Tag Archive for 'macro'
So Christmas has been a great time for sitting in front of the TV doing pretty much nothing. It’s also a time to drink some beer and play with my camera. I am fortunate to have in my possession an old 50mm f3.5 zuiko OM macro, and to use it I went and bought the adapter Olympus have to use these old lenses on the new digital SLR’s. Really there’s little to review. At about US$100 it’s a pretty expensive annulus, which is rather tight to get both onto my E500 and the lens, but it’s fun, and worth it if you have old OM lenses you want to bring in to the digital age.
I haven’t used a macro much, but here’s part of the sticker on one of my favourite Magic Hat beers…
I also too a few photos of the cats we have here, and the good ol’ National Geographic world map.
Did I mention we have cats in our house? This is Jezebel.
This marks the first of my ‘major sights of Aussie’ checklist. I’m not going to go back and retrospectively tick off things I’ve already ‘done’, such as the MCG and Bondi beach though.
The Great Ocean Road extends South-West from Melbourne and passes such famous sites as Bells beach and the ~12 Apostles. I saw my first koala in a tree at a campsite and almost hit my first piece of native wildlife (hares don’t count). We spent three days there and it was excellent, reminiscent of parts of New Zealand in places where the tree ferns grew thick and it was very green, and also where macrocarpas lined the roadsides.
See the photos on the new photos page.
