I braved the cold weather to wander around with my new Canon 50/1.4 USM lens.
It’s a visible upgrade from the 50/1.8.
I prefer chilly, clear days to mild, rainy days, so the last couple days weather has been a treat.
It feels like a nice, brisk fall day in New England.
Meanwhile, it has been unseasonably mild in […]
My 5D arrived late yesterday. I took it down to Monterey via Santa Cruz along the coast to get a feel for it.
It’s sort of anticlimatic to hold — it feels just like the 20D. The viewfinder is nicer and it’s nice that I can use all of the lens now. […]
I bought Canon’s 100mm f2.8 USM macro lens. It is a fun toy. After a couple hours of wandering around shooting things with it, I finally copied all the shots to the computer so I could look at them. Looking through them was lesson on depth of field. In particular, the exact edges of the […]
I recently bought a Canon 10D and a Canon 70-200 4.0L. The former is an upgrade from the excellent D30 from 2000. The latter is a new lens covering a range I did not previously have. It was tough deciding between the 4.0L and the 2.8L IS — in the end […]