Hong Kong with a new digital camera, part 2
I found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…
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The subject of monopods was raised recently in a photographic forum to which I belong. As it happens, I was already flirting with the idea of using a walking stick as a monopod, to avoid the need to carry two sticks. I’m a lazy so-and-so at the best of times. I also have a habit…
One of the problems with modern life is the plethora of plug-in mains adaptors or “wall warts” as they call them on the other side of “The Pond”. Aside from the mess of wires, and the fact that often they are plugged into multi-gang power sockets an heaped on top of one another, building up…
My very temporary office on Hong Kong. Actually the basement of my friend’s house in Mui Wo. But it was a great base form which to see Hong Kong and its environs and it was very good of my friends to put me up.
Just across the road from us there lives a pair of ginger cats. For some bizarre reason they like kipping on my girlfriend’s Nissan Micra, despite the fact the street is lined with much posher motors. And they have to be some of the grumpiest looking cats I have ever seen. We call them the…
Having all become familiar with USB C, seems the USB Group has just announced an even newer and faster connection standard, to be known as “USB D”. Of course, like all new Universal Serial Bus connectors, it will be completely incompatible with all previous USB standards. To guarantee incompatibility, the new connectors will be circular….