We don’t need all the widgets in our cameras’ menus. We think we need them because camera manufacturers want us to think we need them. We don’t.
Cameras
LAST PHOTOS OF FEBRUARY 2023
Last on the Card – February 2023 I might have some months old pictures on my Oly PEN F, but I haven’t used the camera recently, probably because I’ve been using my new camera. Just as I was thinking about going… Read More ›
A NEW CAMERA, A MACRO LENS, AND A YELLOW-GREEN ORCHID
FOTD – January 20 – A new camera and a yellow-green Orchid Somewhere in the middle of the madly medical week, the camera I’ve been waiting for showed up. I’m sometimes astonished at Amazon’s packing. They send me a bag… Read More ›
NEW! OMD EM-10 M-III
After a lot of hemming, hawing, and hoping I could somehow get the old OMD EM5 M-I to work again, I gave up. I don’t have a lot of money to spend and the camera I wanted — the EM-5… Read More ›
WE HAVE STARLIGHT IN US BUT MAYBE NOT ENOUGH
My long birding lens is a 100-300mm whose lowest f stop is f-4. There is no faster lens this long. This IS the faster lens. The other was f-4.8. If you don’t take pictures and use lenses, you probably have… Read More ›
LAST ON THE CARD
Last on the Card – December 2022 Just two. A couple went up on THE CHANGING SEASONS – DECEMBER 2022, but these I saved just for this post 😀 These were test shots for a new lens, the Sigma 56mm prime lens… Read More ›
FIVE GREAT GIFTS
5 Gifts I Love Getting Any of these gifts will never go to waste nor will they ever be “regifted.” No books. I’m sorry to say we have no room for any more. The ones we have are already exploding… Read More ›
“I LOVE YOU”: THE VIRUS
There are memories that make us happy and then there are memories we’d just as soon forget. This is one I had managed to forget until a friend reminded me why I don’t have any of my early digital photographs…. Read More ›
LENS TESTING: HANDS, PATTERNS
I finally got my new lens so I had to check it out. The first four are “the hand test.” Four shots, each a little closer than the previous. No processing except size reduction and a bit of cropping. Two… Read More ›
GETTING SICK, GETTING BETTER, WHERE’S THE LENS?
I was assured I’d have the lens today. As a matter of fact, UPS said I’d have the lens today except I don’t have it because UPS sent me a note saying it was going to be tomorrow. Okay then…. Read More ›
WHERE’S THE LENS?
I was thrilled to get the delivery of my new macro lens. I slowly got down to the bottom floor, discovered the UPS guy had left it IN the garage so it didn’t get wet. I brought it upstairs and… Read More ›
RECHARGING MY WORLD
Everything — or nearly everything — runs on batteries. Rechargeable batteries. Laptops, tablets, Kindles, mobile phones, headphones, cameras, mouses (mice have fur and make squeaky noises while mouses attach to your computer), GPS, clocks, flashlights, remote controls, electric razors, tooth cleaning… Read More ›
ONE TO THREE: TEXTURES AND VARIATIONS OF MORNING LIGHT
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge – September 2022 All of these were taken on my Olympus Pen F using a 12-200mm Olympus Telephoto lens. Time? Just about 6 am. When? August 28, 2022. This is the best standard original plus its… Read More ›
LAST ON THE CARD
Last on the card – August 2022 Well. For once I had a “last” on all three cameras I’m currently using. This first one is one of the rare ones that comes out exactly the way you want it and wouldn’t… Read More ›
AN OVERLOAD OF PLENTY – OR PLENTY OF OVERLOAD
For a while I have been wondering why I take pictures but can’t find them. Well, it turned out that I had a 64 GB card in the secondary drive of my camera and there were thousands of pictures on… Read More ›
LAST POST ON THE CARD
Last on the Card – May 2022 Having finally found the link for this post, I’m happy to post my final photos, though all were taken on the same camera. How can that be? Well, I keep swapping out the cards…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 