Saturday, February 9, 2013

A couple of “Found” antiques

Well just for the heck of it, and because occasionally you NEED to, I decided to drag out the bigass monolight to take a photo of a couple of antiques I found at the local Goodwill. 

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The first is an old weather station with a simple barometer, alcohol thermometer and a hygrometer.  The second is a Hamilton MECHANICAL clock, which I grabbed the instant I saw it!  It took a little work to get it operational (the key was missing, and the pendulum hanger was bent) but it works perfectly and I am currently in the process of calibrating it to WWV.

And no, I did not use a white powder flashpan to take this photo, the “flame” reflected on the clock is actually my left hand, held parallel to the Sunpak 522 flash on the side of my camera (both to warm the light and to fill in the shadows left by the White Lightning, which was to my right when I took the photo).