Heavy scratching down the entire roll of Reflx Fortuna, starting and finishing about 1" from each end.
Not sure if it's from the 3d printed film cartridge or the camera, but pretty disappointed.
Dropped off my first roll through the Tasco 7800, and first roll of Reflx 110 Fortuna, for developing today.
Hoping, but not optimistic, for no light leaks. I suspect I am going to have light leaks from where the camera mounts to the binoculars, one of the screw holes is cracked, tried a repair but it wasn't too successful.
Shutter wasn't firing when shutter release was fired.
Took it apart and found the problem, the shutter mechanism consists of two plates with a cutout that move together when the film is wound and then when the shutter is released they slide back and cross each other, exposing the film as they cross. The forward plate is held by the second plate using a very tiny bent piece of the plate, and it had slid behind the top plate.
So when wound, one plate moved, and when fired only that plate released.
Took it apart, cleaned, lubed, and realigned the plates, fired 20-30 shots to make sure it didn't pop back out of place, and reassembled. Had to put a drop of glue in one hole due to the female thread post cracking.
I'm going to gaffers tape a lot of the seams, it seems ripe for light leaks, no seals anywhere in the camera. I may make a seal for where the camera box screws to the lens, it's just the plastic box against the lens base there.
Since the Minolta 110 Zoom is out of commission due to the winder sometimes fully advancing and sometimes not, I'm going to load a roll in my new Tasco 110 Binocular Camera and go see if it works!
Edit: Didn't get that far, I just got the binoculars and the shutter isn't opening when I the shutter release is pressed, so I have to tear the camera down and see what's up.
I bought an untested Minolta 110 Zoom, tried to run a test roll through and the film advance locked, took it apart and fixed it, tried to run the roll through and had more mechanical problems, fixed those, but now had no time to develop the test roll before vacation, so.I gambled and took it, and shot 3 rolls through it, got the scans back from Brooktree today, and at least half are like this.
I knew the risk of taking an untested camera, thankfully I also took some 35mm.
Going with a two tone green and white, leaning towards the SUV kit, but may just go with the pickup, since I am keeping my Forester for towing our kamparoo, and then buy a used SUV kit down the road if I want it (really depends on what the ease of conversion is going to be).
I was tempted to match the paint scheme on my high school pickup truck, Christmas green and red two tone on a '79 Dodge.
We started with four small scoops in a little plastic bag from the farm store a month ago, and now there is nearly 100% coverage from it. The local insects are happily crawling along the top for water.
It may be time to scoop some out and offer up on our local garden group.
So I have a home brew magic item that some bad guys were using to capture an NPC.
It functions like a Bag of Holding, but inside is a small piece of the void, and it can pull a target into it when activated (and suppresses magic) and hold the target/items inside this void of nothingness.
The item was activated and locked on to a target, when a PC grabbed it and shoved it into the bag of holding (actually a snazzy hat, not a bag, but it is on his head currently).
We ended the session there, since it was late.
I'm trying to figure out what should happen, it functions like a bag of holding/portable hole, but mechanically is different.
Ideas I have:
1: Void over powers pocket dimension and opens permanent doorway, starts sucking things in when bag is opened.
2: Bag implodes catastrophically.
Other ideas? Suggestions?
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We've been racing to get it finished, since our garden is open for the Forest Grove GardenWalk next weekend.
I still have some little things to do, add a few more rocks, hide hoses for the fountain, build a box for all the solar components, but it's complete enough to sit in the summer house and enjoy!
We are in the final stages of implementing Clickup, and ran into a snag as our IT team came back and told us that the business plan cannot be integrated with teams and SharePoint, only the Enterprise plan allows it.
I don't feel this is correct from what I have seen online, can anyone confirm, that has integrated on the Business plan to their Microsoft apps?
We are almost done with our pond, we put plants in last weekend, and started putting plants around today, we need to pickup more rock to finish around it.
I noticed throughout today, this brown scum started appearing and there was quite a bit by the end of the day.
According to some preliminary searches, it could be the start of some sort of bloom.
Any idea what it is, we have two dogs with access to the backyard, so I want to keep them safe, I am probably overly paranoid about harmful algae and dogs.
What we are doing so far:
Pump with fountain, filter, and UV clarifier has been running all week.
We have a small floating barley in the pond.
I know we need more floating plant coverage, we've had a hard time finding more than the same three options around us, and we need plants on the bottom, again, selection/availability hasn't been great.
We also need more shade, we put in some plants today, but they will take a while to get big enough to help.
Any other tips/suggestions?
How do I keep everything in my kitchen from getting stained?
I am a big fan of Jamaican curry, U was doing some menu testing for my wife's birthday party and making Jamaican curry beef on lotus bao or tostones, and everything in my life is now yellow.
Sink. Yellow.
Counters. Yellow.
Dogs. Yellow.
Curry heavy cultures, are your kitchen counters just stained?
Help. My now yellow wife is upset.
Lots of plants left, especially native plants, still a good amount of perennials, ornamental grasses, and shrubs.
Come on by and help support the Forest Grove GardenWalk open gardens event coming up the second weekend in June!