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As well as the monthly picture competition the work photo club is currently passing round the acting chairman's old Nikon F301 for nine people to take turns to take four shots each. As there'll be no EXIF data a spreadsheet it being passed round for the exposure details to be recorded on. The shutter speed for the shot taken with that aperture and focus was somewhere between 1/60" and 1/125" and had to be taken in A mode rather than properly manually as the aperture ring didn't seem to want to stop at any intermediary point between f/4 and f/5.6. The F301 (or N2000 as it was mysteriously called in the US) feels very solid even at whatever age it is and MF is the fun it always was with a proper MF lens and a proper MF focussing screen but the shutter button felt a bit weird, though this was partly due to having to be really careful about the half-press for metering when the ration of available exposures meant every click counted; it felt like the shutter-finger had to be curled over the top of the locking-ring and moved down vertically, which can't have done my habitual rotated-clockwise inbuilt camera-holding error much good.

After a few evenings of having to head to distant photo-labs after work it was nice to be able to just amble randomly again on the way home in the evening. Having gone completely through the contents of two small cupboards yesterday I went through absolutely everything in the largest and most tightly-packed cupboard this evening in a van attempt to find the power supply for the scanner, though a few vaguely useful things were unearthed on the way and knowing what is where in our cupboards will be handy next week when the things we suspect we won't be needing much over the next few months will be sent away to storage to give us enough space to be able to shift all our remaining belongings out of the room we still need to have replastered. There'll still be the slight issues of the glued-together and thus un-deconstructable bed and the too-delicate-to-dismantle wardrobe but they can be reconsidered when there's enough space to stand back a bit from them to study them.