This afternoon!

My dad: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

He's right, you know.

Family birthday party today for Elizabeth, myself (I'm 35 soon!), and velvetpage's brother!

Oooh, also...

I received some very nice early presents today, including Season 1 of The IT Crowd from summerfields. Thanks, guys!

I also got this from my parents:



All the components seem to be working together fine. Next step is to locate some compatible film. It uses 116 film, which is no longer sold, but I hear some kinds of film currently sold would fit the spool.

Through the Looking Glass?

momentrabbit noted that some owners of antique cameras do something called "Through the Viewfinder" photography, to create images that might resemble actual shots taken with their cameras. A quick initial effort produced some grainy, muddy images of the dining room chandelier with a couple of balloons hanging from it.


It looks like a photo from a particularly unsuccessful Soviet moonshot in 1960.

Of course, the setup was suboptimal. For the best quality photo, I would need... SCIENCE. So, I sat down and made... AN APPARATUS.


BEHOLD!

( Let's look inside the box! )

Science AND TECHNOLOGY!

...and also I soldered something! Poorly! I'm a superstar, today!