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Lin Po and the Giant Buddha
ByGarfI eas feeling particularly poorly today. Do I gave my girlfriend my camera and sent her off to take a few snaps of the Giant Buddha nest to Lin Po monastery, high up in he Lantau hills.
En route to Ronchamp Chapel
ByGarfWandered a bit further south today, mostly to visit Le Corbusier´s Ronchamp Chapel “Notre Dame du Haut” But we saw some other quite interesting things on the way including some classic French cars in remarkably good condition.
Digital pictures | Electronics | Equipment | FAQ | Journal | Linux | Photography | TechnologyBackups: NAS vs external hard disk
ByGarfDiscussion came up on a forum to which I belong whether it is better to use NAS (network attached storage) or external hard drives for backup. My answer is why not use both? Effectively I have three NAS servers. One is a media server. The others are purely backup – though they can quickly be…
Digital pictures | Equipment | General | Journal | Photography | Technology | TravelogueAround Havant with a Risespray 7.5mm lens
ByGarfI rather like Micro Four Thirds. Currently I have three µ4/3 bodies and a collection of both dedicated AF (autofocus) and adapted vintage MF (manual focus) lenses. Trouble with µ4/3 is that whilst we are very well catered-for in terms of long lenses, there’s a bit of a vacuum in shorter ones. So I decided…
Rishi Sunak – yet another unelected pro-Brexit British prime minister
ByGarfSo it seems we have yet another unelected Tory prime minister. In addition to being Britain’s first British-Asian and Hindu PM, and the youngest PM in over two centuries, Rishi Sunak also has the distinction of being our third PM in seven weeks! This time there wasn’t even ballot for Tory Party members. He just…
Digital pictures | Equipment | General | Journal | Photography | TechnologyRepairing an elderly Tamron 80-210mm lens (103A)
ByGarfI’ve had this old but very chunky Tamron 80-210mm Adaptall 2 telephoto zoom lens since the mid 1980s. Only I noticed that the overall image quality had become rather poor. I wanted to find out why. When I shone a small torch through it, I noticed what appeared to be a haze. Despite several cleans…
