Sunday Has Raced Around Again,

unfortunately Diana had to go into work today,

so it was a sherry and a read by myself today,

for todays lunch liver and bacon, 'Cheers!',

after lunch I spent some time playing with my new camera it is a Fujifilm GFX100S II with GF 32-64mm F4 lens, credit: Andy Westlake, as it happens I am going to use the Fujifilm GF 20-35mm f4 R WR Lens when I try my hand as astrophography, and with that in mind I tried to set up a bespoke programme in the camera, so I did not have to go through all of the settings every time I wanted to focus on the stars, so I choose on one of the pre-set options in the camera, where you can load your settings and it remembers them when you next want to use them, the settings I an going to use as a starting point is aperture F4, a shutter speed of 10 seconds, white balance set to 4,000, stabilisation off, this is as the camera will be on a tripod it does not keep wasting time trying to correct small movements which are not there, and a ISO of 6400, this is 1 stop higher that you would use for as 35mm camera, but as this has a medium format sensor it rather neatly gives a less grainy look that ISO3200 would give to a 35mm image, this all sounds easy, but the camera is so complicated, well it is for me! all I have to do now is wait for cloudless, moonless nights before driving down to Beachy Head, which is the place nearest to us with only a small amount of light pollution, in what was left of the afternoon I watched a film,

Evolution, a surprisingly well made sci-fi comedy, with great special effects thrown in, when a meteorite falls to Earth two college professors, Dr. Ira Kane and Prof. Harry Phineas Block, are assigned the job of checking the site out, at the site, they discover organisms not of this planet, soon the site is taken over by the government, forcing Ira and Harry to the side, as the new life-forms begin to evolve and start to get more and more dangerous, it's up to the two professors to save the planet, well worth watching for the special effects if nothing else, I followed that with,

the 1959 version of Journey to the Center of the Earth, Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, the Victorian setting just right for this movie inspired by another book from the pen of Jules Verne, as good as 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, but this time with a monster dinosaur rather than a giant squid, during this Diana arrived home from work, after a coffee and a chat it was time for a Midsomer Murder, then Diana was off to bed, a Have I Got More News For You, for myself before I too was off to bed.