This is how they do it in Lacrosse, WI....at 6 PM.

https://www.wxow.com/livestream/watch-6pm-skyrockers-new-years-eve-fireworks-show/article_87dbdc28-a769-11ee-a662-ff20238e4f73.html

How do you define cameraless imaging?

If it is 100% created by AI, then it is an illustration or depiction or "artist's conception."

If something with a lens is pointed at something real, it is a camera (of some sort) image.

They don't to be caught short when somebody builds a verification system into some other brands.

My 2 cents.

I still like the idea of our "astronaunts" plugging these into the 110v wall sockets on the SpaceX rocket to keep warm on the way to the space station.

Surrounding many news and social media pages are 100% garbage ads from China. Beyond silly "click bait" articles you must scroll though endlessly, these are deceptive ads outside the control of the FTC.

One is for a very poor quality heater that is so small it plugs directly into a wall socket...not cord. Walmart had them for around $15, but in these ads the hype (lies) are astounding! So are the prices.

" Elon Musk Reveals the Secret to Heating Your Home This Fall And Winter... All While Cutting Your Heating Bill to Basically $0.

Fall 2023 Special - “This hyper-efficient heating technology is how we kept astronaunts warm on trips to the International Space Station. Last December the tech was finally declassified, so we knew we could help millions of people stay warm during the current energy crisis heading into winter.” [Note they couldn't spell astronauts!]

The faked photo was obvious.

Other ads offer $399 coats from [add famous name here] for $39.95. Buyers report never getting the product and the website vanishing, only to reappear with a new URL weeks later.

These appear on all kinds of pages, so be careful not to get taken.

Some of us do not keep a cell phone glued to our hands. Why fish around in a coat pocket to check the time?

Oops

From the net.

It is certainly no Little Debbie Snack Cake.

Around here the locals consume lutefisk. Dried cod from Norway and essentially reanimated. No thanks!

I was looking at Amazon reviews of a cheap Chinese 400-800 non AF "pre-set" zoom that uses T-mounts [like Spiratone and others did in the 60's].

These younger photographers were totally flabbergasted that there was NOTHING done automatically for them.

Perhaps they could stop over here for some pointers.

The bones are already doing OK, it is all the musculature they had to disrupt to get to the bones. Gotta keep flexing the knee to keep it from stiffening in one position.

Happily, I'm essentially retired and my weekly recorded interviews are done via the Internet these days. I even connected with an orphange in Peru, me with laptop and mic, them as well. Sounded like they were in te room!

You have company this Christmas! We are home as my wife slipped on the next-to-bottom stair and did a real number on her leg and knee. 4 hours to fix it and her x-ray looks more like someone went in with an Erector Set.

She's doing OK, but it will be about a year for a full recovery.

Hapilly, I can cook, clean and do cat-boxes!

She got an old-fashioned bed jacket from Vermont Country Store as we have a bed downstairs for a very long time!

[Cats love it.]

My best cameras for 2023 are from 2018. I can only afford to stay behind the curve, not ahead if it.

""Are these times so devastating and harsh to humanity, that people need to light up, inject or,
swallow a drug to subdue the best life available. for themselves?"

They think so.

We live in a country that grew up on "plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."

There are now perceived quick fixes for everything.

My opinion of my fellow citizens has dropped a lot in the past five years. The distrust of science and neglect of simple self-preservation is astounding.

"Minolta MC 50mm f1.4. I have read reviews that this may be the sharpest 50mm lens ever made."

I believe it was Modern or Popular photography who said it was the sharpest lens they had ever tested. [at that time]

That was about the time when Kodak was making specially designed plastic lenses for disposable 35mm cameras that "approached" the performance of "some" 50mm lenses!

As I have often thought, some things become really good right before they become obsolete!

I miss GOOD fruitcake and that is complicated by my wife's need to be gluten-free.
We were looking at her grandmother's hand-written recipes from the depression era and found one for "inexepensive fruitcake." Basically raisins, prunes and dates with no glazed, colored fruit.

I adapted it with 2 cups of white rice flour, 2 cups of buckwheat flour, 1 cup of almond flour, blackstrap molasses, pinch of apple pie seasoning a a fair amount of domestic brandy + sufficient water to mix. Made two solid loaves.

Came out great!