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Same problem over here local growers, can not get locals to harvest vegetables. Its all done by back packers and islanders now. In less than ten years. Its gone from contractors, and two crews of casual pickers. Which consisted of few locals and the grey nomads who were either heading north for the winter or south depending on the season. Local contractors who were paid by the box and had usually picked 70 pallets of produce and could go home by lunchtime while the casuals kept picking till 3ish to pick the same amount. Carrots are machine harvested and fed straight into semi trailers and carted away you might see 3 people all day. Other vegies like lettuce, cabbage, leeks in winter still done by hand which requires a tractor driver, forklift driver and 5 people cutting and 2 or 3 packers. Theres still jobs in town, their easy to fill. With air conditioned offices, desk chairs, but try filling a position that has manual labor involved and outside, its a different story. Theres some sort of arrangement that if backpackers do 90 days of work in an agricultural area, then the government adds 90 days to your visa. Which probably works out great at the end they can go do all the touristy things they want to do like visit ayers rock and the great barrier reef while the government get it all back in fees, permits and fuel excises. Still good on them for living the dream. my brother recently bought the block next door, when it came up for sale. So he could be closer to his b̶r̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r parents. i suspect he's in for a surprise when payday comes as he's used to getting a builder's wages in the city. Years ago i grew 4 little piglets into bigger piglets. Those 4 little piggies did not go off to market.. i could buy a 400 kilo pallet of 2nd hand apples for $50 which made for cheap feed, however if you only fed them grain or pellets there is simply no profit in it. I also know for a fact, pigs will eat anything, literally anything.. which is why i'm not interested in buying either Chinese pig meet or US pig meat and i'm happy neither does the rest of australia even if trump does want to have a good cry about it lol

I suspect i got caught up in some of that " instability " last week when the aus dollar did a pretty good impression of that last ship scene from the titanic... I had decided to purchase the reaper software that allows one to make music on a computer. I had been evaluating it for 360 days +. I just picked a bad day to buy it lol. US $66 went to $113 Australian, that's a nasty unexpected jolt to the system. It also makes me question further purchases when the US $ becomes involved. I haven't bought anything out of the US for the last few years as postage from the US is just astronomical and i have happy enough to source items from japan mostly. From now on, i personally will be thinking quite hard about any further purchases from abroad and that's lose / lose situation for everyone, i guess. On the upside i did find two smc takumars in an old camera bag up in the shed today. Which did brighten up my day a little.

Ok in what must be in world record time. Both the card reader and the memory card arrived today. Honestly wasn't expecting them for another week or so. You know its almost impossible to extricate items from their plastic package without totally destroying that packaging... Lord i hope i don't need to send it back... Not used Kingston before, but from years ago i knew they made ram chips, thought i'd take a chance. I have used Ugreen before and had no issues with their products and it was the cheapest uh2 reader. I should probably download some kind of speed test program to see if i got my moneys worth. The sirui has been living on the e-m1 at the moment. I take both with me when i go out in the car, it sits on the front seat with a towel thrown over it. Hopefully no one works out there's $2000 worth of camera and lens just sitting there. I must be some kind of optimist as the amount of moisture that keeps falling from the sky is impressive. Theres a busker that sits out the front of the local supermarket some days. I'm guessing he has done some living as i think he'd make a suitable candidate for some black and white photography. He has a dog as well and i reckon i can squeeze everything into a photo with 24mm sirui. I then plan to steal, adopt, modify some ideas Mercer mentioned in the lens thread and see where that leads. Turns out i have crystal disk mark on the comp already. Formatted the card and a quick test gives me this. which is slightly better than advertised on the packaging. Thats with the ugreen card reader into a c port on the top of the computer. Its turning into a bit of a blog isnt it ? Next challenge is to shoot some video.

Do you really need a plot ? I have watched alot of stuff on netflix and i'm not so sure a plot is the main ingredient any more. Admittedly there's some good stuff on netlfix, but what the ratio of good to less than good is i'm not sure.

I have done some soldering recently, wonder if i could get a green card ? If i can smuggle in a steer for you guys it will be a win / win situation 😁

It won't be just the cameras, electronics. The first item on the news tonight was the story about trump adding 10% to the price of aussie cattle. You guys in the USA better start working on a vegan diet perhaps, as we have the worst drought in 20 years happening down in Victoria and in Queensland almost a third of the state is under water. Losses so far are around 100 000 cattle and sheep and that's just the animals that we are interested in counting. You can bet the price of beef is about to go up here and if it goes up for us it will affect you guys too and a tariff on top as well. I just hope you guys have really good accountants, as its not hard to imagine trump trying to divert some of those funds to a charitable cause, like himself.

