u/Mick_Tee

This was numbered release limited run of 1000 copies in 2015. I can find one for sale for $1500 so I assume that is the upper price limit but would like an idea of a realistic value.

Is this a good camera to learn on?
I bought some expired Portra but don't know where to load it.

The "Young Endeavour" is a twin masted square rigger gifted to Australia from Britain for the country's bicentennial in 1988.
Since then, it has been challenging young Australians as the centre of a youth development program.

The book is inscribed with personalised affirmations from crew, suggesting the book may be a presentation gift for attendees and has seen more than just the inside of a book shop in its life.

Has anybody got any more info on this?

Picked up this at a thrift store today. Shutter and film winder worked, rangefinder part didn't but hope it just needed a clean.

Got it home and did a couple of tests and the shutter has become quite lazy and the aperture now seems to stick a little mid-range.

Looks like I'll be repairing a camera this weekend.

This video compares the effectiveness of various crimping methods, and even though I have terminated thousands of crimps in my career, this video surprised me.

While the tl;dnr is "It's complicated", he finds that cheap crimpers can outperform expensive crimpers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT_l_WzGi6A

I have a nice 4815VDC water pump stripped from some industrial gear that has a three connector plug - +2415V, -NEG, and a small bi-directional control wire which allows the controller hardware to tell the pump how fast to run and the pump to tell the controller it's actual speed, voltage, and current draw.

Unfortunately, without the controller, the pump does not run.

The pump is a completely sealed unit that can only be opened destructively (although I have one I can hack up if needed) and the person I acquired it from who has access to the internal documentation server of the manufacturer can only find the internal part number and price. The only extra info I have is that the control wires for all the pumps in the system are separate, suggesting that it is not an addressable protocol.

So any guesses as to the protocol used, and a means of reverse engineering it to get the pump running?

Update:
Here is the schematic of the wiring to the pump in its current usage, showing there is an unused "PWM" pin in the plug that I assume will allow me to ignore whatever protocol is used in the existing installation.
https://i.imgur.com/dtqmX49.png

And here is the insides of the pump. The upper layer has some pretty fancy filtration.
https://i.imgur.com/i5P2vG4.jpeg

Rip that off and it exposes some pretty fancy innards. Looks to me like it's an in-built 3 phase VFD.
https://i.imgur.com/SXDVTYN.jpeg

Picked up a Nikonus IV-A at a garage sale for $25.
Sellers claim it has been in its case for over 25 years and couldn't guarantee it worked, but the body is in excellent condition and seems to operate as it should, although the flash unit (not shown) looks like someone has tried to fix it in the past.

Manuals and grease and spare gasket included.

I was gifted a Voigtlander Vitessa a number of years ago and have only recently felt the itch to shoot film again so it, and a Vito BL have been getting some quality time with me.

The Vito needed to be disassembled and cleaned up to get it working, but the Vitessa worked straight out of the box, which is not bad for a 70yo camera with cloth bellows! My only issue is the viewfinder doesn't have any super-imposed framing guide so I don't know where the edge of the frame is meaning some things that should be in frame aren't, and others that shouldn't are.

Does anybody who has one of these cameras and can let me know if that is the way it is designed, or do I have a screen or something missing from the viewfinder?

A number of decades ago I found this book in the bargain bin of a used book shop. Despite the strange title, I had heard of the author so decided the $2 asking price was a risk worth taking.

It turns out to have been a smart choice, as there are some people online these days who think their production copy is worth more than my car.

Any hints as to a ballpark value?

I regularly spend time in a town that hosts a museum dedicated to the HMAS Pandora. The normal version of this book is sold through the gift shop and occasionally turns up in local thrift stores, but does not seem to have much of a market in the real world.

The other day I was passing through and found a "Sponsor's edition", that is apparently gifted to sponsors who have donated over a specific (and significant) volume of money.

So may I present to you a special, leather-bound and signed edition of an obscure book that has no real market penetration or resale history.

This may need to sit on the shelf for a little while longer I think.

I picked this lens up about a decade ago when I had some cash and a desire for something exotic. I could find nothing about it on the internet so a deal was struck and I became the owner of a vintage 135/1.5.

Being an obvious portrait lens, I tried it a couple of times and it sucked. The colours were all wrong, the bokeh was harsh and at 2.8kg, it was just too heavy to lug around, let alone use.

So it ended up in the back of the closet for a few years until I decided to sell it. After taking some sample photos in the garden, I realised I had just been shooting the wrong subjects and decided I might just keep it. :)