A great lens for macro photography that doubles as a good portrait lens as well when you need it. A little long to use as a walk-around but can sure capture some interesting angles.
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Review: Nikkor AF 50/1.8D
Looking for a cheap, really sharp wonderful normal lens then this 50mm is for you (if you have a Nikon or Fuji camera body). I love this little piece of glass!
Review: Nikkor DX AF-S 55-200 f/4-5.6G ED
This lens is usually bought as a step-up lens from the kit lens with the entry-level digital SLR cameras from Nikon. I got one as well before my first trip to Öland because I was still waiting for my 18-200/3.5-5.6 lens to arrive in the mail. As it turned out I would have to wait for more than six months for that beauty so I had some time to use the 55-200 and get aquainted with it.
In Khmer Country
A few years ago in 2004 I had the opportunity to go to Cambodia. It is a fascinating country in many ways and it serves us well to remember that it was not long ago Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge spread fear and terror in trying to implement his distorted idea of communism in the countryside. Pol Pot executed so many educated people that the country was left depleted of knowledge. With help of their neighbour countries such as Thailand and other world-wide associations Cambodia is coming back now as a proper functioning country.
Make a matchbox pinhole camera
This site has an incredibly cool step-by-step on how to build your own pinhole camera.
The camera can be built using normal appliances and stuff that you have in your house normally. Some of the pictures shown taken by this camera is quite incredible.
The aperture of the camera is about f/90 and I am not sure what the focal length is but I believe it is not too far from a 50 mm lens actually. This means that exposure times in broad daylight is 2-3 seconds, in cloudy conditions 5-8 seconds indoor is 5-10 minutes or so but it is cool to have built your own camera.
Here are some pictures taken with a pinhole camera by the original maker of it. Alspix profile on Flickr here.
A Peninsula Called Shoe
There are many historical grounds not ver far from where I live. One such place is a Peninsula called ”Sko” in Swedish which means ”shoe” in English. The name probably comes from that the peninsula resembles a shoe from the air, or when viewed on a map. Check out the google map of the area and you will see what I mean.
The weather was not very nice for photography, a thick cloud layer making all the photos very dull and bland, to the point of being completely ”flat”. Sometimes I use a flash as a tool to fix this, if you have a dull landscape in the background, place a person in the foreground and use a flash properly you can get a very nice effect. Especially with some gels that gives yellow color. When you compensate the white balance for that yellow colour you get a very nice blue cast on the sky even if it was completely dull when you shot the picture.
But today was different, I decided to work with contrasts and black & white photos instead to the point of almost making them cartoonish. Here is the result of today’s little excursion…
A man and his Dog
It was just before sun-set one beautiful evening in April when we had been driving down the pacific coastline from San Franscisco and we stopped at the beach in Carmel to sit together and view the sunset before we went to a local pub and had a beatiful steak dinner.
As we were sitting there, watching the sun slowly set into a rather calm pacific, this man an his dog came for a walk on the beach. The stopped and played for a while, the man throwing sticks and the dog fetching and it was clear that they had known eachother for a very long time.
I managed to take this photograph which I really like, the captures the mood at this time on the beach very well in my opinion.
A Squirrel
I shot these two squirrels on a road trip along the pacific coast going south of San Francisco on the way to Carmel where Clint Eastwood used to be mayor. My best squirrel-shot so far.
Coffee
Sometimes the simplest things are the most interesting to photograph.
Nikon D90
The rumours have it that Nikon is about to reveal the D90 camera. It is said to have the following features:
- 4.5 frames per second shooting speed
- 12 megapixel resolution sensor
- live view with video recording capability (and thus the camera is fitted with a microphone as well)!
- a new kit lens, 18-105/3.5-5.6G with VR-II vibration reduction capability
I am sure that more information will be hitting the presses soon…