Recently, I bought two manual focus Olympus OM lenses on eBay, the 50mm f/1.8 and 28mm f/3.5. Nothing spectacular, but I was impressed with the optical quality, and solid build of these lenses, they’re just good bang for the buck. Yes, the Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8 is perhaps even better than the Canon 50mm f/1.8!
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I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
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Recently, Pantone announced that PANTONE 14-0848 Mimosa is the color of 2009. “In a time of economic uncertainty and political change, optimism is paramount and no other color expresses hope and reassurance more than yellow,” they say. “Mimosa also speaks to enlightenment, as it is a hue that sparks imagination and innovation.” Do you agree?
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I had a bit of a scare the other day when I noticed that my photos looked significantly different on the different monitors I use. Of course, no monitor is the same, but this was just too much. I asked myself: Which monitor is accurate and reliable? Were all those hours of post-processing pointless, [...]
Wordles are always fun and very illustrative. Here’s one from Obama’s victory speech last night in Chicago:
Congratulations Barack!
The viewfinder on my Canon 400D digital SLR is just too small. It makes me squint and it’s not big enough to use manual focus comfortably. So I hit the web to see what can be done about it and found out that I needed a magnifying eyepiece. There’s the Olympus ME-1 (1.2x magnification) and [...]
It’s funny working in the Internet industry, there must have been days I didn’t even write one single word on paper. Therefore, I decided to handwrite a blog post. And to be honest, I didn’t like it very much. It takes a whole lot of time to scan the thing, way much longer than typing [...]
