Shopping, a recipe for happiness?
I was quite bored again on tuesday, which is typically a very bad thing. After school ended for the week, I went home and was bit bored again. Tuesday is fuzzy, I think I only thought about cameras or something (.. again..).
Finally on the wednesday, the things moved, and not very positively (For my wallet). Called Visa back home 'hey, I'll spend bit more money this month' and bought Canon 350D (Kiss Digital N here, Rebel XT in States) as well as Sigma's EX-class 18-50mm 2.8f lens after re-reading reviews for HOURS in front of Bic Camera (thankfully wireless, as always, is free). I had done the same thing at home too, but instead of Tamron 28-75mm 2.8f I went for the Sigma as I figured I wanted the wide-angle.
So far results are mixed; 4.0f+ pictures are crystal clear, at 2.8f there is some blur on edges (not bad), but more annoyingly, the bright lights seem to cause fairly often blue chromatic aberrations (see the picture). Optically the lens is decent, but I was expecting bit more for 500+ euro lens. Oh well, Canon didn't have anything comparable, so I just have to deal (closest was 16-35mm which costs arm and leg and weighs twice as much as the Sigma).
Today (Thursday) I almost went to Nagoya to shop for more camera goods.The day was too hot to be outside much, but I shipped 24kg of books (manga, few japanese books, some study materials) home using ground-mail. In late afternoon, instead of Nagoya, went for a walk from Daijuji-temple (home temple of Tokugawa Ieyasu) to my apartment (about 7km as birds fly). Was quite fun, took from 5pm to 10pm or so, although I stopped on the way frequently as I took maybe 200 pictures or so to test the new camera. My favourite picture of the lot was the random nameless temple picture by night, too bad about the two lights shining in the area, otherwise it'd be as close to what I wanted as it could be.
Friday involves rain, so I suspect the order of the day is shopping. And I have nasty feeling it will be expensive shopping as well (tele zoom lens for the Canon as well as camera bag, maybe battery grip, remote trigger and whatever.. *sigh*).
I should find the motivation to study a bit, haven't done anything yesterday (camera fever) and today only bit less than one hour.
Finally on the wednesday, the things moved, and not very positively (For my wallet). Called Visa back home 'hey, I'll spend bit more money this month' and bought Canon 350D (Kiss Digital N here, Rebel XT in States) as well as Sigma's EX-class 18-50mm 2.8f lens after re-reading reviews for HOURS in front of Bic Camera (thankfully wireless, as always, is free). I had done the same thing at home too, but instead of Tamron 28-75mm 2.8f I went for the Sigma as I figured I wanted the wide-angle.
So far results are mixed; 4.0f+ pictures are crystal clear, at 2.8f there is some blur on edges (not bad), but more annoyingly, the bright lights seem to cause fairly often blue chromatic aberrations (see the picture). Optically the lens is decent, but I was expecting bit more for 500+ euro lens. Oh well, Canon didn't have anything comparable, so I just have to deal (closest was 16-35mm which costs arm and leg and weighs twice as much as the Sigma).
Today (Thursday) I almost went to Nagoya to shop for more camera goods.The day was too hot to be outside much, but I shipped 24kg of books (manga, few japanese books, some study materials) home using ground-mail. In late afternoon, instead of Nagoya, went for a walk from Daijuji-temple (home temple of Tokugawa Ieyasu) to my apartment (about 7km as birds fly). Was quite fun, took from 5pm to 10pm or so, although I stopped on the way frequently as I took maybe 200 pictures or so to test the new camera. My favourite picture of the lot was the random nameless temple picture by night, too bad about the two lights shining in the area, otherwise it'd be as close to what I wanted as it could be.
Friday involves rain, so I suspect the order of the day is shopping. And I have nasty feeling it will be expensive shopping as well (tele zoom lens for the Canon as well as camera bag, maybe battery grip, remote trigger and whatever.. *sigh*).
I should find the motivation to study a bit, haven't done anything yesterday (camera fever) and today only bit less than one hour.
posted by Wanderer at 19:33
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