Well, hello every­one, I’m stay­ing home tonight, mainly due to the fact my body is being besieged by some virus, which is rather rare, I’m usu­ally not this sick. I’m sure stay­ing up the entire last week (includ­ing until 3 last Sat­ur­day night) didn’t help mat­ters, but it was worth it, all the same.

Any­way, my Canon 70-200mm F/4L lens came in on Thurs­day, and all I have to say is that’s amaz­ing. The opti­cal (and build) qual­ity are sim­ply amaz­ing, not to men­tion the USM zoom. Quite the upgrade from a DC EF-S 18–55 (Kit lens, maybe $100), to this beast ($684 with UV and polar­is­ing fil­ters). I’ve been play­ing with this when I can, and you should see more pic­tures com­ing from this when I get bet­ter. Now this is how a (D)SLR is truly sup­posed to be, a lens that is supe­rior to the cam­era body. So I’m happy about that. It can be hand­held (and I’ve used it as such), but for any type of expo­sure slower than 1/40^th of a sec­ond I use a tri­pod, the opti­cal qual­ity is worth it. Any­way, I guess they’re right, once you go L (Canon Pro­fes­sional Series), you never go back to any­thing less (*gulp* on the wal­let). I cer­tainly hope this isn’t mono…