Archive for August, 2007
Canon 40D
Considering that my 20D is still working fine and the increase from 8 to 10 MP is no big deal and I won’t get all the features I had hoped for, it’s a fair question to ask why I would want to upgrade my camera now. Well, a fair question for anyone who isn’t a photographer! I know I’m in for some serious queuing to get a new 40D…
Amazon pulled out the 40D page while I was writing this post, but someone over at dpreview was kind enough to take a screen shot. Canon should officially announce the camera tomorrow.
High dynamic range
minnak.net update
B&W
This is a story of “I wouldn’t normally do that kind of thing”:
Since my holiday, I haven’t been the least bit interested in taking any new pictures. In fact, I had almost settled on skipping August entirely and just wait for September, which is one of my favourite months. But on the bus home, I was looking at the overcast skies and suddenly became inspired for some landscape photography, of all things! In flat light like that? No problems, the wind was calm so I had high hopes of producing some images by the lake. So I packed the camera and tripod and cycled to Loossjön and enjoyed the unusual pleasure of cycling on the shore, thanks to the low water level all summer so that the muddy shore is now packed hard. There is also a lot of driftwood scattered all around, so I concentrated on those as there was just enough wind to spoil the reflections on water.
While I was planning my compositions, it occurred to me that these roots are very graphical and should work fine in black and white. There wasn’t much colour in the first place, just a little bit of brown in the sand but still it’s very very unusual that I would even consider B&W. When have you last seen a B&W picture from me? I rest my case.
Converted to B&W – weird things happen.So I kept shooting, until suddenly the camera wouldn’t fire the shutter. In fact, it wouldn’t do anything at all. I removed the lens, battery and memory card, but still nothing. Did it finally break down? While I was pedalling home, I was thinking about my strategy in case the camera really was broken. I figured that I had two options – send the camera for repair (and wait for weeks to get it back) or give up on it and get a used 350D or 400D while waiting for the 40D that Canon is almost sure to release soon. But when I got home and started troubleshooting the problem, it turned out that it was nothing more than a glitch in the memory card, so now my strategy is to just simply wait for the 40D. I’ve seen the rumoured spec sheet and I’m actually not that impressed by it, but the 3″ LCD sounds good… Apart from that, my wish list contains a channel histogram and ISO 50. We’ll see what the actual specs will look like… but the big LCD seems to be a sure thing anyway.
1 commentWeather – July 2007
I was on holiday for the most of July, so I don’t have much data to go on, just one week. But here goes (almost) nothing:
Temperature (High): 21°C
Temperature (Low): 12°C
Temperature (Average): 17°C
Barometer (High): 1008 mbar
Barometer (Low): 998 mbar
Barometer (Avg): 1003 mbar
Total of sunny days: 0
Snow: none, actually!
Rain: 12.5 mm
Days with rain: 5
