And golf.
I don't play golf. I play a closely related game I call "goof". Rules are the same. Scores are much higher.
This applies to baseball as well.
And golf.
I don't play golf. I play a closely related game I call "goof". Rules are the same. Scores are much higher.
My secret weapon (and I'm a repair technician, BTW, I fix air and electric power tools) is a 32 ounce ball peen hammer. The whole trick is knowing where and how hard to hit, and being able to deliver that strike accurately on both counts.
And golf.
I don't play golf. I play a closely related game I call "goof". Rules are the same. Scores are much higher.
It begs for a companion "Deadly wormwood" photo.Wormy deadwood, Pen F, 42/1.2, Pan F @ 80, Diafine.
Here he is again!
Trying out Kentmere 400 for the first time today (it's been in the freezer for over a decade, so I'd better see if it's any good). I'll expose at 640 just as if it were HP5+ and develop in Diafine. Then when everything goes to hell, I'll make some adjustments. Also, a new 50-90mm zoom to try out. Will need some humans to do that, which is a problem when under house arrest.
Not than anyone ever manipulates an image here, but I will say there are others on that roll of film that surprised me with their smoothness. The Kentmere 400 needed more spotting than HP5+ generally does, but otherwise behaved just the same. EI 640 in Diafine, Dried in a Kleen-Dri and scanned straight away. Good enough that I loaded another dozen cassettes this morning with 12 frames (=24 frames in the Pen F). I'll try to remember to put up a smoother one tomorrow.
Back when I had Leicas, I bought a couple of Walter eyepieces that corrected for astigmatism as well as myopia. These are polished to your prescription, and fit inside a ring in which they freely rotate with the bottom of the rotating lens weighted. That means the axis of the cylindrical correction for astigmatism stays right whether the camera is used the usual way or turned on its side. Fortunately I had bought the push-on kind, rather than the screw in. They fit loosely on the grooves of the Pen-F eyepiece (grooves that are there for the cold show attachment), but with some thin strips of paper and glue it fits quite well, and a dab of gorilla tape on top will keep it secure. It will have to be removed to open the back of the camera, for film changes, but the first roll will tell me if I'm wasting my time or not! Looks like I'd better clean that greasy thumbprint off the lens!
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Here's a smoother example of Kentmere 400 in the Pen F. This thick stem of honeysuckle has been growing at our house in NS for 35 years. It came from a cutting that my mother had grown elsewhere in NS, and also at several homes in the UK. Curiously, it was an illicit cutting stolen at a garden party at Buckingham Palace in the 1930's when one of my forebears had done something civic-minded and was rewarded with an invitation. It still flowers each year and we will be sure to take cuttings to the new house.
Where they ever invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace again after the poaching?
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