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On a double pot boiler, metrhs fired?
You will be up there on cloud No.9
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On a double pot boiler, metrhs fired?
You will be up there on cloud No.9
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Yes you are right, they are known as reversing rings. Depending on the 50mm lens the images would be of reasonable quality once you found a way of holding in the pin that stops the lens down from maximum aperture. As you would expect there was an accessory for that too, known as a Z ring, operated by a double cable release.
Edit: The reversed lens could be used on extension tubes or a set of bellows for higher magnification.
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A big pile of 2 mm and 1.2 mm aluminium sheets. All 125 × 125 mm square, cut from two sheets (one for each thickness) of 625 × 625 mm aluminium from The Metal Shop. Cutting them up was free (although I also ordered two uncut sheets of steel, so that might have helped: they usually only do 10 cuts for free).
I bought them as practice pieces for TIG welding. If I haven't got the hang of welding aluminium outside corner joints by the time I've got through that lot, I'll have taught myself so many bad habits I'll never master it!
I bought them as practice pieces for TIG welding. If I haven't got the hang of welding aluminium outside corner joints by the time I've got through that lot, I'll have taught myself so many bad habits I'll never master it!
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That is the way to do it, at schools or colleges they typically started off with Pentax K1000 you can't get any more manual than that.I'll hang on to it for now then, I'm the top bidder on a few vintage lenses so maybe I'll get to play with it. I figure I'll learn what I'm doing with everything manual (And more importantly, cheap) before I get anything posher.
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I forgot to post this the other day, actually arrived before the camera. I was just browsing used photography stuff on eBay, found this, auction at 99p with £29 postage, I won it all for a pound and four pence! I couldn't believe he actually posted it, I know I wouldn't have.
Three big light stands, one slightly smaller one, a pole, presumably for a backdrop (I'm thinking green screen
), a couple of umbrella reflector things and a couple of heavy bags to keep it all in. No I absolutely don't need it, I thought one might be handy and it ended up cheaper to get four. 
It can be a tripod for now, until I find a proper one.
Three big light stands, one slightly smaller one, a pole, presumably for a backdrop (I'm thinking green screen
), a couple of umbrella reflector things and a couple of heavy bags to keep it all in. No I absolutely don't need it, I thought one might be handy and it ended up cheaper to get four. It can be a tripod for now, until I find a proper one.
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40.5mm was a size commonly used in the 50s - there are still lots of old filter rings and adapters around. Now that some modern makers have resurrected the size, expect to see more of them.
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I've got literally thousands of bits like that on site. They have a U punched out of the middle but still got 3 straight sides.
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Sounds really useful for practice pieces
I forgot to post this the other day, actually arrived before the camera. I was just browsing used photography stuff on eBay, found this, auction at 99p with £29 postage, I won it all for a pound and four pence! I couldn't believe he actually posted it, I know I wouldn't have.
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Three big light stands, one slightly smaller one, a pole, presumably for a backdrop (I'm thinking green screen
It can be a tripod for now, until I find a proper one.
The horizontal pole is for a colourama. basically coloured card that comes on a big tube, used for backgrounds. Come in a very large range of colours.
This one I rigged from a beam but gives you the idea. when used you slice it off and pull out a fresh piece. you've got a bargain with all those stands
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Blocks off wood.
Not exciting, as wood goes.
But what if I told you it is:
Seasoned Box wood.
Good for all sorts of handles for tools.
It should turn well.
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Something else from the depths of the pickling tank:
A tomahawk? head.
Dug out from under a hedge I pulled out a couple of years ago: potentially buried for 100 years+
It looks handforged to me, and doesn't match up with any (mass produced) axes/hatchets/tomahawks I can find online.
It's far too badly pitted to show any makers marks.
A tomahawk? head.
Dug out from under a hedge I pulled out a couple of years ago: potentially buried for 100 years+
It looks handforged to me, and doesn't match up with any (mass produced) axes/hatchets/tomahawks I can find online.
It's far too badly pitted to show any makers marks.
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I hope it's not a murder weapon and you've been concealing evidence for the last 2 years.....
