From an early age I had a compulsion to keep a diary, admiring famous diarists such as Samuel Pepys, although I suspected (rightly as it turned out) that I would never have anything to say that would be very interesting to others. No chance of Mike Evans's Diary in twenty volumes. It would be an exercise in vanity publishing and I would surely be the only reader. I never ceased trying. Every year I would buy a one-page-per-day annual journal and start out in good heart on January 1. Yet I believe the longest I survived was a month; I cannot remember which year. 

For the past month or so I've been trying out the new Fuji X-T1 and am now working on a short review. It's an X-T1 with fewer knobs. The X-T10 give up nothing much to the more expensive and heavier X-T1 other than its lack of weather proofing and its slightly less belly-and-whistly but nonetheless wonderful viewfinder.

According to estimates made by Benedict Evans, more photographs will be taken this year than in the entire history of film photography. As Ben admits, there are no easy statistics, but he has extrapolated what we do know. For instance social networks now share enormous numbers of photographs and statistics are available.