This is a 1920's Ludwig Thumb Rod allurement boom accustomed to me as a Christmas present, by a babe I absolutely admired in top school. She begin it as a bag of parts, labeled as "tambourine" in an aged store. Turns out all the locations were present, and it sounds great. Me and my dad reattached the allurement strainer (pictured) with added solid avant-garde screws, so it could already afresh be played. This aching the amount somewhat, but instruments are meant to accomplish music, and I accept no ambition of anytime affairs it, so, no abjure there. The babe who gave it to me just capital to be friends, of course, and I haven't apparent her in a few decades. I've recorded with the boom a few times and still yield to friends' houses for anniversary affair jam sessions.
Olympus Pen EP-3 with 14-42 lens and macro adapter.
I acclimated the camera's "Pinhole" and cross-process art filters with a little desaturation and levels in Photoshop afterwards.
Focal breadth 23mm
f/4.3
1/40
ISO 1600
Thanks, Giz!
-Phil Gullett
3Gs of Abridged Knives
The brand on my abridged knife is now decayed but there was a time as a boy if I
carried it everywhere with me. I still bethink the day that my dad gave me his
own abridged knife, with the fair white handle, and it still reminds me of the
stories he told of his boyhood. Assuredly there is the brand of my grandfather's
pocket knife, acicular about to the nub with use. Acknowledgment to this heirloom
challenge, these rarely anticipation about blades are affiliated in this photo. A small
aperture helped to cull the abridged knives out from the accomplishments photo. I used
two board lamps and a 10 additional acknowledgment to add to the best attending of the
photograph of my grandfathering who spent 22 years as a Fire Chief. Taken with a
Canon 7D with EF 24-105 mm lens at f22 for 10sec and 100 ISO.
-Brian Jones
I accept had this old camera for a amount of years – it was my grandfather's. I absitively to yield a account of it in the area it has graced for years on my shelf. I couldn't assume to get abundant accustomed ablaze to get a appropriate exposure, so I took several brackets for an HDR; aback they were still absolutely aphotic and I didn't ambition to access the ISO, I took one added with the flash, afresh accumulated them all application HDR Efex Pro's plugin for Lightroom.
Taken with my Nikon D200 with my Tamron 70-300mm tele-macro, f/5.3, 1/40 sec, ISO 800.
-Ray Bogusz
When i saw the claiming i knew absolutely what i capital to shoot. It's a Heirloom, witch i got from my grandfathering if he died about 12 Jears ago (I was 8).
It's the alone affair i got from him and i adulation it. I adulation the detail, the blush and that it's from my grandfather. I capital to put it on a old chiffonier as accomplishments but i didn't accept one so i acclimated a white cardboard as accomplishments and two flashes to ablaze it.
Canon 550D, Tamron 70-300, 200mm, f1/18, 1/13 shutter, ISO 100 , Flashes Canon 430 + 580
-Andreas Gerken
This is my grandfather's camera equipment. In his activity he took bags of pictures, of which I accept afresh had to array through all his slides. He died a few years ago and chock-full demography pictures a few years afore that because of his illness, but all of my childhood, I can bethink either my brother, my cousin, or myself on his lap, and his camera over his accept or sitting appropriate next to him. He wasn't the best photographer, it was all just a absolutely big-ticket amusement for him, but accepting about the camera fabricated me abatement in adulation with it too. His getting has been sitting in my grandmother's closet aback he died, so endure ages I asked her if I could accept it, and it will apparently consistently sit in the shoe box she kept the camera in. It isn't absolutely an aged yet, but I apperceive I abundance it and I achievement my approaching accouchement or grandchildren will acknowledge it as abundant as I do.
Canon 7D
50 mm f/1.4
- Nick Badger
The accountable of my photo this anniversary is an old tea kettle from Britain (approximately 150-200 years old). I fabricated some tea with a abstracted kettle and caked it into some tea cups. I put it on a coffee table that has aswell been anesthetized down, and matches the blush of the kettle. The anemic ablaze from the window lights up the chestnut and aswell illuminates the argument formed into the metal.
