Speaking of enlargers. A helpful seller on eBay was kind enough to part out the Focomat IIc parallelogram he was selling and sold me only the threaded helicoid receptacle. I now, finally, have the 100mm lens mounted and can make prints from 6x6 negs. I’m very happy about this.
I tested the big Beseler in the spare room with the bare minimum of fuss and it worked! The filter mechanism is a little janky, so have work to do, but the takeaway is that I can once again make prints from 4x5 negatives!
Creator: “Welcome to the channel, where we do such and such! Today’s video is about such and such and I’m pretty stoked, so let’s get right into it!”
::Break for unnecessary 45-second intro…::
Creator: “Alright! Hi Guys. Like I said, todays video is about such and such and….”
From one makeshift darkroom to another. The Beseler still works so I’m going to try printing some 4x5 negatives later. There’s no water in here, which is inconvenient, but it should be workable.
Gosh, the Technika is lovely. Shame it’s been unused for so long. Maybe I’ll fix that today.
Now Playing: Primus “Pork Soda”
Briefly considered going from Doom Emacs back to a home-rolled vanilla config but realized I’d just spend the next two years basically rebuilding Doom from scratch so never mind.
I like Bruce Dickinson fine, but I’d sure love to visit the alternate timeline in which Paul Di’Anno stuck around.
An email said, “You need a modern email client to view this email.” but my copy of Mu4e was released Nov. 2021 so I’m confused
Beautiful. Melancholy. Rewards patience.
Poor Olaf
Trying something with Org-roam and Hugo baty.net/2022/publ…
This morning I thought, “Hey, I think I’d like to tinker with Linux” so I upgraded Regolith. Nope, it hung somewhere in the middle so I reinstalled it. Now, this happens if I try booting an encrypted disk.
10 Minutes later: ::downloads Mint::
Still amazing. Almost anything else you could spend an hour on would be worse.
This big guy is waiting patiently for when (if) I get a real darkroom one day.
The “dry side” of my darkroom is really just a bathroom closet, but I love it.
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) directed by Don Hertzfeldt is still amazing. Almost anything else you could spend an hour on would be worse.
I’ve been using Emacs for 7 or 8 years now and yet I’m still new to Emacs.
I’ve been ironing fiber prints between two pieces of card stock and then pressing them under heavy books for a day or so. This gets them reasonably flat. Much better.
