–Got a tomato from Jan Muehlbauer; we gave her cuttings from our abutilon. Kenny is going to give us something–iris, maybe.
–PSA test came back super-clean. I’m good to go for a while.
–Going back to the CL. Tried the M10-R with Visoflex after the CL’s bad night performance. The Visoflex just won’t cut it. In addition to giving a jumpy, dark image, it times out after five seconds or no focusing. The CL viewfinder is bright and clear, and will stay magnified until you reset it to normal. And again, putting viewfinders on M cameras just seems to be defeating the purpose. It would be nice to get the CL to work at night. We’ll see. [edit] Okay, back to the M10-P Safari. I had to underexpose the CL by 3 thirds to get a reasonably-lit shot at night, and it still sucked (noise, washed-out colors, etc. Brought out the Safari and got my infinitely-repeatable, 1/30 second shot: under-exposed, but trivially brought up to perfect in Lightroom, rich colors, etc. I don’t get it: these cameras have the same-size (if not the same) sensor. Why are exposures so different? Will still need the Visoflex for non-M lenses, but that should be okay. [edit 2] I’m reminded that the Visoflex changes the exposure–under-exposing the night shot like the CL did. Easy enough to fix: focus using Visoflex, then turn it off and take the shot. Annoying, though. I’ll look into it.
–Barbecued: chicken burgers, corn, tomato, Bel Air antipasto salad. Yummy!