Am smiling . . . whenever I click on to say hello > somehow so much comes up . . . the farmy and 'here', half a world away and now you mentioning Misky (and my promptly resubscribing - so, thank you!). And remembering Camera House from way back and hoping you will find another companion somehow and from somewhere soon and, and . . . thinking and hoping you three are having a peaceful day . . .
Not terribly peaceful so far but it will settle down with some food and a siesta! That camera did feel like a companion. What a lovely way of putting it!
You’ve built a beautiful web between past and present, between blogs, countries, crops, and cameras. Misky’s potatoes, your farm soil, and the deep bond you’ve had with that old Nikon all tell a story of your relationships. Thanks for sharing this glimpse into your world. I wish you a happy and hopefully restful weekend, dear Cecilia :)
Another great potato recipe! I just now made your wonderful Lemony Greek potatoes and they turned out very well. Thanks so much. Sorry about your camera. xo
I grew potatoes a few times, choosing fancy types/not found in the stores. Overall they didn't taste much different than store-bought so I stopped. I like to grow vegetables that taste better in the garden.
Do your potatoes taste better than store bought? Was I doing something wrong?
I think it is more about fresh potatoes - freshly dug potatoes are the best tasting! If you have lots of garden space, potatoes are great but they need lots of deep soil. I am not growing them in the city garden mores the pity - leaving lots of space for tomatoes!
Yes, this is so important Celi! Thank you for the reminder! "Embracing the change. Not just making the best of it but embracing each change is more powerful than we know." xoxo
Right? There is much too much moaning and complaining going on - the "old times" are gone forever - no time for weeping - we have to gear up and get moving - I am taking Mad's advice, rolling with the changes and looking for a new second hand camera. Have a great day out in your spring sunshine!
I am going to read a chapter today and see how my voice goes. It might be hoarse but as I always say it is real time reading - just as though I am in the room! Have a great evening, Rea!
they were great cameras :) I’m hoping the oil does the trick! - it has lasted a long time! - I had a quick check and your model is available to buy second hand here in Australia at cash converters and on eBay.
Thank you Helena! I raced over and found one on ebay and not a bad price at all! I honestly just don't feel like starting to learn a new camera! 😂 Yay! Australia to the rescue!
sorry for camera house's demise, it served you well over the years, in and out and everywhere you went. as you said, something always works out, and we rarely imagine what it will be at the beginning, which makes it kind of interesting at the end when it is sorted it out. not to say it makes it any easier when you're going through it. looking forward to that baby soon, and all of your crops and delicious recipes as always -
Little things like this do work out - now that I am over it I feel less miserable about losing my most constant mechanical companion! I have found a cheap second hand one that hopefully will work well. Hopefully it did not have as hard a life as Camera House!
Poor Camera House, and poor you! It's had an exciting life; I remember a post way back, when you'd mislaid it and it survived a night outside alone on a fence post or something, with just the owls for company. The potatoes sound lush; I'd be cooking them in the lard I render out of the Christmas ham, deliciously smoky.
So sorry to hear about camera house. It was an extension of your eye and your arm. It must have a sister out there just waiting to be found on a second hand site.
I am on the hunt - though just quietly it will need to be second hand - new cameras are out of my price range at this point - without my farm income. But I have a sense we will find something.
I am constantly surprised by the number of people who have older cameras and gear that they are happy to donate. Also people who can clean and repair older objects. Zero waste Wellington on Facebook is one such place for cameras and local Repair Cafes offer skilled folk for a koha (donation) or barter for repairs. Good luck finding a solution.
I have only just begun to look for a repair person though that will end up being as expensive as a new one and the camera is very well used. A solution will turn up - it always does!
I feel for you and your camera. Maybe try B&H Photo in NY, they may have a used Nikon in good condition. If so, it could be sent to the farm and you could pick it up in July. Wish you the best.
I would move on and buy a newer camera - there are better ones now, second hand on Ebay, which will give you many more pixels ...and even full frame. Buy a fast lens (f2.8) if you can afford it.
You are probably right. Though financially there might be a pause before I buy a new camera -(I looked about and oh boy - expensive). I will take all the tips you can give me as I am totally out of touch when it comes to cameras now. I got quite used to this one. I mean will a new camera take my old lenses? I will put fast lens on my list. Thank you for that! I don’t want to have to get the old Leica out!’ 😂 and I see mirrorless cameras now - what even is that? A phone?
