a friend has retrieved the Df and she wanted to take pics with it before sending it to me... and uh....
while the shutter fires, the mirror locks up and has to be forced back into place by hand.
so nearly 3 months and like $200 wasted. pissed off about the repair guy saying its fixed and leaving it in this state without even mentioning it. tomorrow when he opens up shop im calling him to ask him what he did and from there uh. i dunno, maybe he'll fix it. but if he's gonna charge me for another repair i'm just gonna cut my losses and try to sell shit off on ebay and see where that lands me i guess.
i'm trying not to despair until i have a clearer picture after talking to the guy tomorrow but this is pretty crushing.

edit: hes gonna look at it, but itll be weeks before my friend heads back into town to give it to him... this things gonna be outta commission longer than its been in commission...

anyway, photos.
moving the lens with the scanning head produces unpredictable warping. i think this is because i'm not moving it perfectly relative to its movement. this produces some very abstract images.

i've also observed that any image focused through the lens is always greyscale. while i dont know much about scanners, i think this is because the scanner reads color by blasting colored lights at whats on the bed and reading the reflection back, so focused images from elsewhere produce no color data.

these shots were taken by a sunny window, indirectly lit. it seems like its kinda easy to blow out the highlights but adjusting aperture easily controls this. the brighter the ambient light the more you can see vague out of focus forms in the background of the shots, at a certain level of ambient dimness things are pretty well isolated.