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| 1928 Remington Portable 2 V103876 "Green/Green" |
You can see for yourself that my camera hates low light! (not my new one yet)
I completely lost the "My Typewriters" page on my blog a few nights ago. That was extremely frustrating because it was due to a Blogger interface ambiguity rather than necessarily my own error... and of course there is no undo. So I am going to start it from scratch with photos taken with my new camera, so it will be a while before it is complete again. But probably the most irritating loss was the serial numbers and links I had to the feature typecasts...finding those again and laying them out would have been a task, but thanks to the new Typewriter Database I have most of them saved! But I do not complain, I'm just explaining why it's gone! XD It will be a good thing in the end when it's all up to date with nicer, newer photos. Some of my typers have even been cleaned up a bit since then.
Sent from my Green/Green Remington Portable 2.
Does the word green look weird to you at this point? It does for me. o.O
Sweet machine!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your run-in with the impermanence of the digital.
I always think of you and your Remingtons when I do anything with mine.
DeleteDo you have one of every colour of these?
"Backup, backup, backup"
But since I didn't create it from HTML scratch I never thought to...
Congratulations on the very nice typewriter. I have had my sights on those for quite a while. All it will take is one at the right price; like the one within my budget I forgot to watch on Ebay. I think it went for around $50.00.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the Blogger problems. I have been thinking of using a PhotoBucket or similar account for all photos and just posting the linked photos on Blogger.
Your camera should have exposure control so in low light you can gain +1 or more f-stops. I have not shot a Fuji of several years, but all of my cameras I ever had had under/over exposure control. It can take awhile until it is found though. I get lazy though and use fill flash quite often. Many times not as good, but fast.
My limit for one of these was placed at $55 or $60, which would probably mean going for $35 or $40 on eBay plus shipping...not happening!
DeleteI tried that once and it was not helpful at all. I prefer Blogger's photo upload system by far. I just don't like the specific layout and naming of buttons for posting, saving, editing, deleting posts and pages.
I still am using the horrid old Sony camera for this, it apparently has a really tiny sensor making low-light photos nearly impossible to look good. I bought it new for something like $17 so I can't really complain.
that's a very nice rig. I haven't seen the green up close. What wax do you use?
ReplyDeleteThe cheapest wax I found, Turtle Wax liquid, the non-cleaning type.
DeleteThere never was seen a sweeter sheen of green.
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Your green one-line poems rhyme.
DeleteThanks for the side view so one can see the lever that raises the typebars. I suppose I took it for granted that there was a way of doing it but hadn't pictured it.
DeleteYes, just a little rhyme, the easiest and simplest construction around. Inspired by your musing about the word green. Yes, some words sometimes do look weird to me when I think about them. I love George Carlin's take on the word "stuff."
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A cautionary tale: backup your typewriter collection photos and blog links on the Typewriter Database for extra security! :D
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