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Disclaimer: I'm generally cheap.

Pilot G2 pen - I bought it after someone recommended it and it is indeed a pleasure to write with it.

Ryzen 5 2400G - it has a good enough GPU to play some nice games with Steam Proton. In future I would like to make a Mini-ITX build for it.

Canon EOS M100 with pan cake lens - it's almost as small as a compact, but has big APS-C sensor. I bought a used body. I noticed lately how my old photos are so much better then later ones. The difference between a compact and a first gen Pixel is noticeable. With this it's even further. But with pandemics there was no much use of it lately.



0.32mm Pilot G2s are my favorite. I usually buy the green, black, blue, and red in packs of 10.

They are a pleasure to write with. They are more prone to the bullhead not functioning if dropped but overtime these pens have taught me to take care of my pens. Now I can actually get the pens depleted all way.


I'll do you one better on the pilot G2, if you take care of your pens: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/671015/Pilot-G2-Limit...

Feels even more smooth than the plastic ones just because of the weight


Nice.

Years ago I bought an old Sony Rx-100 Gen 1 because I wanted a good camera that I didn't mind if it got stolen or broken, and it was a great purchase. The Rx-100 had a nice large 1-inch cmos that could pick up great dynamic variations.

I'm ready to move up now, was looking at the Sony a6000 but I will look at this one, too.


I can add that I'm not much of a photographer, but it started to interest me with possibilities. It has very nice interface with a touchscreen - it is very intuitive (i.e. touch to focus on specific part, pinch to zoom in the gallery). But I think that most things can still be done via buttons. One thing that I don't like in the UI/UX department is that after I've done an update of the firmware I no longer see names of various modes. At least you can see the name of the current mode when you turn it on. But after a while you get used to it.

I plan to buy a telephoto lens to it some day, but I'm good as it is.

I liked this review of the body+lens combo I have: https://www.dpreview.com/opinion/0877988578/traveling-light-...




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