Lumix FZ35 with tripod
1/10
ISO 80
-Peter Glitsch
Hello,
I begin this beeline razor endure August in an aged boutique on the way to the cottage. The woman there awash it to me for 5 bucks and I absolutely had no abstraction how abundant it was account or if it could be restored. I took it home and did a bit of analysis and acknowledgment to some online forums I begin anyone adjacent that restores best razors. He disassembled the accomplished thing, replaced the pins, buffed and refinished the brand and blood-soaked the cartilage scales (handle) in oil for a anniversary to accompany aback their luster. He acid it, showed me how to hone it and I accomplished myself to use it and plan to for as continued as I can. Low investment, acceptable restoration, atom win!
A acceptable acquaintance let me into his flat this weekend to play with some austere camera accessory and actualize this attempt of my (new) heirloom.
-Stuart Murray
While the best of accountable was anon accessible to me - this is a duke arresting "calling card" from an 1894 ancestor - but giving an article that has survived a aeon able ambience accepted to be added of a challenge. In particular, accepting the "depth" of the duke embossing and/or cardboard aging.
After abundant analysis with backgrounds, lens blazon and an iPad based softbox, angling/including the simple box anatomy brought out the abyss detail and ability associated with the object. "Less is more" as they say ...
Canon Mark 5d MARK II , 50 mm lens - ISO 100 - tweaked for BW/Sepia column in Photoshop
-Daniel Jones
Here is a photo of an old cigarette case. It has a bit of a atramentous history - it belonged either to my great-grandfather, or to my great-great-grandfather. I begin it in my grandfathers house, and I've had it for years. I accept that it is about 100 years old, I assume that it dates aback to either World War I or to Aboriginal Balkan War of 1912-1913.
I ambition I had a altered account to appearance you. My ancestors endemic a activity mace, forth the curve of the one apparent actuality in the middle photo, that was begin on the attic of my great-grandfathers abode about 45 years ago. Unfortunately, it was bedeviled from my uncle's abode during the Civil War in Yugoslavia, and we never begin it again. That is basically the alone absolute aged we owned, and now it is gone.
Photo was taken with Canon 50D and Canon 17-40mm f4L, at 40mm, f4.0, ISO 320, 1/50sec bang speed, on a covering ottoman, beneath beam halogen lights. It was circumscribed in Lightroom 3, adapted to B/W in Lightroom, and afresh exported to Photoshop area I added a chicken filter, and that was it.
I achievement you adore it!
-Darko Teodorovic
Here is my acquiescence for this week's photo contest, blue-blooded "Od Housekeeping". This was my great-great-grandfather's Acceptable Housekeeping Cookbook that he acclimated if he was a chef aback in the 1950's. The awning and aback are just about captivated calm by some tape, and it's abounding with his addendum and his own recipes he added. It has a lot of character, and it is one of my family's admired possessions. Attempt with a Nikon D70 with a 50mm 1.8 lens, (which is aswell a bit of an heirloom, as it was anesthetized down to me from my dad) at ƒ2.8, ISO 320 and edited with Filterstorm Pro on my iPad, and Aperture 3 on my Mac. The accomplishments is a atramentous hoodie.
-Hobbs Epic
Hi,
This is my access to the Aged Cutting Challenge. The data of the photos are as follows:
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: 18-55mm VR
Aperture: f/14
Exposure: 10s
ISO: 400
Exposure Bias: 0EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Aperture Priority
Tripod: Sunpak 4300-B with Ball Head
The abstraction abaft this attempt was to abduction the aspect of calm amid calmness and motion. The 'seconds' duke with its fast motion signifies the anarchy and connected motion admitting the 'minute and the hour' duke abatement into the peaceful and still category. This was attempt in
house with a tripod. It was candy in Photoshop CS3 to accord it a aphotic feel.
Story:
The adventure abaft this, if you will, heirloom, is both absolutely adverse and sweet. My Grandfathering (Mr. Jayatheerthan) endemic two aged clocks,
one an aboriginal 1900/late 1800 bank alarm his ancestors had purchased during the British Era in India and addition a actual petit duke alarm abundant like the one apparent in this picture. Sadly, he had absent this duke captivated alarm over the years and I accept heard him allege about it with abundant passion. If I mentioned this to my afresh babe friend, she was actual candied abundant to buy me this duke captivated alarm from Prague with a admirable 'Praha' block in the front. The aphotic attributes of the photograph is for accessible reasons.
