Recent content by Don_ih

Retouching a 35mm negative would require a lot of skill. I've determined I can't even retouch a 4x5 negative.

Not sure about that. He could see that on the ground glass - plain as day.

Yeah, it's annoying how easy it could be but seemingly impossible in the darkroom. You could make a print, touch it up with pencil, then rephotograph it. That would work best with a large print for doing the touch up. And, of course, depends on your skill with a pencil.

I'd assume that except for the use of the word "meter" in But an old shutter like that is probably not running at 1/500 -- or any other exact speed. The best advice is probably to directly check the meter against a known good one. A phone app would probably work well enough.

You're going to make someone very happy.

That may be the worst description you could get. But it sounds like the meter is close enough through the shutter speed range for b&w. Try a test roll using the values the meter gives. Check the results by developing.

I mentioned several years ago that I found a print of yours in a thrift store. I'd been on here less than a year - I found it odd to find a print from someone on here.

Touching any of those Zeiss cameras with a screwdriver is very daring.

It may show up some day.

Probably the best course of action. The last thing you need is to make something worse. I'd put all the screws and parts in a bag and slip the inner works into the case and send it all like that. Just make sure it's all there.

There are plenty of useful answers to "What is art?" If you don't bother trying to understand any of them, it's your own problem. Matt's position there was fine. "Art" is a very very large area of human activity.

"Transformative" is a vacuous term in his use. A legal interpretation would be on a case-by-case basis, decided by a judge. Would a judge find that print "transformative"? Depends on the judge. How much of an argument is there that colouring the photo is a significant change in statement...

I think if you happened to let the winding gear go backwards too far, it may have damaged a spring on the other side. I've seen warnings about not turning those gears backwards. But I'm not sure.

Art doesn't need to be original or unique to be art. It just needs to be the result of whatever artistic process you engage in. Does it need to say something? No. But it can. Art is the most common thing in the world - you're currently surrounded by heaps of it. Most of it is meaningless and...

I've never dealt with a Hasselblad like that (I've fixed a number of 500 el/m Hasselblads). But this is what it's supposed to look like: But what you describe with the mirror sounds like it may be a bit of a serious issue.