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Back from holidays and new gear

Mon Aug 31, 2009, 9:46 PM
So we spent three weeks in a cottage in the Cotswolds, just outside the town of Painswick. The weather was, well, English. Apart from frost and snow, the weather ran the whole gamut. This made for a challenge in getting pretty pictures all the time. The other challenge was made by the fact that I dropped my D70 from the car roof to the ground. It bounced on the lens hood and spilled a piece or two of the lens. Much to my surprise it still worked. I did lose the VR and the lower 10mm of the 18-200mm lens but apart from that, it was fine. You can probably guess how much of a relief that was.
All in all I came home with some 2,800 pictures and sent the lens off to Nikon for repairs. Now I'm busy organising the pictures and figuring out which ones I like enough to share.

Meanwhile I've (almost) passed 30,000 shots on the camera and was pondering to upgrade to the D300 upgrade next Summer or so. I've since found out that won't be a D400, but a D300s and that it was likely to cost 800-1000 euros more than the D300. Took me about a week and a half to decide I'd better buy the D300 now and save me some money in the (near) future.
So, yes, I bought the puppy last Saturday and took it out shooting last Sunday. So far I'm pretty happy with it. Samples will follow.

I'd also promised myself a computer upgrade before we left on our holidays. There's now something big and black and fast on my desktop, sporting an i7 processor and a bunch of memory. Should help Lightroom doing it's job a bit quicker...

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1985 - Spain/France; 1986 - Alpi Orobico; 1988 - Spanish Meseta; 1989 - Pyrenees; 1991 - Turkey; 1992 - Egypt; 1993 - Eastern USA; 1995 - Syria and Jordan; 1996 - India and Nepal; 1999 - China and Tibet; 2000 - Friesland; 2001 - Mexico and Guatamala; 2002 - York; 2003 - Ardennes; 2004 - Delmarva and Idaho; 2005 - Los Angelos and Limburg; 2006 - Paris²; 2007 - US NE, Roma; 2008 - Annecy, Westerveld; 2009 - ?.

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  • Mood: Content
  • Reading: Widdershins
  • Playing: World of Warcraft
  • Drinking: Jameson's
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