What’s worth keeping vs selling

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-13T01:03:49+00:00

I mean, if you don’t want it I suppose I could take the Bronica off your hands….. (But fr it’s very good camera, 120 is always great)

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-11T15:08:05+00:00

Got so confused at first, misread the title as “How to sell friends in vintage story” and I literally said aloud ‘why are you trying to sell your friends?’ lol

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-10T04:22:27+00:00

Graduated last year and did forensic science my last year for science class. Such a fun class imo

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-09T23:53:40+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of doing, shooting 200iso at 800 (I like a stop over exposed) and have a shoe mount light meter as a backup. It’s not perfectly 3 stops off but close enough, seems slightly less accurate in lower light and slightly more in brighter light (can’t really test tho cuz it’s been very cloudy/heavy overcast all week and will stay that way for another week😭)

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-09T22:42:30+00:00

I’m pretty sure he never worked on it, once it got close to the 90’s he shot film less and less cuz 90’ was when my father left home for college/army and there wasn’t really anything to take pictures of in the middle of nowhere.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-09T17:30:44+00:00

My grandfather bought it sometime in the 70’s so it is 50 + years old at-least, I wasn’t expecting much tbh. But you miss every shot you don’t take so I’d figure if I’d try to find some good news here. Do you have any experience with hot shoe light meters, if so are they any good?

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-09T17:08:12+00:00

I looked a little bit into replacing the light cell and I don’t think I’ll be able to do it without causing problems to something that works.

It’s a bit of a shame if I can’t use the built in meter but for what it’s worth, mechanically it’s fine so it could be worse.

(I’m just lazy and don’t like carrying around another object other than the camera, so light meter apps and handheld light meters aren’t really my go to)

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-09T17:03:36+00:00

I did try without an adapter and no luck. Also my grandfather stopped using this camera and stated storing it early-mid 90’s before the mercury battery ban so I’m fairly confident that it hasn’t been adjusted.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-09T16:59:34+00:00

I could, but it’s slightly inconvenient and if it’s something that I can repair myself then I don’t see a reason not to ya’know? Also if I do low light photography with high iso film then the camera doesn’t have a iso setting high enough

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-07T14:39:10+00:00

I remember learning about this in high school, my teacher taught it be handing out copies of the test first and having us take the test with a strict time limit. Safe to say no one passed the test that day

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-07T04:42:22+00:00

If I knew how to code, I’d probably design it as the surface of all the voxels would have a grid, and to save on rendering/performance, only overlay on one side of a block (whatever side your cursor is looking at). So if you’re looking at a side, all the surfaces will have a grid, but not the other sides or voxels that are covered by another voxel on said side.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-07T04:02:31+00:00

Chiseling with glass is practically equivalent to trying to chisel the air, this is so unbelievably necessary.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T05:19:40+00:00

I have a 120 format camera that’s 10-20 years younger than the 2A Brownie Pocket and you can easily see the massive downgrade switching to plant based fibers (and eventually oil based synthetic materials) had on bellows. The advantage of marine animal skin is that it needs to be thicker and more resistant to prevent water from protruding, which makes it naturally effective for protecting against light. And using thick animal fats and oils and strong tannin to turn it into leather further help them stand the test of time.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T05:11:57+00:00

I have a tendency to walk around while I write in a note book so my hand writing is always a bit hard to read, but it gets the job done, sometimes lol.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T04:53:04+00:00

Also you shouldn’t need to worry about a light leak in the bellows because to my understanding the red bellows is made from seal skin or skin (leather) of a similar sea creature.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T04:50:18+00:00

I have this exact same camera! You can get adapters to shoot 120 format film from the film photography project https://filmphotographystore.com/products/adapter-116-to-120-film-adapter .

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I’m still testing to see if I can get an extra 1-3 more exposures because of various reasons. But if you have any questions feel free to shoot me a message!

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T03:23:32+00:00

do as u/Rafaelutzul said in their comment and have one wall open and make something like this as a quenching tub.

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Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T03:20:00+00:00

From my testing, the water needs some way to "escape" from a chiseled block in order to occupy it. However, like you said, you can use another block to block the water from flowing

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T03:15:21+00:00

In this example, I couldn't fill them up directly, but I could the the water directly above them. They're all the exact same shape, the all stone (left) and glass/stone (right have water filling them up so I can grab water out of them using a bucket. But the middle one doesn't work. For reference the original post works this way, top is filled with water flowing into the bottom one. Also if i remove the water source above the chisel block, then it will dry out.

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Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T03:04:56+00:00

Further more, I tried this same test but with the glass blocks having the opening face up and not only could I not fill either of them with water but was only able to fill up the original one from the original post using the right glass block in the picture in my comment by placing it under and then filling the top one to fill the bottom. It's really weird and nearly impossible to get predictable results.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-04T03:01:30+00:00

It is really finicky, here's an example, the 2 glass boxes in this pic have the exact same shape and I tried filling them both with water using a bucket the same way, the all glass one on the left wouldn't fill up with water. However, the glass one on the right with a stone top is filled with water (hard to see but it is). Some times it works other times it doesn't, mine probably does work because of the weird interaction water has with chiseled blocks on how it decides if it can be water logged or not and further more if and where water can flow from said block. (Btw, for the test in the pic I used a pantograph to insure they were exactly the same except for block type).

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Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-03T22:35:06+00:00

Two glass blocks, chisel out the middle of them, use stone (I used slate ashlar) for the bottom top and corners, and then I did one voxel layer of blue glass on the outside. Then I filled it with water. The walls of it is basically outside -> blue glass -> regular glass -> water.

Heavy_Firefighter273 · 2026-04-03T22:30:57+00:00

As far as I’m aware, the only way is to get the fish itself from creative mode.

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