thoughts escaping my mind
… and an old lens.
Yes, after many years with my trusty D70 that most have discarded, I finally made an upgrade to the D600. I passed on the D80, was seriously tempted by the D90, but I held out and I’m glad. The D600 is really a big change and yes, the price was a big upgrade too.
If there’s Leo’s Song, of course, there’ll be one for my Sumo.
The two are really night and day. As I often say (apparently, I like to repeat myself) one is like an Express Stream dog, the other is in Normal Stream with a future in beauty school.
But although Sumo is faster, he gets too excited, too eager, too fast and that makes him rash and behave aggressively.
I did want to record this last week, but over enthusiastically cut nails and equally over enthusiastic strumming gave me a blister on the edge of my finger.
So here I go again, embarrassing myself with an off-key rendition of Sumo’s Song.
The chords are G, D (with a high D), C, D
Okay, so I’ve got the first two rolls of film from my Yashica GSN.
I am pleased. The GSN was fixed nicely. No light leaks. And I notice from the shots during sunset it tends to make the light look redder than it actually was. Sweet.
No, it’s not the latest satellite dish with live feed. It’s Sumo, just back from being castrated. And boy did he look miserable.
Our resident Filipino calls Sumo, Some-more and claims it sounds nicer than Sumo. Sometimes, she calls him Sammo as in Sammo Hung (Asian pronunciation, not American).
First few days had issues with being left along. Whinning and barking non-stop for maximum an hour or so before he’d give up. Continue reading “Seven days with Sumo”
Sumo makes himself at home on the first day and annoys the hell out of Manja, Jojo and Tricky.
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This crappy video was shot on my mobile phone, edited and converted from .3gp format to .flv with Super.
Also an excuse to try out serving videos on my blog.
