{"id":1463,"date":"2015-02-26T22:56:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2015-02-27T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:19:05","slug":"favorite-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 56<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever stop and think about the amazing capabilities, conveniences, and creature comforts we have at our finger tips?\u00a0 Compare most anything with 100 years ago &#8230; no, 25 or 50 years ago.\u00a0 Technological advances in communication, transportation, services, information, food, and health, just to name a few, will blow your mind if you take time to compare to &#8220;yester-year&#8221;.\u00a0 Now take this one step further:\u00a0 What among these do you adore?\u00a0 I mean absolutely love, because it uniquely hits the sweet spot for a need or passion?<\/p>\n<p>The Fuji X100s camera is one of those few things that I not only appreciate and enjoy, but I truly love.\u00a0 It produces professional quality photos that still impress me, yet it is very small and compact.\u00a0 It is unobtrusive.\u00a0 I take it virtually everywhere because it is so convenient.\u00a0 It is built beautifully &#8230; all the leading digital functions in a vintage, &#8220;throw back&#8221; body that&#8217;s built like a Sherman take scaled down to the size of a Smart Car.\u00a0 The ergonomics are intuitive.\u00a0 I can create without thinking about the camera itself, because the technical doesn&#8217;t get in the way (if that makes sense).\u00a0 It is simple &#8211; one non-removable, single focal length lens.\u00a0 This is a limitation that is actually liberating, because the focal length fits my style and there are no decisions about changing lenses.<\/p>\n<p>The age of consumerism trains and tempts us to want more, self very much included.\u00a0 But when you find that &#8220;thing&#8221; that fits a perfect want or need, forget comparing it to what others have or the better thing just around the corner.\u00a0 Go enjoy it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1464\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150225_001-003.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1464\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1464\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150225_001-003-700x560.jpg\" alt=\"Fuji X100s\" width=\"700\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150225_001-003-700x560.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150225_001-003-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150225_001-003.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fuji X100s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X-T1, 56mm f\/1.2, 1\/80 sec @ f\/4.0, ISO3200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 56 Do you ever stop and think about the amazing capabilities, conveniences, and creature comforts we have at our finger tips?\u00a0 Compare most anything with 100 years ago &#8230; no, 25 or 50 years ago.\u00a0 Technological advances in communication, transportation, services, information, food, and health, just to name a few, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}