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  • I bought a Ricoh GR III (not a GR III digital, an actual GR III) off Facebook marketplace for £350 a few years ago (at this point, the GR IIIx hadn’t been released). It was cheaper than most because it was missing the front decorative ring. I added that back for £10-15, though.

    In the year or two that I had it, I realised it wasn’t right for me. It was a lovely camera, but I hated the focal length, the autofocus system always seemed to pick up some random object I didn’t care about, and manual focus with the buttons was between impractical and downright unfeasible. I put it on eBay with an auction start price of £150 or so… And it fetched £450.

    Another year or two later I was thinking of getting a GR IIIx as I’d probably enjoy the focal length more. I looked at eBay and damn, both the IIIx and normal III are selling for £800+, with only some poor-condition outliers below £700.

    Apparently ricoh’s manufacturing hasn’t kept up with demand and their used prices are absolutely bonkers. I don’t think this has happened to Sony (although I wish, as I need to sell my A7ii soon). I think its a bit of a case-by-case basis.









  • Jrockwar@feddit.uktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldSelf-care
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    28 days ago

    I can keep habits until I travel. 8 months of gym, then go on holiday for a long weekend, and forget that the gym ever existed.

    It seems meds have been preventing this and the gym habit has persisted through a couple of trips. But I’m fairly new to meds, so we’ll see how long I can keep this up…




  • Jrockwar@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.worldBoycott Tesla.
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    1 month ago

    Excellent in which specific sense? Most competitors offer better everything (performance, range, build quality) for a given price point.

    The fact that Tesla has managed to make EVs that consistently rank below most ICE brands in terms of reliability is mind blowing.



  • My mom (78) got a new kindle a couple years ago, after the previous one lasting over 10 years.

    She’s not been using it now because “it’s not okay” anymore. After a lot of poking and prodding remotely (we live in different countries) to get to understand what the issue was for the kindle to “not be okay”, I managed to get her to tell me that “the screen is blank”. I said I’d check it soon after when I went to her place.

    When I travelled there, not long after, I checked the kindle, turned on the screen, and it was blank. Because she’d finished a book and the last page was blank. All worked fine.

    I have told her, but she refuses to use the kindle because “it’s not okay”.

    In a separate conversation I offered to give my sister my really old kindle as hers is actually broken. My mom heard that and said she wanted it because hers is… Not okay.

    The insistence and willful ignoring of what I said is the most infuriating part.