maybe I missed this but here is a link about the most recent update that deletes some of your work.

https://www.rangefinderonline.com/news-features/industry-news/an-adobe-lightroom-update-wipes-out-user-photos/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Adobe+Accidentally+Deleted+Customers++Photos&utm_campaign=RF+Eng+20200902+Adobe+Wipes+Photos

Have you seen the new ones? My new razor has replaceable single edged razor blades. I'm getting a fillet glove before I mess with it again.

I does when you get a lightning strike or major surge that wipes out every thing.

I've used a double edge for decades and now I'm making my own organic shaving butter.

30 years of IT experience says ALMOST Never.

Fun little "bowling" hedgehogs.

https://laughingsquid.com/american-hedgehog-bowling-association/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=laughing_squid_blog_posts_2020_06_18&utm_term=2020-06-18

I haven't read it but does it cover the fact that around 40% of the deaths were caused by aspirin overdose? The US Army was the worst culprit prescribing as much as 6000 mg every two hours and they had extremely high death rates, over 40%. Naturopathic doctors treated fever mostly with cold water baths instead of aspirin and had the lowest death rates, around 2%.

I've got two old high quality scanners, a flat bed which does 8.5 x 11 transparencies and a slide scanner that does 50 slides in a batch. Both only run under older software since the manufacturers deemed them too small a niche to keep the software up to date. I also use my older Mac to digitize analog music and VHS videos.

Few schools will take it.

I still use them but I'm old and so is my equipment.

When I'm shooting basketball I often shoot at the end of the court where I set my focus to about 20' out. Then I capture drives up court. If I place myself carefully I can also get shots under the basket with the same zone.

Night football, where the lighting is often poor benefits from the same technique.

I used these techniques because I wasn't getting the shots. I learned them in the 70s because all I had were manual focus cameras.

In neither case could I afford or justify the expense of upgrading.


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I've been using a Vanson Speedy Box for several years (10+) and am quite happy with it. They no longer offer the Speedy box but this unit is the new replacement http://www.vanson.com.hk/product/v-9688/

This research may change the entire nature of lens making. It is easy if you can do the math in much the same way our sun can be the center of the universe, if you can do the math (there is no absolute frame of reference-A. Einstein)

https://newatlas.com/spherical-aberration-optical-lens-solution/60937/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=00332fad21-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-00332fad21-90659957

Don't kiss your hedgehog

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-salmonella-hedgehogs/dont-kiss-your-pet-hedgehog-cdc-warns-as-salmonella-hits-17-states-idUSKCN1TD1WE?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News%29

<RANT>I wish people would learn the difference between "SPAM" and junk mail. What most people get in their inbox is junk mail, a one to many marketing ploy. "SPAM" is a many to one Denial OF Service (DOS) attack. Most people have never been SPAMed. It was created by a student irritated with his professor. He scanned a tin of SPAM in BinHEX, this was before the MPEG standard and the only way to transmit images at the time. He then emailed this to a classmate with instructions to keep the body of the email intact and pass it on to the rest of his classmates. This formed a cascading text email circle, which after a few times around the circle became huge or more precisely friggin huge. Then at a predetermined time they each one sent their copy to the professor. They succeeded in overwhelming the server and hence denied service to everyone on that server. One of the reasons it became misused was because of Jim Coates, a tech writer for the Chicago Tribune. He referred to "junk mail" as "SPAM" in an article and in response was he actually SPAMed and rightly so. This was not the first case of a writer's misuse of a word replacing the true meaning. "Point blank" is another of many. The term actually means, from a French military manual, the point when a bullet fired from a horizontal gun is drawn to the ground by gravity and effectively becomes a blank.</RANT>

The choice depends on what you mean by sharing. If you mean here take my files, then dropbox. If you mean here look at my files then instagram.