Spent a lot of time this last weekend at the beach, not only trying out my new M20 action camera,but also a couple of fishing products. One was the YOLO Fishing Bite Alarm, and the other a Yoshikawa 7ft collapsible pack rod. The bite alarm reminded me of the old carp bite alarms I used to use, but unfortunately it didn't work as well. The Yoshikawa rod is fantastic, definitely one I'll be using in the future! These are both courtesy of Gearbest, and you can find them here:
The Konica AF3 was a 35mm, rangefinder film camera, which was introduced by Konica in 1984. It was a nifty, compact camera which featured an auto-focus mechanism, an EE system, and a built-in flash unit. The auto-focus mechanism of the AF3 incorporated an active infrared focus-detection system, which had been designed to assure precise focusing automatically. The AF3 was available in different colors, which included yellow, silver, and black. It was fitted with a Hexanon 35mm f/2.8 lens, which was made of four elements. Specifications The Konica AF3 was equipped with an electronic, programmed, behind-the-lens shutter with speeds ranging from 1/60 to 1/500th of a second. The built-in electronic flash synchronized at all shutter speeds. The AF3 also featured an Albada type, bright frame viewfinder with underexposure warning red light and Auto-focus green light indicator. Film advance was by means of a single-action rapid lever on the right side of the camera top plate. The AF3 was power...
The Hasselblad 553ELX was a motorized, medium format , SLR, film camera produced by Victor Hasselblad AB of Sweden from 1988. It was a camera of exceptional quality; not only was it designed to meet the high standards of a professional photographer, bu also to meet NASA requirements. The 553ELX offered a battery-powered integrated motor with a motor housing built in the camera body shell, which were made of aluminum and magnesium alloys respectively. The Hasselblad 553ELX was equipped with an electronically controlled, vertical-run, cloth curtains focal plane shutter; shutter speeds from 1/16 to 1/2000 sec plus B. It featured a Hasselblad Acute Matte focusing screen and folding focusing hood, but the 553ELX could accept different types of focusing screens, prism viewfinders, with or without built-in light meter. The camera did not operate when the release plate was depressed. It used a Planar CF 80mm lens. The 553ELX was powered by 5 AA size 1.5V alkaline batteries, which lasted up t...
Thanks to a sweet tip from a fellow angler, I found a new urban creek to explore. It's actually more of a canal, but hold water year round and is absolutely loaded with chunky green sunfish, up to 12 inches. I lost track of how many scrappy greenies I landed in a short afternoon fishing session at this Inland Empire creek. Since then, I've returned several times, always landing loads of these sunfish. I've also spotted a couple of turtles, many mosquito fish, and a couple small largemouth, along with the obligatory pile of litter and trash. Urban creek fishing at its finest hmm?
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