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DescriptionGroove and needle in close embrace from beginning to end.jpg	English: Technics SL-1200 with SME model 3009 series II improved pick-up arm and Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge. This image displays both the initial and final positions of the pick-up cartridge with the stylus below resting in the record groove. A music signal is generated when the vinyl record with its engraved audio signal is accelerated to the precise rotatation speed and the lowered stylus thus travels the full length of the groove inwards from the perimeter, i.e. from the beginning to the end. Deutsch: Technics SL-1200 mit SME model 3009 series II improved (en:Wikipedia) Tonarm und Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge Tonabnehmer. Abgebildet ist eine Überblendung sowohl der Anfangs- als auch der Endstellung des Nadelträgers über der auf der Schallplatte aufliegenden Abtastnadel. Beim Übergang von der Anfangsspur außen zur Endstellung ganz innen wird das in der gleichmäßig rotierenden Tonrille analog kodierte Audiosignal abgetastet. Die Nadel bewegt sich dabei jedesmal auf der absolut gleichen Spur von Anfang bis Ende. Español: Tocadiscos Technics SL-120 con brazo mejorado SME modelo 3009 serie II. La imagen se creó montando dos imágenes utilizando la técnica de secuencia de enfoque para mostrar los puntos de inicio y finalización del brazo. Magyar: Technics SL-120 lemezjátszó SME model 3009 series II improved lejátszókarral és Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge hangszedőtartó kagylóval. A kép két fókuszsorozat technikával készült kép montázsával készült a lejátszó kezdő és végpontját ábrázolva Македонски: Почетна и завршна положба на грамофонска игла. Nederlands: Begin- en eindpositie van de naald op een grammofoonplaat die op een platenspeler ligt Português: Toca-discos Technics SL-1200 com braço melhorado SME modelo 3009 série II. A imagem foi criada montando duas imagens utilizando a técnica de empilhamento de foco (Focus Stacking) para mostrar os pontos de início e finalização do braço Українська: Початкове та кінцеве положення тонарма (ричаг звукознімача) на початку і в кінці відтворення платівки, яка розташована на програвачі. Čeština: Počáteční a konečná poloha ramene pro snímámí signálu z gramofonové desky. Эрзянь: Ушодксонь ды сех пе таркась стилусонть пластинкасо кона ашти велявтомасо.
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField	© Franz van Duns / Wikimedia Commons /  category:CC-BY-SA-4.0 Click at right to access descriptions in other languages if not accessible within standard "Description" area above Deutsch: Technics SL-1200 mit SME model 3009 series II improved (en:Wikipedia) Tonarm und Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge Tonabnehmer. Abgebildet ist eine Überblendung sowohl der Anfangs- als auch der Endstellung des Nadelträgers über der auf der Schallplatte aufliegenden Abtastnadel. Beim Übergang von der Anfangsspur außen zur Endstellung ganz innen wird das in der gleichmäßig rotierenden Tonrille analog kodierte Audiosignal abgetastet. Die Nadel bewegt sich dabei jedesmal auf der absolut gleichen Spur von Anfang bis Ende. Español: Tocadiscos Technics SL-120 con brazo mejorado SME modelo 3009 serie II. La imagen se creó montando dos imágenes utilizando la técnica de secuencia de enfoque para mostrar los puntos de inicio y finalización del brazo. Magyar: Technics SL-120 lemezjátszó SME model 3009 series II improved lejátszókarral és Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge hangszedőtartó kagylóval. A kép két fókuszsorozat technikával készült kép montázsával készült a lejátszó kezdő és végpontját ábrázolva Македонски: Почетна и завршна положба на грамофонска игла. Nederlands: Begin- en eindpositie van de naald op een grammofoonplaat die op een platenspeler ligt Português: Toca-discos Technics SL-1200 com braço melhorado SME modelo 3009 série II. A imagem foi criada montando duas imagens utilizando a técnica de empilhamento de foco (Focus Stacking) para mostrar os pontos de início e finalização do braço Українська: Початкове та кінцеве положення тонарма (ричаг звукознімача) на початку і в кінці відтворення платівки, яка розташована на програвачі. Čeština: Počáteční a konečná poloha ramene pro snímámí signálu z gramofonové desky. Эрзянь: Ушодксонь ды сех пе таркась стилусонть пластинкасо кона ашти велявтомасо.
InfoField	© Franz van Duns / Wikimedia Commons
Date	28 April 2019, 14:33:53
Source	Own work
Author	Franz van Duns
Other versions	File:Technics SL-120 turntable and pickup (same body): frontal view of turntable, pickup-arm, and raised plexiglass cover
Taken with InfoField	This photo was taken with Sony ILCE-7RM2
Taken with InfoField	This photo was taken with Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS

