Mundane News

[mybike]

Mmmmm, I have to confess that my SLR cameras are usually left in full manual mode - except when I shoot things that move very quickly, and then I work in Tv (shutter priority) because it takes away the headache of having to mess around with the aperture settings in changeable light.

My main camera (ID mk2) only has full manual, plus Tv, Av and something else that I've never used. The 10D has all the modes including full auto but I very rarely venture outside of M, Tv and Av there either. By finding out what some of the "idiot modes" actually do (portrait, landscape), they sort of become redundant anyway. With full auto mode, you're at the mercy of whoever wrote the software.

I always read the manual. And both the manuals for my 1D and 10D live in my main camera bag, because invariably if you leave them behind, you need to look something up.

I tend to use aperture priority, but then I don't take fast moving things. I'd agree, the manuals are essential, given the complexity of some of the features.

 

[Roseland triker]

Most if not all the stuff I try and photo are moving fast.
I have worked out about sport mode and "exposure"
Maybe I should read about raw mode.....

 

[mybike]

I used to have to do repairs to our knitting machinery from time to time and inevitably some tiny part would drop and scurry of somewhere. Strangers would get a bit bemused to find several people with backsides in the air searching the floor with torches. They travelled a surprising distance sometimes and hid under something. The only alternative would be to cannibalise a not working machine which was not a good idea.

It always amazed me how far a screw could travel across the workshop floor.

 

[mybike]

It's not being nosey.

£95

Worth spending that on a watch that sits in the same league as Omega and Longines, but that is decidedly less common.

That's a lot less than I was quoted at a local repairer. Might have a look for somewhere else.

 

[Reynard]

Right, that's a onesie and a pair of jeans with patches tacked in situ.

Taking a break, and then it's out with the sewing machine.

 

[Reynard]

That's a lot less than I was quoted at a local repairer. Might have a look for somewhere else.

Mmmm, maybe. Also depends what needs doing, I guess. I'm just hoping that he doesn't find any hidden nasties. In my favour though, it's just a simple hand winder with an hour and minute hand, nothing else.

This is the guy I've used: www.timelordwatches.co.uk and www.facebook.com/timelordwatchrepairs/

 

[Illaveago]

Love mine. It’s amazing you can have hundreds of books on such a small device that takes up no space. I like being able to adjust the font size and tone depending on how tired my eyes are.

I used to find that whilst on the throne I could somehow zoom in on the text of a book to make it larger.

 

[Reynard]

Right, off to finish the sewing.

 

[Illaveago]

Georgie and I have been playing Scalextric . I drive the car's around the track and he takes them off !

 

[oldwheels]

Turned out to be a lovely sunny day so had an early lunch and out on trike. Traffic not too bad apart from one or two idiots but you always get a few.
The weather encouraged me to go a bit further than usual past my dangerous corner. I got reminded why I call it that as I saw a camper van approaching after I had reached the point of no escape. Went over to take the corner wide and make myself visible sooner than if I had hugged the verge. I could clearly see the windscreen and the driver but the idiot did not see me until the last minute and instead of keeping to their left stayed in the middle of the road. I had just enough space to get past and refrained from giving a scratch to the paintwork.
I do have an orange jacket and the usual flag but they were too busy looking for sea eagles flying around.
On a more sombre note I see on twitter from a reliable source that Dervla Murphy has died. I have some of her books in print and on kindle.
Actually I thought she had died a while ago but when people vanish from public view there is a tendency to assume the worst.

 

[biggs682]

Been dry here
Not too bad a day

 

[Reynard]

Right, that's my favourite onesie (the blue one, with the monkeys wearing pink bobble hats) and a pair of work jeans mended. I feel very virtuous.

Now chilling with a

 

[Mo1959]

Georgie and I have been playing Scalextric . I drive the car's around the track and he takes them off !

Molly has just caught and eaten a daddy long legs.

 

[rockyroller]

Daughter says she & her boyfriend have secured an apartment a full 2 hours from us ... out of state ... ;-(

 

[Reynard]

The expected rain is now scheduled to roll in overnight.

It is mostly sunny here right now.