Arthur Brainville

@ybalrid.info

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French. EN/FR. He/Him. Software engineering consultant in the XR/gamedev industry ❤️ Retro tech, film cameras, and fountain pens! Accidental collector of vintage Canon cameras. http://ybalrid.info/links

Picture of an envelope addressed to “Waterman France - Service Client - 1 rue Maison Neuve BP 175 - 44800 Saint-Herblain”. This is written in brown ink. The envelope has a teal Mariane “Service +” stamp. On the envelope is sitting an old bottle of Waterman Absolute Brown ink. An amber and gold fountain pen is visible on the top of the image. The pen is a Pilot Custom 823.
screenshot form Firefox. Searching for "whole word" 7, γ is highlighted in text instead
A small loupe. The kind used to inspect photographic negatives
This is a picutre of what's under the left hand side of the Canon AE-1 Program's top plate. Circled in red is a small golden spring (probably plated). This spring want to contact a golden (also probably plated) post. I drew a blue arrow pointing to the contact point that can get dirty. Normally after you advance the camera, the white plastic bit at the end of the sprint moves out of the way, the tension on the mechanism makes this contact act as a closed switch. Camera uses this switch to both know that the shutter is ready to fire, and the fact that the 1st curtain started moving (for exposure time control)
A shipping notification from Mondial Relay in the “Parcel” app on my phone saying “Delivery received en Point Relais”
bio box de la marquise du châtelet corigée avec les informations dans le thread
Le corp de l'article "née le 17 décembre 1706 à Paris"
The camera described in the actual post.
Je tiens une cartouche de pellicule noire et blanc 35mm ILFORD HP5+ 400IS devant la bande dessinée postée au dessus
The developed film against the ridiculously bright “flashlight mode” of Apple Watch Ultra 2
Just a tiny little exerp of a journal. 2024 corrected into 2025. Dark purple fountain pen ink on cream colored paper. Paper is lined.
I am holding a Canon EOS 650 fitted with a Canon Speedlite 540EZ flash unit. I am holding the camera by the lens, a 28-70 zoom lens (that I don’t like very much to use, but is otherwise a very serviceable trans-standard Zoom for full frame EF camera. But it is also very slow.)
Top plate of the camera
Spare parts from a Canon A-1 including a bottom cover, a couple of battery doors (one with a broken bottom, and screws and springs)
A yellowed Canon logo A lot of tape around the logo to protect small hard to clean areas
A very blue (because wet) frame of slide film on a plastic development reel. It's a picture of a bookshelf with a lot of eclectic stuff on it.
Close up black and white picture of my logitech trackball on a stupidly cluttered desk
Picture of some HP5+ I just finished developing currently drying. Those are negatives showing my doggo being a very good couch potato (Zorki 1D, Industar 22 lens, film was push-developed by one stop.)