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I introduced my tripod stability tests in the previous post, and I'll continue in this post with more details.

Before I continue, I must note that there are some serious caveats that limit how much one can really read into the result I'm about to present. I don't list the caveats up front because no one will pay attention to them anyway /-:, so I detail them later in this post.

In this post I'll focus on equipment setup. In another, I focus more on technique.

Equipment Tests: Basics

To test the effects of changing equipment, I used a [...]

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We went for a drive in the mountains toward the Oono Dam (大野ダム), to enjoy a nice drive and to visit a bread shop Fumie had seen on TV. Sadly, the proprietor was rude and unfriendly which sort of put a damper on the whole thing, but we took our bread and stopped by a little spot nearby to sit in a gazebo and watch some seniors play croquet. Surrounded by rice fields, it was quite a pleasant spot.

It started raining just when we were arriving, so the seniors left, and at some point Anthony decided to go onto [...]

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On the way to the airport at the end of my summer trip to Ohio, we stopped in Ravenna for mass, and I was struck by the amount of history that could be seen in the wall of a building facing the parking lot...

I don't know how old the wall is, but the town was founded in 1799, so it's not older than 208 years old. But you can see several generations in the various brickworks, where windows were added then bricked up, then made into windows again.

I'd guess that the brick arches are from the earliest windows, [...]

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Adobe has just released a minor update to its Lightroom photo-workflow software. Version 1.2 includes some bug fixes and support for additional cameras:

Canon EOS 40D Canon G9 (unofficial) Fuji FinePix IS-1 Leaf Aptus 17 Leaf Aptus 54s Leaf Aptus 75s Olympus EVOLT E-510 Panasonic DMC-FZ18 Pentax K100D Super Phase One P 20 + Phase One P 21 + Phase One P 25 + Phase One P 30 + Phase One P 45 + Sony A700

Unlike the 1.0 → 1.1 update, this free update does not contain a lot of new features other than the support for additional cameras.

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