Camera location	51° 28′ 40.8″ N, 7° 33′ 18″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	51.478000; 7.555000

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This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 5 December 2020. It was captioned as follows: English: Initial and final positions of the stylus on a record sitting on a turntable Other languages: Čeština: Počáteční a konečná poloha ramene pro snímámí signálu z gramofonové desky. English: Initial and final positions of the stylus on a record sitting on a turntable Español: Tocadiscos Technics SL-120 con brazo mejorado SME modelo 3009 serie II. La imagen se creó montando dos imágenes utilizando la técnica de secuencia de enfoque para mostrar los puntos de inicio y finalización del brazo. Magyar: Technics SL-120 lemezjátszó SME model 3009 series II improved lejátszókarral és Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge hangszedőtartóval. A kép két fókuszsorozat technikával készült kép montázsával készült a lejátszó kezdő és végpontját ábrázolva Nederlands: Begin- en eindpositie van de naald op een grammofoonplaat die op een platenspeler ligt Português: Toca-discos Technics SL-1200 com braço melhorado SME modelo 3009 série II. A imagem foi criada montando duas imagens utilizando a técnica de empilhamento de foco (Focus Stacking) para mostrar os pontos de início e finalização do braço Македонски: Почетна и завршна положба на грамофонска игла. Українська: Звукознімальна головка з п'єзоелектричною звукознімальною голкою тонарма (ричаг звукознімача) на початку і в кінці відтворення платівки на програвачі. العربية : موضع البدء والانتهاء لإبرة المحور لقرص الفونوغراف موضوع على فونوغراف.

NOTE: This image is a focus stacked image of Record player consisting of 20 images that were merged using Zerene Stacker Version 1.04 Build T2018-07-19-1515 (licensed). As a result, this image underwent digital manipulation which may have included blending, blurring, cloning, and colour and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different than reality at the points where the images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions. العربية ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ português do Brasil ∙ русский ∙ slovenščina ∙ ไทย ∙ українська ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Additional Information edit

en: The record player / turntable is a Technics SL-1200 model.

• The pick-up arm is a SME model 3009 series II improved.
• The pick-up cartridge is a Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge, search for phrase "V-15".
• This image is a multiple exposure composed as a focus stack of 20 images (see "Technical Details / Making of" below).
• To be precise I took two focus stacks, one with the cartridge on the left and then continuing seamlessly to the rear with the other stack after having carefully lifted the cartridge to the right. These two stacks were subsequently merged into one single image, now sporting two pick-up cartridges which convincingly illustrate the stylus' movement from, as the contest required, beginning to end.

de: Die Modellbezeichnung des Plattenspielers ist Technics SL-1200.

