Silly Camera or Silly Sod
I’ve gone mad and bought more stuff for my camera.
First I bought a flash, ‘cos the built in one is too harsh and there isn’t much you can do with it. Also, for some reason you can only push the shutter up to 1/250 when using the built in affair which ain’t no good with my shaky knuckles. I bought the Olympus FL-36 which is their mid-level one. Also to go with it I got a Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce. Which is a peice of frosted plastic you shove over the flash to soften the blow. Other neat things you can do is rotate it so that it bounces off walls, but I haven’t quite mastered the art. I’ve no idea what I’m doing really.
When the flash is in the neutral position you can hear it moving some optic around inside its skull as you zoom in and out of things. No idea what thats all about.
The other piece of nuttiness I’ve gotten is that lens I wanted. I couldn’t resist it, it was eating me up inside. It’s a lovely looking object, got a sort of matt look to it, and boy is it heavy. Thing is at first I was totally dissapointed, I couldn’t even get it to focus on the right things. I even took a photo to demonstrate the problem I was having, and opened a support ticket with the store I bought it from. The photo is here, and the deal is, I was focusing on where the spoon meets the ruler.
But after using it more I freaking love it, it’s like a game. I don’t think it’s faulty but that it’s more um, quirky. I might have sussed it, I shall now talk a load of crap. I think that there aren’t enough stops around the focusing mechanism for the shallowness of the depth of field. So I reckon the trick is, take a photo, see if the spoon is in focus, if it isn’t shuffle yer feet forwards or backwards a tiny tiny bit and have another go, hoping the new position will fall into a possible focus position.
Did that make sense? I haven’t a clue. Tell you what though I just love the photo’s I can get from it. As usually Eddie is my subject, with this lens I can make really soft pastelly portraits of him that make him look verging on the sexy!
