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Friday Slide Show: Keyboards
20 September 2024
We did take a camera on a walk around the neighborhood looking for slide show material yesterday. But with our persistent double vision, it was all we could do to keep from wandering off the sidewalk into the road. So if there was something photogenic out there, we wouldn't have seen it.
An attempt the day before to shoot some macros of our still-flowering orchid using 35mm prime and a reversing ring proved we need autofocus if we plan to shoot anything others might want to see.
So late yesterday we resorted to shooting in the studio with an autofocus lens and a macro converter.
But shoot what?
We won't list the candidates but we did, finally, find a subject right under our nose. Our keyboards.
We were more than a little surprised to find so many of them. Only later did we realize there are even more stashed away. But they simply weren't easily accessible by a guy who can't see straight.
We've used them all over the years and the reason most of them are still hanging around is because we still do use them. Some not nearly as much, some every day.
They have been our confidents over the years, enduring our thoughts and complaints, recording our memories and hopes and generally providing the sort of comfort one gets from a sympathetic friend.
There are three Underwoods of the last century, two portables. There is a Mac SE, a PowerPC, an iMac, two Intel MacBook Pros (more hidden away somewhere), a Sony Vaio (don't ask) and an M2 MacBook Pro.
There is the Underwood Champion on which we learned to touch type in the third grade. There is the Underwood Standard that saw us through college before we realized banging on a manual would ruin the joints in our fingers before we ran out of things to say. There is the first Mac we ever got our hands on and the last we used in magazine production work. There are all the Macs and the one Windows keyboard we used to review photo apps. And there are even a couple of color coded versions (one with an overlay) for specific apps (Capture One and Lightroom).
We put them in chronological order (slipping a few 10-key pads whose keys are defined by a Keyboard Maestro macro based on the active application. See if you can tell which is which. Good luck.
