Smokey 1605 hr (Saturday 30th March 2019)

Spent some time testing the tilt and shift lens today. It's a manual lens - manual focus, no A setting on the aperture ring, viewfinder stops down with each f-stop, you even have to tell the camera the focal length of the lens. Then there are all the twiddly knobs to adjust the vertical and horizontal shifts, plus the need for a tripod to further complicate matters. It'll need more practice.

The Extra was taken when I removed the camera from the tripod and reset the lens to normal. I was under scrutiny from Smokey as supper was due in less than three hours. I shooed him away so he moved to the central round bed, where I snapped him later for Blip.

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30.3.2019 (2009 hr)

Blip #2881 (#2631 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2019 #58/265 + #028/100 Extras
Smokey #466
Day #3291 (670 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2023 (#1864 + 159 in archived blips)

Smokey series
Smokey's Favoured Snoozing Spots series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Samyang 3.5T-S 24mm ED AS tilt and shift lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Grateful Dead - Ship of Fools (recorded 30 March - 19 April 1974, San Francisco CA)
On this day 55 years ago the Grateful Dead began recording From The Mars Hotel, their seventh studio album, in the same studio in Folsom St where they had recorded their debut single in 1967.