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My favourite camera
I like to campaign them. I was keen during my teens ( the 80s… ). Dad had a Nikon F, F2, and F3. I’d been given my mother’s Yashica 35, but I notice lots of photos from that era show me with the F. Fast forward to today. I have a 5 year old and…
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Pity my Lamy?
I needed a note taking pen that could handle life in a dust environment, perhaps being dropped and it not being the end of the world if I lost it one day. So, a Lamy Safari seemed a good choice. A quick purchase from ebay and I had a nice charcoal pen with a black…
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It’s hard to line up a sunset
When you see travelling and you want to take photos of things like sunsets, it’s all a bit hit and miss. Without knowing the best places for that time of year, you are often running around the streets in vain looking for a view that is a little more westerly. But there always seems like…
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Crashy bug prone Facebook app makes me sad
Write up a post about the museum, take a photo to illustrate it and bang… All gone. Here is a picture anyway:
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Yashica 35 – No. 5101421
The first camera that I could call my own was my mother’s Yashica 35. This was the camera she had taken to France after completion of her undergraduate degree. At some stage I’ll get my hands on the boxes of slides from that period…. However, this is not that camera. Right now, I guess we…
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Need a new qemu build
Wow, it’s been a while since I last did this… So, as before, build & install zlib and SDL. In my case they are in e:\apps\zlib-1.2.5 and e:\apps\SDL-1.2.14 export PATH=$PATH:/e/apps/gtk-2.24.8/bin export PATH=$PATH:/e/apps/SDL-1.2.14/bin ./configure –prefix=/e/apps/qemu-1.7.0 –enable-sdl –python=e:/apps/python-2.7.2.1/App/python.exe –extra-cflags=”-I /e/apps/zlib-1.2.5/include -L /e/apps/zlib-1.2.5/lib” make make install
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Weird rainbow
There it was, just sitting across the sky at midday.