I'm having a Kodak moment at age 83!

I'm going to do a long essay - this is likely to be the last section - easier to write first..... 



For years and years and years - ever since I could remember - I carried  keys and handkerchief in my right rear pants pocket while my right front pocket 'housed' my cell phone.  Change for an octogenarian who thrives as a creature of habit is a really major thing.

A major thing is happening!  While the keys are going to the right bottom cargo pants pocket - and some day I will write a separate essay about cargo pants! - , the handkerchief will now reside with in the right front pocket, leaving the newly empty rear right free to hold the phone - seemingly, everyone else carries their phone in one of their rear pockets....but me.  Now I am joining the rear pocket phone world!!!

Why?

Because of a $99.95 'retro' mini digital camera with a 13 MPS 1/3 inch sensor that will hang on a combination of my Bulldog (Amsterdam coffee shop) 'necklace' with clip on the end attached to the hand holder attached to the camera that now comfortably slides into my right front pocket and is the 'answer' to no longer cluttering my photo storing ap on phone and computer with pictures of buildings to sketch or scenes to draw that enable me to relax in solitude at my desk in my mancave; a solitude without anyone looking over my shoulder to see what I am doing.

This little camera not only gives me what I need - a separate camera/storage unit.......  but comes at a bargain cost:  one eighth the price of the Fuji  X Half  camera that I was seriously considering a month ago.  This one, too, has filters if I want to do some urban street pictures in sepia or monochrome or video, as well (bearing in mind the quality limitations that offset the ease of having this readily available at all times) but here is the 'killer' feature:  when I use a double sided USB C cable connecting the camera to my computer, I am asked if I want to automatically transfer picture from the camera - it does not get any easier as I now will store these pictures in a separate file from which I will draw and paint without cluttering up my photos file...........

A pocket sized digital camera that shoots in monochrome, sepia, vivid color (and more) that arrived at our door as an Amazon delivery on Monday, 8 September 2025.

Yes indeed, 2025.  My first camera, one with a Fedflash brand name, was a 127 film camera that was my 8th birthday present....17 September 1950...............75 years ago..................

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Senate tax bill - as detailed a summary as you will find!

Image
I cant read this either.......and I can't figure out how to delete this....but here is the unreadable summary..... sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreign-derived intangible income and global intangible low-taxed income deductions Permanently expand deductions $14 bil. Reporting threshold for payments Increase thresholds for reporting payments to independent contractors and other payees $13 bil. Employer payments of student loans Make the exclusion from gross income permanent and index for inflation $11 bil. Charitable contribution deduction Permanently allow deduction up to $1,000 ($2,000 for married couples) for those who do not itemize, but require a minimum contribution based on income level $11 bil. Farmland sales Allow capital gains taxes to be paid in installments $7.3 bil. New markets tax credit Permanently extend credit to increase investment in...
Read more

7 Baseball

It is late morning on a wet Saturday as the rains - more than a drizzle but not enough for me to consider taking an umbrella with me were I to go out - have been (more or less) steady since early morning, yesterday.  I'm gonna be indoors all day, today - still in my pajamas - no need to go out.......and our small home is pleasantly, comfortably warm - with a thermal vest atop the pj tops as the central heating keeps our place warm. My life is intertwined with baseball tying so much more than the game into it.  Yeah, 'Baseball is Life'.........I wish I still had that T shirt!  I have been on a baseball odyssey from sometime in September, 1944 when my mother and her sisters Sarah and Faye  and 4 cousins attended Ladies Day at Ebbetts Field where the St Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers.   Of course I don't remember it!  But it is what I do remember from 18 September 1947 on - far more than just the Dodgers and World Series matters.  I have h...
Read more

Watching Freddie

 I started early today and while I anticipated a light day, it was 'more involved' than I anticipated.  John Achorn acted his way through chapters 19-22 of Huck Finn.  We discussed the LA Times sponsored Festival of Books at which Percival Everett, author of James, spoke.  For Summer session (8 weeks), we are going to read Raymond Carver short stories.  We were also asked for our input regarding choice of authors for the Fall semester. I got home just as Freddie's class began.  The legions of women watercolor painters who simply adore Freddie Manseau makes his Zoom class quite entertaining.  Freddie is a true character - the extent to which he plays up on this to keep his classes large is open to conjecture but regardless, I am enjoying painting! I was just about to pay for lunch at the St John's Cafeteria when Katherine called - I met her at Sawtelle after lunch.  I also discovered along the way that the # 17 bus travels both ways along Sawtelle,...
Read more