6x6 trouble

[k_jupiter]

Sometimes I find myself turning a 6x6 folder 90 degrees for a better composition.


Steve.

You laugh but I have developed film shot in my folders and am always perplexed when I find out I did exactly that. And didn't remember doing it.

DUH!

tim in san jose

 

[lxdude]

Sometimes I find myself turning a 6x6 folder 90 degrees for a better composition.

Steve.

Do you point it to the right or the left?

 

[lxdude]

i can live with the broken backwards ground glass

You should have broken it forwards.

 

[guitstik]

If you break it forward, can you see into the future?

 

[Steve Smith]

Do you point it to the right or the left?

Yes.


Steve.

 

[tomalophicon]

It's 6:25 AM here and soaking in caffenol sounds like a good way to develop a better attitude than I have right now. A cute fuzzy kitten wouldn't hurt either, but I no longer have a girlfriend.

Be careful, kittens tend to bite and scratch.

 

[lxdude]

Sometimes I find myself turning a 6x6 folder 90 degrees for a better composition.

Steve.

Do you point it up or down?

 

[lxdude]

Be careful, kittens tend to bite and scratch.

I'm happy to say hers never did.

 

[lesm]

Look, the easiest way to resolve this is to take your camera to the Large Hadron Collider and ask the scientist in charge to slip it in with the next experiment. It'll blow the thing to bits and reassemble it in the next adjacent universe, which should fix the problem. Of course, you won't know if that universe is to the left or right or up or down, but according to String Theory it's only a millimetre away, so it should be easy enough to find if you grope around a bit.

The other option, I suppose is to ask my great aunt Millicent (bronze medallist in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1932 Olympic Games and a keen photographer). She's been dead a few years now, but she comes through on the second Thursday of every month at about 9pm. I could ask her, if you like?

Les

 

[removed account4]

hi les

i would appreciate it ...

i looked at some of the film that has gone
through the camera, and it looks like it wasn't
taken by me ... i have to stop watching la jetée

 

[lxdude]

That Large Hardon Collider must be something to see!

 

[olleorama]

Look, the easiest way to resolve this is to take your camera to the Large Hadron Collider and ask the scientist in charge to slip it in with the next experiment. It'll blow the thing to bits and reassemble it in the next adjacent universe, which should fix the problem. Of course, you won't know if that universe is to the left or right or up or down, but according to String Theory it's only a millimetre away, so it should be easy enough to find if you grope around a bit.

The other option, I suppose is to ask my great aunt Millicent (bronze medallist in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1932 Olympic Games and a keen photographer). She's been dead a few years now, but she comes through on the second Thursday of every month at about 9pm. I could ask her, if you like?

Les

Liar. Women aren't allowed to do Greco-Roman in the olympics, only freestyle wrestling.

 

[lxdude]

Maybe she looked like a dude, like some of those East German women later on.

 

[olleorama]

Maybe she looked like a dude, like some of those East German women later on.

Nothing wrong with bearded women. I'd take a Bulgarian shot-puteress any day.

 

[ajmiller]

... i have to stop watching la jetée

"Other images appear, merge, in that museum which is, perhaps, his memory." ( sounds better in French!)

La Jetée - best ever use of a Pentax Spotmatic......

 

[Steve Smith]

Do you point it up or down?

Yes.


Steve.

 

[Steve Smith]

I often hear people in Europe who quote paper and film sizes say the width first, then the height. In other words, where I might say a photograph is 8x10, a person from across the pond might say 10x8.

Just to confuse things, I say 5" x 4" and 8" x 10"


Steve.

 

[removed account4]

"Other images appear, merge, in that museum which is, perhaps, his memory." ( sounds better in French!)

