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David O'Donnell looking likes enjoying the terrain of the "Fat Yak", Grose Valley Blue Mountains, Australia.
On a cold day in November, a group of musicians came together to put on a benefit for Jan (pronounced Yahn) Johansson to help defray the costs of a heart transplant. You may not be familiar with Jan, but if you follow acoustic music in the Triangle area, I'm sure you''ve heard his influence. Mandolin Orange, The Hotwires, Chatham County Line and The Tims Family are just a few of the bands that have been touched, taught and befrended by Jan. Please consider making a donation in Jan's name to the National Foundation for Transplants, 5350 Poplar Dr., Suite 430, Memphis, TN 38119, make checks payable to the National Foundation for Transplants and write “For Jan Johansson” on the memo line - or go to www.transplants.org
Benefiting United Cerebral Palsy of South Florida
Rachel Gallagher, Carl Lender, Paula Yeager, Roz Goral
I sharpened this girl a bit in post processing.
I only sampled the Minolta Maxxum 7 (M7) for about a minute at Henry's Outlet Centre, but it's autofocus sensor array felt like it was like Paul's D200. And while it had a compact crappy zoom lens, it felt like it had telepathic autofocus because it was so fast.
I was a little dissappointed at the Minolta Maxxum 9 (M9)'s autofocus array, but considering it is 2-3 years older than the M7's and 10 years old altogether now, it was pretty good considering.
The M9 has a single cross (like the a100) flanked by one line on each side (on the thirds of the frame) while the M7 has a modern feeling double cross (like the a900) and 8 line (like the a100 & a900) array (left, right, top, bottom + diagonals in each corner). While the M9's AF motor is reputed to be the strongest (peak torque) ever, the AF sensors did struggle abit. The M7 may have faster accelerating motor and incorporate deceleration to improve accuracy. People say the M9's shutter is beautiful but I didn't find it very different from an Canon EOS 5D's shutter sounds.
Right now I feel like I would prefer the M7, but I haven't used it before so maybe after experiementing with it, I would appreciate the M9's build.
Dumped on the Braunstone estate in Leicester. I think they tried to damage the CCTV camera in the other photo you can see the scorch marks on the pole.
A router speed controller, 12V-2A transformer, some lamp cord, a paint stir stick, aluminium busses and steel wire.
Works -- better. Like cutting warm cheese with a butter knife.
Same problems as the first prototype, but not as bad.
- The steel wire does not get hot enough. Should be using Nichrome.
- The aluminium sucks the heat off the ends of the wire, so it's only hot in the middle.