Saturday, November 11, 2023

Back in the office. Polished the computer and the hard drives. Sorted cameras. Sat back and admired clean, white walls. Went swimming.

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If you like the look of a 40mm, full frame lens you might be interested in grafting a Carl Zeiss ZM 28mm f2.8 onto the front of a Leica CL. ...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Painting complete. Client (me) happy as a clam. House and office nicely refreshed.

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  We'd been meaning to re-paint the living room, the guest bathroom, that ceiling of the screened in back patio and, of course the studi...
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Global Shutter arrives. World radically changed within hours. Early adopters already ensconced in the Photography Hall of Fame. All previous cameras rendered useless.

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 Here we go. The GSO. The global shutter onslaught . Breathless bloggers and video influencers have also changed history by declaring that S...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2023

OT: Crazy Times at the Pool. What was I thinking???

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 I'm happy to be swimming with a competitive team now that I'm 68 years of age. Every workout seems sweeter. Every little victory de...
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Monday, November 06, 2023

After a weekend of pulling out stacks of paper, moving filing cabinets, rolling up carpets and other prep work for house upgrades there was a lot of pent up desire to be outside with a fun camera.

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  I've been shooting in Jpeg+Raw lately with the M 240, mostly to give myself a choice, when I review files, between black and white and...
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One Danger in Dealing with Retirement. Or even the Expectation of retirement.

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  I'm a sucker for clouds. Puffy ones stuck in contrasty blue skies, especially.  After the painters got started B. took over managing o...
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A reminder that everything here at the blog might slow down from now until Wednesday. The painters are here. The computers are moved. Everything is chaos. Pretty much normal...

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  It's been 26 years since anyone painted the walls and ceiling in our living room. It's a big room with high ceilings a row of six ...
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