Camping: It's in-tents!
Forgive the atrocious pun.
I'm leaving around noon on Saturday on a trip to Colorado. I'm an assistant scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 65 of Council Grove, Kan., and we're going for our annual summer camp trip. This year we're going to Peaceful Valley, a fairly-large camping reservation outside Elbert, Colo.
I've been to Peaceful Valley before, it's a swell place in the foothills of the Rockies. Great facilities, solid tents and wonderful weather. It's up rather high so the humidity stays down, so even when it's 100 out it doesn't get to you. Kansans aren't so lucky.
I'm bringing Matilda (the typewriter, remember her?) and I intend to use my time there to add many chapters to the finished file. I really want to finish this work, and get it published. It'd be so awesome to see my name on the spine of a finished tome.
I won't have internet out there, probably not even cellphone reception, and I like that. I need to spend some time disconnected from the net. To unwire, you could say. And I need to, because my photo business is starting to catch on a little too strong lately and I need to get free before it sucks the life out of me. That's why the whole digital kit is staying behind. I am, however, bringing my prized Canon AE-1P along, but with only one lens: my venerable, trustworthy, loveable 5omm 1.8. And no others. We need some quality time, me and my fifty. (Non-SLR shooters won't get what I'm talking about here.)
Speaking of a fifty, I bought a new lens for my digital kit last week, but didn't get to use it until yesterday due to all the moving hubbub. It's a 50mm f1.4, I paid $275 for it, shipped. On my digital it's like a 75mm lens; slightly telephoto. That makes it a killer portraits lens, especially because it's curse-word-inducingly sharp and blows backgrounds of cluttered garbage away into soft, smooth baths of color. (To understand what I'm talking about, read about "Depth-of-Field" in a photography book.) I (heart) this lens.
To prevent confusion, my film and digital kits have different lens mounts, the film kit is entirely manual focus while the digital supports aut0focus. This is because they were made more than two decades apart. I'm only bringing the manual focus camera and lens on the camping trip. They cost less than 1/10th of their corresponding digital gear.
I'm leaving around noon on Saturday on a trip to Colorado. I'm an assistant scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 65 of Council Grove, Kan., and we're going for our annual summer camp trip. This year we're going to Peaceful Valley, a fairly-large camping reservation outside Elbert, Colo.
I've been to Peaceful Valley before, it's a swell place in the foothills of the Rockies. Great facilities, solid tents and wonderful weather. It's up rather high so the humidity stays down, so even when it's 100 out it doesn't get to you. Kansans aren't so lucky.
I'm bringing Matilda (the typewriter, remember her?) and I intend to use my time there to add many chapters to the finished file. I really want to finish this work, and get it published. It'd be so awesome to see my name on the spine of a finished tome.
I won't have internet out there, probably not even cellphone reception, and I like that. I need to spend some time disconnected from the net. To unwire, you could say. And I need to, because my photo business is starting to catch on a little too strong lately and I need to get free before it sucks the life out of me. That's why the whole digital kit is staying behind. I am, however, bringing my prized Canon AE-1P along, but with only one lens: my venerable, trustworthy, loveable 5omm 1.8. And no others. We need some quality time, me and my fifty. (Non-SLR shooters won't get what I'm talking about here.)
Speaking of a fifty, I bought a new lens for my digital kit last week, but didn't get to use it until yesterday due to all the moving hubbub. It's a 50mm f1.4, I paid $275 for it, shipped. On my digital it's like a 75mm lens; slightly telephoto. That makes it a killer portraits lens, especially because it's curse-word-inducingly sharp and blows backgrounds of cluttered garbage away into soft, smooth baths of color. (To understand what I'm talking about, read about "Depth-of-Field" in a photography book.) I (heart) this lens.
To prevent confusion, my film and digital kits have different lens mounts, the film kit is entirely manual focus while the digital supports aut0focus. This is because they were made more than two decades apart. I'm only bringing the manual focus camera and lens on the camping trip. They cost less than 1/10th of their corresponding digital gear.
posted by Logan C. Adams at 6/23/2006 12:03:00 AM
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