"... just a scratchy throat. A nap will fix it."
That was me on Tuesday, finding it a little hard to get through a lot of meetings. By the end of the day I knew...
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Reala Ace on the X-T5
I installed the latest X-T5 firmware update, which includes the new Reala Ace film simulation. From what I've read Reala is more or less Provia,...
The OM-1N
Well, this is the last of the "refactor your hobby" part of the spoils from the Q2 sale: An Olympus OM-1N in Excellent+ condition with...
30,000 steps and the M43 fever breaks
Yesterday Al and I sat out on a plan of getting her X-700 set up, grabbing brunch downtown, and putting 36 exposures of Kodak Gold...
Around downtown and Alphabet District
Seen along the way to a series of places that weren't open
Till Time at the Plaid
The other thing I've been curious about
Al and I went to a sushi restaurant a few weeks ago, and they were offering sake flights. Since they included a little bit of...
A little more on the PEN-F
Well, the PEN-F has been a minor revelation. When I went mirrorless, it was with a Fujifilm X100S, then onto the ILCs with an X-T2....
Dinner on Belmont
Al's anniversary present
Al's anniversary present was another part of the proceeds from the Q2: A Minolta X-700 with a 50mm/f1.4 lens. Years ago she took a photography...
"Six Masterpieces of Tomorrow"
It took about a year to get to me, but I finally found a copy of the complete Ray Bradbury box set I quietly spirited...
First Pen F Outing
These are dialed back a little and some are cropped. I just wanted to see how it would do in the color mode everyone likes...
Olympus Pen F
A portion of the Q2 proceeds went to an Olympus Pen F (pictured) and an Olympus 17mm/f1.8 to go with it (not pictured). But Mike,...
Dinner at Lechon
Al and I had dinner at Lechon last night. We started with their What the Chef is Drinking, "Lechon fat-washed barrel aged cachaca, Demerara, bitters,...
Farewell, Q2
I bought my Leica Q2 in a very peculiar, troubled, uncertain time. It was the most extravagant thing I'd ever done relative to my life...
The Leatherman Free P4
I first read about Leatherman tools in Whole Earth Review some time in the early '90s. I finally bought one for myself after I enlisted: They...
