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This is a continuation of the view camera story begun on the 4x5 baush&Lomb thread.
It's one of those days you wouldn't wish on any of your ex husbands or wives... Well maybe on one of them.
I rushed out this morning to shoot a camera, one I hadn't really used much. I wanted to post a shot from it and then work on my view camera build.
I went to the cemetary where I shoot a lot of test shots. At first things seemed to go fine, then I pointed the camera to a statue and the lens was flapping. Flapping? That's not right, I thought. Sure enough the lens strut had popped loose from the bottom of the lens board. The lens was no longer level with the film plane. I tried to put it back but the pictures were crap.
The crap was made worse by the fact that the new daylight tank I had made from plans on another website, leaks light. Enough I screamed at the negative...
After an hour to let my blood pressure drop, I began to build a tank that I know is light tight. Then to make some parts for the new view camera build. I was messing with the camera's lens board when my wife knocked on the studio door.
"I think someone hit my new car in the parking lot."
I went out expecting to see a small ding in the door but nooooo, the bumper is pulled loose from one side of the car. It was sticking out about three inches. "You reckon somebody hit this?" I asked it as I stared at the month old car.
"What am I going to do," she said. It was in anguish I might add. Now that I am older, and my health is shakey, I don't tinker with cars. The car is the first new car she ever owned. I had always paid for and kept her cars running previous to this one. So when she had to pay for her own repairs, she decided she needed a new car it would be cheaper than the 500 a year in repairs on her paid for car. I never tell other people how to spend their money, so I nodded and said sure.
She looked at the bumper, then thought of the upcoming car payment, and the 250 dollar deductable and looked almost ready to cry. I took pity on her.
I fitted the bumper back in place and snapped the latches. I am going to compound the black marks off the bumper if I can. The long and short of the car is that it won't have to go to the shop after all.
But when she left, the view camera I held in my hand was gone. I couldn't find it anywhere. I had carried it out to look at the car because I expected a paint chip. So what had I done with it, while I banged away at the car?
I looked about five times before I broke down and called her at work. Odds were about 100 to one that I had put the camera INSIDE the car but I had a vague recollection of opening a door on the car. I fully expected the camera to be in several large and small pieces spread over the road somewhere between my house and her office. Odds were great that I had left it on top of the car.
She was good enough to go look and found it inside the rear of the car. My first bit of good luck of the day. Now I just have to decide what to do with it. I'm getting really tired of this build. But I will perservere
It's one of those days you wouldn't wish on any of your ex husbands or wives... Well maybe on one of them.
I rushed out this morning to shoot a camera, one I hadn't really used much. I wanted to post a shot from it and then work on my view camera build.
I went to the cemetary where I shoot a lot of test shots. At first things seemed to go fine, then I pointed the camera to a statue and the lens was flapping. Flapping? That's not right, I thought. Sure enough the lens strut had popped loose from the bottom of the lens board. The lens was no longer level with the film plane. I tried to put it back but the pictures were crap.
The crap was made worse by the fact that the new daylight tank I had made from plans on another website, leaks light. Enough I screamed at the negative...
After an hour to let my blood pressure drop, I began to build a tank that I know is light tight. Then to make some parts for the new view camera build. I was messing with the camera's lens board when my wife knocked on the studio door.
"I think someone hit my new car in the parking lot."
I went out expecting to see a small ding in the door but nooooo, the bumper is pulled loose from one side of the car. It was sticking out about three inches. "You reckon somebody hit this?" I asked it as I stared at the month old car.
"What am I going to do," she said. It was in anguish I might add. Now that I am older, and my health is shakey, I don't tinker with cars. The car is the first new car she ever owned. I had always paid for and kept her cars running previous to this one. So when she had to pay for her own repairs, she decided she needed a new car it would be cheaper than the 500 a year in repairs on her paid for car. I never tell other people how to spend their money, so I nodded and said sure.
She looked at the bumper, then thought of the upcoming car payment, and the 250 dollar deductable and looked almost ready to cry. I took pity on her.
I fitted the bumper back in place and snapped the latches. I am going to compound the black marks off the bumper if I can. The long and short of the car is that it won't have to go to the shop after all.
But when she left, the view camera I held in my hand was gone. I couldn't find it anywhere. I had carried it out to look at the car because I expected a paint chip. So what had I done with it, while I banged away at the car?
I looked about five times before I broke down and called her at work. Odds were about 100 to one that I had put the camera INSIDE the car but I had a vague recollection of opening a door on the car. I fully expected the camera to be in several large and small pieces spread over the road somewhere between my house and her office. Odds were great that I had left it on top of the car.
She was good enough to go look and found it inside the rear of the car. My first bit of good luck of the day. Now I just have to decide what to do with it. I'm getting really tired of this build. But I will perservere