Old and New
My old Sony H20 (rubber band holds the battery case closed) 10.1MP,
10x optical zoom with digital zoom to 57x,
10x optical zoom with digital zoom to 57x,
and my new Sony RX10 IV, 20.1MP, 24 to 600mm
(25x optical zoom) and a 1" sensor.
(25x optical zoom) and a 1" sensor.
Can't wait for pretty weather!
Gee, that new one really looks like it means business!
ReplyDeleteIt does!
DeleteI got my first comparison photos today, but haven't ventured to download them. When I do, I'll post a few. The difference is amazing.
Also, I learned something new about my tiny Sony today. I have two of them, one with the rubber band and one without. Only, the one without never zoomed out as far as the one with the rubber band. One did 19x and the other did 57x ~ big difference!! Turns out that's only because when I bought each one it's settings were in different modes! Ha! Now that I even know that they have different modes, I can switch them around and use it however I like. The 57x photos are intended for emailing, while the 19x or less is intended for enlargements. Good to know!
Of course, the new big SONY blows the doors off the other, both in image quality and in colour detail. I am in camera heaven!
But! I was able to piece together the best bits of the two little cameras to make one good little camera, for those times when having a pocket size camera makes the most sense, and for when the grands what to try their hand at photography.
BTW, Alan, the %25 is not their original charge, it's my copay, after medicare.
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DeleteThat's still very good for the level of service. To folk of our age it sounds like more than it is, because we have the prices of the 1950's and 1960's in mind.
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Well, signed into the physical therapy program. Nice people.
ReplyDeleteShe was stunned when she asked how long I'd been smoking (sixty years) and said my lungs sound nearly perfect!! So guess the ivy leaf extract is working. . . . They have not always sounded that good.
Ivy leaf extract? That's a new one on me. Hey, whatever works.
DeleteIt’s news to me too, Cat; here’s what WebMD says about it. [Click] (Click tab to move from page to page.)
DeleteDon't know about the rest, but I use it, one tiny pill, once a day for mucous ejection. Let the hawking ensue, grin. . . . It works with knobs on.
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DeleteYa know, they're saying now that having gotten Covid once does not necessarily mean you're immune from getting it again. That means Trump might get it again.
Prolly not. If you get the vaccine after, it protects you. And he did.
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DeleteYes it protects, but not completely!
DeleteIt's been a difficult week. Mom swings from despondent to suspicious and paranoid to belligerent. Nothing calms her, nothing contents her.* And to top it off, she has become convinced that we are "looking for an excuse to put her away" (in a nursing home). Her behavior is hard to take, but what is much worse is knowing how terribly unhappy she is and knowing there's nothing that can be done to make the situation better.
ReplyDeleteShe seems to truly believe we are keeping her prisoner. If only we'd let her, she could get up and walk and then (this is her main obsession) go back upstairs to her own bedroom. Well, the hospice nurse says the rules demand the patient be kept on the first floor. So, that's pretty much that. And I thought Mom understood she had to stay put. But then a couple weeks ago a different nurse came, she was some sort of case worker or something. And this insensitive woman said that, well, maybe someday, if Mom got stronger, it might be possible for her to go back upstairs. She also spouted some bilge that put it in Mom's head that we're starving her.** Of course, these are the things that stick in Mom's mind; so, she is convinced we're all lying about the situation and deliberately holding her back. Hell's bells! She has enough problems. We have enough problems. Nobody needs some misguided idiot who doesn't really know the case and doesn't understand the patient giving her false hope. As I see it, false hope is just another word for lying. And she doesn't have to deal with the fall-out. The family and the care aids and the regular nurse do.
Yesterday Mom was in such a taking, she kicked Carolyn, the nurse, out and told her never to come back. Of course she will, it's her job. And probably by next Thursday Mom won't remember...or we can hope she doesn't. This is the hard part, not that she is so desperately ill but that she's so desperately unhappy.
*Reluctantly, Sis has started giving her the medication from the hospice people which is stronger than the anti-depressant she's been on for years. Mostly the stronger med helps, though not always.
**You can't feed someone who is asleep. Mom sleeps a good deal. When she is awake, she sometimes refuses food altogether and sometimes can't or won't finish what Sis gives her. What are we supposed to do? Force feed her? Oh, I could strangle that wretched nurse!
Oh, my. I remember reading about what worked in one memory care home. On the theory/basis that emotions are remembered far longer than specific events, when patients became particularly difficult, rather than give them anitdepressants, they would put a chocolate or some such goody (chocolate covered cherry, anybody?) into the patient's mouth. It would evoke pleasant memories and the current upset would be forgotten. They nearly eliminated the antidepressants, and of course the undesirable side effects of same. I think the same column reported a place (in Germany?) where they built a counterfeit bus stop for the patients to go to when they wanted to take go somewhere. Someone would go out with them and talk until they forgot why they were there and become amenable to going back inside. Not that that has any relevance for your case. But maybe chocolate covered cherries would be worth a try. Can't hurt.
DeleteBinder/dundat. Mind you, my mom's were mini strokes, but cumulative. She accused my sister and her hubby of spending her SS to enhance their real estate empire. Paula had moved her to her house, and hoped to let her stay until she died. She made it nine months. I said to my one brother to whom she'd just been brutal, to try to remember that his mother was NOT there any longer, she'd left, leaving the door open, and some stranger had moved in. MINNY HUGZ, Babe.
DeleteThanks, guys♥ Not chocolate covered cherries, but the general idea is a good one. Will talk it over with Sis. Quite often Mom is still there, but in recent days, seemingly less so.
DeleteMy mother could get around by herself until very nearly the end, but she became harder and harder and harder to deal with in her later years. It got to the point that I didn't dare call her on the telephone and reverted to writing her a letter each week. She moved in with my brother and his wife and stayed with them for quite a while, but then moved to an assisted living place. There is a lot more to tell, but it would be in very poor taste to do so. Nevertheless, the heartfelt pain of such things is very real and remains so long after. I truly sympathize with you, Cat.
DeleteMy sympathies. Obviously I was lucky that my mother's mini-stroke dementia never really affected her emotionally.
DeleteIt's hard enough to watch a loved one slowly go downhill, harder yet when they take it out on you, but hardest of all when someone who comes to help actually makes things far worse ~ because with a little training that could have been avoided!
DeleteI hope Carolyn writes that woman up for it. She needs to get some (perhaps remedial) training before she does that again!
My heart is with you, and my prayers as well, Cat. ❤️🙏
Sees Candies makes many varieties of soft chocolates; no nuts and chews!
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If you can only watch one episode, make it Season 2, Episode 7 "A Christmas Crow"
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Gosh, what a sweet face!!!
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The volcano near Reykjavik that has been acting up lately has finally erupted—fist time in 800 years. [Click] Lava coming out of fissures, not the explosive type.
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ICELAND: Volcano eruption has started in Fagradalsfjall
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“The eruption is at the best possible location in terms of lava flow,” a Facebook statement from the rescue association Þorbjörn in Grindavík states. “The residents of Grindavík are not at risk. The wind direction is favorable, and the distance to the eruption is long,” the statement concludes.
DeleteThey are, though, keeping tabs on the eastward movement of gasses from the eruption. Residents are to keep their windows closed.