GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Acquisitions Big and Small

PacNWMike said:
Don't bother with the frames. Done that. Too small, expensive and poor quality. The ones I had never lasted more than a year. I just picked up a 24" TV. Mounted it to the wall in the dining room where we can all view from the table. Has a USB port on the back and a remote. Can do slideshows. Also has wifi so I can access my HD where I store my photos. Cheaper and better than a much smaller frame frame. I'd go 27" (or more) now.
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Also my prefer method is finding an old 9, 10 or 12 inch Android tablet with version 5.2 Lollipop, put in a memory card with your picture, get the APK for a slideshow app, disconnect from all accounts and WiFi and you have a permanent picture frame with less then 50 £
 
Delivered today : TTArtisan 50mm f/1.2 manual X-mount
It's currently on my X-T30 and I haven't had the opportunity to go out of the house with it yet
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Irene McC said:
Delivered today : TTArtisan 50mm f/1.2 manual X-mount
It's currently on my X-T30 and I haven't had the opportunity to go out of the house with it yet
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This is suppose to be an excellent lens. Sonnar design which is neat.

The 7artisans 35mm f1.2 (1st gen) is suppose to be a sonnar design too but didn't get much praise. I've considered picking up both.

This reviewer describes why the 35/1.2 is more so love or hate.
This lens has about some of the weirdest performance traits of any of the lenses that I’ve tested through the years. This lens has so many technical imperfections that I don’t really know where to start! – But…… I simply can’t get enough of it!!! I seriously have no idea what it is that this lens does to my images!
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The 7artisans 35mm f/1.2 review

7artisans 35mm f/1.2 for Fujifilm review by Jonas Rask.
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L0n3Gr3yW0lf said:
Also my prefer method is finding an old 9, 10 or 12 inch Android tablet with version 5.2 Lollipop, put in a memory card with your picture, get the APK for a slideshow app, disconnect from all accounts and WiFi and you have a permanent picture frame with less then 50 £
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Seconded though keep the WiFi enabled to FTP images across your network to the frame/tablet. It’s what I do with our two old tablets: a very old Hudl (running Android 3) and a later Samsung (running 5, I think). Speaking of the latter..

My latest (sort of) photographic purchase is a new mains lead for the Samsung tablet/frame. It has a 90° bend at the plug so relieves stress and looks neater.
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Panolyman said:
They are being very brave at 2 degrees Craig. ;)
I've been considering getting one of those myself, but thought they went out of fashion in the nineties!
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LOL. Had older frames in the past that were smaller and poorer quality. This one is really nice at a reasonable 8x10-ish size, with an anti-glare matte screen that makes it look like an actual print.

PacNWMike said:
Don't bother with the frames. Done that. Too small, expensive and poor quality. The ones I had never lasted more than a year. I just picked up a 24" TV. Mounted it to the wall in the dining room where we can all view from the table. Has a USB port on the back and a remote. Can do slideshows. Also has wifi so I can access my HD where I store my photos. Cheaper and better than a much smaller frame frame. I'd go 27" (or more) now.
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Definitely another option, although the Mrs would never allow a TV screen in the dining room. Maybe I’ll consider that route in my office. The frame we got will be in our living room.

This one is made by Lexar, so I sure hope it lasts several years. It changes photos at your set interval time and can play videos with sound and goes to sleep based on one’s set schedule.
 
Charzes44 said:
And how did that, whilst probably delicious, compare with your trifle?
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Well - since you ask ;) We were disappointed.
It was a present from our German neighbours who have renovated the house next door to be an Air B&B and my son has helped them a lot during the year, so this was a little thank-you from them.
It's from a very fancy wine estate that has the most expensive goodies in their shop, both at the farm as well as on-line.
We did look forward to tasting it, but it lacked something - either lemon juice or salt or vanilla essence? not sure what but in the words of my daughter "it had no depth"
 
After switching to M43/MFT this year (in the exact middle! July 1), I discovered this beautiful little Lumix DMC-GF7 that I simply had to get. I have only twice in 50 years bought a camera for its looks (the first was a black Canonet QL 1.7 in 1973) but in both cases it made sense as well. It's a great walking around/street camera (as was the Canon):

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HOWEVER! In order to get this color, I had to import it from Japan via eBay, because this color was only sold there. And therefore the entire menu system is in Japanese! Fortunately, this model (in black and I think white or silver) was also sold in the US, so armed with the US manual and Google Translate on my phone (I can point the camera at the menu and it translates on the fly), I can pretty much muddle through almost everything I need. It's phenomenally light and quite powerful for a 10-year-old camera, and even my OM1 doesn't store a database of recognized faces!

