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camera repairs

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.06.25

I've got the good news from the camera repair shop in Illinois that accepted my old XD-11. The work is done, and it's on the way back. At the same time, I got my test rolls back and it seems that the X-700 light seal fix did the job -- no more light leaks!

I'm still not sure about the meter in my old 35DC rangefinder, but I'm not done experimenting with it, either.

Here's what it looked like when I had my XD unit apart to fix the viewfinder (semi-successfully, as it turned out).

my Minolta XD undergoing surgery

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong