Hi Graham. Yeah, Slik 88. Had it for years. Wasn't best pleased that the head unit was plastic when I first got it but hadn't enough cash for a Manfrotto. It's stood the test of time well, though. The modern digital compact is heaps better than the 'compacts' we used to reject in favour of an SLR and lenses. Mainly it's because you're now seeing (on the LCD screen) what the lens sees in terms of framing - remember 'parallax error' from your C&G days? - and importantly, the fact that you can see the detail you want sharp in your photo snapping in and out of focus on screen, like you can an SLR. 'Through the lens' framing and the focusing were pretty much what set an SLR above a compact. Changeable lenses was the other thing (Leica, Contax and Russian copy compacts apart), but the modern zoom optics in a compact even up the score a lot. John
John said "I'm not sure whether the Turm Tourist was intended for outdoors or to use in travel lodgings, like a travel clothes iron might be" They were marketed for campers John and back in my day were an expensive stove to buy. I use a Sport or 38 for my silent early morning or late night brews, sits on the printer table next to my PC. Did you work on the wick? I used cotton pipe cleaners to bring mine back to life. Great photo's mate.
Hi John, Agree that the modern digital compacts are a far cry from the old film jobbies in terms of features and functionality. The main purchasing criteria for our Olympus was the fact it is waterproof to 10m - this is what we've been using it for recently: I've still got my flash and lenses from my old Minolta Dynax camera bodies. I believe Minolta (or at least the camera part) was acquired by Sony and that my old accessories should fit a modern Sony DSLR body. They've got some nice semi-pro DLSRs in the pipeline and I'm waiting to see the price and the full specs to see if they are going to be suitable for astrophotography as I want to move on to photographing deep space objects. As I can't afford to run another boat at the moment until the mortgage is paid off in a couple of years my other main hobbies are tropical marine fishkeeping and astronomy. Note the turtle above is in the wild, not something I keep Cheers, Graham.
I some times find if I have problems taking a close up's in poor or artificial light using macro function on the camera, I then use the zoom and then crop the image to get the close up of what I want to see. Taking close up pictures{macro} of parts of stoves I find using the zoom function on a Compact or DSLR produces great results when set up on a tripod ............ you do need to use a tripod or a least sit the camera of a firm surface and used the delayed shutter function on your camera setting Sorry no stove shots. Here is a example of a fungi growing on a tree which I was unable to get close to as it was in a private garden, the picture was taken 30+ foot away using a 200mm zoom which is the same sort range you get on a Compact Camera. I set the camera on a tripod and focused on the growths that I wanted to get a close up picture of.. I used the delayed shutter function to stop any camera shake The first picture shows the image the camera took using the zoom. The second picture is the image cropped to what I wanted in the shot,close up or macro. So if you were to take a picture of a stove part 3ft away and then used this cropping technique you should get some good results ........... but only if you use a tripod to keep the picture sharp by eliminating the camera shaking. I use to use this for post editing http://picasa.google.com/mac/ with good results. I hope you do not mind me butting in on your space John,I struggled on my photography till I used a tripod which makes such a difference to the quality of pictures what ever camera you use. Regards Tim
Hi John, I have just acquired a Touring Turm (with help from Lance) and this tutorial answers many of the questions that I had about reburbishing it. Thank you for your excellent timing. Richard.
Tim, Richard(s) (X 2). Thanks for the feedback. I've enjoyed the way this post has moved to a discussion on photography, which is pretty relevant to CCS after all, to get to enjoy each other's stove stuff on t'internet. Heck, Tim, don't apologise for 'butting in' as you put it, it's really good to hear your views, especially since they always make a lot of sense. Great shots of the tree funghi. There's a favourite walk I do setting off from Wray Castle at the top end of Windermere and one year I must have counted over thirty different types of funghi in the seven miles. I keep meaning to get some expert tuition on what's edible and what's not, obviously not something anyone with any sense would take risks over! Thanks for that background on the Turm, Richard. So they were sold as a camp stove eh? The wick? Yeah, I started the post on what I did to make a wick. I used fibreglass strands from a soldering mat and fine brass wire from the decorative net of a Rioja bottle to bind it to either end of a wire armature (core) I made by twisting a couple of lengths of galvanised garden wire together. I'd read before you'd used pipe-cleaners. Denser cotton strands, like the mop strands I like to use for petrol stove wicks would scorch and hinder fuel flow (I know, I tried one made of those). The cotton in pipe-cleaners isn't so densely packed and I can see how they'd work. Hey, BBBB, what CCS members get up to when not messing about with stoves never ceases to amaze me. Evidently that shot of the turtle meant you'd to be down there with it, so doing a Jacques Cousteau eh? Wow! Then the astronomy too! Outer Limits, ocean and space both. Glad to be of help. Lance is one of the greats. I've been on the receiving end of such Stateside generosity too, from BernieDawg, dday, anlrolfe, Doc Mark to name but a few. John
Thats the art of conversation chaps, swaying from one topic to another, coming back to the main topic of the conversation again, allbeit in a typed form. Still its a bit damn rude of him to butt in like that Thanks for the Post edit link Tim !
Hi John, Not Jacques Cousteau, nor David Bailey come to think of it! We were snorkelling in the Maldives last month - no need to dive there. We always take our summer holiday in the British winter! The shot below was also just snorkelling - Manta Rays are very very impressive close up! My wife, who took this shot of me plus friend, isn't Mrs Bailey either, but she did manage to capture my best side Cheers, Graham.
thanks so much for the restoration images. i have been trying to acquire a Turm Touring stove for a few months now. will prolly do some restoration using your tutorial for a guide all good buzz
Beautiful job! This wick information may serve me soon. I just picked up a Turm Sport (blue & white) and flushed the tank a dozen times and still am getting flakes out. It burns fine now but I see the need for a wick replacement in its future. Of course this one has the valve spindle handle screwed into the filling cap so when it is removed there is no pressure in the tank but when the handle is screwed back in for travel I don't know how built up pressure would escape! Funny, there doesn't seem to be any youtube video of any Turms?! A fun little stove from first impression but I don't know why people say marine stove denatured alcohol has no odor when burned - surely does.
