3 Diplomas + 2 Diapers

Last week was a great one--look at these 3 cute BYU grads!

And 2 adorable grandchildren! Who can top that? SH

Stuff @ Grandma's House #2

Stuff @ Grandma's House #3

Stuff @ Grandma's House #1

Delayed gratification

Forty years ago I was taking classes in the new industrial arts wing of my high school. In particular, I took classes in the electronics lab and the graphic arts lab.


They had a great darkroom set up with some nice enlargers.


The rich kids had SLR cameras. The very rich kids had Nikons.

I had an old Kodak 35mm that folded flat, the Retina IIc, circa 1949.

Here's a blog with some photos of a camera very similar to mine: http://aikoman.tistory.com/64

It had some very nice German optics, but the focus was pure guesswork. I got pretty good at using an external light meter.


But focus was always a problem and you could never do any of the depth-of-field tricks without an SLR. I coveted them.


Fast forward to 2010. When going through Ella's house I came across Garth's SLR camera, a Pentax MG. The MG picks the shutter speed for you and will only go manual at 1/100th or bulb. He had a couple of extra lenses.



28 to 80 mm lens.





80-200 mm lens.



This would have been a sweet set-up in 1970. Better late than never.


So I shot a roll and had it developed. It was great!

These weren't as close-up as I had hoped for a 200mm lens, but it was still great. And the resolution is excellent.

But I sure appreciate the advantages of digital photography. With film, the roll of film alone comes out to about 11 cents a picture. Then you've got the developing. Having the processor burn a CD is another $3.

It all adds up. And you can't print your own right out of the camera. And you can't touch up your shots before printing.

I looked into a digital body that uses the K mount lenses and it turns out they can't be used. Digital bodies link up to the lenses in a more sophisticated way.

But I've got the dream set-up I wanted in high school and it is fully operational. Maybe I'll use it for some portrait work.

Larry, Curly and Me

Unique

For a whole new General Conference experience....

Pith

More sage words...
...from the wall at Jimmy John's:
"The gap between more and enough never closes."

...from Rachel's gift of The Best of the Frontier Guardian:
"I verily believe that all those bills they talk about in Congress are counterfeit they are so hard to pass." June 12, 1850 (Some things never change!)

"Critic- A large dog that goes unchained and barks at every thing that he does not comprehend." February 21, 1849

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." May 29, 1850

"Some persons are capable of making sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is the concealment that constitutes their value." June 12, 1850

"A lazy boy out in Indiana spells Andrew Jackson thus: &ru Jaxn." July 24, 1850 (There's a boy ahead of his time.)