Originally posted by Nesster Actually, for 35mm film, a CVS in Hoboken does better work quicker and cheaper than Dwayne's -- I haven't been overly impressed by Dwayne's scans as they suffer from the usual over sharpened overly contrasty disease...
And really, we are famished for some Sightseer pics and I for one want to see the RML enviorns
I'll try and get out there ASAP: I really did a number on myself with that ice-busting thing, (My hands and shoulders in particular really did not appreciate that jarring) so I've been catching up on other things for a few days and getting some strength back. More or less recovered, though. Currently looking around a bit bewildered about, 'Now, what was I doing before all that, again?
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Checked out the 28mm, though. If only to discover, 'Wow, I totally can't focus this 3.5 lens in really dim light.'
(You wonder why I've been such a fast-lens fiend, coming from manual focus and all. But this is why I had to grudgingly-admit that the ol' Miranda wasn't doing it for me, when I was a wittle photog. The finder just wasn't up to scratch. Which in a way only makes you appreciate an SV: it's not high-tech, but it's quality, by comparison.
*test-firing.* Hrm. We have a hangup, here. Shutter will not fire when the lenses are set for auto-stopdown: the mirror locks up and it all hangs: after a few moments you can hit the shutter again and it resets, but the shutter never opens in this process, and you have to advance again. (Am I forgetting something, here?) Manual aperture seems to function OK, and the pin-pushing flapper seems to move fine.
Might be a weak spring or something somewhere in the mechanism, or maybe it's about lube, the humidity changes down here seem to make intermittent stuff happen. Was Sightseer CLA'ed somewhere along the way, just trying to remember?
Someone pester me to mix chemistry, though!