You ve Got to Hold It
On Monday, when I said my pick of the Fuji large format cameras would be the 50R, Jerry B. wrote:
I hear you, Mike I thought I d be the same. I own the GFX 50S and tried the 50R at my local photo store. Surprisingly, I didn t like the feel. Too large a box (bigger than the 50S, except the battery bulge on the latter), with poor grip. Quite unlike the X-Pro2, which I prefer to most other Fuji cameras. The 50s has a superbly comfortable grip, and it becomes quite important given the size of a lot of GF lenses. But I dislike the battery bulge at the back (I like to shoot at waist level, and it protrudes too much with the LCD tilted up). Also, I miss IBIS much more than I thought I would with the 50S (it often needs 1/250+ shutter speed just due to the high resolution.). So, the 100S for me!
Miniskirts and mujahideen: how did Afghanistan come to be defined by war?
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Miniskirts and mujahideen: how did Afghanistan come to be defined by war?
It was once a stop on the hippie trail and inspiration for the Lonely Planet guidebooks. So how did Afghanistan come to be defined by war and terrorism?
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As Donald Trump s aides packed boxes for the President s final withdrawal from the White House, one of the last men he ever appointed to an important government job released a statement on Friday, January 15, local time, to say that his mission had been accomplished: the US had withdrawn all but 2500 troops from Afghanistan, the lowest number of American boots on the ground in 20 years.
What’s Up?
On Monday I got back in the pool, did my bursts, and took a morning and afternoon health walk. After a decent morning photo session, I got lots of work done on the R5/R6 Camera User’s Guide.
Today is Tuesday 29 December 2020. It is 7:20am as I type; Jim and I are on our way to Lakeland to check out the American White Pelicans and to see if the Great Blue Herons nest is still active; for the past few years the nest failed rather early.
This afternoon, I will be getting more work done on the R5/R6 guide.
Book review: Island hopping in South Korea
Michael Gibb’s journey by ferry to 30 islands is a self-deprecating examination of the more remote parts of this highly industrialized country
By Bradley Winterton / Contributing reporter
Great comic set-pieces in literature are usually carefully constructed and well-timed. So it is when Kenneth Widmerpool in Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time (a character clearly based on Shakespeare’s Malvolio in Twelfth Night) has a shaker of sugar emptied over his head, or when in Evelyn Waugh’s letters he misreads instructions and explodes 10 times the intended amount of dynamite, bringing down the roof of half a house, including that of a toilet on which someone is sitting (luckily without fatal results).