Best,
-Vignesh Kasinath
Hello, my name is Rodolfo Gutierrez and actuality is my attempt (which I accept not blue-blooded yet)
I acclimated a Canon EOS Rebel T3i with an EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens
F/3.5
1/100sec.
ISO-400
No flash
My accountable as you can see is The Asahi Pentax camera. This camera belonged to a baby acquaintance of abundance who is a adept of the Vietnam War. He bought the camera while he was on assignment during the war. He gave it to me as a allowance alive how abundant I adulation photography.
For me a year ago, application becloud was consistently arresting because I didn't apperceive abundant about photography. I accept accurate photographers yield amazing shots admitting of the camera they use and whether they're application agenda or film. I haven't acclimated the Asahi camera yet but I will anon because I anticipate i'm accessible for becloud now.
- Rodolfo Gutierrez
The gear: Graflex Crown Graphic with Wollensak Synchromatic lens, attempt on Polaroid Blazon 54 Polopan (ISO 100) burning film. Exposure: F/22 at 25 seconds. Scanned on Canon MP250.
Technique: Bang is torn so instead of ambience it on my own I did a chiral ball ambience by aperture and closing the examination batten as bare to actualize a 25-second exposure. Absorption was done via arena bottle so I could use the bead bed and movements to ascendancy what is in focus and what isn't. Lighting is a agglomeration of bedchamber lamps.Scanned on my printer/scanner/copier and edited in Photoshop CS2. it's in fact the aboriginal photo I've scanned on this scanner.
The story: This Elgin watch is about 90 to 100 years old. It was accustomed to me by my father-in-law not continued afterwards I proposed to his daughter. It keeps accomplished time. I yield it with me to added academic contest so I can acquaint the time afterwards accepting out a cellphone.
The camera is ~50 years old and while the bang needs repair, which will appear afterwards this month, the movements are in abundant appearance and the rangefinder works able-bodied too. The camera was aswell a allowance from my father-in-law, who, it turns out, in fact brand me. I in fact like him too.
- Logan C. Adams
Hey Gizmodo!
Here is my heirloom.
It is my great-grandfathers 1920 Ithaca 12-gauge ancillary by side. It's been in use and in my ancestors aback then. I never met this abundant grandfather, but his son, Pete, has been a huge access in my life. I went to the aforementioned academy he did, I've taken up the aforementioned hobbies (mostly sailing), I'm in the aforementioned industry (Marine Engineering), and we still see anniversary added often. I'm even accepting affiliated (despite the fiance not accepting captivated about the weapon in the house!) in the boondocks of his summer house, area I spent a lot of time growing up! Pete and his wife, Sallie, did Christmas with our family, and he was so aflame if I opened the amalgamation the Ithaca was in. It was a abundant Christmas.
I attempt it with my Nikon D80 with the 50mm (75mm Equivalent) 1.8 Prime advanced accessible for 1/40th at ISO 100 beneath a plan ablaze on my boutique table. I capital a absolute bank DOF, and it absolutely looks like I got it! I do a lot of of my cutting on chiral approach with chiral focus, and I fabricated abiding to focus on the chat Ithaca and the barrels. I atom metered to over betrayal the blueprint its comatose adjoin and afresh fabricated some adjustments in Aperture (exposure, white balance, saturation). I acclimated a mono-pod to abiding it aback it was appealing slow.
Thanks, what a abundant Cutting Claiming topic!
- Matthew Zahn
I accept an old brand beneficiary book handed down through my Grandpa, admitting I do not anticipate he started it. I attempt this accurate page mostly because of the history of the stamps on it, admitting I was aswell aggravating not to afflict the brittle book any added than necessary. These six stamps are from Bosnia - Herzegovina about the time of WWI. The stamps with holes punched in them were advisedly defaced and afresh awash as a civic activity to appearance Bosnian antipathy for their above Austrian rulers and the stamps they made. I admired the appearance and action of the dejected stamp, so I formed on absorption it while still assuming the the added stamps and argument abundantly for recognition. However, I did ambition the focus to be on the two humans in blue, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, whose assassinations started the brand we alarm "World War."
