“Watches, Tales, and Gear” is a roundup of our favourite content material, watch or in any other case, from across the web. Right here, we help different creators, discover attention-grabbing content material that conjures up us, and put a highlight on causes we consider in. Oh, and any gear we occur to be digging on this week. We love gear.
An Up to date Swiss Passport
For anybody who has, or plans to journey overseas, you already know simply how vital your passport is. Arguably a very powerful piece of drugs for world vacationers, this e-book permits you to get in, and out of your vacation spot, and extra importantly permits you to return dwelling. Whereas every nation has their very own, distinctive design and magnificence, Switzerland has simply introduced their latest look, reimagined by Geneva primarily based design company RETINAA. Whereas the brand new look is gorgeous and attention-grabbing, it’s packed stuffed with security measures like watermarks, UV-reactive illustrations, and plenty of extra undisclosed parts. For one of many world’s strongest passports, it’s solely becoming that it has an equally highly effective design.
The Fujifilm GFX100RF: An Overly Bold Compact Digicam
In 2023, Fujifilm launched the X100vi, a brand new addition to their X100 collection of compact cameras. This mannequin turned so standard that it’s nonetheless on backorder, over two years after its preliminary launch. Not one to settle with this stage of success, Fujifilm has introduced a brand new mannequin, the GFX100RF, a barely greater however exponentially extra highly effective “sibling” to the X100vi. This new digicam combines Fuji’s bigger medium format sensor (from their GFX line) and the X100VI’s “compact” physique measurement to create an absolute powerhouse of a digicam that has a hard and fast 35mm lens with a max aperture of F/ 4, and a whopping 102 megapixel sensor. Whereas these specs are fairly spectacular, it comes with two distinct commerce offs: its measurement and value. The brand new GFX100RF is a bit bigger than the X100 collection, a small worth to pay for over double the picture decision, however retails for $4,899 USD. Spectacular as this digicam could also be on paper, we will’t assist however marvel simply the way it will compete with the Leica Q collection…
Cannon Teases One thing New
If one digicam wasn’t sufficient, Canon has begun teasing a brand new mannequin on their social media this week. From the pictures we’ve seen, it seems to be a compact, level and shoot model digicam, one thing that Canon customers have been asking for as a result of reputation of the Fuji X100’s, Ricoh GRiii’s, and Sony Cybershot. Whereas we don’t know a lot in the mean time, we’ll be maintaining a watch out for the official announcement on 3/26/25.
An Overdue Return and A Profitable Splashdown
In June of 2024, Sunita Lyn “Suni” Williams, and Barry Eugene “Butch” Wilmore set out on a mission to check Boeing’s Starliner. Whereas initially deliberate to be a two-week check mission, it could finally turn into the beginning of a 9 month expedition. In an effort to make one of the best of the scenario, Butch and Suni accomplished over 150 distinctive experiments, 900 hours of mixed analysis, and Suni now holds the report for “whole spacewalking time by a feminine astronaut” (62 hours, 6 minutes). Splashing down on the 18th, the pair spent a complete of 286 days in house and circled Earth 4,576 occasions.
