What do you expect, I have some photographs that are new. A suprise, I’m sure. But without further adieu, I have a picture of my eye, that’s right, it’s just a cropped image of my eye, with the reflection of the camera in the center of it, I was just speechless after seeing it, myself, you can view it. Also, I was experimenting with night shots and the ISO speeds and such, the following were shot at ISO 400 in near dark conditions, my mistake was not bumping the f/stop up some to reduce the blobbing effect in artificial lights, I’ll remember that next time, you can see those here. Finally, I took a picture of the new camera with the old one, check it out.
Monthly Archive for August, 2005
I woke up, and saw that the UPS tracking page showed it as out for delivery a day early. It arrived at 3PM ish. Well, after a first days shooting (or half of a day), I’ve got some results. You can see them here. Be warned, they’re 3-5MB. But the included lens is an 18-55MM, and the wide angle side of it isn’t bad with f/3.5, but the zoom part is a slow f/5.6, and isn’t good for much than bright day. I haven’t noticed much noise going as high as ISO 800, which is a major plus (especially when compared to the lens that came with it). The built in flash is quite good as well, I almost blinded myself. The AF (even with a non-USM lens) is quite accurate and snappy. And I can continue to take pictures in single shot mode as fast as I can press the shutter (thanks to my fast memory card). Burst mode is also fast and I can get about 20 shots in rapid succesion before starting to see a slowdown. However, if I wanted to shoot RAW+JPEG, I’d need the Extreme III CF card (Twice the Read/Write Rate as the Ultra II, which is what I have). Battery life is average, with only a 700mAh battery (my old Powershot s230 has a 840mAh) lasted about 600 pictures. I do plan on getting a 900mAh secondary battery though, at least they recharge rather quickly (about 60 minutes). Overall, I’m impressed, and I’m sure the quality of the shots will go up as I get more used to this camera. But I definitly need that 70-200mm f/4L lens for zoom (and the fact it’s faster than the stock one). The camera’s name is ‘Artemis’ by the way, from the Greek Goddess of the Hunt. I’m still hunting for a name for the 18-55 f/3.5-f/5.6 lens, let me know if you have any suggestions.
Ohh, I’m so excited, I ordered my Digital Rebel XT (EOS 350d) today from B and H Photo. I got the black version, of course, and already have a 1GB ultra II CF card waiting for the camera (but I was using it in my Canon PS230). You can see the newegg entries for the Memory Card and the Camera if you’re so interested. In case you can’t tell, I’m very excited. My next purchase will be a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM Lens. Yay.
Update 8/16/2005 12:22 PDT: Package Shipped 4:42 EST on 8/16/2005 from New York
Update 8/16/2005 22:15 PDT: You can track the shipment here
Hey…yeah.I just wanted to say that Alia is the bestest person ever. She’s also the most beautiful girl, and the easiest to talk with, and is caring, and smart, and lots of other stuff I can’t even mention. I love her a whole bunch.
Okay, I finally decided to upload some pictures of myself (nikky). Anyway, most of them were taken during vacation, except for the rearview mirror one, that was today (while I was going about 70ish), and the two newhair ones, which were taken on Saturday. Well, you can find them here. As always, leave comments.
Hey, yeah, I’m back now. More information about the trip later, like when I feel like it.
Minor Update: Out of the 420ish pictures I kept of our vacation, I like about 50 of them, and I choose to upload about 7 that I like, this isn’t all of them, but I’m not putting the other ones up now. See them here. Enjoy