In theory, Canon and Nikon cameras will work with older lenses. I've got Nikkor lenses from the 70s/80s which work on new Nikon and Canon cameras, but they are manual only - nothing automatic and not great for old eyes! However, that time period was the height of glass lens technology, so optically they are superior to what's being made now.
Mirrorless cameras are probably the future, there's no longer a pentaprism with a mirror looking through the lens. You get to look through the viewfinder or use a screen on the back. So far I'm not a big fan, I prefer to see a real optical image through a mirror, rather than see "video" quality. But it looks like they are cheaper than SLRs.
A full frame camera will allow you to change the ISO settings considerably without increasing noise (grain) in the picture quality and relatively speaking the lenses are the same as a 35mm film camera - 50mm is like the human eye (again).
An f2.8 lens will allow shooting in most light conditions, whereas a much cheaper f4 lens isn't great unless you have bright daylight.
Newer lenses with an image stabalizer are sampling the pictures you take to make them sharp, relative to using a shutter speed that's too slow in low light. A faster, older 2.8 lens will be much cheaper and will have the same optical quality.
I have seen some quite cheap full frame Canon 5d Mark ii and Mark iii cameras on Ebay recently.
OK! All good stuff and a great reference for me. I will check out the Canon 5d - Dada had a canon and he preferred them to the Nikon. I will begin the hunt. Australia has ebay - right?
I felt the heartbreak over Camera House like it was my own. It’s amazing how a tool like that becomes part of you, part of your rhythm. I hope the old Nikon back at the farm still has some life in it.
It is awful actually. I will try with the repair but there is a lot of trust we put in our cameras. Can I trust it now? Probably not. So - yeah - I sense a change coming!
Am smiling . . . whenever I click on to say hello > somehow so much comes up . . . the farmy and 'here', half a world away and now you mentioning Misky (and my promptly resubscribing - so, thank you!). And remembering Camera House from way back and hoping you will find another companion somehow and from somewhere soon and, and . . . thinking and hoping you three are having a peaceful day . . .
Not terribly peaceful so far but it will settle down with some food and a siesta! That camera did feel like a companion. What a lovely way of putting it!
You’ve built a beautiful web between past and present, between blogs, countries, crops, and cameras. Misky’s potatoes, your farm soil, and the deep bond you’ve had with that old Nikon all tell a story of your relationships. Thanks for sharing this glimpse into your world. I wish you a happy and hopefully restful weekend, dear Cecilia :)
I guess we missed the restful memo!! 😂 Life is all about relationships too - wonderful.
We did lol
It sure is Cecilia :)
Another great potato recipe! I just now made your wonderful Lemony Greek potatoes and they turned out very well. Thanks so much. Sorry about your camera. xo
Aren't they lovely! I am a big fan of potatoes in any form!
I grew potatoes a few times, choosing fancy types/not found in the stores. Overall they didn't taste much different than store-bought so I stopped. I like to grow vegetables that taste better in the garden.
Do your potatoes taste better than store bought? Was I doing something wrong?
I think it is more about fresh potatoes - freshly dug potatoes are the best tasting! If you have lots of garden space, potatoes are great but they need lots of deep soil. I am not growing them in the city garden mores the pity - leaving lots of space for tomatoes!
Yes, this is so important Celi! Thank you for the reminder! "Embracing the change. Not just making the best of it but embracing each change is more powerful than we know." xoxo
Right? There is much too much moaning and complaining going on - the "old times" are gone forever - no time for weeping - we have to gear up and get moving - I am taking Mad's advice, rolling with the changes and looking for a new second hand camera. Have a great day out in your spring sunshine!
Hope you feel better soon, Celi! I also hope you find a new camera! ☘️
I am going to read a chapter today and see how my voice goes. It might be hoarse but as I always say it is real time reading - just as though I am in the room! Have a great evening, Rea!
they were great cameras :) I’m hoping the oil does the trick! - it has lasted a long time! - I had a quick check and your model is available to buy second hand here in Australia at cash converters and on eBay.
Thank you Helena! I raced over and found one on ebay and not a bad price at all! I honestly just don't feel like starting to learn a new camera! 😂 Yay! Australia to the rescue!
sorry for camera house's demise, it served you well over the years, in and out and everywhere you went. as you said, something always works out, and we rarely imagine what it will be at the beginning, which makes it kind of interesting at the end when it is sorted it out. not to say it makes it any easier when you're going through it. looking forward to that baby soon, and all of your crops and delicious recipes as always -
Little things like this do work out - now that I am over it I feel less miserable about losing my most constant mechanical companion! I have found a cheap second hand one that hopefully will work well. Hopefully it did not have as hard a life as Camera House!
