Kat D.

<p>Sorry, the image didn't go through. Trying again....</p>

<p>Okay, set the shutter to "bulb", and as I was turning camera every which way to look inside, this fell out (see attachment). It looks like it's deteriorating, little pieces of it falling off. Is this the baffle that you mentioned, Tom and Douglas? Hasselblad/Bron would still have replacement for this, I hope.</p>

<p>What a brilliant idea -- take a look! How silly of me to not do that. I will look in the morning and let you know what I see. Thank you, Terry.</p>

<p>Hello Hassy experts. I just got two rolls of film back which I shot with my Hassy 202FA. On first roll, the first three frames were fine. Then, on the fourth frame, there is a diagonal streak across the frame. For all the successive frames on that roll and all the frames on second roll, the top 20% of the frame is missing. There's a jagged edge where the image disappears.</p> <p>Attached are photos of negatives to show you what I mean. (I shot these on a light table, with negs in sleeves, so please ignore that vertical bright area on the left, that's just the neg sleeve.)</p> <p>You can see that frames are normal until the one with the streak. Then frames after that are cut off on top.</p> <p>Is this a shutter problem? If shutter problem, any idea what the repair would be? Replace shutter? Or could it be electrical? (I put new battery in camera just before shooting these rolls.)</p> <p>I can send to Hasselblad/Bron, of course, but wondering what I'm in for. It cost $500 to repair stuck aperture blades on 110/2 lens a couple years ago :(</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <div></div>

<p>Have to agree with others here. I would concentrate on getting a degree in something more likely to land you a good job than photography. I earn a living as a graphic designer and have done some commercial photography work, but I wouldn't want to have to rely on it to support me. It's not a good time. Everyone and their uncle has a digital camera, and standards are down. I see it as a designer. Publications print low-quality images all the time. They didn't do this years ago when I started out. I have to fight for quality now. People don't care anymore. They're happy with iPhone images, and so many photos are viewed at 72 ppi on the internet anyway.</p> <p>My niece and her boyfriend both went to RIT. They were in communications department. The boyfriend is earning a very good salary working for Adobe. This is just a couple of years after graduation. The niece is doing well working for a printer in Manhattan. You can do things in creative fields and earn decent money.....if you are not the artist. Another case in point: my husband is a musician. All the people around him (record company, bookers, agents, promo people) made more money than he did over the years.</p>