

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 20.0 mm
  • ƒ/6.3
  • 1/10 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
Once we get the okay, time to fire up the CNC cutter, big bandsaw, MIG welder, & go to work. Big boys Meccano. Very cool. This was a couple of projects back, I do the design, fabrication and fitting, the mechanics plumb up the hydraulics and control system -this one is remote controlled, & is just getting load testing & calibration.
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  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 28.0 mm
  • ƒ/7.1
  • 1/5 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • -0.7
  • ISO 200


Another view over current & previous projects.

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 23.0 mm
  • ƒ/9
  • 1/8 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • -0.7
  • ISO 200
 
Well that all looks awesome! So what will the trucks with the lifters be used for? To load/unload containers on a trailer?

There is a lot of satisfaction from working on a project from end to end.

Some years back I worked for an architectural building product manufacturer that supplied products to large commercial buildings and hospitals. We would start by achieving a solid architectural specification that locked in the sale to the contractor. I got to visit building sites around the country to inspect installations and occasionally overseas when I was visiting regional offices. It was always great to see the finished project after so much work had gone into it right from the start.

I now work for an educational institution so a lot of my work these days happens on a computer with spreadsheets. Although we're about to do some major building projects that I will be involved in, but this time as the customer paying the architects, engineers and the contractor.

I like those big toys though!
 
Pete_W said:
Well that all looks awesome! So what will the trucks with the lifters be used for? To load/unload containers on a trailer?
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All sorts really. Not for lifting containers though. They build specialist trailers with side loading cranes for that type of work. The cranes we sell are for general lifting/loading/unloading work. We sell lots to the likes of building supply companies, wall & roof truss manufacturers, the water board, mobile mechanics, all sorts. The building supply companies love them, there's no need for a forklift on site, they can pull up to a job site, extend the stabiliser legs, and unload packs of timber, roof trusses, wall frames etc over fences, up onto the roof of buildings, on the muddy ground, areas where there's no other access, very very handy.
 
Markuswelder said:
Once we get the okay, time to fire up the CNC cutter, big bandsaw, MIG welder, & go to work. Big boys Meccano. Very cool. This was a couple of projects back, I do the design, fabrication and fitting, the mechanics plumb up the hydraulics and control system -this one is remote controlled, & is just getting load testing & calibration.
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Another view over current & previous projects.

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That's really cool, thanks for sharing!
 
Earlier today I snapped a few photos for SW Trails, the local non-profit neighborhood organization which builds the urban trail network throughout SW Portland, Oregon, including the HI-LO Trail and Red Electric Trail. These smiling folks are some of the local politicians and hopeful City Council candidates who support these projects. This is a compressed version of a 96MP hi-res photo.

Note the black woman in the front row wearing the blue-grey shirt, and the color aliasing artifacts visible on the fabric (zoom in). My S5iiX camera doesn't feature an anti-aliasing filter on its sensor, so aliasing can happen with certain textures & patterns in the world. I don't know if it can be removed "easily" using the Affinity Photo 2 & Pixlemator Pro software I own. Is this something an Adobe software product can do with a few clicks? Cheers.
swtrails_or-walks_red_electric_trail_district_4_candidates_group_portrait_240808-p1001005-small.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • 42.0 mm
  • ƒ/5
  • 1/100 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 320
 
Yesterday hiking to the "Danube's curve" or "Schlögener Schlinge" in Austria. I tried the 14-28mm Lumix with the S1R and what focal lenght do you prefer? 14, 16, 18 or 20mm?

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  • Panasonic - DC-S1R
  • LUMIX S 14-28/F4-5.6
  • 14.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/400 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100



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  • Panasonic - DC-S1R
  • LUMIX S 14-28/F4-5.6
  • 16.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/400 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100



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  • Panasonic - DC-S1R
  • LUMIX S 14-28/F4-5.6
  • 18.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/400 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100



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  • Panasonic - DC-S1R
  • LUMIX S 14-28/F4-5.6
  • 20.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/400 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
Hmmm.... hard to piclk! I think I like 14mm the best, but 16mm is good too.
 
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