–NOS Cremina started acting weird; didn’t seem like the pressurestat was working right. Took it to the workbench, brought out the other two, played around with boiler caps. Noticed big differences in how close the caps came to the cover nuts, mostly because of how far the different nuts would go down (one bottomed out before the cover was real tight). I swapped covers around, bent one to make it fit better, got all three boiler caps sealing fine. NOS machine seems to work now, but I have no good theory as to why or what happened. I should probably move the pressurestat screw back and forth a bit to make sure it isn’t sticking.
–Spent the afternoon going up and down ladders to clear a ton of mud from the gutter on the side of the house near the twins. (The gutter was gushing out water during the recent rain, suggesting the downspout was plugged.) It was, now it isn’t. Meanwhile, I am utterly spent. Clearest evidence yet of how old I am.
–After a ton of searching, and re-re-reconsidering developing software I’ve shelved in the past, I came across Adobe DNG Converter. It takes up 2 gigs, but turns any RAW file (including Contax, which was the point) into a DNG that any developing app can work with (RAW Power at the moment). Wish I’d known about the converter a while back when I was struggling with all the Leica proprietary formats.