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Sunday, Mar. 17, 2024 - 12:05 p.m.

Guy on FB who I know chiefly from the zine days wrote like the equivalent of a 5 page essay about how he’s now learning Scottish Gaelic and in detail here’s why that’s challenging, here’s how Gaelic pedagogy is different in each of the relevant British nations, and here are all the grammatical, phonological, and orthography features he finds interesting/challenging so far and I’m like, oh hey! I didn’t realize you’re autistic too?! *high five*

Anyway after sleeping through to 6am after a brief wake up to drink water at 10:30 after my 3 hour nap, this morning I developed the pinholes I took in the last week, refilled the cameras, pondered in frustration on why that one camera only ever overexposes things, no matter how carefully I have remeasured it and calculated the aperture. I realized I could just cover up the bad pinhole and make a new and better one like a quarter inch from the last one, so I did that and also with several other cameras I had around that were always disappointing me like that.

Then I made new cameras from some tins I’ve had waiting around since last summer. Then gave them a numbered ranking by f/ in my pinhole app so I can easily see how fast they are, and then divided them into two groups so now I have one case that just has f/100 and under and another with anything over that. I still have some larger ones that conveniently won’t fit anywhere.

Then I devised a new system to help me tell whether there is paper in the camera and whether it’s been exposed yet or not (color coded magnets, since all the cameras are tin).
I can use the same system (specialized magnets) to tell apart which type of paper I have in the camera (I just reordered two types of paper, one a positive and one the usual negative paper) and maybe even for some cameras that are ambiguous, Landscape or portrait orientation.

I also had the idea that I can make multiple apertures with separate magnet shutters so depending on the conditions I can use whichever. That effectively doubles the number of cameras, though it wouldn’t be that useful on all. But like my large format one with a very high f/, I could also make a smaller f/ for use when appropriate. I do think I’m brilliant sometimes.

Need another nap now.

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