A film photographer and print maker living in Seattle. I write about the process of restoring and using very old cameras to make analog prints from film images in my home darkroom.
Hey Merveillians, anyone interested in putting together Ben Eaters bread board computer?
I made the kit and loved it, but had to dissassemble it for storage and I’m not interested in doing it again.
Free to a good home (or cover the shipping if it needs to go somewhere).
Today’s metal fabrication! Three hooks made from 3/8ths round stock and some large ball bearings. First time tig welding (so cool) and bending with heat using an acetylene torch.
We worked out of my friend Matt’s shop (and he did all the tricky tig welding for us 😆)
I have a cold, so I think I might be dying
Let me preface this by saying that I am in absolutely no way an audiophile. But at the same time this pair of beautiful speakers came across my path for cheap and I couldn’t say “no”.
So now I own a pair of Dahlquist DQ-20s. The foam surrounds have failed on the woofers and I’m setting about repairing them.
I’m not sure if my modern AV amp will have enough power to drive them well. But I guess we’ll find out!
Picked up a cheap minolta autocord. I LOVE these cameras (this is my 3rd 🤦). They are small, light, easy to repair, and have an exceptional lens.
This one is in crazy good condition, maybe the nicest I’ve seen. But the focus was jammed.
It’s not unusual for these to suffer from old grease that’s turned to concrete seizing up the focusing mechanism.
The helicoids aren’t hard to get to, but it does involve removing a lot of parts so it gives us an opportunity to tour the camera a little.
So here we can see lifting off the front panel, which protects the shutter and communicates the aperture and shutter speed settings to some convenient windows at the top of the plate.
Below the plate we can see the shutter and a collection of rotating plates that communicate between the winding mech on the right side of the camera and the shutter.
The crank on the right rotates a ring that charges the shutter. Another ring communicates rotates when the shutter trigger releases and unlocks the next winding.
NOOOOOoooooo
I got my kid one of these little m-vave FM synthesizers for his birthday thinking that we could use his old casio keyboard as a midi controller. Unfortunately I think the keyboard is only midi in so far as “it will communicate midi to a computer with the right driver”
So now I’m in the market for a cheap midi keyboard. hahaha