What have you just BOUGHT?

I recently bought a Fujifilm X100VI.

This was an impulse buy! I was at the Navy Base in Yokosuka and after taking care of some business at the Credit Union I decided to check out the camera section of the Navy Exchange (it’s a consumer goods store). To my surprise they had several X100VI cameras in stock; both silver and black. They were still in the box and I noticed that they were the newer “Made In Japan” version made for sale in the USA. I asked a store attendant when they had arrived, and he said “not long ago”... I stood there quietly holding a box in my hands thinking to myself “I don’t need this”, hell, not long ago I sold my old X100V (for a good price) thinking I could easily get by without it. I continued to just stand there holding the box in my hands until the attendant asked me “do you want to buy it”. I said “yes”.

An impulse buy and I have no regrets. It's a black one, it's all set up now with hood and leather half case; I took it out yesterday to all the old familiar places and took some pictures... it's all good and I'm happy

Here's a couple shots from yesterday.

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All the best,
Mike
 
This week I bought a Hewlett Packard 23" computer monitor (for £36) because it has three graphics connectors: a VGA, a HDMI and a DVI. I needed this because I'd just bought a Dell Opticron 7010 desktop pc with windows 10 (for £80). I bought this because my old "bitsa" pc tower with xp was having trouble on the web - my email account wouldn't let it write an email.

Now I can't "drag and drop" files within a folder, and most of the time at switch on, the desktop starts up then stops, starts up then stops and starts up then stops and finally starts up again. I quite often get messages about pressing F1 or F2 and so on. I tried the F2 see what I could do about the boot up stuff, but my mouse just goes from left to right along the top of the screen and the keyboard can only scroll up and down using the "Up/W" and "Down/S" keys and I can't make any changes. The desktop pc also checks through all three graphics sockets every time and usually does it three times then the monitor says "monitor going to sleep" just as the pc finally starts up properly and the monitor comes on.

I needed the VGA socket and one of the others (I don't know if its the the dvi or the hdmi socket), because I have kept my tower pc and just swap mice and replug the keyboard into a usb socket on the pc I want to use. I do have to unplug the desktop pc to use the tower, as there's no proper "Power off" switch to isolate the desktop pc from the mains, so even though I turn off the desktop pc using the front button after clicking on "shut down" in win10, it still comes on.

A few weeks ago I bought what for me was an expensive office chair from ikea.Rather uncomfortable. The headrest is no use as you have to lean back to use it and it makes me feel my head is being held forward of my back. the par tyou lean your back on is far too curved - the bottom part of my spine get no support, and the whole thing seems to be "folded forward", rather than slightly leaning back like most chairs. That back can recline, but you have to push it back with your legs but you have to hold it there with your legs or you get "folded forward" with some energy! It seemed good in the shop. I've no idea how to return it as I threw the two boxes out and I have nothing to put the bits into if I diamantle the chair. I wish I'd bought the £55 chair.
 
I bought ten rolls of Kodak Portra 400 from Freestyle. I didn’t need the film and they’ll just go in the freezer. I only needed the $20 film cutting guide for Barnacks and had to buy something else to pad out the order.
 
Like a puppy, this Exa 1a followed me home. But I goofed: I had been wanting to try a 50 mm Zeiss Pancolar lens for some time, and also an Exa camera using the earlier mirror box shutter, rather than a focal plane shutter. So getting both at once seemed like a great deal. And I got the camera body right, but it seems that the cult-favorite Pancolar is the 50/1.8, not the f/2! Ah well, the combo is, IMO, cute as heck. And it's a quick CLA job too, as there's not a bit of foam or rubberized silk in sight. Viewfinder is nice and bright, though there's lots of barrel distortion, maybe due to the use of a thick focusing screen which also appears to serve as a condenser lens.
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