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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 803745" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>The lamps kind of have a vintage look to them, but they're not. My wife, [USER=32150]Seanette[/USER] got those at Walmart in 2012.</p><p></p><p> The radio, a Motorola 10T28M, I've been able to reliably date to about 1957 or 1958. It's a model that was built only during that time period, apparently just those two years.</p><p></p><p> The camera, sitting on top of the radio, is a Kodak Tourist II that used to belong to my late mother. Just now, trying to get a plausible date on it, I get a wider range, about 1951 through 1958. It might be possible to narrow that down, based on the lens/shutter combination. This one has the 105mm ƒ/6.3 Anaston lens and the Flash 200 shutter. Other instances of the Kodak Tourist II were made with other lenses and other shutters; I haven't found any information to date it based on those combinations, but it seems likely that some combinations may have been made only during certain narrower parts of the 1951-1958 range.</p><p></p><p> Eight shots went into this picture. I used my ancient 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens, mounted on my D3200, with a lightning bolt cutout on the front to shape the bokeh. This cutout effective reduced the aperture to ƒ/1.7.</p><p></p><p> Because I was shooting in close quarters, and trying to get a wider shot than this lens could take in at once, I took a 4×4 matrix of pictures, to be stitched using Microsoft ICE. I did this twice, with the main lamp on behind me, at ½ of a second, and again with that lamp turned off, at 2 seconds, both at ISO 100, and used the HDR feature in Zoner Photo Studio to combine them.</p><p></p><p> I was hoping to get the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube" target="_blank">Magic Eye tube</a> on the radio to show up better than it did; that was my primary motive for going the HDR route. That's that little green glowing thing just right of the dial, above the Motorola logo. For good measure, I'm including a close-up, enhanced image of just the Magic Eye, following the main picture. That's a nifty feature that I gather was common on higher-end radios in the 1950s, to help you tune in the station. The pattern and intensity of the light from it varies, according to how strong the station is and how well you have it tuned in.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]389475[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]389477[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> EXIF data are in the attached file ZSC_6133-6134_6138-6139__6135-6135_6140-6141_stitch_hdr.EXIF.txt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 803745, member: 16749"] The lamps kind of have a vintage look to them, but they're not. My wife, [USER=32150]Seanette[/USER] got those at Walmart in 2012. The radio, a Motorola 10T28M, I've been able to reliably date to about 1957 or 1958. It's a model that was built only during that time period, apparently just those two years. The camera, sitting on top of the radio, is a Kodak Tourist II that used to belong to my late mother. Just now, trying to get a plausible date on it, I get a wider range, about 1951 through 1958. It might be possible to narrow that down, based on the lens/shutter combination. This one has the 105mm ƒ/6.3 Anaston lens and the Flash 200 shutter. Other instances of the Kodak Tourist II were made with other lenses and other shutters; I haven't found any information to date it based on those combinations, but it seems likely that some combinations may have been made only during certain narrower parts of the 1951-1958 range. Eight shots went into this picture. I used my ancient 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens, mounted on my D3200, with a lightning bolt cutout on the front to shape the bokeh. This cutout effective reduced the aperture to ƒ/1.7. Because I was shooting in close quarters, and trying to get a wider shot than this lens could take in at once, I took a 4×4 matrix of pictures, to be stitched using Microsoft ICE. I did this twice, with the main lamp on behind me, at ½ of a second, and again with that lamp turned off, at 2 seconds, both at ISO 100, and used the HDR feature in Zoner Photo Studio to combine them. I was hoping to get the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube']Magic Eye tube[/URL] on the radio to show up better than it did; that was my primary motive for going the HDR route. That's that little green glowing thing just right of the dial, above the Motorola logo. For good measure, I'm including a close-up, enhanced image of just the Magic Eye, following the main picture. That's a nifty feature that I gather was common on higher-end radios in the 1950s, to help you tune in the station. The pattern and intensity of the light from it varies, according to how strong the station is and how well you have it tuned in. [ATTACH type="full" alt="ZSC_6133-6134_6138-6139__6135-6135_6140-6141_stitch_hdr4000x3000.jpg"]389475[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="ZSC_6136_MagicEye.jpg"]389477[/ATTACH] EXIF data are in the attached file ZSC_6133-6134_6138-6139__6135-6135_6140-6141_stitch_hdr.EXIF.txt [/QUOTE]
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