Our New Toy

Something you may not know about me - I used to be super into photography – but then digital took over and after that it seemed silly to shoot with film… and I had a point ‘n shoot digital so I did the best I could with that. I definitely missed my SLR, though:


The Louvre, Paris, France - taken August, 2001




Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain - taken August, 2001



St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic - taken July, 2001



(I posted a bunch more of my scanned in photos on the flickr site here)

Well last week we got this:

A digital SLR! I’ve wanted one of these for about 5 years now – since the very first one came out. And we finally had a good enough reason (and had saved enough up) to buy one! I’ve done an exhaustive amount of research on this – brands and lenses and memory cards… Oh My. It’s overwhelming. But I’m so very happy with our choice: a Canon Digital Rebel XTi –It’s literally the digital upgrade of the cameras we used to love... And because everywhere I’ve read said you should invest “glass” more than anything we upgraded the kit lense to a sweet 18-200mm all purpose lens:

I also splurged and got this:

A simple 55mm fixed focal length lens with a very wide (1.8) aperture… which means that I should be able to imitate my fav. knitting photographers with some spectacular small depth of field work! Of course I’d actually have to do some knitting for this to apply but whatever…

How about some random pictures from around my house?

Near:

Far:

Both of those were taken standing in exactly the same spot.... And so were these two:

Near:

Far:

Yeah for focal length!

I don’t have a macro lens because those cost a first born child or a vital organ but with the lenses I have I can fake it pretty well:

Dahlia


Dill


Zinneas

And of course I had to take some pics of my fav. subject:


Fire waiting to be plyed

Plyed Fire. (noone actully thought I'd be able to wait to do that until I spun another bobbin did they?)




Yeah for new toys!