Scattered Thoughts . . .

M y 40 year old medium format film camera had a simple matte focusing screen on it which made focusing a bit difficult.  This matte screen simply showed the scene and you would have to sort of guess what was the best focus.  There was nothing to help you actually see if the image is in perfect focus.  Using only your eyes makes it easy to slightly miss focus especially with older eyes like mine.  I knew I wanted to replace this focusing screen with a better one. The main problem with wanting to replace anything on this camera is that this is a 40 year old film camera that has been out of production for decades.  Finding parts can be difficult.  Regardless, I went on a search for the type of focusing screen I wanted.   I wanted a screen with a split prism in the very center, a micro-prism collar surrounding the split prism, and a matte ground glass field.  These can be difficult to find now but I happened to find one in Japan so I purchased i...

I don't have a whole lot of recordings of myself on piano but I still do have a few audio clips left to share. So, before I head to bed and call it a night, I thought I would share a couple more recordings. Tonight's theme is movies. I'm going to share themes to two movies... the theme to "The Notebook" and the theme to "Chances Are". For what it's worth, I think that both are good movies but "Chances Are" is a much more entertaining movie. Actually, I wouldn't mind watching it again right now! As I've mentioned when sharing audio clips previously, these are just clips and not the full pieces.  Theme from "The Notebook", written by Aaron Zigman Unsupported Browser! Theme from "Chances Are" called "After All", written by Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow Unsupported Browser!