The template with the new image chamber box for all sizes has to be tested, including the 35mm Populist. Good thing it got checked. I laid out the new part a few millimeters too short. Easy to adjust if you notice it before folding and gluing the part.
Materials again provided by local business Kimberly-Clark with this diverse set of hands.
Of course it's going to work, but the rules say you gotta put some film through it. Unfortunately, the clicker underperformed and the yield was particularly low from this roll. I have to quit telling myself I can hear a very faint click and just remove the film in the darkroom and fix it. Even taking it out in room light in the two cassettes would only lose one frame instead of half the roll futzing with an inneffective clicker.
Socializing after the walk.
Then it was Pinhole Day. A selection of cameras to choose from, arranged by angle of view.
Sarah and I went up to Appleton and stopped to see the current exhibits at the Trout Museum. If it looks like the upstairs gallery seems dark, it was washed with video projections. You can see the blue lens of one of the projectors at the upper left.
Out the second floor windows, the giant steel origami bird on the roof of the entrance to the museum watches over Houdini Plaza. They've just started building a new museum a couple blocks down College Avenue in a partnership with Lawrence University. I wonder what they're going to do with the bird?
The third floor hallway. This would have been good for the "high key" theme a couple years ago.
We stopped to snoop at World Market. Lots of quirky imported goods in addition to a very entertaining foodstuffs area. We left with chips, cookies and oat-milk chocolate. Maybe they were crisps and biscuits.
An iconic first sign of spring.
Unfortunately in Wisconsin it's often not a definite indication. An hours long, wet and blustery blizzard occurred on April 2nd. More white on white. That high key challenge was in October. Most of these people grew up in the pre-climate-change upper midwest. No one would dare suggest such a theme in April.
The magnolia was ready to go, but had the sense to wait when it got covered in snow.
The daffodils were starting to come up. They can survive almost anything before they blossom.
The poor crocus was almost completely buried in snow.
The brilliance of what the container said was a "classical cedar finish," somewhat muted by the snowfall.
The crocus made it through and opened up when everything melted.
Working on that self-portrait theme for the Fox Valley Photography Group.
Photographers gathering for the Photo Opp photowalk in DePere.
Brandi chose the 103° Wisconsin Amber Wide Angle. That camera seems pretty close to her, but almost her entire body is in the image.
Across the street, there was a painting on an easel out in the yard. As I set up the camera, the painter came out to introduce himself. He did it in college in 1970 and thought it was better out here than in his basement.
A selection of backdrop papers included in the donations to Photo Opp.
And toward the end of the day, hanging out watching the negatives scanned and appearing as positives on the screen.
The handmade Handicam has a hand-drilled .15mm pinhole 24mm from a 24x36mm frame. The film is Lomography 100 developed in Cinestill's liquid quart kit.
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