reginaldsmith

What? You can't see that picture above? Hmmmm? I have no idea what could cause that.

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I hope you report back when you get the Maxwell. I have the same camera, and an extremely similar vision problem with manual focus MF cameras.

I found it. Me and Susie on first date. Love those show boxes.

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Geometric

I had one of these for years. Wonderful shirt pocket camera.

Sounds to me like you have different experiences than I do - imagine that - people with differing life experiences! FWIW - and always subject to the denial by strangers on forums - I have 3 shoe boxes with casual snapshots in them dating back to the 1960s. They are automatically in chronological order because, uh, that's how they were taken and subsequently put in the box. I can find any little group of photos in less time than my Windows 10 computer takes to boot up. Personal experience is a funny thing. I once bet a guy that I could type a letter on my portable typewriter faster than he could do it on a cold PC using WordPerfect and his Epson dot matrix printer. Of course I won, otherwise I wouldn't be relating the experience. And, mine looked infinitely better too. Don't be too quick to assume you know, and can invalidate, the life experience of others, especially strangers. There's no argument to win here. I simply related my personal experience with digital files over many years. I didn't claim it was universal, or right, or better than any other person's experience.

FWIW - and of course open to others' denial of my personal experience, in the 20 years I have had digital cameras, and lots of friends with them too, I have had many people describe the same frustration with the intangible nature of digital files for photos, music, documents, letters, downloads, emails and so forth. Until 20 minutes ago, I didn't realize this was such an unusual complaint!

"And I hope you and your wife realize how eccentric your computer habits are." Uh, that's very aggressive, and totally unnecessary. We happen to make our professional living on computers, and your assessment that our habits are eccentric is ludicrously uniformed. Are you always like this? My suggestion is to stick with SUBJECT MATTER and leave personal characteristics, psycho-babble, and uninformed accusations in your mind and not type them into posts. One's experiences "are what they are." You must be of an age to know that, right? If your experience is different, talk about that imn place of trying to deny mine.

Nostalgia is grossly underrated. For example. As a geezer a Chuck Berry song comes on the radio and I experience a wonderful flood of memories of meeting Susie at that party that Friday night. But when a Katie Perry song comes on, I simply hear sounds, maybe pretty, maybe lush, maybe interesting, but no impact to my soul. Street photographs are the same. I gaze at that Joel Meyerowitz photo, the one with the '59 caddy, and I think pleasing thoughts of my crazy uncle and his caddy, who died 30 years ago. A picture taken yesterday with a 2015 Buick in the background means nothing to my soul. I can enjoy both photos intellectually, but only emotionally. Everyone's 'old days' represent the period where they learned about life, death, love, sex, violence, hope, fear and joy. Old songs and old photos act like greeting cards from the past. I do not try to live in the past, but I sure enjoy the greeting cards that come unexpectedly.

Yes, right. A better digital filing system indeed. In '99 I bought a 3MP camera and had a Mac computer with some version of iPhoto. Also had a mac laptop, and in quick succession owned iMacs of at least 3 versions, and also traded up cameras thrice before moving from Mac to PC My wife had about as many Mac computers. By 2006 or so there was 'digital dust' spread out over a dozen PC and Mac hard drives, attempted backups to DVD, externals HDs and the like. JPGs, RAWs, TIFFs, PSDs and then all the versions. Drives went bad, DVDs wouldn't read and so on. Problems I'm sure only we had with computers. At some pointI had to get all the Mac files onto Windows under say, Lightroom. Did I get them all? How many duplicates occurred from copying sources that had already been copied? How to trudge through thousands of images? But then along came all the cloudy weather, and I had Google raising my photos to their cloud and Amazon's cloud and Microsoft's cloud and my wife still had Apple so there was that cloud. Then there were all the software programs used on the different platforms to *cough* organize and process photos. These files are directly modified, and I am saving versions, but these files have sidecars with them. How to move from This to That software or new computer? Then along came cameras in telephones and after 5 different phones apiece and who even knows what clouds those involved anymore, I could rightly say I had photos strewn throughout the electro-magnetic universe. I'm not a perfectionist, so no, I did not individually name 20,000 images with wonderful descriptive names like "Sally's Graduation No. 38." Or, "Tall white building on Elm Street in Albuquerque." I know that's what everyone else does, but I never had the hours in the day to sit at the computer naming 300 images of which 99% would eventually be regarded as 'failed attempts." I compare all that to the 'pre digital age' where I could open the shoebox, pullout a transparent holder of 35mm film negatives, hold it up to the light and in 1 nanosecond discover "Sally's Graduation" photos, or those lousy shots of the "Tall White Building in Albuquerque." Just sayin'.

A photo album, or shoe box full of negatives are hard to lose, and take real purpose to dispose. A digital picture is like trying to keep track of a dust particle. They're invisible, and these days can be on any of a dozen electronic vaults like phones, tablets, clouds, and Lord knows how many old useless computers. They have no mass, no shape, no heft, only a cryptic name - DSCN_355534.NEF.... is that Sally's graduation picture? I've never lost a photo album.

New to P-net here. I used to carry a full load of multiple cameras lenses and accessories in a back pack, but no more. I'm now trying one SLR camera and a 24-85 AF zoom that I keep ready at about 50mm nominal. I carry the camera on a heavy leather wrist strap. I'm trying to unclutter my mind so I can see better and not spend time with gear. If this gets results, I may switch to a rangefinder with fixed 40mm lens.