Let Your Light Shine Down
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, April 17-23, 2024
Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to look
Tell me, what will I find?
What will I find?
Lay me on the ground
And fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me, what will I find?
What will I find?
Yeah
Whoa, Heaven let your light shine down
Comment of the Week
Steve Ross on Foto.Feola.Friday
And yes, Chris asked my permission to recount my Pentax lens passion. Brings up an interesting point, though. I have a lot of Pentax equipment, and I use it fairly often. I live on a windy, sandy oceanfront beach. New England weather has a lot of rain and snow. No problem. Could probably use the K1 to knock snow off my windshield.
So the Pentax stuff works great, never stops working. How the heck can Pentax survive without getting much revenue from its most loyal longtime customers? True, the KIII Monochrome is enticing, but I have TriX and litho film and a P3n (!) to satisfy that itch. And if I did buy the Monochrome KIII and found a place to put it, I already have about 20 lenses for it...
I have an article coming out about The New Golden Age of Black & White photography that details just how much better black & white digicams are than their color counterparts. The difference is actually shockingly large. More soon!
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Ricoh updates the K-1, K-1 II, GR III, GR IIIx
New features for the GRs; bug fixes for the K-1s
By cjfeola in Firmware Updates on Apr 20, 2024
Ricoh has released firmware updates incorporating new features for the GR series, plus bug and stability fixes for the K-1 and K-1 II.
The GR series gets Custom 1, 2 and 3 white balance settings, which allow users to store white balance settings and fine-tuning. The series also gets a new Zone Select AF option in the focus selection menu. This allows users to freely move the 3×3 focus area and automatically focus on the appropriate position within the area.
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 25th - The PE Vlog: We’re continuing to build Virtual Grad Student, a Large Language Models — AI — running locally on our own curated data to form a virtual writer’s assistant. For example, to pull together a few paragraphs of background on Roman aqueduct architecture. This week we’re organizing data for our h2oGPT Large Language Model.
Friday April 26th - Foto.Feola.Friday
Sunday April 28th — Highly Granular, Loosely Coupled Entropy is the strongest force in the universe. Without the Industrial Age benefits of economies of scale, the vast edifices that powered manufacturing economies like the United States will simply break down. Without those benefits, the bonds will simply fade. States will act more and more independently, and the Federal Government will have less ability to respond.