Took my brother's car, which was parked behind me, to buy some bananas and heavy whipping cream for Fosters Freeze around 2:20, 2:40 today. Since our house is so close to the high school, traffic got a little sticky around the area. Smart & Final only had green bananas so I got the heavy cream. LOTS of high schoolers milling around getting snacks and stuff. The teens behind me were talking about how they had to help their skinny(?) friend finish a pizza. It was so weird hearing how fluid their chatter was and how seriously they took the subject. I felt grown up in a good way. But I also didn't think of myself as "better" necessarily because just 5 or 6 years ago I would've had a similar conversation. Anyway, Grocery Outlet had the bananas and was a lot less busy, thank god, and I dropped off the items and then headed back home ASAP. Seth needed to get his car serviced at 4:00. I wish I took more photos on the XZ-2 but it was uncomfortable to hold with just a wrist strap. I changed it back to the OEM neck strap as soon as I got home. I love the idea of carrying your camera in one hand (literally, point and shoot)... actually doing so, not so much. Relaxed for the late afternoon and had a small nap. Mom arrived around 6pm (her day off today) and made some fried rice. The day gets a little more compressed after here... Wrapped up my YouTube videos for the night and continued playing with the firmware/OS of the XZ-2. Apparently Olympus' equivalent of Canon's dense Q-menu has to be enabled in the settings. The default quick menu is an augmented live view, which makes sense for the compact zoom lens formfactor (mirrorless!), but felt a little sparse to me. Later sample photos showed the weird JPEG recipe gave my darktable edits a real run for their money. I'd say the consistency of the JPEGs is about 80% of my Canon RP, but it has its own character and quirks. Orange subjects become very dense and crushed indoors, but reds, blues, and greens stay pure indoors and outdoors. I feel like I get the best of both worlds on the sensor, like the vibrancy and contrast of the CCD-era color science in the JPEGs, and more working tonality and dynamic range from an inherently newer CMOS backlit(!!) sensor in the RAW files.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391