No RF, temporarily, can I still hang out?

[rbiemer]

About two weeks ago, I was out on the frozen lake and slipped on the ice. I didn't land on my Bessa but it landed on me. Hard enough to knock the vertical RF alignment out. I didn't want to attempt to fix it myself, so I sent it back to Stephen to be fixed.
So I am temporarily rangefinder-less. For the first time in about 4 years, I don't have a RF camera with me. The R will be shipped back home(I'm only here in Raquette Lake for the next 4 weeks) and I didn't bring any other with me.
I do have a Yashica MG-1 that I am resealing but haven't finished that task, yet. First camera I've done this on so it's taking me a while--and I do not want to hurry; that would lead to a poor job of it.
Maybe I can do some stop motion animation with my new digital; with a 2 gig card in it I can shoot a few over 5,000 photos at the lowest image settings--that's about three minutes at 24 fps.
Cool, I get to be an Auteur!😀
Rob

 

[Ken Ford]

No rangefinder, fetch coffee for the rest of us.

(Hope your R comes back quickly!)

 

[rbiemer]

Snowshoes? I fall a lot in those things--still haven't got good with 'em.
I should have been wearing my Yak Trax, though.

No rangefinder, fetch coffee for the rest of us.

Hey, I'm busy Auteuring over here!😀
But I called my people and here you go.

Rob

 

[dee]

Buy a Zorki which probably will never work properly - then you will always have a de-ranged - finder .

 

[JoeV]

Rob, you could walk around on the street, gazing at strangers with a transfixed look, while crossing and uncrossing your eyes to mimic the action of a rangefinder focus patch. This would keep you in fine shooting skills while your camera is being serviced.

I've also thought an interesting idea would be to fashion a dummy camera, say carved from a block of wood and painted black, and pretend to take pictures with it. It would be interesting to observe how the action of taking pretend photographs affects those around us in the same way as taking 'real' photographs, as if there were little difference between the two.

Have fun anyway until your Bessa returns.

~Joe

 

[David Murphy]

Some here once said something to the effect that you'll be visualizing frame lines after hanging out here too long.

 

[rbiemer]

I'm not twitching much so far but there is one thing I really do miss:
using the CV 21mm! I don't have anything wider than 28 for the cameras I have with me now.
I have been looking at and buying a few things( and those are at home waiting for me), some silly and some very silly; I bought two of the Konica Wai Wai "disposable" cameras--I've looked at the reloading info and have reloaded a few other "disposables" so these will be fun, I got a Clarus camera just for the 50s industrial look of it, and (very silly, I know) a Gameboy with its camera😱 !
But I have been able to resist spending any serious money on stuff I don't really need. So far. Soon as I get home, the Zorki 3m will go off to Oleg for some work(it's leaking light so I didn't bring it with me ), I'll recover my FED5 from my dad(I'd hoped he could use his woodworking skills to make me a side grip for it but he doesn't quite understand what I want so that project is on hold until I can explain it better), the Bessa ought to be returning just about the same time as I get back to Cortland, and I'm going to put all my cameras in a big pile and do some serious reduction.
A "rational" kit by the time I come back to Raquette Lake is the goal!
I used to say that my hobby "is still cheaper than beer and hookers", I suspect it's somewhere in the middle of that range now...😀
Rob

 

[rbiemer]

I poured a lovely cup into a priority mail flat rate envelope and sent it...maybe I should've used ups?
😀
Rob

where's my coffee?

 

[rbiemer]

Well,
I'm almost done with the MG1 and will get some photos with it of the frozen lake Friday(I'm planning that, anyway)--my first real day off in a while--and will be staying on a few days after we're done for the season.
Rob

you need a yashica gsn or minolta himatic 7 to get back in the rangefinder groove...