I was on a roll yesterday. I finished recovering my Agfa Isolette II in leather.

Once I got started it went pretty quickly. I have one of those big old paper paper cutters with the Giant Knife of Death on one end. Not one of those sissy rotary paper cutters. This one will remove fingers. It cut leather just fine. I used Barge cement to hold it on. I need a sharp X-acto knife blade to do some final trimming but it came out pretty good. However, I would definitely used die cut leather if it was available. (See Camera Leather.) But it wasn't for the Agfa. Now to attack the lens. I need to free up the focusing ring and clean the lens inside and out. I think I will put off the new bellows for now. I can repair the one it has. I want to get on with taking pictures!

Then I went to work on the Speed Graphic.

It's almost done! It still needs the strap, another piece of leather, and the infinity stops and rangefinder need to be adjusted. The shutter should get a CLA but the fast speeds seem fine. It's just the slow speeds that aren't working. I plan on just using this as a handheld camera so I probably won't need the slow speeds. The fast speeds go down to 1/25 sec. Now I need film and I need to build a light tight box to mail the film in. Does this mean I will have to take pictures with it?