I visited my brothers place today, took a few photos. His place is abit like Noah's ark after the flood. Cattle, sheep, a couple of types of chickens, jap quail and guinea fowl. Cuteness warning ahead, heres a couple of baby chickens and quail photos that i think turned out ok. Eventually they'll end up running around in the paddocks with the other chickens. At the moment their bite size portions for nearly everything...

Is that the same one that Btm_pix has shown on the lenses page? because i have to confess i got one too 🙄 Btm_pix You should probably add affiliate links...

A few firsts today... turning up my first wood vase. Done a few smaller things like wood pens. Really upping my gamesmanship with an old root ball. Pretty nerve racking spinning up an almost out of round root ball at 360 rpm. The plan is to turn it down some more then make a cone shape for it, and add some coloured resin. The resin is about $50 a litre here. Which is why i want to get most of the shape established before i add the resin. Cheap cost cutting measure i hope. Photo taken with the new to me, em1 mark iii and a sirui 24mm anamorphic. I have had the sirui for a little while. These are pretty much the first serious photos taken with camera and lens. Hopefully i have the stretch right. Straight out of camera apart from stretching it. I'm thinking i have a minimalist mindset as thats pretty much how i remember the photo. If i had to change the colour or anything else, it would have to be subtle. Thats how i'm approaching it, but what do you guys think ? We are looking down on the vase as its pretty cramped between the lathe and wall and with the minimum 600mm, 2 foot focus distance of the sirui, it necessitated that particular viewpoint. the tilting, swing out monitor does come in handy in this situation. Also i did order an uhs2 256gb card and a uhs2 reader off amazon, i did try B&h however they came in a bit dearer on the price and postage as well.

Awesome, thanks guys. I had forgotton about b&h, i have dealt with them before. Ill give them another look.

Yes i'm learning that. One of the next things i'd like to do is get a uhs type 2 card. I either hunt one down from a camera shop which entails a bit of a drive and a store mark up or i get one online. I have heard some horror stories about buying cards from ebay, so i'm loathe to go the route of cards off ebay. Not so sure about amazon however. Anyone have issues from buying uhs cards from amazon ? My comp has usb ports marked SS not sure what that equates too. Theres also a type c on the front and one type c on the back. From my online searches it seems best to use a type c port and run a uhs adapter to the c port for optimum performance. which sounds logical / reasonable. So a type 2 adapter is also on the list. I have less issues about a card reader from ebay. Also its been raining the last few days, so nothing productive from that side of things yet. I did however acquire a couple more rocks, first is under room light. second with uv light. uv light in one hand camera in other hand, not exactly ideal The frog is cnc machined and cost a lousy $6. Absolutely crazy what can be done these days. Some Brazilian stone from memory.

Since every type of movie has pretty much been done and dusted already, i guess the only thing left to do is make another remake but make it more life like, if thats the correct term. I presume the original would have been made for under ten year olds. This looks like it would appeal to 12- 13 year olds so just another grab for some dollars... I haven't been around the forum for long, however do i detect a note of satire in your text ? The hoodie looks a bit tattered to me, personally i'd go with, he's under dressed and she's overdressed. Which mirrors life anyway lol.

finding good service people is getting harder and harder i reckon, if all else fails maybe one of those lens rehousing services could help. If their pulling a lens apart and machining parts, cleaning and lubing a lens should be a piece of cake, but maybe not cheap... would depend on how you value the lens as to whether it is worthwhile or not. Btw i like what you doing with the black and white images care to share a little of your processing / workflow?

I flattened a battery messing around with settings and trying different things... so in the end i did reformat the camera. funnily enough a gavin hoey video on dual card slots from 6 years ago popped up in my youtube feed in the first couple of listings that night. I didn't search for it on youtube but i did google dual card slots, i presume there's some "information sharing" going on in windows. Complicated doesn't begin to cover it lol. So far i have assigned the card slot, set up peaking and magnify for both photos and video. I initially set peaking up for video, switched to photos and wondered what happened to the peaking. I "wrongly" thought it would carry over. Seems like, olympus gives you lots of options. I'm going to experiment with it as it is now and move on from there.

pardon my ignorance, wouldn't the yellowing add some kick to a sunrise / sunset? I guess that would make it a bit of a one trick pony. I have been thinking on and off about acquiring a "yellow" lens just for that particular reason.