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Duggeh

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  1. I'm 28. Nonetheless, the filters are on as standard on any new mobile phone contract and the website service for turning it off refused to work so I had to go in store. I cant access dating websites with it on. Not that I had any warning about being stood up via that avenue. Yet more teething troubles with my first smartphone...

     

    The chilli dog was good, not great. All euphemisms were given from behind.

  2. Thank you guys. I had a great day (and a great deal to drink...)

    Threw a little shindig at the house. First time I've done anything for my birthday in 6 years. A night worth waiting for. Chaps were required to wear bow ties.

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    Everything was superb.

    Except the profitaroles with Marmite on them disguised as chocolate sauce. Those were ghastly.

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    I should have birthdays more often :)

  3. I'd been hesitating over the Fuji for a wee while after I realised it was the way to go instead of the Olympus OM-D (optical viewfinder, gimmie one ANY day over an EVF. Also a bigger sensor and I'll never end up with a M4/3 lens collection anyway). Amazon UK dropped £100 off the price on Friday and I bought one immediately. I've used nothing more sophisticated than an Olympus OM-1 before this and have never had a not point-n-shoot tiny crappy digital camera before. My instant reaction was I didn't like it because the manual focus is useless for the style of manual focus I'm used to with the OM lenses but after a day of guddlign with it I like the X100. The slow change fly by wire manual focus works really well if you use the autofocus as a pre-focus. I loathe electronic viewfinders so the faux rangefinder window was a real deal maker and it is nice but far from perfect. It doesn't compare to the OM-1 viewfinder for WYSIWYG (I've not been out and about yet) and paralax makes close up framing cumbersome (at the minute, I'm getting the hang of it). Also having to use macro at much longer distances than I'd prefer.

    1/4000 and 1/2000 aren't available at F2 and F2.8, but the built in 3 stop ND filter helps make up for this.

    There are two programmable buttons. I have FN set to ISO control and RAW set to film effect filter. I like the auto black and white jpegs and you can set red yellow or green filter for black and white.

    Battery life seems poor. But It's not really in real world use atm. Lots of menu diving and screen review.

    No aperture blade issues, but I got the black model which was probably make after they'd sorted that.

    Ramble ramble ramble. New toy, good fun, still taking bad photos, etc etc.

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