The world has a focus problem....
Down weekend! A well needed but squandered weekend! Okay not quite splattered but smooshed.
In order...
Back to paid work.. YAA!
Walked the Rio Grande edge at Montano bridge.
6000 paces and I know for a fact that the Samsung Galaxy watch failed at getting every pace.
Whenever I put the watch up to see the paces it stopped logging my steps. Sooo.... I have to do a real test and count my steps then see if it updates after I put my wrist back down.
Its a great watch really. It was a good purchase and I've used it for logging sleep and heart rates and steps and stairs ... not bad.
Love being able to change the watch face any time I want and love the fallout 4 pip boy face but I switch about to others depending on my mood or need. It also lasts ( power) a long time.. long time... I have yet to even get it lower than 60% before I have a moment to put it on the charger. I usually do that in the evening when I am sitting down.. Quickly it charges right up. I also do not like things tight on my wrists or fingers and the band that comes with it is nicely flexible. I did purchase two different bands but have yet to swap them out.
I could do a blog exclusively on it but there are a lot out there already.. granted the are way wordy.... or yappy.
If you want more info just let me know and I will add more information on a later blog.
A break here.. or tab...
Last weekend I captured three cameras worth of video. Two on my own and one on Eric's balloon. Spent the week trying to process the video from one 360 camera only to see that its quality was very very bad. So back to reprocess the full 360 into a different profile. This time I created a dual front and back view in one frame file. So that is now sitting on the drive waiting for some editing and Youtube.
More on that in a moment.
On the walk to the Montano bridge... I wanted to get some shots of the flora or what existed and up close... but I did capture more than just that. I will post some of the shots below and explain what happened as we go.
I wanted to see how well the Sony RX10V4 did with very close focus items.
One of the wood carvings in the small park like space. Location of a bosque fire back a bunch of years ago. Sony does nicely from a distance to closeup.
It was a bit breezy but still it was able to keep the focus pretty good. Not great on this one. It was from a few feet away and I started to have a problem.
Closer.... zooming in... and the focus lock fought like crazy to decide what to focus on or if to focus at all.
Back to a distance close up and all is well. Locks on nicely and crisply.
Testing the color and checking for funny colors on edges... none.
Distant shot close up and all good with the focus. Nice as all get out.
Under the West side of the bridge... very nice to see there was no piles of trash under and just minor graffiti.
Far and close. It works great with a close up from distance.
Here it fought me forever. I was about three foot off and zooming in and focus would go out the window.
Harshly crazy zooming in and out and bouncing along. The camera has a manual zoom and I used that but it has a setting that causes the first touch of the focal ring to pop the zoom all the way out... frustrating any chance to get it locked on.
This was just a regular four foot away no zoom shot. Branches swarming the fence.
Loved the lines on this.. as I was frustrated with the focus problem I just started shooting things that caught my eye... Lines!
The fade from brown of the trees on the bank to the edge of the river..... that way>>>
Fading to the blue to the full river... granted the river isn't BLUE... its green brown...but it looks nice.
A bit of junk caught in the river... didn't notice the two birds on the other bit till I brought in a bit of light.
My favorite... Far shot of the reeds and fuzzy bits. Still all brown. Not much color at all if at all.
A canal in New Mexico!!! Yeah.... no... not good enough for a narrow boat. Some green in there.
Off to the side of the drive in there is a little Free Library box and even a box with dog pick up plastic. Nice Albuquerque nice.
So when I got home I dumped all the shots then went through the settings where I could see the menus out of the stronger winds and try and figure out what was happening.
I found that when you focus in on something you want to be very very close to.. or .. macro.. you do not zoom in. You stay at about 24mm and move the camera close to what you want... and I did and guess what.... wow.. you can have the lens about half an inch off the subject and it locks focus fine... Like below. pixels anyone?
Another you can see each separate pixels on a 4k screen. So that solved the focus lock problem. I did go into the menus and shut off the zoom on manual focus. Nice. works great.
On twitter I got a ping from Geoff of AlltheStations fame and he was playing a game I played in the 1970s... great game but never thought it still existed... My copy is a bit worn and missing bits.
Guess what.. Its on Amazon!!! Its not changed from the original but has a different version of play if you want.. so its now on my Christmas list.
If you haven't heard of it.. go find the book by Pat Reid.. Escape from Colditz. Big book but captivating. I need to get it for my kindle.
Now I have another video from Mo's flight in Highperactive.... looks good.
The other things I have been doing this quiet weekend is working out Youtube... how to get videos on it.. how to get funds via youtube and a site called Paetron.... so there are plans in store to bring the balloon thing to youtube.
Working out the process... as there is a lot to think about and set before starting out... I've learned a lot from those videos I have been watching all these past weeks. Lots to do ... lots to write down.... lots to edit.
Stay tuned!!!
