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I am in the process of fixing up another Voigtländer

..so cool!
Wish I had the patience (and talent) to do stuff like that.. I remember trying to fix the shutter of one of my L35AF's once, I failed, and felt like I needed a holiday afterwards 😅

Hope all goes well with the Voigtländer, looking forward to the first pictures!

If you want memes this isn't the place, in case you haven't noticed 💁‍♂️

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@gdkhgd - apologies, didn't mean to come across like an ass, and I'm sorry I wasn't of much help.

Have been through numerous computer dramas with both my parents - and my father also used to live abroad, with bad reception (and fucking Windows Vista back then, ugh).

This might sound stupid, but have you asked your old man already five times if he is really really sure he didn't write down the password of the machine somewhere when he set it up?

That sounds like a headache 😅 ..but good to hear you got it working in the end!

Jesus Christ

..ah, gotcha - thanks for clarifying! 🙂

Sorry, but if you were able to just bypass that lock by starting up while holding certain keys it would be pretty pointless don't you think?

A few weeks back I picked up a Voigtländer Vitoret DR

..nice find, and those picures look really crisp indeed!
Lovely light as well 🥰

That the selenium meter still works 50+ years later is amazing 😅

You could have at least waited until that bus came 'round again 🙃

To be frank the christmas house was slightly more impressive, but I appreciate the effort! 😀

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This was a 1/4 and 1/8 stacked

..ah, good to know, thanks for the feedback!

Did you shoot the same scene with the 1/4 or with 1/8 only, as well?

got a black list diffusion filter

..black mist, not black list, right? 🙂

I think I'd use one of those from time to time as well, maybe one that's a bit less strong though..

berghaus munro

those look pretty nice 👍

can buy them new from china

I don't follow, was under the impression berghaus is from the UK?

..indeed! 😀

I was wondering whether this is targeted at (wealthy) individuals that use it to scan their own rolls, or rather little independent businesses that offer scanning services for others..
..I mean if you already have a proper DSLR this would probably allow you to set up a nice compact workstation that allows you to do just that 🧐

Just had a look on eBay, for what it's worth a Frontier or Noritsu station is more like 5-10K, so maybe things like the above will be more popular in the fure, who knows?

I guess it all depends very much how prices for film will develop in the coming years (and thus how much demand there will be and how much people will be willing (and able) to pay for scanning on top of that..
..speaking of - Kodak will no longer sell longer bulk rolls of film outside of motion picture productions it seems..

Just saw this scanning system on IG, the Filmomat 135 Autocarrier.

That's for shooting.
And (at least that's how I always understood it) that's in regards to color negative film.

They say to increase exposure 1 stop for every 10 years it's expired 👍

Ok, then if I were you I'd probably try to find installers for older versions of Word / 365 (as, if I understood correctly, the iMac worked well with the previous versions), uninstall the new ones, install the old ones, and then prevent them from auto-updating obviously.

Another idea for general system maintenance would be running Onyx.
Might not solve your problem, but worth a shot.

I suspect your problem is a combination of a) the iMac being almost 10 years old and b) it probably is too slow / too weak / has too little RAM to run the most recent 365.

I'd maybe try to re-install MacOS.
Which could be a huge faff, depending how tech-savvy you are and how much time you have on your hands (backing up all the things, re-installing software etc.)
I'm neither familiar with 365 nor the recent Quark express, but maybe you can indeed get installers for older versions of these, so you'll end up kinda where you were before Word auto-updated 365 - but with a nice, clean MacOS install. This would help for sure (and you'd then take measures to keep 365 from being updated to a version your computer can't handle).

Probably adding more RAM (if the iMac isn't maxed out already, which I guess it isn't) would help as well - if I remember correctly those old iMacs were still upgradeable (via slots in the back I think), you'd need to find what kind of RAM exactly you need and likely find it for not too much money on eBay etc.

If you would share details on your system (Apple menu top left of the screen, "about this mac") it'd be a bit easier to help.

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My fjallraven that I’ve had for the last 15 years just got knicked in town. Luckily no valuables lost. But wondering if there’s a good casual backpack replacement out there.

You don't say what your budget is or how big it should be, but I think Patagonia has some great options.
Bit pricey maybe, but the quality of their stuff is really good (and their "worn wear" repair program does work nicely in my experience).

I also saw this Lowe one around town a lot lately, looks really nice and simple I think (would have bought one myself but I needed something a bit bigger, and with a padded laptop sleeve).

Getting another Fjällräven one surely is an idea as well, although they really are fucking expensive for what they are in my opinion.