A good day, I have my OEM wheels & tyres back on the car, just waiting for the new centre caps to arrive. Glad to have some decent tyres back underneath the car, the horrible Chinese tyres that were on the loaners were awful.
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Monthly Archives: September 2017
It’s that time, again
The cameras keep saying that batteries need recalibrating, at first it was one, then two now all five need it, so here we go again. One done, four to go. I probably should have dusted the chargers first, but hey ho to late now.
Ling Long & Prosper
F*ck me! It’s not often that I swear… OK you got me! But F*ck me! I put my alloys in for refurb yesterday and the people doing the refurbishment have kindly lent me a set of wheels & tyres in the mean time.
Anyway on the road to a football game yesterday, I had to pull over because of the noise, I thought that either a rear bearing was going bad or the wheels (which are a slightly different off-set to the originals) were rubbing on something.
On checking there is no interference and and the bearings are fine, it turns out that the culprit is the shocking cheap Chinese tyres that are fitted. One pair are “Ling Long” which I think is the Thai Bride from Little Britain and the other pair are something called Wanli, who may have been Bruce’s brother.
Anyhooo, I can’t wait to get my OEM tyres back on the car. I will need new tyres in a few months & one thing for certain I won’t be going for cheap Chinese shite.
Busy Day…
Had three jobs in the diary (well two, but one of them twice) The 4th river Wey Festival & QPR v Burton Albion. The football was pretty dull, a bore draw that produced very little & the Festival didn’t get interesting until after dusk.
Having a tidy up…
17/09/2017. Nikon Fisheye.
And found something that I haven’t seen for a very long time, thinking I may whack it on ebay, I seem to recall that it was quite expensive when new, this was back in the day when there were no real ultra wide lenses available for crop sensor cameras, I think I was shooting with a DCS3 at the time & this was used on a little Nikon Coolpix.
Ready for Work
Having purchased an iPad Pro a little while ago, I am now pleased to say that it is ready for work, I have used it once on a news job last weekend, but now the case & the screen protector & iOS 11 are now installed it is ready to be used in anger.
Seems Funny
Some 12-13 years ago, I started experimenting with a piece of software, called Pocket Phojo a clever piece of software that enabled me to nearly leave my laptop at home. Running on a Windows Mobile PDA with a built in CF card reader ( I had the Fujitsu Pocket Lookz, if I remember correctly) and was able to hook up to a wifi network or use a bluetooth modem to wire pictures to picture desks. Quite a lot has changed since those early days of experimenting with largely unreliable & flaky technology. However there is still not yet a single app that will do everything that a press photographer needs. There are some that come close including PhotoMechanic (on OSX) PicturePro (iOS).
