{"id":30468,"title":"My Seagull flys high once more!","author":"raw_jpeg","permalink":"https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/1gmto7a/my_seagull_flys_high_once_more/","description":"Back in 90’s, I purchased my first medium format camera when I was traveling in mainland China over our typical family’s Chinese New Year trip. Right out the gate, the camera had frame spacing issue, so I stopped using it after 2-3 rolls of film. It had then been sitting in my closet back home for 30 some years until I start photographing with film again last year; however, when I picked it up, every thing had ceased up, the shutter and film advanced were jammed. \n\nThe Seagull 4A was not a fancy camera, but merely a copy of a Rolleiflex, the repair certainly costed more than buying one off of eBay, but the camera does mean something special to me. Last month, I finally convinced my camera repair tech to work on it for me.\n\nTwo weeks went by and I received a text from my repairman, “the Seagull is now flying high!” After I ran a roll of film through it, I am happy to report that it is working better than it ever had!\n\nThese photos were from my second roll since the CLA, and my first model shoot with the camera. I love how the uncoated lens rendered the image, sometime, a bit of flaw is better than the picture perfect counter part at a much lower cost. Best of all, it was a piece of my photography journey.","score":345,"nsfw":false,"grayscale":true,"timestamp":1731101453,"sprocket":false,"images":[{"resolution":"low","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/e657ac2a-3edb-4f51-ac1c-6ff316a34f28.jpeg","width":697,"height":720},{"resolution":"medium","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/652ff944-fea3-4641-a233-b4d902885ed1.jpeg","width":1046,"height":1080},{"resolution":"high","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/f6e84b0e-fd73-42e1-9ac8-b8a77ce6641a.jpeg","width":1395,"height":1440},{"resolution":"raw","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/49157b77-54a4-4009-ad88-52069d3394a1.jpeg","width":1920,"height":1982}],"colors":[{"hex":"#bebebe","css":"silver","html":"gray","percent":0.65864462},{"hex":"#000000","css":"black","html":"black","percent":0.15248862},{"hex":"#888888","css":"gray","html":"gray","percent":0.13655176},{"hex":"#555555","css":"dimgray","html":"gray","percent":0.0522962},{"hex":"#f7f7f7","css":"whitesmoke","html":"white","percent":0.0000188}],"keywords":[{"word":"seagull","weight":0.10536183},{"word":"flash","weight":0.07249094},{"word":"bokeh","weight":0.05574303},{"word":"swirly","weight":0.05561805},{"word":"v750","weight":0.04874391},{"word":"ilford","weight":0.04874391},{"word":"fp4","weight":0.04874391},{"word":"epson","weight":0.04874391},{"word":"nlp","weight":0.04874391},{"word":"natural","weight":0.03749531},{"word":"new","weight":0.02499688},{"word":"plane","weight":0.02499688},{"word":"6x6","weight":0.01987252},{"word":"petzval","weight":0.01974753},{"word":"discs","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"center","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"cat","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"outcome","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"contributor","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"pronounced","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"spherical","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"aberration","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"portraits","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"major","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"flys","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"swirls","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"cla","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"summilux","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"clean","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"combination","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"aberrations","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"effects","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"axis","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"mechanical","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"vignetting","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"distorted","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"blur","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"ready","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"vintage","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"leica","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"modern","weight":0.01249844},{"word":"old","weight":0.00024997},{"word":"4b-1","weight":0.00024997},{"word":"f3.5","weight":0.00012498},{"word":"flaws","weight":0.00012498},{"word":"regular","weight":0.00012498},{"word":"salem","weight":0.00012498},{"word":"helios","weight":0.00012498},{"word":"winston","weight":0.00012498},{"word":"haiou","weight":0.00012498}]}