malach Andrew Garrett
Jaikus from malach
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
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It's taken you this long to recover from the hangover?
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If I could be bothered running Linux on a desktop, I'd consider it... but I'm really too lazy for that these days :)
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
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Personally, I'd pay more than $400 to have the pleasure of not running windows, or dealing with hackery to make OS X work on non-native hardware.
Seems cheap to me :)
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I absolutely love my 50mm f/1.4, and my f/1.8 85mm comes a close second, but given that they're primes, you're a little limited for "walking around" type photography, so I'd also recommend something that goes from Wide to Long, for those days you just want to take the body and one lens - my all-purpose lens is the 18-105, which gives me lots of flexibility for most situations.
Monday, 5 January 2009
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ouch!
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@morris - IM(NS)HO, that's bullshit. All interfaces (except, possibly, the nipple) are learned. So-called "intuitive" interfaces are just ones that are closer to the paradigms we've learned in the past.
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I bought mine without having seen one in the flesh.... but I already had a decent investment in glass, and was very much after "the same but more" (I already had the D70).
(I had read a bunch of reviews, so I wasn't completely blind).
In my film days, I was a Pentax boy, with an elderly KX - with a built in light meter! Digital got me shooting again, after years of being too broke (or cheap) to buy film and processing :)
With the D90, the video is a lot better with a VR (that's IS, in canon terms - Vibration Reduction vs Image Stabilisation, IIRC) lens - I imagine the same applies with the 5D MkII.
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Well, I have the d90, and I've played with the video... and my advise to go with the 5d stands doubly tall now :)
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It's only a valid challenger if all other things are equivalent.
Since the Dell doesn't run OS X....
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While I'm on the Nikon side of the fence (and truly love my D90), if I were buying starting from now, I'd probably go for the 5DII.
From what I know, the big thing to bear in mind is that the kit lenses on the canon side are awful, so avoid them, buy body-only, and target the actual lenses you want. The Nikon kit lenses are noticibly better.
As well as lenses, budget for a decent external flash unit - makes a world of difference.
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Danke Ms Yoggel, same back atcha :)
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
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Nothing too serious I hope?
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17" macbook pro, does it for me :)
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Jaikus from malach