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Alliecat · 10-06-2026, 03:57 PM

That's a bummer about the aperture fakery. Kinda like "digital zoom" rather than an actual zoom lens? DoF control was one reason I finally got a digital SLR; my lil Optio was sufficing for the newspaper work but I wanted to do more with the doll photography.
I suppose it's electronically approximating multiple ex-posures too? Because how could it actually take multiples while someone was hand-holding it?
Didn't you get an SLR...?
A pocket point-&-shoot is often very handy though; I still use the Optio fairly often.

davidd · 10-07-2026, 09:27 AM

(10-06-2026, 03:57 PM)Alliecat Wrote: Didn't you get an SLR...?
A pocket point-&-shoot is often very handy though; I still use the Optio fairly often.

Yes, I have a Canon EOS 80D that I've had for a dozen years and barely used. I keep saying I'm going to start using it more. Real lenses with real apertures, but big. As you note, a pocket point-n-shoot is handy. I used to carry one all the time, a habit I've fallen away from. I wanted to re-establish that habit.

6 October - A Doll A Day 2026:

Dangerous Devices

Heat knife -- kind of like a straight razor heated up to 900-degrees (that's "F" degrees; or 500 C-degrees).

Alliecat · 10-07-2026, 02:40 PM

Are you they taking up woodburning now?

davidd · 10-09-2026, 03:09 AM

(10-07-2026, 02:40 PM)Alliecat Wrote: Are you they taking up woodburning now?

Not intentionally.

7 October - A Doll A Day 2026:

Just One of Those Things

Some weird 1/12-scale thing I purchased last March. I thought I needed it after seeing a photo on an online hobby forum. I had to search world-wide to find one. Finally acquired it through HobbylinkJapan.

I used to purchase a lot of Pinky:st figures at Hobby Link Japan. I had not placed an order for probably twelve or fifteen years, but my account was still on file.