Fall Ball, Fall Boys, Fall Bands, and a Zipper

Fuji X-T1 does well in good available light but that's about all.  So sad.

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Staycation

Staycation in Scottsdale was fun.  Gotta love swimming in mid Nov.  

Fuji camera continues to frustrate, very poor AF performance in low light, no flash in continuous mode, nearly mandatory to set manually aperture and shutter settings when using flash, and no P mode overrides beside exp comp.  Hoping second firmware update will solve some of these issues.  Looking forward to Dec's firmware update with electronic shutter (completely silent shooting) and some menu miscue corrections.  I want to think I'm a decent enough shooter to overcome the shortcomings/quirks but maybe not.

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Meet Me Downtown

Jennifer's company sponsored a social weekly walk/run, in our case wagon, in conjunction with the city of Phoenix.  We didn't do the full course but the boys enjoyed DT at night.

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PFD Station 12

We visited Phoenix Fire Station 12 over the weekend.  Capt. Bobby Dubnow gave us the most amazing tour and took us around the block on the truck, lights on.  Phoenix Fire Dept is struggling with old equipment and were totally stressed out over the recent mid term elections that almost took these guys' pensions away.

Afterwards, messing around at a restaurant.  

Still struggling with the Fuji's flash.  But think I figured out the quarks after look at these pics.

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