In Zen practice, an empty mind is good to have, but my desk will always be
cluttered.
I only wash my car when it rains out by driving to the grocery store.
WayneS
At 2/21/2019 10:50 PM, you wrote:
>Car washing is much more important. An empty desktop is the sign of an empty
>mind.
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>From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Olympus Camera Discussion"
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>Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:40:40 PM
>Subject: [OM] Nathan's PAD 18/2/2019: testing a new lens
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>I do not buy much new photo equipment these days?the stuff I have is good
>enough. But this week, on the suggestion of Moose on the Oly list, I picked
>up a 12-32mm lens for my Panasonic GF1. On an MFT camera this range is
>equivalent to 2464mm, very usseful in a tiny package?this may well replace
>the Ricoh GRII as my cycling camera (the Ricoh is still the choice when
>pocketability and/or high ISO capability are needed). The lens arrived on
>Monday, and I have been shooting with it this week to test it in various
>circumstances. It has been a busy week at work, so I have not had much time to
>go out to photograph, and had to do most of my testing at the office.
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>This was the very first image on Monday:
>https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CzThMJL/A
>Every company I have worked for since 1987, including the office where I work
>now, has had a â??clean desk policyâ??. In every place I have heartily ignored
>this policy, and I continue to do so. In my view, cleaning oneâ??s desk ranks
>right up there with washing oneâ??s car as a total waste of time.
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>I then set out to look for more interesting subjects, so I prowled the floor
>looking for victims. Many people were at lunch but our Greek colleague Eri was
>at her desk:
>https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8927XVS/A
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>And this one of our cafeteria terrace, actually taken on Wednesday, is a good
>test of the distortions of the lens?not too much, albeit this is with the
>lens set at 17mm, so not at the extreme wide end:
>https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-t936CK6/A
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>Cheers,
>Nathan
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>Nathan Wajsman
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>Alicante, Spain
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>PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
><http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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>Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
><http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
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