Saturday, May 07, 2011

New freakin' camera!

Oh yea, thats right!
You guessed it ;)
Finally, after saving up during the last 6 months, I have bought my new Canon EOS 5D Mark II, together with the 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM lens! I can't even begin to describe how thrilled I am for this purchase!

The lens is fantastic, f/2.8 makes it able to shoot in very low light whilst making the focus extremely sharp!
At 24 mm the lens is a decent wide-angel and without any distortion at all! The only downside for this lens is the weight. Together with the 5D body, it's 'wrist snappingly' heavy!
But, as a reviewer from DigitalRev says: "Who needs wrists anyway?", and I must say that I agree.
Because if you look away from the weight, I can find no downsides of this lens at all.

The camera itself, exceeds every possible expectation I had. The pictures it produces are of a mindblowing standard and I'm still only beginning to learn how to use this camera.
I'm still getting used to the cameras controls, for example: every time I display photos I have just taken on the camera, it will automatically show me where the picture is overexposed by highlighting the area in black. I find this rather annoying, because I can see with my own eyes where the image is overexposed.
After several days with the camera, I still haven't figured out how to turn this darn effect off. If anyone does, please tell me, because I'm on the edge of a nervous break-down!

All kidding aside, I still have a lot to learn and there is only one way to do so. Shoot more photos, which means more posts for you all, so yeah! :)
Therefor, keep an eye on my blog the next days!

I'm out and stay juicy.
Frederik Middelboe.

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