Old thread is still useful.

I own a Canon EOS650 - a film camera built in 1987, that uses an electronic communication protocol between itself and its lens. It was the very first of its type - the promogenitor for all modern Canon cameras.

I bought a brand-new lens made by Canon - a 24-70mm F4 - with ultrasonic focusing and image stabilisation. This lens was designed in 2013 - long after Canon had stopped making film cameras - and comes with a 2020 manufacturing serial number - one of the first built this year.

I did this with both of them:




*Everything* works.

33 year of near pefect backwards compatibility is a thing to behold. When it would've been so easy to flip a bit somewhere in the lens's microcontroller so it wouldn't work on something this old - it was never done. And while I doubt any engineer at Canon ever had it in their mind that someone would buy a brand new lens for a 3-decade old camera, it's still amusing that it works.

Of course, the camera itself is running into its own limitations - it struggles a little because the focus sensor hardware wasn't as good. 

But the lens will probably work for another 2 decades - right up until 2D goes out of fashion and everything goes holographic.

As for why I did something this dumb? Someone bought be a voucher for Christmas and it was one of the few ways I could spend it.

The last thread hit 300 posts, so here's a new one.

Unexploded WWII bomb discovered in Soho, London, and prompts evacuations

I didn't catch Super Bowl LIV, and Super Bowl PR-RCORDD probably won't have the ads. Like last year, what were the best and worst ads?

I've noticed that the number of characters reserved to being in the social circles of particular SIs (i.e., each building's resident displacees) is probably larger than the number of characters that a particular writer wants to focus on. Which is okay, as far as I'm concerned... as long as everybody knows who the "super-reserved" characters are.

Here's my list:

• Akemi Zimmerman
  
• Ami Mizuno
  
• Hyoga Kazakiri
  
• Mii Konori
  
• Rei Misaka
  
• Rob Donaldson
  

Quote:We're fine, how are you?

So... Peg and I were down at Alison and John's place in West Virginia this weekend.  (For those of you playing "Bob's Life Warriors Bingo", that's Ai Jiao Min and Skitz/Major Kanis.)  Late Saturday night, Alison was talking about her writing (Nanowrimo and a couple other projects), and it eventually led into something along the lines of "oh yeah, Bob writes, but he doesn't talk about it; but we really should talk shop".  Those weren't her words, and it didn't get expressed that succinctly, but yeah, that's what it was.

So I discussed the Walk with her (and everyone else there) over the table, and I brought up how I covered the Warriors, and mentioned how I referenced Ai Jiao Min.  Alison's face got blank for a moment, then her eyes got wide as she said, "I'd forgotten about Ai Jiao Min" (which is understandable because I think her last Warriors session was something like 20 years ago), and then she started laughing.  She finally explained why -- when she created the character she was drawing a blank on a codename for her, and in desperation called her "I Have A Name" in whichever Chinese language it was.  Which admission got the rest of us laughing as well.

If I'm lucky, any readers I might have who speak that particular language hopefully thought I mangled a transliteration, or it was something in a different Chinese language entirely...

The lyrics are a pretty good match to Doug's overall predicament - trying to get home, so he can embrace his love again, and doing so with music. I'd be surprised if this wasn't a gatesong, but I couldn't say from where or to where.

(blows dust off forum)

Is ElfQuest still a thing? I was doing some cleanup and found my set of the Ral Partha lead miniatures - all five boxes. The boxes themselves are faded, but the minis are in good condition (but not painted and mostly not primed). Are they worth anything on the resale market?

(And if anybody here wants them, make an offer. Save me the trouble of giving eBay a cut.)