Poor Camera House, and poor you! It's had an exciting life; I remember a post way back, when you'd mislaid it and it survived a night outside alone on a fence post or something, with just the owls for company. The potatoes sound lush; I'd be cooking them in the lard I render out of the Christmas ham, deliciously smoky.
Funny you should mention that incident! I was recounting that one to daughter just last night! poor Camera House! Lard from the ham! Yum!
So sorry to hear about camera house. It was an extension of your eye and your arm. It must have a sister out there just waiting to be found on a second hand site.
I am on the hunt - though just quietly it will need to be second hand - new cameras are out of my price range at this point - without my farm income. But I have a sense we will find something.
I am constantly surprised by the number of people who have older cameras and gear that they are happy to donate. Also people who can clean and repair older objects. Zero waste Wellington on Facebook is one such place for cameras and local Repair Cafes offer skilled folk for a koha (donation) or barter for repairs. Good luck finding a solution.
I have only just begun to look for a repair person though that will end up being as expensive as a new one and the camera is very well used. A solution will turn up - it always does!
I feel for you and your camera. Maybe try B&H Photo in NY, they may have a used Nikon in good condition. If so, it could be sent to the farm and you could pick it up in July. Wish you the best.
I think I used to send my cameras to B and H to be cleaned a few times. I will check them again- thank you Sue!
Love the potatoes this way! We often add rosemary, too. Yukon golds or small red potatoes.
We're anxious for your news, and glad you'll have potatoes waiting for you on IL.
Sorry about your camera. You've got an eye for framing great shots, so best wishes with what's next!
Rosemary is a wonderful addition - Now I feel like rosemary potatoes. Have a great evening, Hans.
So sorry about the demise of Camera House! Hope you can find a suitable replacement soon.
Poor old camera house - a trooper of a camera!
I would move on and buy a newer camera - there are better ones now, second hand on Ebay, which will give you many more pixels ...and even full frame. Buy a fast lens (f2.8) if you can afford it.
You are probably right. Though financially there might be a pause before I buy a new camera -(I looked about and oh boy - expensive). I will take all the tips you can give me as I am totally out of touch when it comes to cameras now. I got quite used to this one. I mean will a new camera take my old lenses? I will put fast lens on my list. Thank you for that! I don’t want to have to get the old Leica out!’ 😂 and I see mirrorless cameras now - what even is that? A phone?
In theory, Canon and Nikon cameras will work with older lenses. I've got Nikkor lenses from the 70s/80s which work on new Nikon and Canon cameras, but they are manual only - nothing automatic and not great for old eyes! However, that time period was the height of glass lens technology, so optically they are superior to what's being made now.
Mirrorless cameras are probably the future, there's no longer a pentaprism with a mirror looking through the lens. You get to look through the viewfinder or use a screen on the back. So far I'm not a big fan, I prefer to see a real optical image through a mirror, rather than see "video" quality. But it looks like they are cheaper than SLRs.
A full frame camera will allow you to change the ISO settings considerably without increasing noise (grain) in the picture quality and relatively speaking the lenses are the same as a 35mm film camera - 50mm is like the human eye (again).
An f2.8 lens will allow shooting in most light conditions, whereas a much cheaper f4 lens isn't great unless you have bright daylight.
Newer lenses with an image stabalizer are sampling the pictures you take to make them sharp, relative to using a shutter speed that's too slow in low light. A faster, older 2.8 lens will be much cheaper and will have the same optical quality.
I have seen some quite cheap full frame Canon 5d Mark ii and Mark iii cameras on Ebay recently.
OK! All good stuff and a great reference for me. I will check out the Canon 5d - Dada had a canon and he preferred them to the Nikon. I will begin the hunt. Australia has ebay - right?
I felt the heartbreak over Camera House like it was my own. It’s amazing how a tool like that becomes part of you, part of your rhythm. I hope the old Nikon back at the farm still has some life in it.
It is awful actually. I will try with the repair but there is a lot of trust we put in our cameras. Can I trust it now? Probably not. So - yeah - I sense a change coming!