u/WRB2

Train happy path only for now.

Relax and bring home stuff. They may not let you walk out with if you are laid off.

15 years ago there were no iPads. Now people want seamless gestures between products. This is a continuation of the journey towards that.

If you want the most in camera magic, OM-3. If you want FF that will last and last the Z5II.

So many ways this could be turned into something positive by your manager

Ask for five free. It suck’s but it’s over

Get some travel assistance, just plain fair, no food stipend. Make business meetings back at the office where you work now so they can call it a business experience. Let’s say four over the course of the year.

Go for it and best of luck

People seem to forget that Leica also made a line of SLRs today. Makes a very good DSLR.

Nikon did the same for a little while in the very early days of SLR dominance.

Go by five enclosures that will turn them into USBC3.2 GEN two external drives and see how they sell on Facebook marketplace or eBay. The way storage is right now. It’s not a lot, but I’ll bet you’ll do pretty well.

Yeah, middle management has been decimated over the past 30 years and I think until we have super flat organizations that will just continue to be.

A friend of mine who was a manager of a small group got told that he didn’t have enough people reporting to him so they demoted him from manager

Yes. A very good deal

I’m looking forward to seeing the octagon match.

USB-C power from external supply.

Sell these and get a Nikon L35AF

Hire as a consultant and then flip in four months. Better then running on empty

I’m
Thinking

Prime

I could get behind a 300 f5.6. Something small like the Zukio line of glass for the OG-OM space (200/5). With mirrorless bodies, EVFs, and AF something small toss it in your bag and forget it

He’s just securing his base, a bunch of people who will believe everything he says. I suspect after the midterms, he’ll be announcing a cheese factory on the moon and guess who will send the rockets up there and we’ll pay for them dearly.

My guess is he has a new identity

Nikon S2 and a 50/1.4. Stay with Nikon so your aperture ring and you’re focusing ring on the lenses between your F3 and your rangefinder all go the same direction. Take it from someone who switched from Leica to Nikon for that very reason. Though my SLR of choice was an F2 plain prism

Wow

Remember when Ronald Regan forgave the vast majority of illegals?

While I don’t like 23&Me you might look into genetic services, comparing the two of you and then perhaps find his family from what you have. You know the geography (where he was, perhaps where he lived), you know the time frame, perhaps you remember general description info.

There may be a volunteer organization some where that can help. This is the kind of research that some people might have a hobby.

Not much but it’s a start that you can turn into a bonding exercise for the two of you.

Best of luck

An old mamiya six yes

Yes, sadly you are.

Yes. Exit on good terms, come back in 18 months for lots more money.