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.
 
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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JeffS7444 said:
the cult-favorite Pancolar is the 50/1.8, not the f/2!
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Yours is the first "original" Pancolar - a very good lens with great character.

In 1963 they redesigned the Pancolar and they went a bit wild with the design - 4 out of the 6 elements are thoriated. It was very difficult to manufacture so many thoriated elements, very expensive and very slow to produce - by 1967 they switched to the production of the third version - zebra aesthetics initially and then more modern looking and finally multicoated.

An easy way to tell them apart is by the number of aperture blades. Eight for the thoriated, 6 for the rest. I am vey lucky to have the thoriated version and to say that is excellent is an understatement.

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Here is a portrait, wide open.

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I've dumped the 23" Hewlett packard monitor as it was heavy and too big and I accidentally found out it wasn't needed. When I moved my older samsung monitor out of the way I noticed it had a HDMI port right next to the vga port, but it was underneath a sort of "ledge" and was hard to see. All I'd really needed was a HDMI cable which was just a few £.So I'd wasted £30! 🙄 The samsung is a 21", so the graphic card is doing marginally less work. I don't know if it was the HP monitor or the dell desktop but every time I switched on, one of them was checking all three graphics ports either on the dell or the HP, but it wasn't finding any connection for the first three times it checked. Nothing like that is happening now. Could be the samsung monitor, could be the fact that I'd taken the dell to a pc shop and they put a new mobo battery in and did some work in the setup program on F2 at startup.
 
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