  We present a re-reduction of archival CCD frames of the doubly imaged quasar
0957+561 using a new photometry code. Aperture photometry with corrections for
both cross contamination between the quasar images and galaxy contamination is
performed on about 2650 R-band images from a five year period (1992-1997). From
the brightness data a time delay of 424.9 +/- 1.2 days is derived using two
different statistical techniques. The amount of gravitational microlensing in
the quasar light curves is briefly investigated, and we find unambiguous
evidence of both long term and short term microlensing. We also note the
unusual circumstance regarding time delay estimates for this gravitational
lens. Estimates by different observers from different data sets or even with
the same data sets give lag estimates differing by typically 8 days, and error
bars of only a day or two. This probably indicates several complexities where
the result of each estimate depends upon the details of the calculation.
