1. Video is nice! but hard to shoot stable stuff without IS lenses which are non-existent for full frame
2. 10x live view focusing is a godsend for my Nikon 50mm f1.2! It can focus a million times easier than the viewfinder which is pretty hit and miss
3. High ISO is pretty good

So here’s some stuff I shot over the last day or two. I’m liking it. Now to get more work…

Image from the microscope on a G9

I’ve just had the good idea of dividing my day’s tasks into 3. Morning, afternoon and evening. I stuck 3 “post-its” on my desktop and labelled them accordingly and put in tasks I intend to do during those hours. Well, it seems to be quite motivating and organized. I’ll do a physical one on my wall perhaps next time. Didn’t touch my FYP today, so dead. On the other hand I managed to take a picture or two with the camera and strobes. I kinda like it. I’m liking the idea of doing studio photography. Shall try with the Dog and perhaps hannah when I get my shoot thru umbrella and other accessories. Make a softbox when I’m free too (which doesn’t seem to be any time soon).

That’s all for now. Looking forward to another day tomorrow! Many ponderings about how relationships shift and change, about discipleship and how it almost never happens under that name in our culture.

* Ken Rockwell is the Chuck Norris of photography

* Ken Rockwell’s camera has similar settings to ours, except his are: P[erfect] Av[Awesome Priority Tv[Totally Awesome Priority] M[ajestic]

* Ken Rockwell doesn’t color correct. He adjusts your world to match his.

* Sure, Ken Rockwell deletes a bad photo or two. Other people call these Pulitzers.

* Ken Rockwell doesn’t adjust his DOF, he changes space-time.

* Circle of confusion? You might be confused. Ken Rockwell never is.

* Ken Rockwell doesn’t wait for the light when he shoots a landscape – the light waits for him.

* Ken Rockwell never flips his camera in portrait position, he flips the earth

* Ken Rockwell ordered an L-lens from Nikon, and got one.

* Ken Rockwell is the only person to have photographed Jesus; unfortunately he ran out of film and had to use a piece of cloth instead.

* When Ken Rockwell brackets a shot, the three versions of the photo win first place in three different categories

* Before Nikon or Canon releases a camera they go to Ken and they ask him to test them, the best cameras get a Nikon sticker and the less good get a Canon sticker

* Once Ken tested a camera, he said I cant even put Canon on this one,thats how Pentax was born

* Rockwellian policy isn’t doublethink – Ken doesn’t even need to think once

* Ken Rockwell doesn’t use flash ever since the Nagasaki incident.

* Only Ken Rockwell can take pictures of Ken Rockwell; everyone else would just get their film overexposed by the light of his genius

* Ken Rockwell wanted something to distract the lesser photographers, and lo, there were ducks.

* Ken Rockwell is the only one who can take self-portraits of you

* Ken Rockwell’s nudes were fully clothed at the time of exposure

* Ken Rockwell once designed a zoom lens. You know it as the Hubble SpaceTelescope.

* When Ken unpacks his CF card, it already has masterpieces on it.

* Rockwell portraits are so lifelike, they have to pay taxes

* On Ken Rockwell’s desktop, the Trash Icon is really a link to National Geographic Magazine

* Ken Rockwell spells point-and-shoot “h-a-s-s-e-l- b-l-a-d”

* When Ken Rockwell went digital, National Geographic nearly went out of business because he was no longer phyically discarding photos

* For every 10 shots that Ken Rockwell takes, 11 are keepers.

* Ken Rockwell’s digital files consist of 0′s, 1′s AND 2′s.

* Ken Rockwell never focus, everything moves into his DoF
Don’t knowf this has been posted before. Just come across this an I think they’re hilarious.

* Ken Rockwell’s shots are so perfect, Adobe redesigned photoshop for him: all it consists of is a close button.

* The term tripod was coined after his silhouette

* Ken Rockwell never produces awful work, only work too advanced for the viewer

* A certain braind of hig-end cameras was named after people noticed the quality was a lot “like a” rockwell

* Ken Rockwell isn’t the Chuck Norris of photography; Chuck Norris is the Ken Rockwell of martial arts.

* Ken Rockwell never starts, he continues

Haha, I find myself being more and more unable to make a POTD because there are just too many I like. I also realise blur, grain and other imperfections don’ bother me as much anymore. No idea why. I guess its the way the photo makes me feel or think. Less thinking more feeling and remembering. SO here are some more:

That’s about it I think. The last two were from the rolleiflex. Awesome stuff thats more than just sharp. I’m off to bed! The 55mm f1.2 is really legendary. Its so tough and chunky I feel invincible with it on the camera. haha.. Its so tough that the 52mm UV filter it came it shattered to pieces in the presence of its awesomeness.

*insert picture of shattered glass here which is still uploading*

So for now I’m not screwing any old filter on it lest it shatter again. Probably pick up a Hoya HD ultrahard filter to put on it.

now, these look like they come from a Ricoh GR-1, a real gem and beauty which is a couple of hundred bucks.

But it really came from a camera like the first one on this page.. at $15.

LOL.

So.. anyone still interested in big $$$$ cameras? I’m going down to sungei road to pick up the one I saw last week for $2 when I have the chance.. Hope its still there.

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Still, I must not be side-tracked from my at least D700 specs DSLR in the future. Settling for halfway is a waste of money. Speaking of which I managed to move another 10 rolls of film. Haha.. money comes in but goes out quick too and when you’re earning it you really don’t like to spend it. Suddenly have enough money to split meaningfully into a saving account and a using account.. I know its all about discipline but I have none so.. automatic transfers and saving it is! now I just have to overcome my laziness and actually start another account. X_x