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[fivemack]

It's a miracle. It's a wonder. It feels actually ergonomic, and pleasantly designed. It's forty quid on ebay; as with cameras, buying the top-of-the-range item from four years ago second-hand gets you an admirable proportion of bang to buck.

Though its performance may have been made more impressive by

a) I hadn't swept the floors since April

b) Except on Sunday before ghoti came to dinner, and doing one or two rooms then had taken me an hour and a half with a very small dustpan and brush, and left my face (and, judging from my breathing, the insides of my lungs) caked with dust.

I empty the dust-tray in the garden, where I hope the fluff will fertilise the plants, and the dust mites, by feeding medium-sized insects, cause the spiders to grow strong and photogenic.

At maximum macro, the camera+lens images 52mm down the sensor and 77mm across it, which is 25 microns per pixel, and indeed I can count the twenty pixels between the centre of adjacent half-millimetre marks on a mechanist's rule; easily enough to show that insects are hairier than you'd expect and daisies as splendidly structured as sunflowers, though the depth of field is annoyingly much shallower than the larger spiders available.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed you didn't buy a Roomba!

delurking briefly

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

I gather there's a wee belt on these which springs off, merrily, from time to time; otherwise a DamGudeThyng.

Erm... you are a Friend of Aldabra's. (And Jan and Owen, I think.) WYM if I friended you, in a sort of general, non-stalkerish way? There's not much I can do for her from where I am but it would be nice to sort of be in touch-ish with someone more johnny-on-the-spot.

But not to worry if you'd rather not. I may just pop in from time to time if that's OK.

Re: delurking briefly

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I don't mind at all if you friend me; it'll give me another incentive to cut down on the Weird Computer Stuff posts and put up more photos.