• Die Bezeichnung des Tonarms lautet SME model 3009 series II improved (en:Wikipedia).
• Der Tonarmkopf trägt die Bezeichnung Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge, Suchbegriff "V 15".
• Dieses Bild ist eine Mehrfachaufnahme bestehend aus einem Focus Stack von 20 Einzelbildern (siehe nachfolgende Abschnitt auf Englisch "Technical Details / Making of").
• Genauer ausgedrückt habe ich zwei Focus Stacks aufgenommen, den ersten mit der Abtastnadel links, dann den anderen nahtlos nach hinten angefügt, nachdem ich die Abtastnadel vorsichtig auf die rechte Position umgesetzt hatte. Diese beiden Stacks wurden im Nachgang pixelgenau aufeinander gesetzt, so dass das resultierende Bild zwei knackscharf abgebildete Tonarmköpfe enthält, um, wie es das Wettbewerbs-Motto vorgab, überzeugend "Anfang bis Ende" zu demonstrieren.}}

Technical Details / Making of this Image edit

• Focus stacked image.
• [1] Camera: Sony Alpha 7RII, 42 Mpixels, sensor size 7952×5304.
• [2] Lens: Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS.
• [3] Scope: 20 images
• [4] Camera / lens settings: manual mode, ISO 100, 1/5s, aperture 11.0, bias (=exposure compensation) 0.00, WB (white balance) AUTO, colour space 'sRGB'.
• [5] FOCUS STACK recording: camera attached to sturdy tripod, rotated lens circumference by 0.50 mm between images, total focus span covered after rotating lens by 7.5 mm: approx 100 mm (from nearmost to most distant focus spot), self timer 2s, images stored both as JPG and 16-bit 'ProPhoto-RGB' RAW (.ARW).
• [6] Adobe Lightroom: (a) Imported JPG images, thus no Preset, but all lens corrections applied (b) exposure +3.33 (c) saturation -100 (= B&W) (d) Sharpening: amount 50, radius 1.0, detail 25, masking 20; Noise: lum 50 color 20 (e) exported as TIFF/16bit, retaining 'sRGB' colour profile.
• [7] FOCUS STACK processing: (a) tool 'Zerene Stacker' 1.04 Build T2018-07-19-1515 (b) first stacked 9 images with pick-up cartridge on the left, then the other 11 with pick-up cartridge on the right via 'PMax' method, resulting in two intermediate images (c) combined these two intermediate images into one (d) some retouching with the corresponding Zerene Stacker function required on both pick-up cartridges to prevent background from showing through (d) exported as one JPG/8bit 'sRGB' image.
• [8] Adobe Photoshop: (a) imported stacked JPG/8bit image, allowing conversion to colour space 'ProPhoto-RGB' (b) mask:NO (c) tone curve: 0>0, 9>60, 128>123, 240>255 (d) removed sensor specks (e) enhanced sharpness:NO (f) cropped:NO (g) saved as JPG max. quality file.
• [9] Dimensions: Width of depicted half record: approx. 155 mm.
• [10] Wiki Commons categorisation: 'Category:Technics_SL-120'.

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Ephemeral Glory edit

Ephemeral Glory 01: POTD on Wed., 2019-06-05: This image was featured as "Image du jour / Picture of the Day" on the main page of the French Wikipedia titled "Photographie à double exposition d'une platine tourne-disques montrant le phonocapteur au début et en fin de lecture du disque microsillon.".
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Ephemeral Glory 02: POTD on Sat., 2020-12-05: This image was featured as "POTD / Picture of the Day" for Wiki Commons (all 100+ languages).
Ephemeral Glory 03: POTD on Sat., 2020-12-05: This image was also featured as "POTD / Picture of the Day" on numerous pages spread over 39 Wikipedias (i.e. 39 languages).
List of Wikipedias and Wikipedia User Pages that displayed this image on Sat, 2020-12-05: av, az, be-tarask, bg, cv, da, en, es, fi, fr (2019-06-05), hi, hu, hy, is, it, kab, ka, ko, lbe, lez, lv, mdf, mhr, mk, mr, mt, myv, nl, os, ps, pt, ru, sah, sat, tt, tyv, uk, vep, xal, zh. One day later only 28 wikipedias remained.
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