I figured out what to do with all of the overtime money I made...
Camera equipment. Lots of it.
 the moon |
I got a couple of wicked Kodak lenses to augment my Z650, a wide angle, panoramic deal and a telephoto. Some of the results of which can be viewed further down in this blog.
I also purchased a "gently used" Kodak P880 on eBay for a couple hundred bucks. I've heard nothing but good things about the camera, and once I have it, I'll be able to share accessories from the Z650 with it - like the Kodak Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 1.4x 55mm Telephoto Lens I just received. Bummer though... |
The Kodak Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 0.7x Wide Angle Lens (55mm) will be lost on the P880. From what I've read, the camera won't function well with it. Another downside will be having to purchase 52mm filters. I don't mess with filters much, at least not yet. All I ever really use is a UV filter and a circular polarizer.
Anyway...
Here's a smattering of photographic exploits from the weekend and tonight:
Orion's Sword - captured using the Z650 with the telephoto lens attached
Orion's Belt - again, captured using the Z650 with the telephoto lens attached
These next three are somewhat interesting to me. I took these tonight after I got home from work. I wanted to get some wide-angle stuff, and I saw that the sky cleared out during my nine o'clock break tonight.
but...
By the time I got home at around eleven-thirty, the sky clouded back up again. I was kind o' pissed off at the let-down, and I think these photos represent it. I shot these in high color, using the 55mm wide-angle lens, utilizing a long exposure (the clouds were moving very quickly), at ISO 400 and the f-stop all the way down. The effect is eirily out-worldly:
Oh well...
I knew a woman once who said she always wanted to see the forest shot from/through my eyes. Ask and ya get? *LOL* I don't think I can actually shoot anything not tinged with malstrom and decay.
My mom gave me a book on photography a while back called Introduction to Photography: A Self-Directing Approach by Marvin J. Rosen. It's the second edition, from the eighties, but I'm getting incredible ideas from it...
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