{"id":6965,"date":"2025-04-21T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:19:06","slug":"richmond-trestle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=6965","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Trestle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I shot this in 2023 with a damaged Sputnik. On my way to the location, I was doing something with my camera bag, and it suddenly inverted, spilling out both my spud and my (brand “new”) Heidoskop onto the pavement of the parking lot. I soon discovered that the fall caused the Spud shutter to become partially inoperative – I had to close the shutter manually… it behaved like a bulb setting (actually worse, I had to push up on the cocking lever to close the shutter). <\/p>\n

I shot this scene with the Spud, timing the exposures around 1\/2 second by the “seat of my pants.” The Heidoskop had worked better, it didn’t appear to have suffered any damage; but I later discovered it had developed a large light leak, because of a broken seal in the custom roll-film back – so none of the exposures from that camera were any good. <\/p>\n

Just goes to show: even a busted Spud can make good images! <\/p>\n

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P.S.
\nIn the interim, I’ve not had much success with fixing the Spud shutter. My efforts on that front are detailed in this Patreon post<\/a>. Last year, Bob Venezia was kind enough to send me several Spud lens boards\/shutters, to help me fix this thing, but alas, I’ve not yet gotten into it deeply enough to succeed with the repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I shot this in 2023 with a damaged Sputnik. On my way to the location, I was doing something with my camera bag, and it suddenly inverted, spilling out both my spud and my (brand “new”) Heidoskop onto the pavement of the parking lot. I soon discovered that the fall caused the Spud shutter to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[778,607],"tags":[47,793,115,43],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d26","category-dragon","tag-boris-starosta","tag-built-structure","tag-provia","tag-spud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}