6 May 2008 Aaargh…
So I bought a new lens. Traded in my beloved Sigma 10-20 and Nikon 35/2 for this beauty.
Went to the wife’s house over the long vacation and took many beautiful pictures with it.
Proceeded to leave it at wife’s parents’ house a couple hours away when coming back today, stranding camera, new lens, computer, and all my new photos with it until I can spare a day to go up there and get it all back myself (no way I’m having them send it!).
So, like I said, aaarrgh….
(I went to the camera store to pick up a mid-range zoom. I really did. I need a mid-range zoom really badly, especially for indoor pictures of the kids. Went to the store ready to buy any one of a number of zooms, but that which really had my lens-lust up was the new 24-70 by Nikon. I even brought along my precious ZF 100/2 to hock for it if need be. However, when I got there and tried it out it didn’t give me all that great results on my Fuji, which I had read had issues with that lens. But they had this box with the ZF 25/2.8 sitting there eyeing me, bringing to mind all the gorgeous photos I’ve seen taken with it. The big hunk of metal and glass beckoned. The Nikon zoom, with its silicon and plastic and nano-schmamo, seemed so faddish. So, I succumbed to retro-techno-lust once more and bought the much less practical but much more beautiful Zeiss, forgoing things like autofocus and zooming that taking pictures of kids really requires. I guess I have the camera-phone for that.)
1 comment in “Aaargh…”
May 6th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
It’s always interesting to hear your lens choices. You are definitely one to look past the obvious possibilities.