Avotius
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Here is something neat for the folks to feast their eyes on. This was sitting right out in then open where anyone could get their fingers all over it, a neat looking Omega Photo Sprint which was used in the Olympic games and measured that Lee Evens ran the 400 meters in 43.86 seconds.
But who cares about Olympic records, what we all want to know about is what we are seeing here. The camera says Alpa Mod. 4 with that all too elusive Voigtlander 36-82mm f2.8 Zoomar lens (read about it here http://cameraquest.com/ekzoom.htm). The big bulk behind it fed film into the camera at high speed.
The white board on in the back of one of the pictures says this:
"This apparatus combines the electronic quartz counter of the Racend OMEGA Timer with the instantaneous developing technique of the OMEGA miniature Photofinish camera. An optical device is installed for printing the times through the back of the film. The installation's volume was reduced and its precision increased (Precision to 1/100th of a second and the possibility of visually capturing 2/1000th of a second)."
Neat. That Alpa is a lot smaller then I thought it would be, the lens is huge and there was no UV filter on it and many finger prints all over the front element from the passing throng. Also there were a bunch of Vivitar and Angelinux lenses attached to various time measuring equipment. I was actually there because I like watches and wanted to see the collection of vintage and priceless Omega pocket watches.
But who cares about Olympic records, what we all want to know about is what we are seeing here. The camera says Alpa Mod. 4 with that all too elusive Voigtlander 36-82mm f2.8 Zoomar lens (read about it here http://cameraquest.com/ekzoom.htm). The big bulk behind it fed film into the camera at high speed.
The white board on in the back of one of the pictures says this:
"This apparatus combines the electronic quartz counter of the Racend OMEGA Timer with the instantaneous developing technique of the OMEGA miniature Photofinish camera. An optical device is installed for printing the times through the back of the film. The installation's volume was reduced and its precision increased (Precision to 1/100th of a second and the possibility of visually capturing 2/1000th of a second)."
Neat. That Alpa is a lot smaller then I thought it would be, the lens is huge and there was no UV filter on it and many finger prints all over the front element from the passing throng. Also there were a bunch of Vivitar and Angelinux lenses attached to various time measuring equipment. I was actually there because I like watches and wanted to see the collection of vintage and priceless Omega pocket watches.
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