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So I had swollen legs, arthritis in my hips acting up and my breathing was really weak and I was wheezing all the time... LoL. I was a mess. I can really appreciate what you described and can feel your pain vividly. Geeech!...

It’d be soooo much easier if we could just grow new body parts like salamanders , I guess we’re just not quite as evolved as we consider ourselves to be.

:p
 
PS. Latest cool purchase is another (mint) Pioneer SC-LX86.
Ebay £180.
 
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Antibiotics to the rescue. Followed by a few fuzzy months of (worryingly) comfortable use of top NHS synthetic opioids.

Oooof o_O, although I have to admit the occasional foray into NHS supplied ketamine or diamorphine can be “beneficial” to overall health, as long as as it “is” occasional

Keep the rubber side down on your travels ;)
 
Back on track, just bought pairs of these...

Beyma T25M
Beyma 6NMFW
 
A 2nd Studiomaster Sense 12A (active stage monitor). Pic shows the 12A+, the only difference is that the 12A enclusure is carpeted.

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Got it at our local pro shop as demo with full warranty for € 300 (normal price is € 435.-). The first one I got used for just € 100,- (insanely cheap, but later I found out that the second input does not work with XLR, just with TRS3.5 - however I don't need it anyway so fine with me). In sum I spared more than 50%.
 
A vintage "Hit" camera. Sold as toys or cheap novelties starting in the immediate postwar years into the 1970s. I purchased mine for the box art. This one probably dates back to the 1950s, but as a kid in the 1970s, I recall seeing them advertised in comic books, and even sold vending machines, complete with a leather case and some film.
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Always looking for the morsel in the sea of cartridges, well - not a TK-7LCA, but never opened and with all the papers...

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Picked up a used Wiim Ultra for cheap on the 'bay. Analog inputs are dead, which is fine for me, I wouldn't use them.
 
Sony DSC-RX1R III

I almost pulled the trigger several times in the past on the RX1R II, but its age was showing: outdated autofocus, tiny battery, and overall sluggish operation ultimately made me pass.

Now with the RX1R III, I finally feel it completes my lineup of compact fixed-lens cameras — over time I’ve settled on preferring my cameras as small as possible.

I’m still uneasy about paying this much :facepalm: for what is essentially a point-and-shoot, but I love it. And hey - you only live once!

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Sony DSC-RX1R III

I almost pulled the trigger several times in the past on the RX1R II, but its age was showing: outdated autofocus, tiny battery, and overall sluggish operation ultimately made me pass.

Now with the RX1R III, I finally feel it completes my lineup of compact fixed-lens cameras — over time I’ve settled on preferring my cameras as small as possible.

I’m still uneasy about paying this much :facepalm: for what is essentially a point-and-shoot, but I love it. And hey - you only live once!

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Awesome purchase, I could never understand the 50 lens, either under or over - in my opinion. Learned Photography as an assistant in the actual film times. Congrats.
Having my grandson working with a Canon, and a 28 plus a 105. He does rather well...

Cheers...
 
Awesome purchase, I could never understand the 50 lens, either under or over - in my opinion. Learned Photography as an assistant in the actual film times. Congrats.
Having my grandson working with a Canon, and a 28 plus a 105. He does rather well...

Cheers...
Thank you! I too learned photography back in the film days of the 1970s. I never owned an interchangeable-lens camera until the 2010s. But after a few years of frustration with not having the "best" lens on at the exact moment I needed it, I gradually went back to using fixed-lens designs almost exclusively.
 
Thank you! I too learned photography back in the film days of the 1970s. I never owned an interchangeable-lens camera until the 2010s. But after a few years of frustration with not having the "best" lens on at the exact moment I needed it, I gradually went back to using fixed-lens designs almost exclusively.
Hey, one just needs like, two Hasselblads, a couple of Nikons, and good to go - I mean shoot... ;)
 

So I received my Mathmos Fireflow Pod today! It's a tiny candle powered lava lamp from the original inventors of the lava lamp. I went for the Violet with orange lava model in silver, together with a Clear with red lava bottle. Both pretty cool already during the daylight.

Here it is during the evening after some warming up, together with a few of my other lights. One of them being a 20 inch Luminglass plasma disk, the other big one a giant Odyssey/Spencer's Blacklight Rocket (UV-light tube).

Other background props are a Akai GX-635D reel-to-reel that used to belong to my grandfather and a Technics SL-1400 turntable.
 
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