Training for the Flower Show
Feb. 20th, 2010 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardThursday night I had an unpleasant restless night, was up for a couple of hours, and so I turned off the alarm yesterday, sleeping in until 7:00. Wow.
Last night I slept better and woke up naturally at about 5:30. I think I've retrained myself now -- and that my optimal night's sleep is about seven hours.
Just now I pushed the "place order" button on an extravagant digital SLR camera, a Nikon D90 plus extra battery, 16gb SD card, and aftermarket book. I expect that on tour days I will not want that huge piece of ironmongery hanging around my neck but that still leaves [counts on fingers] eight days of Flower Show to play with my new toy.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kightp tells me that I'll be able to use our old Nikon lenses, albeit with no autofocus (or autometering, I would think).
We have decided to take no pleasure trips this year, putting our discretionary money instead into cameras. Roy went the steampunk route with his Leica, and I've got the digital camera, which I expect Roy will also be interested in learning to use.
Last night I slept better and woke up naturally at about 5:30. I think I've retrained myself now -- and that my optimal night's sleep is about seven hours.
Just now I pushed the "place order" button on an extravagant digital SLR camera, a Nikon D90 plus extra battery, 16gb SD card, and aftermarket book. I expect that on tour days I will not want that huge piece of ironmongery hanging around my neck but that still leaves [counts on fingers] eight days of Flower Show to play with my new toy.
kightp tells me that I'll be able to use our old Nikon lenses, albeit with no autofocus (or autometering, I would think). We have decided to take no pleasure trips this year, putting our discretionary money instead into cameras. Roy went the steampunk route with his Leica, and I've got the digital camera, which I expect Roy will also be interested in learning to use.
