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evening over kokubunji with a hint of trouble

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2025.03.02

I took this photo with a new (to me) OM Systems OM-5. It took quite a bit of fiddling because the exposure on the camera was wrong and I had to faff about in Manual mode to determine just how off the exposure was. It turned out it was over-exposing by +1 1/3, which is not a little. I suspect that I didn't detect it in the store while taking some test shots because I was shooting things with lots of reflective surface that were fairly well lit.

The funny thing is, I've never had a hint of trouble with micro-four-thirds gear before.

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One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

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