claire

claire

@protosphere.me

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claire
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Lol. Lmao. Service tech just let me know that someone who didn’t really know what they were doing has been into the Leica I model B, and that the shutter/lens assembly can no longer be opened without a high risk of it not being able to go back together

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I do very much appreciate the tech knowing where to stop though. It really reinforces the fact that I can trust him with even my rarest cameras

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bargain camera!! it really seems to be fully working and just needs a rangefinder calibration

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hell yea got a rollei xf35 from the local camera shop for €12.50

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@protosphere.me

Verified the rangefinder calibration now that it’s light, it was spot on. Popped in a fresh weincell, and the meter was also spot on!

claire
@protosphere.me

bargain camera!! it really seems to be fully working and just needs a rangefinder calibration

claire@protosphere.me

hell yea got a rollei xf35 from the local camera shop for €12.50

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I did put a tiny mark on the top plate trying to get under the leatherette to remove it which I’m annoyed about. But now I have a fully working camera for the price of a roll of film!

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chat i decided to decline the repair and do it myself. entering my shutter repair era

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repair quote for the copal 3 is more than what another shutter is worth, wonder if i should just count my losses…

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“completely fucking up a copal 3 shutter” speedrun (but i have not much to lose at this stage. even if i fail i can buy another shutter for less than the repair cost. so i may as well give it a go)

claire
@protosphere.me

thinking about how “i would like one egg ball from _the wall_” is a completely fine sentence to say here

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love to buy a new sweater and then put a hole in it after a only a few hours because it got caught on a wire on my softbox

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@protosphere.me

between this and the incident last week and i think the world is telling me i shouldn’t be taking photos

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#filmphotography #deadformat yes this is very last minute and i am slightly treading on folder week's toes, but i was too excited about this idea to let it die

claire
@protosphere.me

why is it nearly impossible to actually buy a film these days. i don’t want to pay for a whole fucking streaming service, i want to watch one (1) film

claire
@protosphere.me

is apple tv/itunes the only place you can outright buy a film? (asides from blu-rays, which increasingly seem to be going towards expensive limited editions for anything vaguely not mainstream)

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Got a print of this one made. It looks great!

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Teatime at the Windmill Nikon F5 • Irix Firefly 15mm f/2.4 • Kodak Portra 800 Sat here and chatted with the molenaar (miller I guess?) for an hour and a half over tea, about the history of the mill and other random shit. Lots of fun and interesting stories. #believeinfilm

claire
@protosphere.me

Teatime at the Windmill Nikon F5 • Irix Firefly 15mm f/2.4 • Kodak Portra 800 Sat here and chatted with the molenaar (miller I guess?) for an hour and a half over tea, about the history of the mill and other random shit. Lots of fun and interesting stories. #believeinfilm

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@protosphere.me

at the frame-by-frame pace i get this will take about five hours for a full roll, so I'm going to be a bit more selective about what I scan

claire
@protosphere.me

Shot some film over lunch for the first time in like a month today and got yelled at for having a camera

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@protosphere.me

some of the film holders were broken, so I fixed them up with some nice thin (but strong) 3M tape that looks a lot nicer than the silver tape the previous owner used (pic 1). And it’s probably less likely to get caught in the scanner this way too

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@protosphere.me

It’s not perfect, but these things go for hundreds of euros per piece these days so I’d rather fix than replace

claire
@protosphere.me

folks I got all the cables for it today and I would like to announce that I have a working Imacon Flextight III

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@protosphere.me

Just got the camera back from service and immediately jammed it in the same way while testing functionality 🫡

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Got it unjammed. Folks, don’t play around with the T setting on the shutter before reading the manual. You can break your camera.

claire
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Owner of the store was able to unjam it by taking off the bottom plate and manually triggering the shutter

claire
@protosphere.me

repair quote for the copal 3 is more than what another shutter is worth, wonder if i should just count my losses…

claire
@protosphere.me

I emailed catlabs (US) to see if I could get one express, but they haven't replied in a couple days. Only other option is to order one from China, but that takes ~3 weeks and I really need to be able to test this thing by next week