{"id":7249,"date":"2026-05-05T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/?p=7249"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:29:00","slug":"5-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/5-4-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/4\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Cool, drizzly day. Weird weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Went to UPS to pick up (a) spinner bearing tool. Smaller than I anticipated, very strange setup, don&#8217;t like it at all. Will likely toss. (b) Biotar lens. Clean glass, smooth focusing. Not sure about how\/if f ring and stop-down ring should work. Right now they work as one: I can&#8217;t turn one without turning the other. I might have thought it would be like some Helios lenses, where ring 1 sets f, ring 2 opens it up to make focusing easier, then shuts back down to the f you set. Will look into it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Went around the mulberry bush again with photo editors, since I didn&#8217;t deactivate anything before wiping the old Mac, so I could reactivate on the new. Using DXO at the moment (which didn&#8217;t have the deactivate problem) and it&#8217;s looking good. Very smooth with (I assume) the more powerful M5 chip, and&#8211;as I recall&#8211;a fair amount of customizability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Cool, drizzly day. Weird weather. &#8211;Went to UPS to pick up (a) spinner bearing tool. Smaller than I anticipated, very strange setup, don&#8217;t like it at all. Will likely toss. (b) Biotar lens. Clean glass, smooth focusing. Not sure about how\/if f ring and stop-down ring should work. Right now they work as one: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7250,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}