" Thanks Charlie.
I do find, when I forget to shoot the white balance target, that Auto White Balance on my R3 and R5II do a good job in "normal" conditions. It's the early morning and late evening light and other tricky situations where it can get confused.
I'm almost 20 year behind you and fortunately still able to be pretty active, but I do feel my body complaining more often than it used to (especially when I overdo it). I've been enjoying wildlife photography for 25 years, and consider it the hobby that I can continue to do, as long as I can still walk, when my other more strenuous hobbies become too much. I'm sorry to hear about your knees, but impressed to learn how you've figured out a way to continuing shooting despite that limitation. It definitely gives me something to think about."
It's that next 20+ years that are the toughest. I consider myself to be "Bionic" now. Yes, "Batteries Are Included", and I have considerable metal and plastic parts all through me.
I'll be going to the hospital this coming Monday to get a lead from my pacemaker re-attached to the muscle inside my heart, so yet another heart surgery (this is #10). 26 years ago I told them to put a zip lock zipper in my chest to make repairs easier for them, but they wouldn't do it. Re-attaching this lead is highly unlikely, and a complete replacement of the lead will be the more likely process, as the leads tend to become part of you and don't pull out once there for several years. It's been functioning poorly for the last 3 years, giving me occasional short periods of near zero energy, and they have been changing the pacemaker program to make it less dependent on the third lead, but it now seems to have become completely disconnected from my heart muscle and my heart rate drops to 43-50 when this lead isn't working. But I'm fine right now and my heart rate is in the 70's, 76 at this very moment. The lead seems to move around, so it works sometimes and sometimes not.
My pacemaker was made by Biotronics, and it "phone's home" every night through a sort of cell phone located on my night stand, to report my daily heart data. My pacemaker and this buttonless cell phone link together via, I think, "Bluetooth" as I lay there sleeping near it. If it sends anything unusual, I get a phone call from my heart surgeon on my cell phone request that I visit my heart group at the hospital. I think they can make pacemaker operating program adjustments while I sleep through this connection, if they need to as well.
Being a lefty, I had them put my pacemaker in my right shoulder, so as to be more able to move my important left arm, even immediately after the pacemaker install. This great idea seems have come back to haunt me, because my heart surgeon says it's more difficult to find a path through my arteries to route this replacement lead into my heart. So both my heart surgeon and I are expecting this to be a more difficult than usual surgery than it might have been if my pacemaker had been located in my left shoulder. Yes, in the last 26 years I have had nine heart surgeries so far, with this one on Monday being #10. The first was a triple bypass and a valve repair. I didn't think that I was going to survive that one because it took me almost 6 months to recover from it. I've now survived cancer twice, knee replacements from a fire fighting accident in 1976, and two auto accidents earlier in my life, plus over the last 20 years, the general ailments that one acquires between the age of 60 and 84 that keep getting worse with age. (The golden years are only for the doctor's pockets). So, if I don't post to this forum by late next week, you will all know the reason why.
Charley