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A while back I came across this inside a old LP. Out of curiosity I thought I would try it out. Well to my surprise and holding a light close to its rotation on the turntable, it actually worked at 45 and 33 and a third. The segments did appear to stop, so the turntable is running at the correct speed . neat eh!
I certainly remember some turntables had something like that printed round the edge and a neon on the baseplate for the same reason. I think they were intended for disco use as well as Hi-fi.
Harping back to the UK Ed Wood revival in the 80s transferred the old beta tape to S8 for nostalgic posterity only 4 minutes but nice to have his home movies as a keep sake. Those 80s tv programmes inspired many a young film maker to grab a movie camera.
I got a little bored today, so I decided to wake the cats up!
I found a YouTube video with a cat growling. Immediately they showed up. The first order of business was to stare at each other incredulously. You could almost see the beginnings of some kind of logic operating: "-but if it isn't YOUUU...?"
From there on, it was just stunned silence: their intruder alert had been triggered, but they just couldn't locate the invader!
I turned off the growl and fed them, after all, even Pavlov fed his dogs eventually!
Last night out back the sky was crystal clear and the moon was out, so decided to take a couple of photos of it with Yvonne camera. The next time I should use a tripod, instead of a hand held shot supported against the outside wall. .
Imagine what I could get with a even greater zoom lens?
Not sure what a Yvonne camera is, Film or Digital. If you did that hand held with a Zoom Lens, the Full Moon looks amazing, if you can get a Telescope even better. Happy Passover Holidays.
Yvonne camera is a Panasonic Lumex Model No DC-FZ80. I bought it for her after accidently dropping her smaller digital camera. I thought I would get something a bit better although its a still camera you can record 4K video with it as well. I am certainly extra careful these days not to drop this one
This old photo popped up on my Facebook page the other day. Its really hard to take in, that I took it back in 1986-87 for one of the guys in it, as he was leaving, so I did volunteer to take it. The person with the red collar on the left looking directly at the photo, was a chap called Terry Caldwell known as TC. I was on his shift for 10 years, after the place closed I went to work for Ansett. I remember one of the shift charge hands at Ansett, asking me about my past at Mt Cook, he was shocked to find I had worked for TC for ten years, he said he once worked with him and after 6 months working for TC he had a enough and left for Ansett, how did I survive 10 years he asked? . TC was a bit of a Captain Bligh that's for sure, but was always fair in sharing the good and not so good jobs around. He later went onto be one of the big bosses at Air New Zealand.
Its strange looking at all those faces and wondering what happened to most, that's the great thing about film, is recording that "specific moment" in time that will never be again.
The segments did appear to stop, so the turntable is running at the correct speed 
. neat eh!
for one of the guys in it, as he was leaving, so I did volunteer to take it. The person with the red collar on the left looking directly at the photo, was a chap called Terry Caldwell known as TC. I was on his shift for 10 years, after the place closed I went to work for Ansett. I remember one of the shift charge hands at Ansett, asking me about my past at Mt Cook, he was shocked to find I had worked for TC for ten years,
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