They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, July 8-14, 2025
Way down among Brazilians
Coffee beans grow by the billions
So they've got to find those extra cups to fill
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil
Comment of the Week
Steve Ross on
Blown highlights but lots of shadow detail. Damn nice. With my Pentax K1 and K3 and my Sony Alphas, my default is always minus 1/3 stop but my Samsung S23 seems to have the computing power to coast on full auto. Wonder if there's some buried control on the phone you are playing with.
I am methodical with new cameras. I start with everything set to the defaults to establish a baseline, then start experimenting from there. Now that I have a baseline with the Huawei P9, I’m guessing it will end up much like the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome; I keep Highlight Protection set to on, plus I have the exposure meter set permanently to -1/3 stop. That preserves the highlights, while the monochrome sensor yields endless detail in the shadows.
And a BIG shoutout to reader RONALD E BURTON, the first person to Buy Me A Cup of Coffee with the comment Enjoying your articles. Thank you, sir! Oh, and…
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New GR World Free App now available with wireless image transfer, remote shooting and more
App supports GR II; GR III, GR III HDF; GR IIIx, GR IIIx HDF
By cjfeola in Pentax Announcements on Jul 15, 2025
The new free GR World app offers Ricoh GR users wireless image transfer, remote shooting functions, location information and more, Ricoh Imaging announced July 15 in Tokyo. GR World will be available free July 23 for Android devices in the Google Play Store and for iOS devices in the Apple App Store.
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.
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