Maybe a Manic either Bunny or Bear Shadow Feature Creature on the wall with Fujinon 75mm f5.6 - f45SWD Super Wide Deluxe EBC Electron Beam Coating
I do
not wish to dwell on the traits and fates of Gladiators. The history
of Murmillo and their opponent does show the Roman attitude of
barbarian til the Gauls in this case were subdued and turned into a
Client Kingdom so their former bestial character was withdrawn from
the Arena and the Murmillones needed a new opponent in their live
action and potential death games. The helmet here has a history and a
continuing present.
Using a Sinar camera with artistic lens and a Sony digital mirrorless camera gives a warm feel to to the pictures. The Fujinon 75mm f5.6 - f45 SWD Super Wide Deluxe EBC Electron Beam Coating is great older lens. It has features and characteristics developed from previous models and made wonderful in this incarnation of the lens. “Fujifilm also pioneered Electron Beam Coating (EBC) which according to Fujifilm, represented a new high in lens precision and performance*.” Up to 18 coatings can be applied by Fujinon to improve lens capabilities reducing and even eliminating flare whilst improving contrast. In old lens debates the coatings are heated topics of conversation, discussion and complete disagreement. The coating debate can get hotter and less controlled that Fujinon’s once fame platinum crucibles designed and used to obtain the purest glass. Many photographers are finding that old lenses and camera enclosures can work marvellous well with new digital cameras. Old cameras, lenses and equipment are current enjoy a second, third, fourth and more life as they are looked to again to produce the detail they were imagined for and the production of wonders that they were never designed for.
Murmillo
The murmillo (plural murmillones) or myrmillo wore a helmet with a stylised fish on the crest (the mormylos or sea fish), as well as an arm guard (manica), a loincloth and belt, a gaiter on his right leg, thick wrappings covering the tops of his feet, and a very short greave with an indentation for the padding at the top of the feet. They are heavily armoured gladiators: the murmillo carried a gladius (64–81 cm long) and a tall, oblong shield in the legionary style. Murmillones typically fought a thraex, but occasionally the similar hoplomachus.
Thraex
The Thraex (plural Thraeces, "Thracians") wore the same protective armour as the hoplomachi with a broad rimmed helmet that enclosed the entire head, distinguished by a stylized griffin on the protome or front of the crest (the griffin was the companion of the avenging goddess Nemesis), a small round or square-shaped shield (parmula), and two thigh-length greaves. His weapon was the Thracian curved sword (sica or falx, c. 34 cm or 13 in long). They were introduced as replacements for the Gaulish gladiator type after Gaul made peace with Rome. They commonly fought myrmillones or hoplomachi.
Hoplomachus
The hoplomachus (Romanised Greek for "armed fighter", Latin plural hoplomachii) wore quilted, trouser-like leg wrappings, loincloth, a belt, a pair of long shin-guards or greaves, an arm guard (manica) on the sword-arm, and a brimmed helmet that could be adorned with a plume of feathers on top and a single feather on each side. He was equipped with a gladius and a very small, round shield. He also carried a spear, which he would have to cast at his opponent before closing for hand-to-hand combat. The hoplomachi were paired against the myrmillones or Thraeces. They may have developed out of the earlier '"Samnite" type after it became impolitic to use the names of now-allied peoples.
Some Sinar Camera Details
“The name SINAR is an acronym that encompasses the prime applications in the fields of still, industrial, nature, architectural and reproduction photography.”
At times the name SINAR is rendered into different titles the above quote and link is from an English version of a 2011 press release, “Sinar Photography AG Acquires the Brand Rights of Sinar AG,” Zürich: Sinar Photography AG. April 2011. The S in Sinar has also been stated as standing for studio, Sache, or science.
Whilst Sinar still make amazing cameras this is an older version and it is not the latest and greatest. In fine age it is still a picture taking marvel, but not easy, not handy and not great to transport. Then you luxuriate into the results and suddenly the struggles of lifting and moving of the all manual operation and friendly challenges of light metering seem to be gone for a few treasured moments of appreciation and even longer still as you think where next for a Sinar experience.
© PHH Sykes 2024
*Fujifilm also pioneered Electron Beam Coating (EBC) which according to Fujifilm, represented a new high in lens precision and performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujinon
Fujinon 75mm f5.6 - f45 SWD Super Wide Deluxe EBC Electron Beam Coating
http://www.subclub.org/fujinon/byseries.htm
Sinar
https://sinar.swiss/products/cameras/
List of Roman gladiator types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_gladiator_types
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