While most people are busy doing some last-minute shopping for gifts, me and my husband were busy looking for Christmas decors! Our visit to Ikea last night proved to be a failure since there weren’t a lot of the Christmas stuff left. We thought of getting a small, albeit real tree but I decided not to go through with it. We didn’t see anything we liked at the Raffles City Mall so we went to Marina Square, where we got a nice 3 feet tree and some trimmings to go with it. We haven’t put it up yet though…
…Because I’m too busy tinkering with my brand spankin’ new Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens! Can you say, impulse? The husband offered to buy it for me when we dropped by Cathay Photo. I hesitated for about a minute before saying yes. Heh. The husband wanted better pictures of his baby (aka Cody, the Very Expensive PC) so I recommended that we buy this prime. So yeah, test shots:
Today I learned how to attach and detach a lens! Yay me! I panicked a bit when trying out the lens earlier since the auto focus did not work. Turns out that the lens wasn’t “clicked in place” yet. Doh.
My impressions: the depth of field is amazing, as expected but the sound when the auto-focus is activated is quite disconcerting.
Planning to bring this tomorrow to see if my night shots improve. Hrhrhr. And just maybe this is what I need to jump start my recent lack of interest in bringing my camera outside.
