To macro or not macro
Compact cameras have quite awesome closest focusing distances. I mean, how many SLRs with macro lenses can brag with CFD of 1cm? So compact cameras must be really good at macro, right?
Pur-lease. Honestly, what’s the point of focusing at 1cm when you have to do it at wide angle? But I’m sure everyone who’s never shot macro with an SLR and a real macro lens are absolutely convinced that their compacts are far superior.
To be fair, the extreme focusing distance might be good for something. But to use a compact camera to create good macro pictures probably requires more from the photographer than using an SLR with a macro lens and I have to confess that I was lost with the G10 today. Try focusing to 1cm with a live toad – I didn’t.
I’ve just one thing to say – shallow DOF rules! I want my 40D back.
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The 40D is actually already on the way back to me. It’s just that UPS are not able to deliver it to me at home and I haven’t found out how to tell them that I’m at work during the day so they can divert the package to Ljusdal. Frustrating.
3 commentsMotorbike season is open
It was a glorious day yesterday and seems to be almost as good today, so the motorbike season is well and firmly open now. The amazing thing was that when I uncovered the Tricker and fired it up for the first time, it started without a single hiccup – just like the winter break never happened. Almost as amazing was that I hadn’t forgotten how to ride the bike, so it was a wonderful first trip of the spring.
I also mounted the new package rack. At first I thought I have to paint it black or it will stick out too much, but it actually fits in really nicely, which figures because it was made for the Tricker anyway. The rack is not made by Yamaha directly, but by a Japanese company called YS Gear. The product leaflet is here (in Japanese), I don’t know if it can be ordered online but your local Yamaha dealer can get it for you.
