{"id":1088,"date":"2009-10-22T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2017-06-24T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T07:16:08","slug":"fiat-lux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 22nd October 2009 – FIAT LUX!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"12<\/a>And we aren’t talking about Italian cars and washing powder either.<\/p>\n

This photo here was taken at about 20:00 this evening and the reason that you can see inside the room here is that I now have four lights all properly connected and switched! <\/p>\n

They are in fact four of those 12-volt LED lights that I bought from LIDL a few weeks ago and while they may not look very bright; that’s just 4 watts of lighting in there.<\/p>\n

Dunno about you, but I think that’s quite impressive.<\n\nAnd that's not all. I now have 12-volt power all around the room, and also mains power too. My electrical day was quite profitable and, much to my surprise, everything worked straight away. I didn't need to make any adjustments at all.
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I’ve not done the 6-volt circuit yet though because I ran out of time doing the 230-volt lighting so I’ll do that tomorrow morning. And neither have I done the telephone. In fact, I dunno how to wire up the telephone plug so I’ll have to do some research into that. <\/p>\n

Liz and Terry are coming round to pick up some stuff so I told them that if they can’t find me anywhere, look to see if there’s anything black and shrivelled stuck to the ceiling. That’ll be me having made a false move with the mains wiring.<\/p>\n

But talking of Lux, the washing powder, do you remember the advert from the 1960s?
\n“If it’s safe in water it’s safe in Lux<\"\nI wrote to them at the time \"Now, about my goldfish ....<\/span>”<\/p>\n

In other news, I’ve been spending more money that I don’t have. <\/p>\n

I’ve effectively abandoned night action photography because the lens on my camera won’t stop down far enough to let in enough light to take effective photos. And when I crop them they are far too grainy, as you will have noticed. <\/p>\n

But that’s the problem with budget lenses – and by that I mean anything under about 500 quid and I don’t have that kind of money.<\/p>\n

Rhys and I were discussing that last night and he found a second-hand lens, a Pentax 100mm f2.8 telephoto on the internet . If you don’t know much about photography, basically it’s one and a half times as long as the maximum on my zoom lens (which is a 17mm-70mm) so it needs less cropping, and it only needs about 2\/3rds of the light that mine uses. It’s an old lens but they had a very good write-up and were much in demand by action and portrait photographers back in the old days.<\/p>\n

And the price? Well, only $129 (plus $40 postage from the USA). I’m not going to get anything better than that on my limited budget so I’ve bitten the bullet and it’s on its way to here. I hope it works properly and does the business for me, as I’m not going to get anything better without spending a real shed-load of money.<\/p>\n

And in other other news, this blog attracts quite a wide audience. It has its regular followers and contributors, but it also has a considerable number of lurkers who just quietly read it. I was talking on a messenger program last night to one of the aforementioned lurkers – Sheila – who I haven’t seen around for some time. It appears that Sheila’s mother has suffered an aneurysm – the same that did for poor Liz back in March – and while she has had the operation the prognosis is not too optimistic.<\/p>\n

So what would be nice would be that we all find a quiet minute or two and think about Sheila and her mum and send them both some positive vibes. They could do with some right now.<\/p>\n

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