February IV Photographs

So, hey, remember way back in February when I said I'd post some pictures from Wings of Paradise and Barbers Mill?

Well, its only taken me a month, but here they are.

A few birds

Some butterflies

And the mill

Performance World 2010

So I grabbed my wide angle and fish-eye lenses and headed out to Performance World this past weekend.
Expect a few pictures in the Auto gallery shortly.
Oh, and I should get around to actually adding the pictures from that abandoned mill that I shot awhile back.

Asahi SMC Takumar

Shooting with a manual focus lens takes a lot more patience than I expected.
Today I brought out my newly purchased Asahi SMC Takumar 50mm F1.4 M42-mount manual focus lens for a test run.
I managed to find an M42 to EOS adapter on Ebay, which has a chip that allows the focus confirmation on my mkIV to flash when focus is achieved.
And they bothed worked great.

Family Portrait 02 2010

The new family portrait.



Sorry about the quality.
It was taken with the assistance of a 3 year old point and shoot.

mkIV, baby. Mark. Four.

So I went out Sunday to test out the new (heavenly) body.
Stopped by Wings of Paradise in Cambridge and tried out the higher ISO settings paired with the 300 and the 100 macro.



Then dropped by an old abandoned mill and paired it with the 17-35 and the fisheye.



Hopefully I'll get some pics up soon.