Things retrieved from my grandfather's house (travels)
by at 8:09 PM
- An ophthalmologist equipment box (with no equipment inside — he had plenty of equipment but I just really liked the box)
- A few more of my grandma's pots (she was a fairly well-known potter in her day) and a glass ashtray
- A collection of small bottles - several classic bitters bottles (my grandma's), several old prescription bottles for phenylbarbitol (my grandpa's), and three really old, unopened, still-with-now-rather-concentrated-fluid-inside travel samplers of various liqueurs (could be either)
- My great-grandfather's (my grandma's dad, b.1875, d.1964) ceremonial "deputy sheriff" badge; he claimed that this gave him actual police officer privileges (which the accompanying certificate makes the case for) but apparently he was just a pretty big ol' braggart and wanted to be the big man around town. There's no date on it but it's signed by Sheriff Elmer Michael Walsh which dates it sometime between 1946 and 1950.
- A really awesome 50' tape measure from Sears and Roebuck Corporation
- A broken-but-repairable "brownie" camera (Falcon Minicam Junior); the optics are dirty and foggy and there's a puncture hole on the casing which would need to be covered by electrical tape, but there is still a manufacturer of 127-format film (in Croatia!), so maybe I could take some (very foggy) pictures with it (although I suspect that processing it will be a major pain)
- An excellent-condition Miranda T (35mm film camera), in excellent condition except that I can't seem to figure out how to open the film (and the controls are a bit wacky compared to more modern cameras); it has two lenses, a 50mm f/1.9 and a 135mm f/3.5. Both smell strongly of my grandpa's house. I really wish Silicon Film had ever made it to market.
- My ophthalmology records from when he was still practicing. Age 13, glasses deferred. (Age 32, I still don't need them most of the time.)
- An exposed roll of Kodachrome KR 135 print film. I believe I will be sending some business to Dwayne's rather shortly.
- An eclectic collection of ties
- A rather nice leather jacket
Comments
It's not very high-res (although not as bad as Oscar's in SoMa).
We had a bunch of worthless phones left over when L****ail quit mobile development, which we chucked into a "free phones" bin. I took a Samsung something-or-other with the intention of gutting it and putting the CCD in my Holga. The problem, as I discovered, is that the camera module is tightly self-contained, and it's hard to separate the lens from the CCD. Even if I did, I'd probably ruin it. Plus, given the vast difference in frame size between 35mm and a phone camera, I'd probably lose any semblance of focusing.
Basically, I should just stop attempting to make things.