The sun was out nicely as I went outside to get some stuff going today.
I wanted to get the brakes adjusted today on my Toyota Land Cruiser but the sun hadn’t reached inside the carport where it was parked and without any tires on it I couldn’t more it out into the sun to work so I had to wait for that area to warm up a bit.
One more roof panel
So I sat around and decided to put up one last steel roofing sheet on the chicken pen to prevent some of the mud that forms when it rains.
I’m running out of old roofing material so I have to extend what I have left.
New camera is in
While I was working on extending the steel sheet I heard the mail lady drive by so I went out to the mail box to get my new camera which I just had ordered a couple days ago.
A “PANASONIC HC-WXF991K 4K…” It’s a video camera that also takes stills which is the part I use most to take my pictures.
I’d rather upgrade than fix it
My older camera has been dropped one too many times and is suffering a slow focus when zoomed which is causing me to miss some nice shots. I could send it in to get it fixed for likely about a hundred bucks but I’d rather put that money towards a more modern camera. It’s the same as upgrading one’s computer.
I opened the box and installed the battery and put it on the charger to charge and went back outside to work on the roof.
Pop pity pop
I drilled and used pop rivets to join the two pieces of roof together to make this piece long enough to do the job.
I set that project aside until later when I’d put the metal piece up and screw it down.
Working on the Toyota’s brakes
I wasn’t really into doing the brake project but around 3 I thought I better get to it while there was still some sun in the sky so I set up my tools and pulled each brake drum off and did a course brake shoe adjustment. I don’t have automatic brake adjusters so it takes a lot of work as there are two slave cylinders on each wheel that have to be adjusted by hand and it’s not easy as there is a bunch of stuff in the way on each wheel which makes it hard to adjust.
I kept working on it and got all four wheels coarsely adjusted and ready for bleeding the brake fluid but not now as it’s getting late.
Finished the roof while the chickens grazed
I let the chickens out to graze and while they were out I put the last piece of steel roofing up on their pen and screwed the piece down so hopefully now when it rains the new roof will keep the water off the chickens floor and that will prevent the mud.
After I got that done I sat around and watched the chickens graze until they came in for the night when I closed the gate on them and went in for the night myself.
Anything outdoors goes better with sunshine, right?
Love the camera! Can’t wait to see it out of the box and the picture results. ;)
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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.
Anything outdoors goes better with sunshine, right?
Love the camera! Can’t wait to see it out of the box and the picture results. ;)