Thread Number: 7455
PREMIER UPRIGHT!--Today's Goodwill Find |
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Post# 82238   10/11/2009 at 17:42 (5,281 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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St. Lucie West Goodwill, which netted me my lovely two tone maroon and white Convertible, the $10.00 Magnavox, a Drexel Projection sideboard from 1958, and this ethereal cream yellow and white with beige bag Premier upright. $7.25 with tax. It is loaded with luxury features-exclusive $1.98 toggle switch for on/off, a metal hook which lowers the handle for cleaning, multi-level carpet adjustment, and the big plastic throw switches on either side of the hood. I thought it looked like one of the 1950s Convertibles from the rear, imagine my surprise when it turned out to be this! Sorry for the washed out pics, I wanted them tonight. Machine has seen very little hard use, and owner's name is crayoned onto the hood. I will try for better pics tomorrow.
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Post# 82239 , Reply# 1   10/11/2009 at 17:48 (5,281 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 82240 , Reply# 2   10/11/2009 at 18:32 (5,281 days old) by funvacfan (Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 82241 , Reply# 3   10/11/2009 at 18:51 (5,281 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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Looks very interesting, Alan. the 'holy halo' effect is the one I get when I morning-breath-fog my glasses after the shower, to polish the lenses or enter a warmer building from the frozen outdoors in winter . Can also occur in a glass lens when the camera is removed from a sweaty shirt pocket. But mostly happens when a cold camera is suddenly moved into a warm environment. Most camera lenses have an anti-fog coating on the outside but the internal focusing lens elements do not. Ultra-fine condensation blooms temporarily until the surface & core temps equalize. so by chance was your camera inside next to or on top of the airconditioner before you went out into the humid Florida air? Idea #2. Photographers can quickly achieve this effect by shooting through fine gauze or smearing a light coat of Pam or butter over the outside lens for that Hollywood Vaseline Glamour Shot look. :-) Dave |
Post# 82260 , Reply# 4   10/12/2009 at 04:07 (5,281 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Dave, you have to be right about the camera lens thing. I keep the camera in a Tupperware container on the floor a few feet away from the air conditioner, which has the air handler mounted under the window. Air blows across the floor. Should be mounted higher. Anyway, I tried a test shot a minute later in the house, no problem. Thanks for uprighting the pic and darkening it. I uploaded Picasa 3 accidentally months ago, when my sister sent a picture. I can do all kinds of things on that, just not on a lot of the pictures on the Windows album. |
Post# 82283 , Reply# 5   10/12/2009 at 16:54 (5,280 days old) by vacman117 (Chicago, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 82285 , Reply# 6   10/12/2009 at 17:53 (5,280 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 82440 , Reply# 7   10/16/2009 at 01:20 (5,277 days old) by kenmore81 (Warwick, RI)   |   | |
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Post# 82446 , Reply# 8   10/16/2009 at 05:28 (5,277 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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