The attempt was composed with the book propped on the couch on a atramentous cloth, with my baby wife anxiously angling a individual halogen ablaze from the ancillary to bolt the page arrangement and brand topography. Attempt with a Canon EOS Rebel T3i, 1/30, 1600 ISO, f 8.0, kit 18-55 lens. I added the appearance and acknowledgment actual hardly in iPhoto.
- Phil Woodhull
Story:
I got this camera from my grandfathering if he and my grandmother were affective from their abode area my ancestor grew up in. This polaroid camera served my grandfathering and father, now my grandfathering gave it to me. My grandfathering told me to "guard this camera with my life" even admitting he was badinage I knew the camera was baby to him. Although I haven't gotten to use it I achievement in the abreast approaching I can.
Settings/ Items Used:
I acclimated my Iphone 4s' camera to yield this shot
I acclimated the affairs HDR photo camera
ISO, Exposure, Focal length, and Bang Acceleration not available
Technique:
I capital the aboriginal photo accustomed with no becloud although my buzz didn't accede with me. I anticipation the HDR photo was done so I brought my buzz down to attending at the attempt . Realizing it wasn't done I bound brought it up to the camera and the final allotment of the HDR was blurred. At aboriginal I was agnostic but afresh I admired the outcome.
-Jacob Aronoff
Canon 50D
Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro
Manual mode
Aperture: f/2.8
100 iso
shutter speed: .04 sec
Not absolutely an heirloom, just an old typewriter I have. Anticipation it would attending air-conditioned with a amber look.
-Chris Andrews
Granddaddy
I got home from alive out and arrested out Giz as accepted and saw that the cutting claiming was to shoot an heirloom. Appropriate abroad I looked over at my grandfathers admired camera for about 20 years, an old Bell and Howell camera. I capital to accomplish the photo of the camera attending as if I took it with the camera itself, so I acclimated chicken lighting and a copse background. It was taken with a brace of years old Olympus SP-55OUZ, it's not an changeable lens camera so i had to yield like 50 shots until the camera assuredly focused right!
-Corey Palmer
Howdy
D7000
iso 1K — silly, I know.
35 mm anchored lens
125/s at F/10
Offboard beam firing.
I brought the board alarm and and the spyglass aback for Stepdad afterwards digging through an old aged bazaar in Sharjah in the Affiliated Arab Emirates while on a documentary cruise I took endure spring. The bazaar was something beeline out of Indiana Jones. Arrest afterwards arrest was abounding with assumption and chestnut antiques from over 100 years. Old accoutrements predating World War I, Soviet Army helmets from the algid war, argent and gold urns from the — what the locals told us, that were from the 1800s — and chaplet on strands that you could buy by the beat if you wanted.
- Donovan Farnham
Hello Gizmodo,
This is my aboriginal time appointment to one of your Cutting Challenges, aggressive by your affair and archetype shot. I appear to accept a pocketwatch that's been handed down to me from my father, who accustomed it from his father, who bought the watch in 1906. As a child, I enjoyed seeing the pocketwatch a part of my fathers belongings, absolutely absorbed by the apparatus assault abroad central (it has a spiral abroad back, advertisement the movement). It was affiliated to advertent a accomplished universe, central something hardly beyond than a postage stamp. I was hooked. As an adult, I now plan in the watch industry (I even address for HODINKEE), and that pocketwatch has never larboard my thoughts. It keeps me ashore in my ancestors history and serves as a admonition of the affluent ancestry of my passion.
Picture taken with a Canon EOS 7D, iso 100, kit lens, 1/6 bang speed, f5.6
Warm regards,
-Blake Buettner
Took this attempt with a Nikon D5000. Stock Nikkor DX 18-55mm lens. Acknowledgment 0.001 sec (1/800), Aperture f/5.6, Focal Breadth 52 mm, ISO Acceleration 640, Acknowledgment Comp +2.0.
My grandparents died if I was actual adolescent and this canteen characterization is one my ancient memories of them. Whenever we would go over my grandfathering would cascade himself a bourbon and bastard me a little in a bottle with baptize (when my parents weren't looking). I admired it. The clank of the characterization is still beginning in my mind. Years afterwards I begin it in a drawer at my parent's abode and I bound snatched it for myself. My accompany anticipate it's funny that my ancient anamnesis isn't of a blimp beastly or a adolescence acquaintance but me bubbler bourbon with my grandfather.
-Sean Steege
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