A few photos from a walk to the bakery.

 

 As it was nice had a walk to my local bakery yesterday, and visited the railway station while scoffing a pasty..  Got these few shots.  Sony ZV1 camera.

 

Reflections and other pictures.

 

 Went for a walk last night, got these on the TZ80 compact.

 

 

Why is everything so slow now? Or is it just me...

 

I thought all this tech stuff was supposed to make the world easier and faster, but it doesnt seem to be working for me..

Yesterday, I had to pick up a blood test fprm from the surgery, get a perscription from the chemist next door and buy a loaf of bread from a shot 75 yards away.  yet it took over an hour.

The surgery reception was unmanned (it's never manned) they haven't figured out what the word reception means, then a computer search took 10 minutes, followed by a search through a box to find the test form.

The chemist was a same.  A busy chemist and all the staff chatting in the back ignoring the queue of customers waiting.  Yet another computer search, followed by a search of the shelves fround my perscrtiption, another 20 minutes of life gone.

2 minute walk to the shop, another2 minutes to get bread and a 20 minutes to wait while they try to get a self checkout to work.

Getting 3 items all within a 2 minuter walk of each other and a 10 minute drive took me over an hour.

I can do a weeks shop in that time and drive to a supermarket and back

Godox IM 30 flash review

 

 The Godox IM 30 flash is a small compact (pocket size) flashgun for digital or film cameras.

 The flash is small and light and runs of 2  triple A batteries.  Battery life is claimed as 230 full power shots  from a new set.

 The IM 30 has a guide number of 15 (metres) at 100 iso.  Now a guide number of 15 is low compared to many full size flashes, but is more than the pop up flashes normally found on some cameras.

 The flash is MANUAL mode only, so no auto setting or TTL flash, that said it's simple and easy to use with setting from full 1/1 power down to 1/64th power, and has half setting to enable you more exact lighting.

 It's worth noting the flash has no tilt or swivel for bouncing off walls ect.  The flash does have a 2.5mm plug sync lead port, so you could use it with older cameras or on a cold shoe.  It doesnt however come with the lead. although they are easy to get.

 In use the flash sits very low on the camera, this might cause shadows if your using a long lens or a big lens hood.    The flash should work with any camera that has the hot shoe flash with a center pin contact. On my Sony it covers the 24mm wide setting.

 The IM 30 also has S1 and S2 slave flash modes, this means you can fire it remotly with any other flash, this could be handy for backlighting, or a little extra lighting in a shot. S1 is for normal slave flash, S2 is if your using a preflash for redeye.

 The real beauty of this flash is it's really small, I wanted a small flash for my Sony ZV1 (in picture) This camera is small and a full size flash looks silly on it.  In use it's easy enough, just guess the power to start with and ajust up or down as needed. Or simply use the handy guide in the instructions.

 I my living room a fair size, I found F5.6 was fine with the flash around the 1/8th power (200 iso) so plenty of power in the real world for parties or stuff..

Shopping trollies.

 

 The picture of the wheels I posed recently, made me wonder what else I could get from trollies.

 Got these.  Lumix TZ80 compact camera.

 

 

Red flowers.

 

 A spot colour from yesterday. Sony ZV1

 

 

Gate and shadows

 

 This mornings walk to the bakery.

 Sony ZV1