Five days in London, day 2

Hi there, It's been a while since I installed some stuff from our trip to London in April here, I have been occupied with a lot of other stuff and things to do in the meantime.

Most of the photos are shot with a tiny little Olympus FE-240, 7 MPix camera at "Everything Automatic."
Some of the pics I took with this camera are relly good after some tweaking in Photoscape

Anyway, day two started with a trip to St John's Wood where we walked down to Abbey Road to do the walk of the Beatles on their Abbey Road cover.
We were not alone there doing the same thing...

When we where finnished walking across Abbey Roead we took off to Buckingham Palace:

Exhausted by the Pomps And Circumstances we decided to take off to Notting Hill:

We rounded off the day by meeting Ingelas sister Anne and her husband Matt at Piccadilly Cicus and then going for a little scenic tour by bus.

To be continued...

Nikonists (or maybe Nikonians...?) ahoy!

I bumped into a cheap Nikon lens, the now discontinued 28-80 mm AF 3.3 - 5.6 G, on the eBay the other day and as I'm in need of a simple allround zoom for my D70 I threw in a bid.

I became the owner of the lens above for EUR 41,50 and when it arrived it was unused in the original box!

I mounted it on my D70 yesterday evening and though it was a little rainy I went out in the backyard and fired some shots:

The pictures are shot in mediocre light late in the evening at ISO 640, White Balance at auto, aperture preference, aperture set at  f6.3, tweaked only in camera, using my preferred settings regarding sharpness, color and contrast, no noise reduction applied.
The colors I got with this combination of lens and camera are as close to what i got 30 years ago shooting Fujichrome 100 slide film with my Nikkormat Ft2 and Nikkor 50mm 2.0

I must say I'm a little amazed what a second hand 6 Mpix D70 combined with a EUR 41,5 (USD 50 ) lens can do. Sorry D40, D60 and D3000 users, this lens does not work in AF mode, only manual focus on those cameras, but everybody else, go and get it if you find one!

Well it is as plastic as plastic can be and weighs nothing but it is sharp, good colors and fast AF.
I call it a bargain, the best I ever had... :)

Hans

The High School Graduate

Our son, Lukas, graduated from High School last Saturday. Congratulations Luke and may the force be with you!
Photo shot by Ingela.