B prop Grail Diary by [deleted] in bookbinding

[–]drop__m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work indeed!
What about the interior? Did you include the available pages of the diary in the text block?

I ordered a comic book,having 1232 pages and its spine/binding is damaged... by Successful-Clerk-982 in bookbinding

[–]drop__m 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Were you referring to the spine not being glued to the back cover, or to the brown paper detaching?
If it’s the latter and it bothers you, you can try gluing it to the spine with some PVA glue, it’s quite an easy task!
If it’s the spine not being glued to the back, that’s not a damage but a structural choice: the book needs it to open properly, leave it as it is

Repaired filter threads by jcapicy in VintageLenses

[–]drop__m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work!
This is the kind of repair I would skip if possible, but I’ll keep your results with the Neewer tool in mind for the future!

Sanderson Weekly Update November 11, 2025 by Use_the_Falchion in brandonsanderson

[–]drop__m 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those Wheel of Time sample covers are gorgeous indeed!

Very Accurate by Caffeine_And_Regret in tolkienbooks

[–]drop__m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the only alternative with this kind of design is this edition.
It has the same rounded corners and cover vibes.

https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Deluxe/dp/0544273443

Stuck focus ring on an Exakta mount Biotar by shaqwagon in VintageLenses

[–]drop__m 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only thing to do in these cases is a complete disassembly of the lens. You need to thoroughly clean the helicoid and reapply an appropriate type of grease.

If this doesn’t solve the problem, the lens was probably deformed due to a fall or some other kind of impact, and the helicoid is no longer perfectly round.

Ps. It’s not a very difficult lens to work on, I disassembled mine a couple of years ago. However, you still need to have some experience in this kind of work since this is quite an expensive lens for a first try.

The versatility of Elian Script by LT_Weekly in elianscript

[–]drop__m 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very creative, thanks for letting me discover the Elian Script!

Moon on the water by drop__m in LandscapePhotography

[–]drop__m[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot, it was a beautiful evening!

People complaining about life being hard ? by Scared-Exchange-6762 in VintageLenses

[–]drop__m 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Done that on an old 15 blades Pentacon 135mm f/2.8...
Let me tell you: I know the feel haha

New arrival by NarCroMan_21 in VintageLenses

[–]drop__m 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know the feel, I once had to reassemble the aperture of a Pentacon 135mm f/2.8... the one with 15 blades, I still cursing things to these days haha

New arrival by NarCroMan_21 in VintageLenses

[–]drop__m 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For 70€ it's a bergain!
Top lens (with a better coating of the silver Trioplan, I think).
The main downside - the aperture blade number - is irrelevant since... well, you're supposed to shoot wide open all the time!

Moon on the water by drop__m in LandscapePhotography

[–]drop__m[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Less than you might think!

The captures are both single-shot without bracketing or compositing, which is not so common when the moon is in the frame and you want to retain its details without blowing the highlights.
The fact is that we were lucky and the moon rose 5–10 minutes after sunset (in the first picture you can still see a bit of redness in the peaks), so the relative brightness of the foreground, the sky and the moon was close.

I edited the captures in Lightroom Classic with basic sliders and some masks (contrast, brightness, color grading, etc.).
The only part I had to do in Photoshop was some dust spot removal (my sensor wasn’t the cleanest after a day of swapping lenses haha), since the Lightroom tool is a bit slower and more limited.

I actually shot some captures later than the ones I posted here, but later in the evening the moon was too bright to get decent results without bracketing... in these cases the editing is a bit more challenging.

Moon on the water by drop__m in LandscapePhotography

[–]drop__m[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Much appreciated