Post by dee on Aug 15, 2019 17:04:01 GMT -5
Recently my wife faced an operation to remove a cancerous growth behind the ear and neck and throat leaving intensive scarring .
I visited at Guys Hospital each day , always with a camera , i hated being home alone and would go early hanging around in the cafe and along the Thames .
I HAD to carry one of the Fujis - either X-Pro1 27mm or X-t1 18-55 .
She is home now cancer cut out , but cannot swallow , so temporarily uses a feed line . At least I am not home alone anticipating the worse .
There are still many appointments ,so we are accustomed to visiting london , although she does not wish me to come in to the various treatments .
Just today , a camera helped me capture clouds over the Thames and Tower Bridge .
This time , however , I charged up the largely retired Panasonic L1 'brick' with Olympus 14-42 - zoom used £250 a decade ago with smaller £100 Olympus lens added as 4/3rds SLRs died out . Of course , Minolta AF has also died with the encroachment of mirrorless.
Have not had much luck previously !!
The viewfinder is squinty , the focusing archaic , 7 mp , but i love it !
It was a return to absolute ease .something I never thought I would find again until stumbling on the Fujis .
This , and the twin Leica Digilux 3 and the Fujis are the only digitals which create such a a comfort zone , alongside Minolta SRT and Contax/Kiev .
The Fujis are degraded to point and shoot , using the exposure compensation dial , the l1 runs on shutter priority at 400 ISO ,cos I can guess the required aperture from SRT days .
I am past worrying about why , or apologising for how it is / I am .
I could not acre less about the features etc of the Fujis [ the L1 / Dig 3 don't have any except a useful 90% pop up flash ]
Back again tomorrow - L1 ready.
dee
I visited at Guys Hospital each day , always with a camera , i hated being home alone and would go early hanging around in the cafe and along the Thames .
I HAD to carry one of the Fujis - either X-Pro1 27mm or X-t1 18-55 .
She is home now cancer cut out , but cannot swallow , so temporarily uses a feed line . At least I am not home alone anticipating the worse .
There are still many appointments ,so we are accustomed to visiting london , although she does not wish me to come in to the various treatments .
Just today , a camera helped me capture clouds over the Thames and Tower Bridge .
This time , however , I charged up the largely retired Panasonic L1 'brick' with Olympus 14-42 - zoom used £250 a decade ago with smaller £100 Olympus lens added as 4/3rds SLRs died out . Of course , Minolta AF has also died with the encroachment of mirrorless.
Have not had much luck previously !!
The viewfinder is squinty , the focusing archaic , 7 mp , but i love it !
It was a return to absolute ease .something I never thought I would find again until stumbling on the Fujis .
This , and the twin Leica Digilux 3 and the Fujis are the only digitals which create such a a comfort zone , alongside Minolta SRT and Contax/Kiev .
The Fujis are degraded to point and shoot , using the exposure compensation dial , the l1 runs on shutter priority at 400 ISO ,cos I can guess the required aperture from SRT days .
I am past worrying about why , or apologising for how it is / I am .
I could not acre less about the features etc of the Fujis [ the L1 / Dig 3 don't have any except a useful 90% pop up flash ]
Back again tomorrow - L1 ready.
dee