Another awesome visit to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National WIldlife Reserve to test my newest acquisition, the Lumix DMC ZS50 camera with 24-720mm Leica glass! (I also took along my new Pentax IQ Zoom 105 WR film camera, but I haven’t had those negatives processed yet, so that’s a story for another time.
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A Photo a Day: Day 51
Spider-Man
Camera: Fujifilm X-T30 II
Lens: Minolta MC W.Rokkor-HG 35mm f/2.8 camera lens
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A Photo a Day: Day 50
Point & Shoot
Camera: Fujifilm X-T30 II
Lens: Vivitar MC 50mm f/1.7 camera lens
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Bad enough the SDHC card in my camera failed with 800 shots left on it. Now I go to buy one and the price has literally doubled since I bought one back in December! $15 something for two then is $30 something now…
I’d heard the AI boom was driving up the price, but damn! Bad enough to have AI foisted on me at every turn, and Google crashing if I don’t scroll below the AI crap fast enough, and being surrounded by a world where every damn person running to AI for everything down to getting dressed in the morning AND people claiming they they “made” something just because they can spew out a prompt. NOW I’m being priced out of using my camera!!!
FFS, why do I have to be hit by a perfect storm of this, gas prices, and the rest while ALSO suddenly having a bunch more new expenses in my life, AND at the exact same time I am hitting my lifetime financial low point with no prospect of improving???
Okay, so now I need to ration taking photos too….
You are going to say I can just reuse the card after moving pics to the computer. Nope.
Look, I need to have my pics stored multiple places. I already have to constantly delete pics en masse from my memory challenged computer. I have one external hard drive die, taking the pics on it with it. I can’t even afford a new drive now. I am stuck with all my photos backed up with damn Amazon, knowing if I stop being able to pay I’ll lose ‘em. I already have pics that now only exist in the stupid cloud! I don’t exactly trust any individual place pics are stored, and want them in as many places as possible
When I could afford to have physical prints, I didn’t worry as much. I miss prints sooooooooooooooooo much. (even if the photo albums take up a lot of space) I feel I need as many backups as possible, and the cards are like old fashioned negatives, the original copy I never want to part with.
UGH! See, if I were rich printing most my photos and overkill in backing them up would be near the top of my “to do” list! **
**Top being relative. Top of the “Ok, you have done the survival bit, now what?” list.
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Yessssssssssss! a FREE TTArtisan Tilt 50mm 1.4 for Nikon Z! One person is going to be very happy!!
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Still Life of Mexican Catholicism: continued progress 2
Camera: Fujifilm X-T30 II
Lens: Sears Auto 28mm f/2.8 M42 screw mount camera lens
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A Photo a Day: Day 48
Wild Bouquet
Camera: Fujifilm X-T30 II
Lens: Sears Auto 28mm f/2.8 M42 screw mount camera lens
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A Photo a Day: Day 47
Sunset
Camera: Fujifilm X-T30 II
Lens: Vivitar 75-200mm 1:4.5 MC Macro Focusing Zoom lens
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A Photo a Day: Day 46
Vines on a Fence
Camera: Fujifilm X-T30
Lens: Vivitar 75-200mm 1:4.5 MC Macro Focusing Zoom lens
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One of this rugged phone’s cameras is a pop-out action cam
What if your smartphone’s camera wasn’t locked to the back of the device? Honor’s Robot Phone, which we got to see in action at MWC 2026, features a camera attached to a stabilized gimbal arm that can pop-up and look around. But it’s still permanently tethered to the phone. The RugOne Xsnap 7 Pro, a new rugged phone from Ulefone, lets you pop out one of its rear cameras and use it as a standalone…