A new lens

I'm truly loving having a good camera again. Okay, so it's been, oh, 30-plus years since I last owned an SLR camera -- an old Ricoh that was at the end of it's life when my brother sold it to me for what was, I'm sure, more than he paid for it new. Ah, sibling love and trust. On about the fourth use the light meter button flew across the room instead of simply clicking a mm or two into the on position.

Digital is just so much better. I took 100 pics the other night with a new lens I bought. Just like that. Trashed most of them before I even bothered downloading to the computer. Most of the rest went then. Not a sheet of photo paper or developing solution to be found.

And, oh wait, I used a 33 mm SLR when I was doing the MA at j-school -- 'cause we had to develop our own prints, the talk of that reminded me. Mind, I didn't own that camera.

Here's a shot, I just love. It's not as crisp as it could be, but I didn't use a tripod using a telephoto lens and the light was low... but the result is still very, very pleasing. This is particularly pleasing to me as it was not taken on the camera's amazing auto function, but was the result of me playing with exposure as I tested the lens' capabilities.

Tomorrow I'm shooting a team building exercise at work -- thanks to my knee I get to be sidelined while our department goes through a mock military basic training competition. I'll see how I and the camera and new lens do with moving targets.