Showing posts with label longevity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label longevity. Show all posts

Friday, 19 August 2022

Car with longest production run


Which model of car has had the longest production run? Is it the Citroen 2CV? What about the VW Golf or, perhaps the VW Beetle? Or how about the Mini? Well, all of these cars were produced for decades but the car with the longest production run is, I believe, the Morgan PlusFour, a roadster still made today in the Worcestershire town of Great Malvern where it was first made in 1950. I read this information on the owners descriptive note fixed to this 2008 version of the PlusFour. If you'd like a brand new one the factory charge £64,995.00 for a manual shift model and £67,495.00 for an automatic.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Saturday, 20 April 2019

Colour negatives

The other day, as I watched my wife selecting negatives on the lightbox ready for scanning, it occurred to me that there might be a photograph in the subject. So I dropped a random selection from her assortment and took the photograph above. As I did the thought crossed my mind concerning whether I would still have these images if they had been digitally recorded. Though negatives are relatively fragile they are less subject to the potentially catastrophic accidents, format changes, and casual attitudes and bit-rot that seem to surround digital archives.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10