It was cold here today and windy too--see how the feeder is blowing. I only saw a few sparrows and one red-bellied woodpecker at the feeder all day. It was windy enough that I had to take the green lid (Squirrel protector) off once and then when the wind calmed down I put it back. For some who do not know how this works, let me explain it. I bought the green metal lid with a hole already in the center at a local store called, "Tractor Supply." I added a threaded hook on one side and partially screwed it into a turnbuckle and then added a second threaded hook on the bottom with a lock washer and screwed it into the same turnbuckle. That gives me a hook on top to hook the bungee cord into and a hook on the underside to hook the birdfeeder to. A squirrel slides down the bungee cord and steps off onto the metal lid and it tips way over to almost a vertical surface and the squirrel slides off. So, they never actually made it onto the birdfeeder itself and after several tries at stepping on and falling off the tilting lid, they give up.
I am still reading the book and watching videos of how to use the new camera -- the X100S. There is so much more to it than any other camera I have at present or previously owned. It might be why it costs a lot more than my Canon cameras and considering it has a fixed lens and is nothing like a DSLR camera that I am used to, just getting some nice color prints is almost leaving me speechless.
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You bring life to you birds :-)
New cameras are always both a pleasure and a nuisance - fine pictures and everything done in a different way with an incomprehensible manual in addition.
The manual on the X100S is filled with illustrations and lots of words. Fitting the camera to the page with the right words is my problem. I did get the camera working so I can take pictures but not much else. It is a fixed focus camera so that everything is in focus. There are no mirrors. The view finder is electronic and I don't know how it works--yet. The adjustments are in the f stop and the speed which could go up to 4000 of a second. In Japan with this same camera, in 1954, I used 125th of a second at f/8 and got good pictures. I have not come to that conclusion on this new digital variation yet, and forgot to look or remember what the above was taken with...
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