You knew I wasn't going to leave this alone.

The pattern of the light leaks from the Fashion Victim Camera was really odd. The top half of the image, which would have been at the bottom of the camera, was normally exposed. The bottom half, on top in the camera, was totally overexposed, divided by an unnaturally straight line for a light leak. If it had been unexposed, I could understand something getting in the way, but this was very strange for a light leak. Note the clear shape of a stray bit of tape blocking the film at the lower left of each frame. The answer finally occurred to me.

Many of my cameras have two pinholes, on the image axis, and a bit above it for limited rising front capability. Each pinhole is on a separate piece of brass. Because they're only 11mm apart, the brass has to be trimmed so one piece doesn't cover the pinhole on the other when they overlap. In this case, I got them trimmed so they just butted right up against each other, and didn't notice that it left a small slot between them when they were mounted.

On the inside, the opening is just a rectangle that accommodates both pinholes. Looks no different than the brasses overlapping, right?

What happened was that the gap between the brasses aligned with the top edge of the open area when the lower shutter was opened, creating what was essentially another aperture, though more of a slot and much bigger than the pinhole. When the shutter was opened, it created a very blurry and overexposed image in the upper half of the camera, obliterating the scene projected by the pinhole, and in the lower half, a practically unexposed image of the black back of the top shutter, leaving the pinhole image unaffected.

It had nothing to do with the translucent white card the camera was made out of, or the opacity of 3M #235.

The solution was simply another strip of opaque tape to cover that gap. On both sides, including a strip of cardstock for good measure.

Testing this hypothesis was relatively quick. I tried to recreate the images from the first roll.

Chanel products come in very good boxes. I'm loath to cut them up for cameras. Maybe someday I'll get into larger formats. They are also very handy and attractive for storage.

My new Cricut cutting machine came with a small supply of vinyl. Trying to think of an artistic use for it, I looked up the Japanese character for Kuro, the name I've given to my renovated Ventura guitar, and applied it as a headstock ornament -  matte black on the glossy finish.

A few of the new frets and the Black Winter pickups in a sunbeam with a mysterious, colorful reflection between them.

More of an action scene in that sunbeam. Pretty tricky to open the shutter and get your hand back on a chord for a five-second exposure.

My hair has been in a ponytail for over half my life. These are the best hair ties I've ever used. Anybody else notice this box is almost exactly as high as a 120 roll of film?

In workshops, where several people develop rolls of film that they've exposed in the same area as everyone else, there's often confusion as to whose negatives are whose. It occurred to me that using the first exposure for a selfie would solve that, in addition to being a chance to observe them exposing a frame and winding the film before they go off on their own. Last week, I led a workshop for high school students and used this camera to demonstrate how close to get, recreated here in the sunroom sunbeam.

The perfume shelf on top of the dresser in the bedroom.

We recently saw an episode of The Gilded Age in which the naive American heiress, the Duchess of Buckingham failed to signal her married status by not wearing a tiara. Tiaras have been substitutes for the halo of virtue and purity in religious art for centuries before that.

Body oil in a sunbeam.

Shrooms just after dawn.

Once again, the view from my place on the couch.

Simmering soup in the Le Creuset saucepan. 

Le Paquet Trente has two hand-drilled .21mm pinholes on the axis and 11mm above it, 30mm from a 6 x 5.4cm frame. This was my first attempt to machine-cut the film holder. I forgot to make a few lines to score and had to do some manual convincing to get the folds right. A Hasselblad only makes a 5.6cm square image, but I want the whole 6x6. The film is Kodak Gold 200 developed in a C-41 kit mixed in August and over its recommended capacity with this roll.