Gosh ... I almost broke my camera this evening ... it's not completely undamaged, but still working okay. Boy, that would have been a nasty end to the month ... I'm still shaken.
What happened? Well, the buggy film pack I shot the last couple of shots with had left some debris on the rollers that caused scratches on the images. I tried to clean the rollers with a piece of microfiber cloth and a drop of isopropanol - when the whole (small) piece got caught by the rollers and disappeared into the mechanism! I thought the camera was done for - but then (a couple of hours later - I had to conduct a rehearsal first) I discovered that I could just about reach the cloth from the top slot (the one from which the images are released) with a needle. Lo and behold, I could tease out enough of it to use a pair of pliers to pull it out. The rollers are ever so slightly out of alignment now - but considering what could have happened, that's a pretty minor problem.
I really need a glass of good single malt now ...
M.