I’ve had this Nikkor 50mm lens for over a week now. I’m very happy with it. I wish it were wider, but that’s the shakes with a DX body. Photo-wise, I don’t miss my 85mm f/1.4. I do miss its sexy body, but I’ll get over it.
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Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-S G
Posted in Photography, Reviews on 4 October 2011 | Leave a Comment »
PJ20
Posted in Photography on 21 September 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Went to see the screening of PJ20, the Pearl Jam documentary by Cameron Crowe, last night at the Tampa Theatre. Went with Oscar, Jeff and Aric. Had a great time.
Hello and Goodbye, Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 D Lens
Posted in Photography on 20 September 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I bit the bullet and bought a Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 D lens last week. It arrived Saturday, 17 September, 2011. Read Ken Rockwell’s review here. So far, so good. It seems to be built really well. The autofocus does seem to hunt a bit but I was shooting in somewhat low light. Update 25 September [...]
Canon S95 Update: Still Going Strong
Posted in Photography, Reviews on 29 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Canon S95 camera is still the bee’s knees. I Love it. I bring it everywhere in my small Timbuk2 messenger bag, protected by its little Olympus neoprene case. Its color rendition is phenomenal and it takes excellent video. It’s still not for taking photographs of moving targets, such as my daughter. I have my [...]
Data Loss
Posted in Macintosh/OS X, Photography on 17 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I lost some pictures last night. From 20110222-0814. I think I got them all back. Here’s the story. At the office, I had moved the files from my Nikon D90’s 8GB Kingston SD card to my new MacBook Air. That went fine. Lots of pics. It had been far too long since I’d processed the [...]
Rokinon 85mm F/1.4 85MAF-N Manual-focus Nikon mount lens
Posted in Photography, Reviews on 10 May 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I picked up one of these the other day. I was tricked by its claim to include an “autofocus chip” into believing it would autofocus (via screw, most likely, since it doesn’t look wide enough to have an internal autofocus motor). Well, it is indeed non-AF. That chip just makes my D90’s autofocus viewfinder light [...]
Aperture 3
Posted in Macintosh/OS X, Photography, Reviews on 14 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When Apple launched their Mac App Store recently, they put Aperture 3 in it and dropped the price for App Store purchase from $200 to $79.99. That’s a compelling price. After reading a few reviews and talking to my photographer friend, I bought it. I’ve only played around with a bit to date, testing reference [...]
Canon S95: An Incredible Machine
Posted in Photography, Reviews on 10 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I ordered a Canon S95 recently, to replace my S90 whose manufacturing and design defects resulted in its return back in August of this year (2010). Many thanks to Ken Rockwell for his excellent review. If you buy an S95, use one of his links to do so so he can continue to create great [...]
Canon S90 digital camera
Posted in Photography, Reviews on 17 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At OHA’s birthday party about two weeks ago, I realized I’m going to want a pocket camera for our planned Caribbean cruise this December so I ordered a Canon S90 for $336 from Amazon.com. Then I flew to Kansas. The S90 was waiting for me when I returned. It’s really quite great. There’s no comparison [...]
Big Weekend, Photographically
Posted in Photography on 18 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend, we had our daughter’s first dance recital, which was spectacular, a baptism for the twins and a birthday party. Packed. I shot the recital with my 18-200 VR. It did okay. I shot the baptism with my 50mm f/1.8 AF Nikkor. It was so great for all the group portraits.
