The lens protector shutter has been giving me some problems lately. It’s been jamming and not opening up all the way lately and shows in a lot of my pictures and has been getting worse.
Using the older one
I had an older one that I hoped was working better than this one, so I transferred the battery and storage card to the old one and it still worked. I had replaced the old one a long time ago because I thought it had a problem, but I found the new one worked the same way so there wasn’t really a problem with it, so now I’m using it again.
I needed the cam today as I planned to work on tapping another spring and I wanted to make some video’s of the process.
Spring water
I rode on up to this spring and stopped for a drink of water.
Couldn’t get into it
Then I continued on up to this one I’m working on tapping but just couldn’t get into it today. It wasn’t the work tapping it that was the problem but I just didn’t feel like working on making the video clips of the tapping process.
Checking out a house on the ridge top
So, I canceled that idea and decided to go check out a house up on the ridge top that the state park was checking out maybe to purchase the property.
Trimming
I stopped here to trim some branches out of the way that were hitting me in the face if I wasn’t paying attention.
House
I rode up to the ridge top to check out this house which no one is living in right now. It’s a neighbor’s place.
The house is in good shape but it has a serious problem in that it’s built partly on another neighbor’s place, by mistake. I looked around a bit.
Grease can
After that, I went over to this trail to trim some more branches off the trail that were about eye level. The spot is called grease can, from that old grease can when my uncle logged the area a long time ago.
I continued to work on trimming the branches that were about face high on the trail.
Water tanks
Eventually, I tired out and headed towards home stopping at our water tanks to check the water level. They were full to the top, of spring water, which was good.
One more drink
From there I continued on and stopped at this spring again to get a drink of fresh spring water.
This spring is a good one and provides a nice cold cup of water. I had two.
I headed for home but stopped here to do some more brush trimming on the trail.
Enjoying the day
Once back home, a nap was in order and I spent the rest of the day chair hopping around the yard, just enjoying the day.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
