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SOLVED: Tech contacted me, looks like Crud bounced around during shipping and settled on the prism. Removed focus screen and blew it off of the prism with compressed air, almost all of it is gone now

Just got my AE-1P back from CLA and everything else is great, but it doesn’t look like the VF was cleaned on the prism. I had my other AE-1P serviced by the same guy and it came back immaculate. Am I expecting too much if I ask them to fix this?

I shot these in Nov. ‘25. Same day, different locations.. before and after sunset.

A package from LA arrived today.. my buddy who directs music videos and commercials sent me these short ends he had left over from a film test for a shoot he did last year. There is an estimated 25ft left of 250D and 15ft of 500T. Single perf 16mm. When I get my 110 cartridge situation figured out..(used carts or 3D printed ones) I plan on bulk loading a couple of each for testing.

Scored this little guy in an auction for $34! It even has the battery holder, flash connector caps, a little case (that’s seen better days) and an original lens filter!

When I print large objects, my ender 3 is having major issues with first layer adhesion on the far edges of my build plate. The center has extremely good adhesion, probably too much, but when the head goes to about 20% from the left and right edges, many of the first layer lines just come off of the plate. This pretty much limits me to using only half of my build area.

I have leveled my build plate as good as I can get it with the paper method, though the center gets REALLY tight when the edges are good. I’ve used the octopi bed level visualizer and it verifies this, looks like a house roof.

I am currently using the creality magnetic build plate and I’m wondering if it’s time to upgrade to a glass build plate or is there something else I could do?

Whoever left their big spool of orange filament in the street bettwr come get it, its supposed to rain tonight.

So yesterday I became the proud owner of this beauty. One thing i didn’t think about ahead of time was lens protection. This has a non-standard filter thread of 48mm so my filter/hood options are limited to overpriced ones specially made for canonets, using a step up ring, or sourcing a finding an OEM Canonet lens hood/filters on ebay. I could design and 3D print a slip on lens hood (and I very well may, at least for now, the existing ones kind of look a bit awkward and not very thoughtfully designed.

Are any of you shooting Canonets? What have you done as far as lens protection?

So I recently picked up a 645n from my local shop. I took it out for a test roll yesterday and i will have to say, this thing is going to cost me so much in film!! It was so fun to shoot and so easy! I still love my Bronica SQ-Ai but it’s tedious to shoot and takes a LOT of concentration!

I’ve ordered a strap since it didnt come with one. The guy at the shop thinks they may have a 220 back for it ( i already have a second 120 back). I think the next thing i will purchase is a compatible flash and then I will start deciding which lenses I’m going to want.

Any lens suggestion?
Any other accessories I might want to look into picking up?

So i went in to my local camera shop today to grab some film and dev chems. I noticed a bunch of used cameras out on one of the display tables. I saw this and immediately started testing it out. It was marked a little higher than I normally see these sell for on ebay, but it was fully tested and comes with a warranty. It is in extremely good condition and came with an equally clean 50mm f1.7. After i got this home I played around with it for an hour or so. There is definitely a learning curve with this camera, but it is fast to autofocus (when there is enough light) and it has all the features i will ever use. It even came the Depth creative expansion card. (Though the only ones i would really care about are the Data Memory cards).

I can’t wait to run a roll of film through it.

My 7000i will be jealous.