I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

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Trusty S1 is officially falling apart: pieces are coming off, and the flash is finding it hard to get himself in a firing position. Problem is, after dinner conversation with KF’s friend, Jeffrey, about sensor sizes (and a little reading up on dpreview) the S5′s sensor is only slightly larger than the S1′s, but it packs more than double the resolution. Sigh, decisions, decisions.

It was a little hot today, we were out and about in tee shirts even in the evening, so I think it must’ve been something like 24°C. Nice to be running about without jackets.

We went to the Kyoto International Manga Museum today, it was fun! Using the premises of the old Tatsuike Primary School somewhere close to the middle of town, it was three floors of manga mania – a h-u-g-e library of mangas (donated by a bloke who used to run a rental store) which you can just take off the shelf and read around the school (on the lawn, around the corridors or stairs), a figurine exhibition, caricature artists, a figurine painting area (we weren’t the only adults there) and a cafe. Costs 500 Yen for entrance, and another 500 Yen to get to special features areas. It’s kinda near Karasumaoike subway station (tourist guide maps say 100m away, but it’s really 50m), worth the time if like KF, you like your robot anime and stuff.

I buckled and did some shopping today – knick knacks and souveniors. And a little something from the Manga Museum gift shop. Scope Dog! I think he looks badass. I should stop shopping, all that extra weight is going to be a pain to lug back to Tokyo.

Hopefully tomorrow we can do our Gion walks. We already walked around some of it with Jeffrey, but it was dark and the S1 takes crap night shots. Tomorrow we’ll try to head back and get some proper shots.

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