This time I’ll duct tape it into the handlebar bag
When I got home from work this afternoon, I found my replacement *istDS sitting out in the middle of my front porch. Aside from being a little astonished that FedEx would just leave the camera out there going “yoo hoo, burglars, come steal me!”, I am very happy that I’ve got a real camera again, not only because it’s a real camera but because the Olympus D510 CBC has reached the point where it just sits there and sullenly flashes its lights at me instead of doing camera things.
To get this picture, I had to pick up the disassembled Kodak C763 and hold the pieces together while the photo shoot was going on. That’s why it’s so elegantly in focus.
The next handlebar bag (which I guess I need to sew up this weekend; I was going to braze up a front rack for it first, but it’s more important to have a handlebar bag without extra camera springing action) is going to have a mesh inner lid that I can fasten down around the pentax; I may just split the inside into two side-by-side partitions and put a mesh cover over one of them while leaving the other as a fud bin. And when I do braze up a front rack and build a larger rando-style bag, it will also have a camera partition and a mounting point to attach a shock cord that I can tie the camera to (I do still lust after an EVIL camera, but after a month of using various EV point and shoots I’m much less enthusiastic about the whole washed out and hard to focus through EV part of the equation. Perhaps a lottery win and an Epson R-D1 or Leica M9 (the only way I’d be able to afford either of those cameras, damnit) followed by the purchase of a lot of bubble wrap to protect them when I’m out on the line?)
But, anyway, the new camera has arrived, and now all I have to do is put the katzeye focusing screen into it and figure out how to repair my F1.2 lens (or buy some old FD glass and go at it with bold hacksaw and file to give it a m42 mount) and I’ll be almost as good as new.