Hi Friends
For a very long time I could not post anything new due to pre-occupation with some other work.
I HAVE BECOME A PROUD MEMBER OF BNI HERCULES CHAPTER, NOIDA REGION, INDIA.
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Recent past has not been very comfortable with my finances as there were sudden unforeseen huge expenses.
My Canon 5D Mark 2 developed some electrical/electronic circuit issues. I am comfortable shooting Tethered but good over a year or so the images were not transferring fast and I found my camera in buffer mode for 10 to 15 minutes. I used to then switch it off and took out the battery. It would work fine for certain number of exposures but would repeat again. I thought my data cable had some issues, I bought fresh one but it was the same. During a jewellery shoot my foot entangled in the wire thereafter it did not read again. I feel it better to take these current breed of cameras to authorised company service centres as only here the spares are available. I was left with no camera to work with, anyways work is slow.
Suddenly, as generally work pops in, I got a message for shoot from the USA. I have been getting assignments from this agency for the past decade or so to shoot for them in northern part of India. I could organise a camera on hire for the shoot. Just a day before the shoot my Macbook started misbehaving. I contacted Apple service centre patronising since I bought my laptop from their sales department. They tried to guide me but nothing got solved. I had to rush to them for a solution. I was informed its Graphic Card had given way and as such it required a new motherboard and for this 2011 model there was none available. Seeing no remedy I ordered for a new MacBook 15". They helped me with 13" MacAir (whatever it is called). They installed my hard disc so that I could access my softwares.
Somehow I managed to shoot without using the laptop. Within a few days I got my new Mac that has SSD installed. The put my hard disc in a Transcend casing to be used externally.
In between this mess I bought me a Fujifilm T20 from payments received from the same agency against a work a few months back. Never knew my Mac would crash in between. This I bought specially for travel purposes as I found Canon a bit heavy to carry on idle days during travelling. I had also not got used to it and it not being a full frame I could not shoot with it since I was asked to use a full frame.
I travelled to Sri Lanka with my wife and grandchildren of eight years. I just carried this Fuji camera to get to know it. I always suggest one should carry the purchase invoice when travelling abroad. On return our flight landed quite close to passengers arriving from Saudi and passing through customs the officers took us also to be arriving from Saudi. As my bag passed through the X-ray machine there was such a glow on the customs staff and loudly there is a camera. Such a glee on their faces I just can not describe. Luckily I was carrying my purchase invoice. I showed it to the officer and he went pale on seeing the invoice.
Just carry invoices of purchase of equipment even if a few years old, one never knows which officers day you are going to make it big.
The trip to Sri Lanka was good except to save on some money we did not stay a night in Colombo. We did not sleep for two whole days. The tourist van hired for the whole trip stopped for sightseeing, etc. en-route Kandy. The children were tired since they were excited with a foreign trip they took short naps in between stop overs. The ride was about five and half hours or more till we checked in the pre-booked hotel.
I wanted to share images from the trip but the SSD installed has just softwares. Recently I added one Transcend storage capacity of 256 GB that now remains fitted in the card reader slot. Rest of the work is on my external drives and all these drives are really disorganised. Will go in for another 4 TB and hopefully transfer from these two 2 TB drives or maybe if budget permits there are those backup systems using SATA drives. Will need to check out before committing to any additional storage equipment.
WOW past midnight need to end here as I have a BNI meet in the morning. Reaching after 7:29 am we are marked late though I have been very punctual reaching by 7:00 am have not absented myself.
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