Update: It officially hit 110° Fahrenheit today in Austin.
Forecasting the same or higher for tomorrow.
YIKES!
In case you can't tell I really like the color and sharpness of the files that come from the CL. These are all Jpeg files so my assessment includes that. The quality of the Jpegs is really good. And it's fun to have a small, light camera as an amiable companion. I'd buy it again. Oh....I did.
This is Jo's Coffee on S. Congress.
It's basically a giant kiosk in which coffee is made and tacos, pastries and sandwiches are sold.
There is no internal dining and no air conditioning.
That didn't slow down business on this hot afternoon. But...
why would it? I mean....Coffee.
Bad mural on the side of Hopdoddy's burger restaurant.
They are not good with marketing. They stay in business because
the burgers and fries are very good.
Oh look! Colors.
Oh Look! A 1966 Buick Skylark.
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For a guy like me living in France the last photograph inspires me that everything is a matter of scale in the United States.
Take care.
The CL seems to produce real reds and not off shades of magenta like some cameras.
On the positive side, your electrical grid seems to be holding up.
We're starting to get warnings from ERCOT (grid managers) that this afternoon might have us seeing some "rolling" blackouts. Apparently we're seeing record demand and the weather front has killed the wind so about 19% of generating capacity, that provided by wind power, is not particularly effective. If it hits 110° AND we have longer blackouts we're going to see some deaths. Almost certainly. Everyone should have a plan in place to implement.
We're being asked to conserve between 1pm and 8pm today and tomorrow. Probably shouldn't fire up the arc welder for a couple days.
And I can't wash the car because ... water rationing.
Love the colors…
Here in Santa Fe some people speak of us as suburban Midland, Tx, or suburban Dallas, Tx, because we're six hours from Midland by road, and nine from Dallas, and we have lots of second homes owned by Texans. For the next week our highs will hover in the low- to mid-80s, while Dallas and Midland will be in the low 100s. In the meantime, Phoenix will be 114 today and at least 110 or above through next Sunday. You guys in south Texas may have to adopt Phoenix ways, with large enclosed shopping centers where lots of people hang out during the day, extensive evening shopping, covered backyard pools and spas. Phoenix will hit 118 most years, and hit 122 in 1990. If I lived in Austin, with your grid, I think I might consider a few Tesla batteries with maybe solar on the roof. For $50K, you're good, for a few days, anyway.
The images are excellent, I'll have to look into the 18-50. 110 and yikes!!!! a double yikes!! I'm at our Condo in Canon Beach Oregon at the moment and the high for today will be 76 degrees but water temp is a brisk 58 degrees.
Enjoy your walking tour photos- that is one "hot" camera!
Kirk, I'm using the Panasonic 20-60 when I want a zoom on my CL. But that Sigma 18-50 is looking better by the day. It is smaller, lighter and faster than the Panny while delivering a bigger focal range. What's not to like?
Meanwhile, it's been in the upper 80s and low 90s here at the Jersey Shore over the past couple of weeks. Once it tops 90, I find it unpleasant - even though it's still less humid than in Florida, where I spent the 1980s and early 90s. Many people can't take the cold as they get older. We're about the same age and I find the heat bothers me much more than the cold.
But whenever I feel the urge to complain, I think about you and others in Texas and much of the Southwest. What you are experiencing is no joking matter. And I sincerely hope your power grid holds. After the deadly problems Texas experienced in the cold a year or two ago, I hope some sort of grid upgrade is underway. But I wouldn't be surprised if it is not.
Edit: My bad. The Sigma's focal range is NOT bigger than the Panasonic's. Dunno what I was thinking when I typed that.
Let's see. Your State lost power during the winter because it was too cold.
Now you are looking at losing power because it is too Hot.
Your leaders DO know Summer and Winter happen every year..., right?
Dearest sarcastic one. I'm not sure if you know this but the weather has been changing. Some people are calling this: Climate Change. If you look back over the last twenty or so years you'll find that, with a few exceptions, each Summer is getting progressively hotter and each Winter delivers wilder bouts of weather along with flooding and now colder temps interspersed with record highs.
We blame all the coal burning, fireplace roasting bastards from the north. Burning wood and coal while innocent Texans are down here just minding our own business. Those northerners are gassing out tons and tons of carbon stuff per person. The average family in Montana adds 200,000 metric tons of particle pollutions per Winter, and that's not counting their cars, or snowmobiles. That's just the stuff coming out of the chimneys. Every roasted marshmallow popped into the waiting and avaricious jaws of a northern child kills off hundreds of acres of Amazon forests. And those are just the results of properly toasted marshmallows. Get too close to the fire, burn your treat, and there goes another glacier.
Careful where you cast blame. Your diesel powered snow blowers don't even have catalytic converters.....
A cord of wood? Like a death sentence for the environment....
So the line use to be "Mama don't take my Kodachrome away" and they did. Now it's Mama don't take my toasted marshmallow away! And they want to.
Not until they curb China and India's unrepentant polluting will climate change start to reverse itself. We in North America could turn everything off for a year and the impact wouldn't measure more than a blip world wide.
China is our greatest threat on every level. Right next to our insatiable need for more more MORE. Look at the batteries that power our precious cameras and phones. The lithium used comes from strip mines. What happens when you strip mine? You loose trees. Lots of trees. Entire ecologies are destroyed. Now with the push for EV's it's just going to get worse. Do you think Texas's power grid can manage a large number of EV's being charged all at once? Not a chance. Not even up here in Alberta where we have lots of hydro and natural gas power and a decent grid.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for reversing climate change. It's serious. VERY serious and can't be ignored. However we are being sold a bill of goods by billionaires who stand to profit immensely. And no I don't watch Fox News. In fact I don't pay any attention to US news.
Eric
I was wondering how the TL2 compares to the CL?
Hi Roger, Totally different interface. Also, I don't have the EVF of the TL2 and that makes it harder to use for me. But the image quality between the two is pretty much identical.
Hi Kirk Thank you very much. I have a line on a TL2 with VEF for $1100 new in box with 1 year warranty from Leica. Also Leica N.J. is closed till August.
Stay cool if possible
Memories--my folks sprang for the '66 Buick Special because a Skylark was out of budget. Basically the same except for a VERY stripped interior and no flying buttresses on the C pillars. Lap belts might have been an optional extra, I forget now. The radio was and dad put one in later. A.M only, because that's how we liked it then (channeling Dana Carvey).
We haven't hit 110 yet this summer. I, for one, wouldn't mind making the same statement come October.
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