Check in please - Thanks - I'll try to listen to the net but I may be listening to, and watching, NASA TV, so I might miss parts of the net.
Watching and listening to NASA TV, as another 4 astronauts went to the ISS, but I had a pocket camera, and later a 35MM Canon camera with a regular and telephoto lens, and I've used 110 and 127 film, plus also used one of those "Instant" cameras that develop the film or photo within minutes. Of course I also have used an Android cell phone camera, plus a couple of camcorders, for both photos and videos.
When I had the 35MM camera, and had sent film in to be developed, I never got my photos, and never got my negatives back either, and they claimed that there was something wrong with the camera, and the supposed film showed a 4-inch long "cut," too straight to be done with anything other than a scissors or knife, that would cause such a straight and long cut, as if the film didn't advance I would've seen it, as there was a Red line that wiggled back and forth when advancing to the next frame, plus there were frame numbers that would show up, plus if the film hadn't advanced, when I opened the back of the camera to remove the film, I would've seen the film, but instead the film was wound back into itself, like it should've done, so I vowed to never send film in to be developed by someone else, and I never have either.
I had thoughts of suing them, if I ever saw my photos in a magazine for example, but never saw them anywhere, so I left it go, but I never sent film in to have developed, especially by Kodak, via the local pharmacy, ever again.
The photos that I had taken were from storm damage back in 1980, in the Eau Claire, WI area, and I think it was in June of 1980, and were caused from what everyone thought at the time, was a tornado, but was later called a "Micro-burst" or something like that, and I think that they kept the photos probably thinking that I was going to use them for looting purposes, or maybe for insurance fraud, but it was to just have in my photo album for something to look at years later, plus I did take some photos for the neighbors that had asked me to take photos for them.
The 35 MM Canon, which I had purchased for $200.00, back in 1977, when I was in the Army and was taking an electronic course at Lowry AFB at the Army detachment there, and was purchased at the BX there, was stolen from me during 1981 when I was living in Florida. The person didn't get the flash though, and some years later, when I was back in the Wausau, WI area, I met a lady who had a Canon camera, but no flash, and she wanted to get a flash unit so she could take indoor photos, so I gave the flash to her.
Anyway, I later won a 35 MM camera, and either film for the rest of my life, or 100 rolls, whichever was reached first, and the catch was that you needed to send the film for them to develop, and then they'd send you the next roll, and I told them to forget it, since they never sent me back the photos that I had taken earlier.
Anyway, I've taken photos of rainbows, Sunsets, and "Good" graffiti, and other things, like airplanes taking off and landing, and have taken videos with a Tablet, a cell phone, and a camcorder, of parades, fireworks, and other things.
When I use the Tablet to take a video of fireworks, it has a fireworks setting, and when I used the cell phone I took the auto focus and set that to manual, and the same goes for the camcorder, as the automatic or auto-focus is too slow for fireworks, or it can't focus on fireworks in the dark, so I use manual focus, sometimes setting it to infinity, sometimes I'll see where it gets clear or focused when it's still light enough to see, which is usually only one or two settings below infinity, and will use that setting, and I've even tried using a manual exposure also instead of using automatic exposure.
I post these things on either Facebook and/or on YouTube, my third account, as I had lost the first account, since it was tied to my TDS e-mail account, which I no longer was able to access, so I started a second account using a GMail address, that way I would always have access to it, no matter what ISP I used, but the second one I had closed because they started to block the viewing of the parade videos in the USA, because they contained copyrighted music, and twice I tried contacting them on it, which they never responded back, and I attempted to tell them that I wasn't trying to make money off of the videos, only wanted to share the videos with people who would never get to see the parades other wise, and that I had no control over what the parade coordinators put over their P.A. system, but YouTube kept blocking the viewing of the parade videos, so I closed that account.
However, I had purchased a battery-operated snow thrower, and wanted to do a review on it, and the review needed to be a YouTube video, so I've opened a third account, and have added a few videos of things there that I had taken with either the cell phone or the camcorder...
However, at least on Facebook, I've also uploaded some drone videos that I had taken this year.
Anyway, I'll try to listen as much as I can, but I may be watching and listening to NASA TV, so my time is going to be divided between NASA TV and the net here LOL
