Theme for this month's P&S competition is "Knobs and Dials". These controls and readouts can be found anywhere and are often objects of inspired design (especially in antiques!)

Their layout on a panel can be: utilitarian, geometric, organic (suggestive of faces), or even sinister!

They may have a special significance (hospital room, musical instrument, maybe even a camera!) or just strike your fancy somehow.


As for rules, the same as last month:

1. Always have fun!

2. Cameras:

Compact cameras
Sensor size does not matter.
No large format or camera typically requiring a tripod to use.
No interchangeable lens cameras (some exceptions below).
No cameras weighing over 1kg.

Cameras permitted:
Mobile phones, tablets, small sensor toy cameras.
Pentax Q, Nikon 1, Ricoh GR, any 110 film, 35mm point and shoots from the 1980s/90s (e.g. Pentax PC35AF etc.)
Cameras you can take with you in a coat pocket.

ANY CAMERA BRAND ALLOWED.

3. Entries will close August 31 2021 midnight PST

4. Maximum biggest image dimension: 1800 pixels.

5. List camera brand and model with entry for all to see, and exposure data would be nice.

6. No restrictions on when the entries were taken.

7. Contest winner determines the rules, selects theme, sets closing date and judges the next competition.

8. Enter up to three images, however you may change your entries as many times as you like up to the closing date/time.



Here are couple images to prime the pump:

The first is a 50s era TV set (Q-7, 02 @5mm 1/10, f2.8 ISO 800.

The second is the dashboard of a 1929 Packard car, Q-7, 50mm Pentax 110 lens 1/80, f4.5 ISO 200

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[Titia]

That's a real nice and interesting theme.

[Huss]

Rollei A110, Fukkatsu 400

Rollei A110, Fukkatsu 400

Great image Huss, and it's good to see 110 film getting a little love too.

[Vendee]

"More Volts Igor"
Charles Burrell steam museum, Thetford, Norfolk.
Ricoh GRIII

Nice steampunk vibe going on there, Vendee.

[Huss]

Bump for more entries!

[Bart]

Let' see

My first camera. I was about 10 then and this was previously my sisters. 120 format film
Panasonic FX500, 4.4mm (26mm equivalent), 1/15 at f/2.8, ISO 100



The first camera I bought with my own savings. Doesn't need an introduction, I guess.
I was 15 then and used this up till 2006 when I went "digital". Considering to have it serviced and start using it again.
Panasonic FX500, 4.4mm (26mm equivalent), 1/15 at f/2.8, ISO 100


I suppose we could call this a very, very large knob. Used to put a windmill in the right direction.
Panasonic FX500, 8.3mm (49mm equivalent), 1/250 at f/4.3, ISO 160

Bart is in the lead for "biggest knob"!

[kwb]

Huss, cool picture, but what's that?

Let me in too, the first one with a scary note is a switch panel for the nuclear reactor at B Reactor National Historic Landmark. Panasonic DMC-FH27, 5mm, F/3.3, 1/60 sec and ISO250. It was a hard camera to use mostly due to touchscreen-only interface.

Next is a pepper grinder I made from the hardware kit, could I call it a knob on a knob? Fuji XQ1, 6.4mm macro mode, F/1.8, 1/680 sec and ISO 800, external LED light.

Last one is a graphic equalizer for guitars. Fuji XQ1 on a mini tripod, 6.4mm macro mode, F/1.8, 1/10 sec and ISO 800.

[barondla]

Huss, cool picture, but what's that?

Let me in too, the first one with a scary note is a switch panel for the nuclear reactor at B Reactor National Historic Landmark. Panasonic DMC-FH27, 5mm, F/3.3, 1/60 sec and ISO250. It was a hard camera to use mostly due to touchscreen-only interface.

Next is a pepper grinder I made from the hardware kit, could I call it a knob on a knob? Fuji XQ1, 6.4mm macro mode, F/1.8, 1/680 sec and ISO 800, external LED light.

Last one is a graphic equalizer for guitars. Fuji XQ1 on a mini tripod, 6.4mm macro mode, F/1.8, 1/10 sec and ISO 800.

Cool images! Especially the nuke panel. Scram?
Thanks,
barondla

[Bart]

I'll add my curiosity for the nature of Huss's entry and for the SCRAM

[kwb]

Cool images! Especially the nuke panel. Scram?
Thanks,
barondla

I'll add my curiosity for the nature of Huss's entry and for the SCRAM

SCRAM (I've heard that it's an acronym for Safety Control Rod Axe Man) is a jargon among nuclear reactor people and means an emergency shutdown.


Safety Control Rod is something you insert into the fission reactor to stop fission. In the old days the rod was tied to a rope so it won't fall into the reactor core, and an Axe Man was to cut the rope when an emergency arises. I have no idea if that's true but it's a popular explanation.

[Bart]

SCRAM (I've heard that it's an acronym for Safety Control Rod Axe Man) is a jargon among nuclear reactor people and means an emergency shutdown.


Safety Control Rod is something you insert into the fission reactor to stop fission. In the old days the rod was tied to a rope so it won't fall into the reactor core, and an Axe Man was to cut the rope when an emergency arises. I have no idea if that's true but it's a popular explanation.

Wow.
This certainly qualifies as Keep It Simple

[Huss]

Oh hey! Thanks for the comments. My pic is 'just' a sculpture that is built into a local parking garage. There's a whole series of them, this happens to be the one I took with my compact camera (Rollei A110)