I want a new lens for my camera bitch.

The friend who got married the other day bought a canon 400d to take on honeymoon pro. First thing that struck me about that camera compared to my e-300 is the speed of the menu, it’s really zippy, whereas mines more of a “down – pause – down – pause – select” affair. The big thing though is that along with the standard kit lens he also bought quite an interesting fixed-zoom lens. They are sometimes referred to as a “prime” lens, for reasons which are lost on me. But the advantage is that not having to cater for zoom allows the manufacturer room for other things, including a really big aperture. You’re able to take photo’s indoors with no flash and only ever a minor increase in ISO level. So of cause, I now want one.

Problem is, canon owners have the luxury of a back-catalogue of lenses stretching back to the stone-age, there’s thousands of the damn things. The lens mount my olympus uses, called the “Four-Thirds” standard was developed purely for the digital age and as such there’s only a modest selection to choose from so far.

Olympus don’t seem to care to create the sort of lens I’m after, luckily Sigma make their lenses for all the current crop of mounts including the four-thirds standard, which is what my camera uses. They have just the lens I want! The Sigma 30mm f1.4. But it’s freaking expensive, around 380 USD and goes for around 270 quid over here.

I could by an OM lens pretty cheap, which work on my camera using an adapter. But you lose Auto-Focus which ain’t no good.

I’m guttered actually because I had a winning bid for the Sigma on ebay but some crazy fool out-bidded me right in the last minute, I was just seconds too slow increasing my bid. So now i’m pissed off at myself for not using a bigger maximum bid in the first place.

Everyone is pissed off today. Including me.

I have never had much joy with Ebay, to me its like gambling, it all just causes giddiness, stress, hysteria, then depression and ultimately suicide. I for some reason suddenly have a sudden desire for a digital SLR camera, it just seems to me that whatever model, whatever brand and however old, whatever MP digital slr’s always come up with better looking images than other breeds. You would have thought that said cameras would have been kicking around for long enough that would find some second hand bargin, i wouldn’t mind if it had been mistreated and scratched a bit as long as it still worked. But no, I can’t find any on ebay that go for less than 450 quid, even old discontinued models. Sucks, nearest I got was an old digital rebel/300D, but that ended up at silly money. Then today an EOS 20D was going great until the last 10 minutes when the price doubled. Grr.

And to top it all off, I got arrested in the game oblivion but was for something that I must have done quite some gaming hours previous so I had to have my butt thrown in jail and lose some character attributes. Then, just to rub it in I caught vampirism. Arrgh. I am SO PISSED OFF.

Hmm, I still haven’t removed that boycott sony badge, even though they sacked the guy responsible for the rootkit fiasco and I no longer care. But still, I can’t find it in me to be bothered enough to actually remove it.