The best part is that it can also serve as a backup body for my OM1. It's ridiculously light and small, but the funniest thing ever is how it looks on my Olympus 100-400:

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I especially love the way it floats in the air!
 
I have some bad news about the Pentax Q. The new batteries worked ... for a while ... But now the camera refuses to turn on again. I have cleaned the electric contacts inside the battery compartment, I have heated up the the camera a little bit by leaving it in front of my laptop exhaust fans (while playing video games so hot air was coming out) and I left a fresh battery in the camera in the hopes that it will charge the CMOS battery enough. But it did not work.

My personal theory right now is that the camera mainboard is trying to draw to much power trying to power itself on and charge the CMOS battery and it puts a strain on the batteries themselves, unable to cope with more then 3.7 Volts that it is rated at even a brand new battery will fail and hence after a bit of effort the camera will not turn itself on even with a fully charged battery.

This makes the Pentax Q unreliable and, unfortunately, a very cute decoration. It's not the end of the world for me BUT all the other Q successors, Q10, Q7, Q-S1, are made with the same design and same limitations. That is they are so compact and fabricated with very tight tolerance, with ribbons that are soldiered and to fragile to be fixed, with very difficult to access and almost self-destruct CMOS battery design that it's to risky to even try and replace them.
I am not sure I will try to get another Q or Q7 because of this, which is sad for me.

Alternatively there is Panasonic GM1 and GM5 and GF series that are almost as small but you will have 2x crop factor instead of 5.5x and 4.7x, and the lenses are not AS small (but small enough).
Buyers beware that the Pentax I camera will not last indefinitely and it's not because of the the external battery but because of the internal battery.
 
L0n3Gr3yW0lf said:
I have some bad news about the Pentax Q. The new batteries worked ... for a while ... But now the camera refuses to turn on again. I have cleaned the electric contacts inside the battery compartment, I have heated up the the camera a little bit by leaving it in front of my laptop exhaust fans (while playing video games so hot air was coming out) and I left a fresh battery in the camera in the hopes that it will charge the CMOS battery enough. But it did not work.

My personal theory right now is that the camera mainboard is trying to draw to much power trying to power itself on and charge the CMOS battery and it puts a strain on the batteries themselves, unable to cope with more then 3.7 Volts that it is rated at even a brand new battery will fail and hence after a bit of effort the camera will not turn itself on even with a fully charged battery.

This makes the Pentax Q unreliable and, unfortunately, a very cute decoration. It's not the end of the world for me BUT all the other Q successors, Q10, Q7, Q-S1, are made with the same design and same limitations. That is they are so compact and fabricated with very tight tolerance, with ribbons that are soldiered and to fragile to be fixed, with very difficult to access and almost self-destruct CMOS battery design that it's to risky to even try and replace them.
I am not sure I will try to get another Q or Q7 because of this, which is sad for me.

Alternatively there is Panasonic GM1 and GM5 and GF series that are almost as small but you will have 2x crop factor instead of 5.5x and 4.7x, and the lenses are not AS small (but small enough).
Buyers beware that the Pentax I camera will not last indefinitely and it's not because of the the external battery but because of the internal battery.
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I read somewhere that turning it off and on multiple times before changing batteries helps to charge the internal battery
 
Glevum Owl said:
Seconded though keep the WiFi enabled to FTP images across your network to the frame/tablet. It’s what I do with our two old tablets: a very old Hudl (running Android 3) and a later Samsung (running 5, I think). Speaking of the latter..

My latest (sort of) photographic purchase is a new mains lead for the Samsung tablet/frame. It has a 90° bend at the plug so relieves stress and looks neater.
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Sometimes the smallest things really improve your life quite a bit!
 
Panolyman said:
The TT Artisan 10mm f2 lens is going back.
It's almost impossible to use.
The aperture ring is so close to the lens mount and is so stiff than when rotating it, the focus ring turns as well.
In addition, there are supposed to be positive indents between the aperture settings, but there's so much friction that (if they're there) they can't be felt.
I'm disappointed as i'd lined up an architectural session in a few days time.
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I'd get the PanaLeica 9mm (oh wait, I already did lol), but for architecture I think there's a Laowa in your future.
 

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