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12-01-15, 09:18 AM
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Hey man, we wuz worried 'boutcha.
12-01-15, 09:20 AM
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12-01-15, 09:22 AM
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So I got my fancy new camera:
Haven't gotten to play with it outside, yet. It's been raining since I got it. Hopefully I'll take it out on the bike one morning and snap a couple of photos. So far I've just used it indoors for some family shots. It does really well in low light, but my 3.5 year old still moves too much.
Will add pic of camera....
THERE. Geez, technology.
Haven't gotten to play with it outside, yet. It's been raining since I got it. Hopefully I'll take it out on the bike one morning and snap a couple of photos. So far I've just used it indoors for some family shots. It does really well in low light, but my 3.5 year old still moves too much.
Will add pic of camera....
THERE. Geez, technology.
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12-01-15, 09:32 AM
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Don't know. Just a tabletop radio around $100ish. Nothing crazy. Definitely under $200. Maybe Tivoli. Sangean?
12-01-15, 09:33 AM
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went bikepacking this weekend; 140 miles/9000ft, so cracked. ultra technical singletrack in the dead of night, low temp of 28º, coyotes, campfires, bourbon.
so much climb. so much hike a bike. so much lost. so much cold. so much awesome. even my glutes hurt, and i have a numb spot on one of my big toes still.
compilation of the bros pics from the brovet.
so much climb. so much hike a bike. so much lost. so much cold. so much awesome. even my glutes hurt, and i have a numb spot on one of my big toes still.
compilation of the bros pics from the brovet.
12-01-15, 09:35 AM
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So I got my fancy new camera:
Haven't gotten to play with it outside, yet. It's been raining since I got it. Hopefully I'll take it out on the bike one morning and snap a couple of photos. So far I've just used it indoors for some family shots. It does really well in low light, but my 3.5 year old still moves too much.
Will add pic of camera....
THERE. Geez, technology.
Haven't gotten to play with it outside, yet. It's been raining since I got it. Hopefully I'll take it out on the bike one morning and snap a couple of photos. So far I've just used it indoors for some family shots. It does really well in low light, but my 3.5 year old still moves too much.
Will add pic of camera....
THERE. Geez, technology.
12-01-15, 09:36 AM
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12-01-15, 09:36 AM
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Looks like an awesome time, @Mumonkan
12-01-15, 09:38 AM
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12-01-15, 09:47 AM
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12-01-15, 09:52 AM
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It really is a lot of fun. My first real camera was a Minolta X-70 that spent most of its life in a drawer, supposedly a wedding gift from my grandfather to my parents. But it was a 35mm SLR with an aperture ring and shutter speed dial and it was immensely more fun to use than the digital Canon SLR's I used for a while. This one is a fixed zoom lens that feels like my old film camera with all the advantages of digital. Freaking loving it.
12-01-15, 10:00 AM
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Mmmm - burr grinder. That reminds me that I need to put some plastic beans through my grinder before I pick up a new bag of beans today...
Yeah, I'm a big fan of older, manual focus/aperture lenses, which is why I want to pick up the a7II - with adapters, you can use a ton of lenses, it has great MF features like focus peaking and it has image stabilization built in to the body. *sigh*
It really is a lot of fun. My first real camera was a Minolta X-70 that spent most of its life in a drawer, supposedly a wedding gift from my grandfather to my parents. But it was a 35mm SLR with an aperture ring and shutter speed dial and it was immensely more fun to use than the digital Canon SLR's I used for a while. This one is a fixed zoom lens that feels like my old film camera with all the advantages of digital. Freaking loving it.
12-01-15, 10:03 AM
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Geez @Mumonkan I JUST talked myself out of picking up that bike and you had to go and post those. I have to keep telling myself I have the Crockett...
that being said if youre strong enough and have enough willpower to hurt yourself it will take you anywhere, mine is SS and i kept up with the scott scale XC bike just fine.
it is definitely the most comfortable bike ive ever ridden though, its like a cadillac
12-01-15, 10:03 AM
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Yeah, highs "just" in the 60s is stressing you thin-blooded Phoenix types. Brrrrrr!
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12-01-15, 10:03 AM
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12-01-15, 10:05 AM
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Oh, technology.I also looked heavily at the Fujifilm X30, but it has a significantly smaller sensor size The X100T is really nice, but almost double the price of what I got the LX100 for. The only real downside on the LX100 is the zoom lens definitely kills the looks of the camera as soon as you turn it on. But I didn't want to carry converters or extra lenses, so this is what I landed on.
12-01-15, 10:10 AM
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Nice pics, mumonkan.
Nice looking camera, Wo2W.
Nice grinder, jonesy.
Nice looking camera, Wo2W.
Nice grinder, jonesy.
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12-01-15, 10:40 AM
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12-01-15, 11:12 AM
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A coffee snob friend of mine always complained that Starbucks coffee tasted burnt to him. He would talk about it any chance he got. I'm not a huge coffee drinker, but enjoy the occasional mocha, sometimes from SB. Then my in-laws got a nice espresso machine and I learned to make my own. Now I can't have SB without tasting the burnt. Ignorance IS bliss.
12-01-15, 11:16 AM
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A coffee snob friend of mine always complained that Starbucks coffee tasted burnt to him. He would talk about it any chance he got. I'm not a huge coffee drinker, but enjoy the occasional mocha, sometimes from SB. Then my in-laws got a nice espresso machine and I learned to make my own. Now I can't have SB without tasting the burnt. Ignorance IS bliss.