When I lived around farms we always called them grainerys. I grew grain never grans. Can any tell where the name granary came from.

Here in Twin Cities Minnesota the stores are out of skim milk, 1% 2% and whole milk the cases are almost full.
The Ice Cream cases are maybe 3/4ths empty.
Fever thermometers are unavailable locally and a wait of a month or longer to get any from Amazon.
Fast shipping of most things with Amazon Prime seems to br gone.

Here in Twin Cities Minnesota the stores are out of skim milk, 1% 2% and whole milk the cases are almost full.
The Ice Cream cases are maybe 3/4ths empty.
Fever thermometers are unavailable locally and a wait of a month or longer to get any from Amazon.
Fast shipping of most things with Amazon Prime seems to br gone.

Here in Twin Cities Minnesota the stores are out of skim milk, 1% 2% and whole milk the cases are almost full.
The Ice Cream cases are maybe 3/4ths empty.
Fever thermometers are unavailable locally and a wait of a month or longer to get any from Amazon.
Fast shipping of most things with Amazon Prime seems to br gone.

A flying naked woman seemed to make a good hood ornament.

I had a USB drive at broke I pulled the outer case off. My son saw a broken trace between the connector and the chip, he was able to re solder it with very fine soldering equipment. He worked in computer hardware development. I however only trusted the repair long enough to get the files off the device.

We can have a problem with time stamp on digital camera files.
I tried to reset the time on one of my digital cameras, I went past 2019 and kept going, I ran out of years
to choose some where in the 2030's. We might not still be using these old cameras than but it is something
to watch for.

All of the common mistakes: under expose, over expose, shutter speed too fast too slow, f-stop wrong
film speed not set correctly, film not hooked to take up spool, no film, no memory card, discharged battery with out a spare along, not focused, wrong focus points, shooting picture before the flash charged up.
A little less common I was sitting on the lake shore while changing film in the camera a canoe went by
with a topless woman in the front.
And one day I walked out with just the camera & lens when I wanted to take a picture I found I did not have the T2 adapter for my 28mm T2 mount lens, I attempted to take a picture with the lens held in front of the
camera body. I think that is called free lensing only part of the image was in focus.

Dean Sturgis

At risk of adding to this conversation I will add comments.
Years ago I took a jpg files from a negative scanned by a commercial processor of less than 3Mp, I opened it resaved it with out any changes I think 30 times. The last image did not look any different than the first, and after the 2 image the file size remained the same to the end. Some changes should not effect the image quality such as rotating by 90 degrees since the 4x4 blocks of the Bayer conversion of the pixel output remains unchanged.
But other changes I would think can destroy the image if resaved after every step. If you open the image & find it to dark go to Brightness & Contrast make the image brighter but with less contrast, save.

Open again correct the color and so on to make changes each step I will think the image will end up bad and probably smaller than the original file.
I lost where I put the pictures for the above files so I can't put them with this email

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Pentax Spotmatics that used mercury batteries had a bridge circuit for the meter. When the shutter speed & f-stop were adjusted for proper exposure the current thru the meter was 0 when the meter needle was centered. The voltage of the battery did not make any difference than.
The diameter of the mercury used was smaller than the other sizes too small to use a S76 size silver oxide battery. I had some luck with a smaller watch battery size & some aluminium foil to fill the space. However this meant I had the polarity revised. As I moved the diaphragm ring the meter needle moved in the opposite direction from what I expected. That made it a little clumsy to use.

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The camera takes 12 shots on 620 film.
In "civilian" form the camera was known as Imperial Mark XII Flash by the Herbert George Co.
It had a curved focal "plane" for nice barrel distortion.
Noticed the curved roof line.
I think my family had one of these cameras at that time.

Dean Sturgis

Did someone ahead of me buy the film or is it still for sale.

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That was called the eyelevel finder. Other TLR's had a full opening in the front of the hood to look thru often called a sport view finder.
With the Ricohs however the photographer was to fold the magnifier lens down in front of the hole in the back of the hood.
T%he directions say to sight for the picture with both eyes open. One eye to view the scene, other eye looking thru the hood will see
the lines in front of the hood as to where the picture area will be. The lines are for both 2 1/4 in square photos and 35mm photos
there was an adapter for 35mm.
I don't remember trying this i don't know how easy it is.

Dean Sturgis

I am interested in the 70mm lens.
Let me know the details for payment etc.

Dean Sturgis

Vuescan. You do NOT want to run unsupported operating systems in
If you don't let the computer the computer connect yo the internet what is the problem?
The Nikon 5000 will run with Windows XP. But Vuescan works fine with newer computers and
you don't need to keep an extra one around.

Dean Sturgis