Scattered Thoughts . . .

T oday, my new LCD protectors arrived in the mail so I put aside some time to install one on my newest camera body. Back about a month or two ago, I stumbled upon a great sale on a Sony camera body that I have had my eye on for a couple of years.  In short, I picked up this camera at about one-third of its retail price.  This is, by far, the most professional camera body I've ever used so I definitely want to protect it as best as possible. Admittedly, I'm a bit rough on LCD screens.  I've had to replace quite a few over the years.  Grease from noses and fingers are not good for these fragile screens.  Worse yet, sunscreen can damage an LCD screen very quickly and render it useless.  The oils from the face and fingers and especially sunscreen tend to delaminate LCD screens.  For this reason alone, I am now reluctant to use any sunscreen for fear of damaging another camera and I'm always carrying a camera when we are outside. The other problem is that w...

D uring the pandemic, my oncologist was only doing televisits for her regular patients.  I'd still go the hospital for all my bloodwork and other tests but our discussions about the every six month test results would be done over the internet on streaming video as well as through messages in the hospital portal. Since the pandemic, we've been back to visits in the hospital.  This was mostly due to my insistence though.  The last time we attempted a televisit, I was sent the wrong link...  or my oncologist was given the wrong link...  which meant it was a missed appointment and a waste of an hour for me since I had logged on early enough to not miss my doctor.  Then I stayed online using the provided link for another 30 minutes after our appointment starting time.  I eventually got a notification for a missed appointment.   Needless to say, I responded to this "missed appointment" notification informing them we (Sheila and me) were indeed onli...

A lthough I haven't used this particular camera in almost two decades, it was an important camera to me back then.  The Fujifilm FinePix S5000 Zoom was my first Fujifilm camera way back in 2003 and this camera introduced me to the uniqueness and beauty of Fuji cameras.   This was not my first digital camera as I had a few different one through the 1990s.  This was definitely not my first camera as I had been using film cameras since the 1960s.  This was, however, my first Fujifilm camera and although my primary camera has been a Sony camera for the past ten years, Fujifilm has always been very special to me and perhaps my favorite cameras. This camera was the first one I found to be an affordable digital camera that had some film-like qualities so it definitely had its place in my long line of cameras through to today.  I stopped using this camera around 2007 but it was still my first Fujifilm digital camera. I had tried a few other brands of digital camer...