Photography, Travel

Taking a Short Vacay in Victoria, BC

We took a short vacay in Victoria, BC. Love the town. I spent a year at UVic and did an MA at Royal Roads University way back when, so it’s always great going back. Not to mention hanging out with my sister and bro-in-law!

Walking downtown Victoria, BC
Making like a tourist!


Legislature


Yumi with Emily Carr statue


Me with a John Deere in front of the Empress Hotel. You can take the boy from Saskatchewan, but. . .  : – )


Two fave shops: Munro’s Books and Murchie’s Fine Tea & Coffee


Sunset view of the Inner Harbour


Ink watercolour view of the Inner Harbour with a few dashes of colour. . .

Technology

Adding Lenovo X1 Carbon to Computer Arsenal

I has happy to find an open box Lenovo X1 Carbon at a greatly reduced price online the other day. I like Lenovo keyboards.

The X1 Carbon I spotted has super specs with an Intel Core i7 processor, 64GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and an IPS display with a recommended resolution of 2880 X 1800 pixels. Yoiks!

Plug that into one of my 27″ monitors and it’s a super setup.

In this photo, the Carbon is sitting on my previous laptop, a Dell G3 that’s over five years old.

The Dell has been a great machine, but it’s at least twice the weight of the feathery 2.5lb (just over 1kg) X1. I’ll keep the Dell, it’s no slouch with an i5 processor and 16GB of RAM, and a 4GB video card. But it’ll be great to have the Carbon for taking on the road.

Lenovo Carbon X1 sitting on Dell G3

The Carbon is now my fastest machine, outdoing my tower computer. The advantage the tower has is multiple HDs, so I’ll keep it up and running.

I’ve ordered a dock for the X1 so that I can connect multiple monitors, a wired LAN connection, and have additional USB A and C ports.

 

Photography, Technology

Happy to Get New Canon SX740HS Pocket Camera

Happy to get a Canon SX740HS compact superzoom camera today, despite it being a model that’s several years old.

I’ve had an SX720HS and an SX730HS, and while they are not that great in dim light, their 40X optical zoom lenses make a decent nature/wildlife pocket camera when you don’t want to carry heavy artillery like a DSLR or even a mirrorless system.

My SX730HS was falling apart after many years of service. I carry it in a cargo pant or jacket pocket nearly all the time, eh? I was happy to get a brand new SX740HS for the original Canadian list price, as they are hard to find and some stores are charging up to double the original list price as supply dries up.

I don’t know why Canon doesn’t come out with a new SX750HS with a better sensor and software at a reasonable price — I think it would sell well, and several camera review sites agree.

Yeah, yeah, cell phones take wonderful photos & videos these days, but a 40X optical zoom? Hah!

Canon SX740HS camera

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