Candles always remind me of Wife. No details were recorded or remembered. It is just a capture of my Christmas candle.
Dan Schimpf Software produces an excellent journaling/writing tool called MacJournal. When I was keeping an electronic journal, that was the preferred tool.
I am considering a knee brace for Sera. Animal Ortho Care makes custom braces.
My buddy got me started looking at watches because he knows I like mechanical things. The Caliber Corner has lots of data about watch movements.
Project Farm is one of my favorite YouTube content creators. He/they also maintain a website as well. He uses good practices to measure the performance of various tools and other useful items. They are not laboratory-grade tests, but they are based on good practice.
This Penco Drafting Pencil looks like a good addition to my EDC. I am not currently carrying a pencil and they can be handy.
The Mexican Ditch and Trail, shot with the Sony A7iii and the Vivitar Series 1 90mm f/2.5 macro, at f/8. Post processing with PhotoLab to clean up the image.
It is the first day of the week, Sunday 24 November 2024 and I am beginning this week’s (ha!) list of remainders.
MrLeica is a YT content creator and blogger who treats Leica cameras and glass, among other things.
After a couple of decades of being afraid to eat ham and bean soupr (DiL… “Oooh, that’s bad, Dad!”), I fond this recipe. I am going to try the the trick of using canned navy beans and washing them before making my soup to see if I can avoid a disaster (so to speak).
As part of their holiday sales event, Simpleshot (makers/purveyors of slingshots) did something I really do not care for — they shared my contact information with other small business in the outdoors market. I forgive them; it is easy enough to unsubscribe. One of the new vendors is Wazoo Gear. It made me chuckle when I free-associated “out the wazoo!”. Their offerings look OK to me. Simpleshot is recommended too.
Apple Music and its predecessor, iTunes, continues to lose the album art for my music collection. I have thought for a while now that I might want to disengage from the music connection to Apple. This list of music players might be an option.
Here is another set of iTunes alternatives. I think there might be a full entry on my love/hate relationship with iTunes and Apple Music.
The recipe for White Chicken Chili produced this result. Shot with iPhone 13 Pro Max.
It is Sunday, 10 November 2024, as I begin to write this entry. I was working on my image library a bit ago and the topic of exiftool came up again. It is a tool used to read and write EXIF data store in image files. EXIF data are stored with the image and record the settings in-camera used to make the image. This provides a record of camera settings for the photographer to use for whatever purpose.
I used to write DOSbatch files, a script of commands to be executed in sequence to accomplish more than one task that are repeated on one of more files. this list comprises the commands available for a Windows CMD shell.
Project Gutenberg belongs on everyone’s bookmark list. At least it should be if you read.
Satellite Map provides a real time display of Starlink, OneWeb, and GPS satellites.
Starlink has a new, small system called the Mini. It has all the performance of the larger units at a much smaller size and power requirement.
The New American Standard Bible is one of my preferred translations. This Cambridge is very interesting.
New music arrived this week. One album, The Company You Keep by John Gorka, was part of the arrival. He is a favorite singer/songwriter and has been for a decade or more. The song Let Them In was written by him based on a poem. It was covered by David Wilcox, another old favorite, more than 20-years ago. I did not realize that Gorka wrote the song (but not the poem).
LT Wright Knives hit my desktop a couple of years ago. They were recently promoted by SimpleShot, a slingshot (catapult) company that produces very nice slingshots. Both make excellent products.
The contrast of the twilight sky and lighted sign attracted my attention. Shot with Sony A7Sii and a Carl Zeiss Jena 35mm f/2.4 Flektogon. Straight out of camera.
Campcraft Outdoors makes some very interesting waxed canvas camping gear.
I have been thinking a lot about my EDC kit. This YouTube Video is an example of a well thought out kit that clearly serves the needs of its developer.
I will need hearing aids some time soon. I will spare the details. One consideration is that I love music and will want to listen to it and have some enjoyment from my decent systems. This thread offers some insight.
While walking with The Girl this afternoon, I asked her to pause for a portrait. Just after I made the capture with her sitting, she blasted off toward me at full throttle! She has a bit of motion blur because of her speed. Shot with Sony A7iii and a Carl Zeiss T* Vario-Sonnar 80-200mm f/4 at 200mm and f/8. Modest post-processing was applied.
I need a soft start circuit for the air conditioner in my camper. I thought I was going to have to find one that fits into the mechanical compartment, but this plug-in might do the trick.
I have the f/1.7 instance of the 50mm Contax, but the f/1.4 version appears to be a suitable object of lust.
