Weekend
May 17th - 20th, 2007 by the numbers:
- 1008.8: Number of miles added to my car’s odometer.
- 100: Number of dollars spend on take home beer which isn’t available to me locally. (Westmalle, Orval, Ommegang etc. . )
- 4: Number of rolls of hp5+ that my Olympus Trip 35 chewed through.
- 6: Estimated number of photos that aren’t completely boring.
- 2: Number of those photos that could possibly make it the this site’s main gallery due to the subject matter.
- 1: Number of Olympus Trip 35s that need to be opened up again for further augmentation of the 1/200th & 1/40th modification.
Now, it was a little disappointing that on the last day, the ability to set & keep the camera in the 1/200th mode disappeared. But, the field testing was needed. The mechanism that makes this choice between the shutter speeds is a bit weak, and I couldn’t have really expected the fix i made to have lasted forever. On the positive side, I’m 95% sure I know exactly what went wrong, and already have a feasible solution in my head on how to modify it internally so that it has no choice to set it self back to 1/40th unless I tell it so. Shutter speed subjugation will be mine.
I also acquired my SLR, so I can take some macros of what I’ve been doing to this camera internally. So the modification guide should be completed with illustrations in a few weeks.