Ever since the Nikon D700 was introduced, there have been a deluge of messages in the dpreview.com Nikon Lens Forum to this effect: I am going to buy a Nikon D700 soon. Please help me choose some lenses. I shoot things from 10mm to 600mm. My primary interests are candids, architecture, landscapes, people, events, sports, [...]
Archive for August, 2008
D700 Laziness and Lenses
Posted in photography, tagged 17-55, 28-75, d700, laziness, lenses, nikon, photography, tamron on August 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mac OS X Mouse Madness…fixed!
Posted in computing, tagged acceleration, g5, leopard, logitech, mac, mouse, os x, tiger on August 18, 2008 | 55 Comments »
Ever since Mac OS X 10.4, Apple did a disservice to the computing community by severely crippling the mouse movement behaviour. The mouse acceleration and movement is simply too erratic and not very smooth compared to the Windows and Linux motions. There are, no doubt, proponents of the movement that will say that this is [...]
Lens Prestige over Practicality?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the last two years, I’ve been shooting the Nikon 17-55 AF-S f/2.8G with my Nikon D70s as my primary bread and butter lens. The lens is delicious: AF-S fast and silent focusing; superb construction; full-time manual override; internal focusing. Of course, all this comes at a price—and a mighty hefty one at that. When [...]