I rediscovered MFLenses.com this afternoon. I have a lot of vintage manual focus lenses in my collection.
It is that time of year again. The rabbitbrush is in fall bloom and that makes my allergies go crazy. Shot with the Fujifilm X100V at f/8 using the Kodachrome film simulation in-camera. No post processing.
Well, my last remainders post was a couple of weeks ago. I wonder where the Interwebs will take me this week?
I know that I have some hearing loss. The tinnitus is a pretty good indicator. I saw a news bite somewhere that indicated my Apple Airpods Pro 2 can work as OTC hearing aids. The how is explained by Dr. Cliff Olson.
Father Nomad is a maker of adapters to connect water filters to water containers.
I have an Elecraft K3 transceiver for amateur radio use. This link describes how to set the Automatic Gain Control of my rig.
In my YouTube wanderings, the algorithm presented a video by James Fleet. He is a British photographer living in the Philippines. I have not yet explored his YT channel (but I will), but his article comparing the Fujifilm X-T5 to the X100VI for street photography is good.
The shutter tool is valuable for reporting the number of mechanical shutter actuations of a digital camera. Why is this important? I am preparing to sell some of my digital bodies and it is standard practice to report the number of shutter actuations.
I stumbled on W.G. Snuffy Walden several years ago. He turned up on one or two guitar music collections and I noticed his playing. It is quite tasty. Then I learned he scored The Stand. It is a good score.
Rick Oleson maintains an antique web page that has information of interest (at least to me). It is worth a look.
While camping north from Toulon, Nevada, I was awakened by a bright light early in the morning. The waning Moon was shining through my camper window. I picked up my iPhone and made the capture.
I forgot to post this, but there is a DC Power Transmission Line that runs from the Oregon/Washington border to Los Angeles. I was unaware that direct current was in use for power transmission. But, it has some advantages. Cool!
Someone mentioned that the reports of eye irritation/damage might be from a infrared laser, such as the PEQ-15. This could be malicious or just an error.
I might have posted this before, but I am working with the JS8Call mode (ham radio). The JS8Spotter utility has a lot to offer in support of JS8 operations.
This is a “standard” test shot of my Lucas plushie using the Sony A7Sii and a Konica Hexanon 35mm f/2.8 lens at f/2.8 (wide open). This Hexanon is one of my best 35mm focal length lenses and is better than the Vivitar 35mm f/1.9, the Soligor 35mm f/2.8 (by a lot), and the Hexanon 35mm f/2. I need to compare it with the Nikkor glass in my collection.
OK, where in the Internet will I go this week?
I have a need to install Python scripts (sometimes). Package installing provides utilities to accomplish this.
I think I need to assemble a VHF/UHF radio for field operations. Armaloq has a frame for my Kenwood TM-V71A that will provide protection and relocation of back panel connectors.
I might have posted this before, but exiftool is an excellent (but complex) tool for editing EXIF data in image files. It is a command line utility, which no one likes anymore. (Well, except for command line geeks like me.) The exiftoolGUI Python program provides a GUI for the tool. This website provides a few examples for using exiftool from the command line.
While walking my downtown route last weekend, I noticed a walker in front of the Capitol Building. Capture with Fuji X-T5 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 at f/8. Post in PhotoLab to Tri-X Film Simulation.
Although I have been around the Internet since my last remainders post, apparently I did not capture a lot of the sites and include them here. Hmmm…
Hugin is an open source panorama stitcher for landscape photographers.
Howard Merklinger is an author of a book on focusing in general and a second on focusing the view camera. They are quite technical, but very good.
Shot with the Pentax 645Nii and the Pentax 75mm f/2.8 probably about f/4 on Kodak Ektar 100.
I was busy the last full week of July and the first week of August. As a result, my remainders showed it. I start this entry at the beginning of the week, so I really have no idea where I will end up on the Interwebs during my week. This is a sort of trail or bread crumbs of my searches.
Crystal radios are cool. I built a kit that my grandpa bought me decades ago. They still make kits.
This table of Nikkor serial numbers is a huge resource. It complements my copy of Stafford, et al Nikon Compendium: Nikon System from 1917 book quite well.
This YouTube video explains two things quite well. The first is the inherent difference between digital and analog (film) photography. The second is the resolving power of film. It is worth the watch.
Ken Rockwell talks around the subject of film resolution in comparison to digital as well. It is also worth a read. The followup to Rockwell’s first essay is this second, Why We Love Film. Lots of photographers hate Ken Rockwell, but he often has well thought out things to say.
