One More Cup Of Coffee 'Fore I Go

A while back I came into possession of a Sony A6000 mirrorless camera. 

(Yes, that IS a hand made Star Trek neck strap!)

Finally I am able to play around with it.

My employers gave me a broken camera and lens a while back.  The shutter was stuck shut.  After a few months of poking around online, I found a functional body for less than the cost of repairing the old one, so I snagged it.  There was a lens included with the damaged camera, so I had hopes that it would function.

It did not.

Since I have been pretty much all about Nikon camera equipment for the entire time I have been doing this, I ordered an adapter to allow me to use my Nikon F Mount lenses with a Sony E Mount camera body.

Once that came in, I was able to finally use the camera, and I must say, it is nice!

 

The above photos were taken with a 75-300 Vivitar Macro Focusing Zoom lens manufactured in about 1975 mated to this glorious 24.3 Megapixel beast, and I must say…The images this combination produce can be stunning if you take your time.  The lens is not fast by any stretch of the imagination.  Take your time, line it up and get it exposed correctly and it is beautiful!
Currently I have an old Nikkormat lens from about 1959 on the body, and the results are just as beautiful:

The low light results are also very nice, and for the most part, very clean.  I’ve gotten a few grainy shots with the ISO maxed out at 25,600 but, for the most part, I don’t need to use it that high since I can easily set F-Stops and shutter speeds to work in harmony with a flash to produce cleaner pictures.

The continuous shooting mode is smooth and fast, thanks to the mirrorless nature of the beast, but be wary…You will fill up an SD card real quick if you aren’t careful!  Took me about 3 hours to fill a 16gb card.  Part of that was messing around with it, but al lot of the space was taken up by the RAW files which are ~24mb each.

  

Overall, it is a camera that I am very happy with.  The size and weight take some getting used to after using a DSLR or SLR for so long, and it feels fairly durable.  I doubt it will fully replace my trusty old D40x anytime soon, but it is a lot of fun to use, and in some situations it vastly outperforms my old DSLR.

Wondered How Tomorrow Could Ever Follow Today

Decided to send a message to my old friend from school this evening.

We ended up having a nice conversation and became FB friends, so I guess all is well.  It was nice to catch up with her a little, she was one of the most positive influences in my life back in those days.

I Want My...I Want My MTV

While attempting to consolidate and, for a lack of better term, archive my web presence in one place, I completely forgot about my old Geocities sites.  Problem is by the time I realized that, Yahoo! had shut the whole thing down and deleted it.
Actually deleted all of it. For everyone. Everywhere.
ALL. OF. IT.
A huge record of the “early days” of the internet. Of early, free web hosting and usable tools for design.
Every now and again I check the oocities archive to see if either of the two sites I actually remember pop up.  I downloaded the index file for the nearly 1TB torrent, but I cannot find anything in there.  Nor do they seem to be present on the Internet Archive.
Maybe I have it backed up onto a CD. While not likely, I did find two pages on a CD I did for a birthday gift for an old friend last week.

Here are those, at least: