2025-01-26

I bought a manual lens since it was cheap and have been trying to figure it out. Some notes from a newbie:

• Just because I can shoot at f/1.4 doesn’t mean I have to. Stopping down to increase the focal plane can be helpful. (My kit lens maxed out at f/3.5 which wasn’t great.)
• It turns out the EVF has an adjustable diopter, which would explain why it looked so blurry before.
• I need to really make sure I nail the focus!
• 70mm equivalent (35mm on a micro four thirds) is a bit difficult to work around, but doable. If anything maybe it forces me to take nicer landscape shots by choosing something to actually focus on.

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Blake’s Hard Cider (from Michigan) is now being imported to Japan. It wasn’t my favorite cider, but it’s nice to get something from “home”!

2025-01-28

I have gotten a bit faster at reading Japanese, I think: I finally finished「貴女。 百合小説アンソロジー」and started on another book,「月の影、影の海」 from「十二国記」. I remember the Makoto Shinkai and other light novels I tried recently being a pain, but I’m actually making decent progress here. (On the other hand, I’m entirely underwater on my other reading…)