La Jetée - best ever use of a Pentax Spotmatic......

i think so to ...

if i could only get my photographs to mumble ... i'd be in heaven

 

[lesm]

Well, as promised I asked my great aunt Millicent last Thursday night. Her suggestion was to wait for the first full moon in December. Find your way to the ancient Aztec Temple of Oxyacetylotl in the rainforest of northern Mexico (a shaman will appear in your dreams with directions, or you could Google it). Climb to the top (taking your camera with you. You'll need an eye-level prism finder) and you'll see a stone altar with a gold casket in the middle of it. Inside the casket will be a roll of 120 film. At nightfall, load the film, then lay down on the altar with your head facing north. As the moon comes up it will shine a beam between two columns, and this beam will shine onto the middle of your forehead, opening up the third eye. THIS IS THE EYE YOU MUST NOW FOCUS WITH!! Sit up, put the camera to your third eye and take a photo of the moon at f11 and 125th. If you've followed these instructions carefully, you should find that from now on all your 6x6 photos will be the right way up. However, they'll all be 2 1/4" x 2 1/4", so you'll have to compensate.

At least, that's what Aunt Millie said. She got it from some entity in the Pleiades.

Hope that helps,

Les

 

[Jeff Kubach]

That's funny that is I what did!

Jeff

 

[jp498]

Since it's german, you need a metric screwdriver to adjust it. This is also a left handed screwdriver as you have to hold the camera in your right hand while adjusting the sensor.

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=21

The sensor might need a drop of 710 fluid on it too. The 710 from the factory might be all gummed up. Some lighter fluid will clean the old 710 off.

 

[jp498]

I was doing some research on this, as I have the same problems with mine. Turns out it's a historical problem. Margaret Bourke White had similar issues with her TLR back in the 40's.

The advice is not to use lighter fluid to clean the orientation sensor. Prop wash should be used instead. Margaret hung out at the airport and borrowed it as needed. Since it's a combustion component known as an oxidizer, you might not be able to get it at large commercial airports; go to a small local airstrip instead.

That skyward gaze is her thinking about how the image gets transformed in the camera, and vertical and horizontal and left to right and stuff. I'd imagine she was doing some before and after test photos.

 

[removed account4]

I was doing some research on this, as I have the same problems with mine. Turns out it's a historical problem. Margaret Bourke White had similar issues with her TLR back in the 40's.

The advice is not to use lighter fluid to clean the orientation sensor. Prop wash should be used instead. Margaret hung out at the airport and borrowed it as needed. Since it's a combustion component known as an oxidizer, you might not be able to get it at large commercial airports; go to a small local airstrip instead.

That skyward gaze is her thinking about how the image gets transformed in the camera, and vertical and horizontal and left to right and stuff. I'd imagine she was doing some before and after test photos.

thanks for the suggestion and historical note.
i live down the road from an airport, maybe i will
give your / her suggestion a try !

john

 

[guitstik]

Well, as promised I asked my great aunt Millicent last Thursday night. Her suggestion was to wait for the first full moon in December. Find your way to the ancient Aztec Temple of Oxyacetylotl in the rainforest of northern Mexico (a shaman will appear in your dreams with directions, or you could Google it). Climb to the top (taking your camera with you. You'll need an eye-level prism finder) and you'll see a stone altar with a gold casket in the middle of it. Inside the casket will be a roll of 120 film. At nightfall, load the film, then lay down on the altar with your head facing north. As the moon comes up it will shine a beam between two columns, and this beam will shine onto the middle of your forehead, opening up the third eye. THIS IS THE EYE YOU MUST NOW FOCUS WITH!! Sit up, put the camera to your third eye and take a photo of the moon at f11 and 125th. If you've followed these instructions carefully, you should find that from now on all your 6x6 photos will be the right way up. However, they'll all be 2 1/4" x 2 1/4", so you'll have to compensate.

At least, that's what Aunt Millie said. She got it from some entity in the Pleiades.

Hope that helps,

Les

Your aunt must subscribe to Maxxum because that it where I saw those same instructions but it was for making macadamia nut toll house cookies while increasing your sex drive.

 

[lxdude]

I don't want to increase my sex drive. 20 miles is far enough as it is.