A-Mended

I may have spoken too soon; it would appear the camera is not working with ANY of my batteries today, so either it is completely knackered or ALL of my batteries need charging - including the one that was in it!

Mended

... Oh, I forgot to mention... The E-520 is working again. Apparently it was just a duff battery. Yay!

34 - Snoot

I am very proud of myself; I have just made my very first 'Snoot'. It is simply crafted out of cardboard and duct tape and superglue. Hurrah!

Brave

For our 3rd wedding anniversary my lovely wife has bought me a medium format camera. This is something I have wanted for at least 10 years since I first started talking to Tim Fagan about them and the advantages medium and large format cameras have over 35mm for landscape photography. The only problem I face now is finding the courage to commit an image to the first of the 12 6x6cm exposures I get per film. Scary stuff. There's no select and delete function on this camera. For that matter is has no WB, function settings, autofocus, LCD, or IS. It is what it is.

It is what they call a 'Toy Camera', it is wonderfully primative and it will present me with the opportunity to shoot quality rather than quantity. Having said that, my wife has wisely bought me 5 films to go with it!


So happy anniversary wife, here's to a happy three years and the next three with you and Ruby standing patiently by whilst I take ages to compose my next masterpiece. You know it will be worth it. :o)

E-520

Some of you may have noticed that I am now shooting with an E-520, rather than the older E-500 I was using before. This is partly due to my E-500 picking up a row of dead pixels since my wife ran over it with her car - I hasten to add it wasn't her fault; I had left my camera bag propped up against her rear passenger side wheel whilst I was putting the Rubester in the car and forgot to move it before getting in! And secondly, my mate Dave turned 40, and switched from Olympus to Nikon as a result (that's midlife crisis for you!). Needless to say I didn't hesitate to buy his hardly used body and kit lens (and filters, and remote shutter release, and odds and ends...) for a very small amount. In fact, I more or less robbed him. Sorry Dave.

There are a few differences between the two models I really like: Liveview, IS, review recall, continuous shooting, image size...

ps. I really did pay very little for it... Less than it would cost me to get the other camera fixed!

Snow Update

We now have this much snow...

Snow

It's too cold to go outside and take photos of the white stuff... So here's what it looks like from our security camera!

ps. If anyone can give a step-by-step guide to setting up our IP camera so I can access it remotely I'd appreciate it!