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Subject: [OM] some problems
From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:13:09 -0300
I spent a few days early this week hiking Baxter Park in Maine, USA, and
managed to run a few rolls of Kodak Elitechrome 100EC. I could also use some
advice for a couple problems.

I have started to upload a few photos of the trip to this site,
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=312695, but suddenly my old HP
Photo Scanner started putting out everything with a lot of "colored edges"
everywhere there is a line in the picture and generally making every picture
quite blurry. I don't have any idea what the problem would be called
technically. Anyone have any ideas what might be a solution to this problem
other than religating the HP to a boat anchor and buying a new one?

Another first on the trip, I dropped a camera for the first time. Okay, it
was not an Olympus, but was the Yashicamat 124G. It was wearing the hard
case at the time, and the only visible physical damage was that the small
plastic window over the light meter needles fell inside, and seems to have
possibly bent the needles. Of course the light meter no longer reads right,
though the needles will move slightly. Any recommendations for repair for
this archaic machine? It will probably need some internal adjustments now as
well.

Most of the time when hiking I carried the OM2s, 4 primes, 28/2, 35/2.8,
50/1.8, 100/2.8, and a Samyang 18-28. Mostly I only needed the 28 and the
100mm.  The weather was a lot of cloud and rain, so the 100mm was often shot
wide open becuase of the darkness caused by the thick woodland and the
weather. Moose were quite plentiful, and the 100mm was all I needed for
photographing them. It may sound incredible, but sometimes I could not get
all the moose in the picture with 100mm, so you can imagine they were quite
close. I guess they get used to hikers. The scenery around the Mt Katahdin
is quite nice as anyone who has been there will likely know. This was my
first time there. The hiking trails were quite rugged for my abilities
though, but the legs are starting to recover.
Wayne







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