9:20am PDT Friday March 22, 2024 with a busy day ahead of me though don't feel too motivated, still groggy as I poke away on this old Dell XPS-15 Windows 10 laptop, my primary computer I run with a 24" UHD 4k external monitor. Appears I have lost my cheap Casio digital watch I've used a few years. Probably fell out of a pocket. Remove the watch bands and carry watch bodies in my Levi coin pocket as I dislike wearing wrist watches. So found an older dead Casio I never replaced the battery on and with a Youtube video figured out how after removing the 4 tiny case screws, how to pop the battery carrier latch open with a pin.
Searched online and quickly found via Yelp that jewelry watch repair services will usually charge almost as much as they think a new watch would cost. The CR1616 batteries sell on Amazon for $2 for a 5 pack but most local drug stores and markets charge $5+ just for one battery. Need to visit a Walmart Neighborhood Market today about 3 miles away where will look what they charge and as a backup web shows Home Depot a 3 block away walk may just charge $3.59 for one.
After ending this post will spend awhile doing bill paying via USPS mail paperwork, I prefer versus via Internet accounts where I have NO financial stuff.
Then will move ahead figuring out how to set up and process all the a6700 268 image files I captured yesterday that has about a couple dozen files per each image subject. That requires reading a bunch of exiftool technical documentation that would put most people to sleep and creating a new Excel image file structure versus what I have for my now retired old Sony a6000. Those files are now slowing dumping from the SDcard into my old Microsoft Vista HP desktop where I run Photoshop CS6 and other imaging applications no longer supportable on recent OS's. Avoids hated current app versions monthly subscription service fees. A whole world of computer file header technology I'd bet most folks here don't even know exists, much less can use?
ExifTool by Phil Harvey
Also need to build up some cj's that is an hour task. And need to dump a bunch of gear file manuals into my cheap, not much to worry about if lost, $200 Chuwi Windows 11 laptop that I much prefer to use on the road and in the field versus my tiny screen awkward to use moto g smartphone. Last week it was extremely useful in lodging during evenings playing back the GoPro mp4 video files I'd taken skiing earlier during my 4 ski days. But yesterday out on my first photo work this spring, was useless after I'd driven there since had not loaded the a6700 PDF user manual and then noticed that laptop needed quite a bit more files and links added.
But after about 15 minutes spinning around the a6700 MENU sitting in my car, finally found out how to set up one of three customizing buttons for the important Auto Exposure Lock function that allows taking groups of bracketed images using the same exposure setting, absolutely necessary with stitching subjects where a lens moves to different target positions with varying light.
Also still have numbers of the skiing GoPro files to process with a few I'll upload to my Youtube account for public viewing. That will probably need to wait till this weekend.
