one of my Royalty
Here’s another funny old advert I stumbled across in-advert-ently.
I’ve never come across a Royal with this feature, although I’ve had at least five of these, and seen more.
Category Archives: Technology
Fun With Coffee
Vintage British “Panther” motorcycle
After my first adventure with Caffenol film developer I loaded one of my twin lens reflexes with a roll of film, that was best before 2007, trusting that it would still be good 7 years out of date. Here are some of the results, and I can report that it worked quite well indeed. I much prefer medium format when it comes to film. Of course I always did, but it was so expensive that I ceased doing it around the time I bought this film. I scanned this at 1200 dpi and the resolution is amazing. I once read that even if the lenses on medium format cameras never approached the resolving power of the best 35mm cameras, they still could outperform them due to the huge advantage of the large negatives.
These pics were shot recently, one at a British car rally, and one on a trip to Port Angeles. They seemed to go together. Ricohflex TLR camera, Fuji ACROS Neopan ASA 100, developed in Caffenol C-M for 12 minutes. Scanned on an Epson 2400 with a homemade 120 format cardboard mask.
Vintage American gas station
Filed under Cameras, Photography, Technology, Travel
The Smell of Oil
Bond’s Bentley resurfaces
Father’s Day Car Show
it seeps into the brain
slowly, like an oil leak
where it lubes the memory
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Sunday the British gathered
the shiny SU carburetors
filled with slippery pink oil
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the XKE was too hot (3 carbs)
the mini, too cool (1 carb)
but the MGB was just right (twin carbs)
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when they all started their engines
and the field was bare
not a trace was left
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but a few stains on the grass
some tire marks
and a lingering smell of oil
Morgans in all flavours
Jaguar – six cylinders, three carbs
An original mini – single carb
MGB – twins
Filed under Photography, Technology
When a Bentley WAS a Bentley
konica auto s2, ilford xp-2, caffenol-c-m, scanned at 2400 dpi
Filed under Cameras, Photography, Technology, Uncategorized
From Russia, With Luck
No kidding, this is a mint condition Olympia Progress, Russian. Unfortunately I don’t type Russian, nor do I speak it, or understand it. But I will sell it to the Russians for a tidy sum, since they are now wisely going back to typing classified documents. That is about the only good thing that can be said about Russia these days. Who would have thought that Russia is part of the typewriter insurgency!
Photograph of Chief Russian Insurgent, purportedly typing a secret report. Picture taken with one of those “film” cameras and developed in coffee….
Hey Vlad, want to buy my typewriter? For you, hmmm, $1000, cash only please.
What can this mean? A secret message? Cryptic!
Heavily redacted secret message, obviously in code as well. Proof positive that they are using typewriters for their secret business!
Filed under Photography, Poetry, Technology, Thrift shop finds, Typewriters, Uncategorized
How to Milk a Cow in the 21st Century
Too late for Valentine’s Day, but this card was found in a nifty shop here. This place has typewriters for rent, and while I was buying this card the clerk was instructing a young woman on how a manual typewriter works. I found this amusing, and astounding, that one would need to be instructed on how to use such a simple and familiar machine. Conclusion: I obviously have no idea of how uncommon a manual typewriter is to some people. Perhaps this person would also be unfamiliar with a rotary dial telephone? Don’t laugh! I can’t milk a cow, can you?
Filed under Technology, Typewriters
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