The recovery from the flu went well but losing almost a week of camera strap production left me behind. Way behind. I finally caught up on Friday.

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I've been converting a basement room used for storage into a studio for product photography and a workshop for my camera straps. It's been chaos as I slowly move the storage stuff out. I've got to do some product photography for a customer so I finally cleared out the studio end of the room and it's functional again! A test shot with my teeny Minox B (1963) and not so teeny Toyo View D45M (early 1970s). I've been primarily shooting the Minox B lately. One roll back from the lab but unscanned and two more ready to send, Part of the basement rearranging is to also have a printer station and a scanner station. I'm still working on those. The first three Minox rolls were 100 ISO black and white. I now have a roll of 100 ISO color negative film in it. I'm finally putting all my 4x5 pieces together with the Toyo. I finally found all my lenses. Now I need to get holes drilled in my lens boards. The lens board for my 90mm lens is the right size. I just need to drill some small holes for the retaining ring. I still need to find my Packard shutter. It's in a box somewhere. I can mount my digital Panasonic G1 on the back and making it a digital stitching back. There is 9 cm of rise and 6 cm of shift so that by taking a series of pictures with the G1 that are overlapping I can then stitch them together into 1 image with Photoshop Elements 7. That would give me a maximum of around 1,300 megapixels or 1.3 gigapixels. In reality Photoshop can only handle 900 megapixels as a maximum file size. That would make a print 83 feet square. A little big for my printer. In addition to the future digital back I have many 4x5 sheet film holders and also a 120 roll film back. I plan on starting off with architectural photos of local builidings. More later.