But I would write 500 Posts
And I would write 500 more
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, May 20-26, 2025
When I wake up, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver, yeah, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's haverin' to you
But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand
Miles to fall down at your door
Editor’s Note: This is the 500th post on Perfecting Equilibrium. Thanks for reading!
Comment of the Week
Steve Ross during a conversation on Virtual Newsroom: The business is changing fast, with many media "stars" (at least in their own mind) setting up their own subscription services on substack, etc. It is the Feola approach (sorry Chris). The problem is that not too many of them can charge $5/month and get people to pay-adds up to a lot of money for the subscribers and (usually) not much for the authors.
No worries, and not really. I've always told people that writers have a choice to be pros making money or Emily Dickinson. I make money writing for Pentax Forums and elsewhere, and I'm Emily Dickinson on Substack. Sure, I put up a paid option-why not? It was two clicks-but I don't do paid-only posts. Or marketing. Or any Upgrade to Paid campaigns. After 3 years and 500 posts I've got two paid subscribers, and $0 through Buy Me A Coffee. Which is fine. I write what interests me, and I'm just pleased people want to read it. And I’m gratified by how many are reading.
On Pentax Forums, on the other hand, I cover a beat. Banged out two stories in one day last week; shades of those old days as an ink-stained wretch.
So I’ll keep writing. I hope you’ll keep reading. And if you feel like buying me a cup of coffee? I cannot lie:
I do love me some coffee!
Perfecting Equilibrium Stories
Feola Elsewhere on the Internet
PENTAX 17 wins Camera GP 2025 Editors Choice R&D Award
The awards keep piling up for Pentax's half-frame film camera
By cjfeola in Pentax Announcements on May 21, 2025
The PENTAX 17 has won the Camera GP 2025 Editors Choice R&D Award of the Camera Grand Prix 2025 in Japan, Ricoh Imaging has announced. It's the fourth major design award Ricoh has won with the Pentax 17, launched last summer. Pentax's half-frame film camera claimed the 2025 German Design Award for Excellent Product Design - Computer and Communication category at the beginning of the year. In March, Ricoh won this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD 2025 for PENTAX 17 in the “Product” category. In April the Pentax 17 won this year’s Red Dot Design Award. And Gear Patrol named the Pentax 17 to the Tech category for its list of “The 100 Most Important Products of 2024.”
Ricoh GR IV Coming in Fall 2025
New lens, sensor and imaging engine, plus advanced communications
By cjfeola in Pentax Announcements on May 22, 2025
The Ricoh GR IV is under development and is scheduled to ship this fall with a new lens, a new sensor, a new imaging engine, advanced connectivity and support for a new app designed for smart devices, Ricoh Imaging announced May 22 in Tokyo.
Easter Eggs
My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.
Next on Perfecting Equilibrium
Friday May 30 - Foto.Feola.Friday
Sunday June 1 — Still Wobbly After All These Years; Perfecting Equilibrium enters Year Three, plus a look back over the first two years.