What have you just BOUGHT?

[38Deardorff]

I have a couple of those clones and I have never been able to get a smooth cut line with them. I use a very sharp razor knife and still no joy.


I have resorted to just doing this freehand with scissors to much better effect.

ABLON arrived..... works like a charm...w either a construction razor knife or by drawing a line and then cutting with scissors....
Clearly though, i'll need to cut leaders before any flights..... don't think the razor blades will pass security.....

 

[chuckroast]

ABLON arrived..... works like a charm...w either a construction razor knife or by drawing a line and then cutting with scissors....
Clearly though, i'll need to cut leaders before any flights..... don't think the razor blades will pass security.....

You'd be surprised. I have traveled happily internationally with razor knives - the kind with the snappable blades - and have never been questioned. Similarly, I carry a small pen knife on my keychain and have never been questioned. So long as things like this are in the jumble of a camera bag, I think they just don't get noticed.

 

[38Deardorff]

You'd be surprised. I have traveled happily internationally with razor knives - the kind with the snappable blades - and have never been questioned. Similarly, I carry a small pen knife on my keychain and have never been questioned. So long as things like this are in the jumble of a camera bag, I think they just don't get noticed.

......minimally....then i don't have to carry the ABLON either 😉

 

[Shadams]

These days, I find carrying more than 2 cameras gets in the way of taking pix. It used to be <some film camera> + Nikon D750. Then I got a D-Lux Typ 109 and that thing ruined me for the very fine Nikon DLSR. Yeah, it's only 16 Mpix, but boy does it have good ideas about what color should look like and even better ideas about monochrome. Just for fun, I put the Nikon in mono mode to compare (who knew it even had such a setting 🙂 and I still preferred the 'Lux output.

In Italy a few years ago I carried a IIIf and the D750. A year later, I took an M2 and the 'Lux to Greece. WHAT a difference. I was able to shoot far more in the moment without the weight of the DSLR hanging off me. I did have in my bag, and every time I pulled it out to use it, it felt like I was carrying a bowling ball 😉

I have a pair of D750s. I thought that was the solution to the pair of D4 bodies. Then I switched to a pair of Canon R bodies. Better, but they're still more for a "set piece battle." But all through that I've been sneaking around with an X100F and a RX100m7.
An A6100 and 2 lenses are always in the truck plugged into a USB charger. The Canons get used 10% of the time. It's all the Fuji and the small Sony.Once in a while the "big" Sony. More and more often it's just the little Sony and my phone as a light table. Liberating. Incredible and ridiculously wonderful. I'm finally back to "true" miniature format" in small cameras.