Weight reduction update

[billtils]

Well, the deed is done. I got a good price from Wex Photographic for the sale of all my Fuji SLR and miscellaneous related gear. I'm now running with my old, adequate, but not great iPhone SE together with some trips down memory lane from my flickr account until mid September when the iPhone 17 should be released.

Feeling surprisingly relaxed about it - seems that practically has beaten sentimentality 😱.


Cheers



Bill

[LenR]

Hi Bill, Seems it was not too long ago that you switched to Fuji for weight saving.
At least you seem to be "in a good place" with your decision......

[billtils]

Thanks Len - yes you are correct with "not too long ago" and it was not an easy decision to consign my beloved Fuji to photographic history. It was more a case of "sensible" catching up with and then passing "desirable" and when she who must be obeyed played her retired nurse trump card, there was no turning back.

On the software side, I can (and do) still use the Fujifilm colour simulations ...

[DanK]

Most of us are doing this to enjoy ourselves. So whatever works for you...

I'm having a problem related to age but not equipment weight. We just downsized (American English for moving to a smaller house or apartment) for several reasons, the most important of which was to be close to our kids and grandkids, but also because we need less space now and wanted a place suitable for aging in place. The only place we found that was suitable in other respects is old, built in 1866. That means next to no storage. I hadn't realized how much room I needed for photo gear: large boxes of paper, mat board, foam core, lights, mat cutter, old framed prints that I saved because of the expensive frames, etc., etc. I had to rent a storage locker, and I still have piles of stuff to sort through. I'm not yet willing to give up printing, which I really enjoy, so I can't get rid of the stuff yet. then again, with a much smaller house, I have fewer places to hang prints.

Not relevant, but, one way in which the real estate world here hasn't caught up: most apartment and condo buildings don't yet have any provision whatever for charging cars. Both of our cars are electric, so we had to narrow the search to places that had or would allow a charger.