Hello Darkness my old friend
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, March 27-April 2, 2024
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
Reminder:
There’s a total eclipse of the sun coming Monday, April 8. You can photograph the sun’s corona with solar filters; I use these K&F Concept 58mm ND100000 ND Camera Lens Filter,16.6-Stops Fixed Neutral Density Filter with 28 Multi-Layer Coatings Waterproof & Scratch Resistant (Nano-X Series) (That’s an Amazon affiliate link; it doesn’t cost you any more to use it, but I do get a small commission.) I’ll have more on this Friday, but wanted to post a reminder today so there’s time to order filters if you need them.
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Join Ricoh for the April 6 GR Photo Walk in Las Vegas
Don't have a GR? Loaners will be available!
By cjfeola in Photography on Mar 27, 2024
Explore Las Vegas with a GR and Ricoh! Explore Freemont Street and the surrounding area Saturday, April 6 from 4 - 8:30pm PDT.Â
Don't have a GR? Want to try one out? Ricoh has a limited number of loaner GRs available. There is no cost for this event; you can sign up here. EventBrite was showing the event as sold out last week; Ricoh has added more slots and you now sign up again.
Ricoh launches the RICOH GR III HDF and RICOH GR IIIx HDF
Highlight Diffusion Filter softens light for more expressive images
By cjfeola in Pentax Announcements on Mar 28, 2024
Ricoh is introducing two new GRs with its newly developed Highlight Diffusion Filter (HDF), which diffuses highlights for softer light, creating more expressive images with a sense of depth and emotion. The HDF, which can be turned on and off in a single action, allows users to add a totally different kind of visual expression to their images.
The RICOH GR III HDF and RICOH GR IIIx HDF will be available in April at www.us.ricoh-imaging.com, as well as at Ricoh Imaging-authorized retail outlets. The suggested retail prices are $1,069.95 for the RICOH GR III HDF and $1,149.95 for the RICOH GR IIIx HDF.
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
Thursday April 4th - The PE Vlog: We’re taking a quick break from our series on building Virtual Grad Student, a locally hosted and tuned Large Language Model — AI — for our own data and applications. Instead this week we’ll take a look at Suno, an AI that writes finished songs.
Friday April 5th - Foto.Feola.Friday
Sunday, April 7 — Still Wobbly After All These Years; Perfecting Equilibrium enters Year Three, plus a look back over the first two years.
Sunday, April 14 — About that time I accidentally spent all my money on lenses. And tripods. And art. Every month for four years and fourth months... A soldier and his pay are soon parted, everyone knows. And I was no different. But I’m probably the only soldier ever who blew all his money on Pentax lenses and woodblock prints.