Small chunks of ice started floating down the Kennebec river overnight. A certain sign that winter is coming.
Home grown mini Paaslelies / Easter Lilies ~ Daffodills on the refinished dining room floor.
Did you see the moon rise above the horizon this evening? Notice anything different?
Earth’s shadow cast a shadow on the lower part of the moon, and fortunately the weather cooperated tonight with a mostly clear sky.
Here is a capture:
Canon EOS 20D w 400mm lens (640 effective)
We enjoyed our first snow for 2006. Nothing major. About 3-4 inches.
Just enough to put everything under a nice white blanket again.
Enjoying a light breeze:
Hanging on:
Waiting for dinner:
Later gator:
Pipe sitter:
If you were waiting for Nikon’s update to the popular D70, you may be disappointed. Many, me included
(especially after the 8MP digital Rebel XT), anticipated Nikon would go head to head with Canon with an 8MP D80 or something along that line. Well, Steve’s Digicams early yesterday morning reported Nikon’s announcements. The Nikon D70s remains at 6 MP but sports a 2″ LCD and raises the bar with many enhancements (better autofocus, more frames per second, faster flash sync, …). Price= $899 body & $1199 kit with 18-70 lens.The brand new Nikon D50, also with 2″ screen, will be a more affordable (prices have not been announced yet) and compacter 6MP dSLR. Specs wise it doesn’t offer some of the high-end features and one could say it’s a down-featured D70 in a smaller package. One surprise in the details: it uses SD memory cards rather than Compact Flash. DPreview has the first in depth article.
For a detailed comparison between the D70, D70s & D50 check out this comparison table by DPReview.
Good news for D70 owners is that Nikon will release a D70 firmware update to give it the improved
auto-focus, menu system and add in-camera setup for PictBridge from the D70s. (Link from Steve’s Digicams)
Nikon also announced two new dSLR lenses: AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55 and 55-200. A pretty sweet lens set that’ll take you all the way from 27 to 300mm.
No word yet from Canon on an EF-S lens covering that 55-200mm range or even better: an EF-S 55-300mm IS USM. Current dSLR lenses remain the EF-S 10-22mm; EF-S 17-85mm and EF-S 60mm Macro.
Rebates. If you are in the market for something Canon, there’s a new Cash in With Canon promotion offering rebates of $100 on EOS 20D, $500 on EOS 1D MarkII and up to $50 on lenses and flash
accessories. Other promotions can be found here.
The Kennebec river went several feet above flood stage here in Augusta, causing a considerable part of the riverside city park to be flooded and this sign (at the start of a walking trail by the access to the boat
ramp) to stand up to it’s shoulders in water.
A little extra snow for the western Maine mountain region
while the rivers are opening up.
The bench at the entrance of the Arboretum seems a little low to put your snow shoes
on or tie your shoe laces …
The neighbors still had to dig out a little after the plow guy carefully moved the bulk of the snow away from their cars. Our driveway was not too bad. It only took me a big hour to shovel the driveway clean.
A touch of Christmas in March
I ventured out in the cold to capture some of winter’s beauty. See ” Winter 2005 ” in the gallery.
The gallery has been updated with a selection of images from our Christmas trip.
Finnish countryside
Late night lake shot in Central Florida with the 20D. On tripod of
course.
After photographing some ice formations you have to warm up by the fire and get hypnotized by the flames.
Mid and late afternoon I
took a few photos along the road and - unfortunately enough - purple fringing
(a.k.a. chromatic aberration) showed up a few times. I didn’t expect it could /
would be much of problem with this setup. Canon’s latest digital pro-sumer dSLR
with extra algorithms and especially developed lens for dSLRs should suppress
it, right? Not quite.
See Entry URL for the images.
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