In a few years, you'll be glad you kept it. I had to replace mine via fee-bay. [link]
There's just something special about taking it out on a shoot once in a while.

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It's true...
I cannot clean up the whole world.
But I can sweep out my own little
corner of it.

Cool Yours is a little more fancy, though. Mine lacks meter AND any form of judging focus. Good for landscapes focused to infinity, I guess. They are nice to have, even if rarely used.

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Kill me again...

You'd be surprised how accurate the human eye can be, on both exposure and distance. using a fast film with wide latitude helps, though.

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It's true...
I cannot clean up the whole world.
But I can sweep out my own little
corner of it.

I used my Fujica ST801 to meter then replicated the settings last time I used it. The one thing I do like about the Diaxette is that it vignettes at full aperture. Natural vignetting is so much better than that crappy effect used by image manipulation programs.

As for focusing, I'm afraid to even use it at the moment. I kind of took it apart and cleaned it. While that worked out fine, what I didn't realise is that by taking the lens off, it needed to be screwed on again just right. I couldn't just screw it on all the way.

Plus I lost one of the screws holding it on. Two may be enough. I'm not sure. You haven't seen a microscopic screw laying around as a replacement, have you? I can't even measure it without a micrometer, honestly.

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Ummm, yeah, I've got a few screws loose *DRAT* I mean, a few loose screws *DRAT again* You know what I mean. But I have no way of knowing which one is right for your camera...

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It's true...
I cannot clean up the whole world.
But I can sweep out my own little
corner of it.

Interesting! Well I don't know either. The guy at the camera shop down the street said he'd look for one, but I don't really go there frequently because I don't have enough money to keep buying film. Nor enough inspiration to keep shooting it often.

I need to go places I'm not familiar with. Otherwise I don't really look around for interesting things. If I have enough money left after impending expenses are paid, I may get a telephoto lens for my Fujica. So I can start doing a little street photography. Hard to do with a 28mm. Or even a 50mm without people being painfully aware.

Well then, I went sort of off-topic. Not that it matters, but all I'm really doing is getting thoughts out that came to mind at this very moment. Also I'm happy with my new laptop my stepfather got me from his work's junk pile. It's so fast! Plus, it's a laptop. It will be much easier to use while sitting on the recliner at my grandparents' house than my desktop.

My desktop needs to stretch from the router to the chair. So it's like this poorly-drawn 'blueprint' below:

[Router at computer desk]
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|[Cramped computer chair]
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|[My desktop on floor]
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|[Keyboard and mouse wires in front of dry sink*]
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[Monitor and keyboard at recliner]

*Dry sink needs to be accessible, for it contains towels and face cloths.

So, to sum it up (again), this is going to be much better! It also has a gig (like my primary desktop) versus 128 meg of RAM. The 128MB is fine when running terminal applications, but the GUI really slows it down. Just think how fast this thing will go when I get Linux on it. The only reason my (128MB RAM) desktop is manageable now is because it's loaded with Slackware.

It does have a large hard-drive, though. Perhaps I should turn it into a server. *ponder* Would the low RAM be bad for a server? It likely won't be high-traffic. I don't know what I'd put on it.

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Kill me again...

I have no idea. About anything...
I have Ubuntu on my internet computer, it came with Firefox, so easy.
Yeah, I have a computer that is internet-only. That way, if I get hacked, no one gets my art or stories.
Which isn't too likely with Linux, anyway.
When I had WinXP I used to have to fend off hack attacks way too often. Really slowed me down.
Then for some reason Microsoft decided that my factory-installed XP was a pirated version and slash/burned me. So I switched to Linux, and will never go back.
Good luck with yours, you'll be happy.

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It's true...
I cannot clean up the whole world.
But I can sweep out my own little
corner of it.

*cackle* That was actually a noted problem which they admitted to. I don't know what they did about it; it didn't happen to me. One of their updates went rogue and started policing the streets with its ill-tempered sense of justice.

I've been dual-booting for a year or two now (maybe more, because I lose track of time easily). All I have Windows for is webcam (which is beginning to work better on Linux) and certain games. Although the recent adoption of Pulse Audio aggravates me. It's in friggin' alpha, not even beta. Almost every distributor wants to include it by default.

It (my HP) would probably be useful to store my scanned photos on and other media. I should have switched the hard drive with the one in my Acer, but that would mean cloning partitions which I don't know how to do exactly. Sounds kind of risky.

Ah, but wait. I could use my Acer's hdb as hda in the HP and use the hda as hdb, to make room for the HP's hda as the hda in my Acer. Then my Acer would be quiet again. Since only the slave hard drive makes terrible, high-pitched cries from the depths of all nine hells. That sounds like an excellent plan.

Sorry, I'm back. Where were we? Oh right, I guess we were pretty much done. Yay Linux!

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Kill me again...

If "We're done" is the same as "You lost me", then yes, we're done.
Have you considered an external USB HD?

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It's true...
I cannot clean up the whole world.
But I can sweep out my own little
corner of it.