Monthly Archives: July 2008

On The Road

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Again. I don’t think I’ve spent more than 10 consecutive days at home this summer, but I’m down to the final three trips – Massachusetts, then Virginia and then West Virginia. Hopefully, the posting will pickup after that.

Meantime, we’re up north for the youngest brother’s wedding. After the rehearsal dinner, we took a short walk around Plymouth, down by the Mayflower II (which I think I last saw about 25 years ago). Sun was setting and the light raked across the shutters shielding the waiting to board area.

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Fourth and Away

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We took a short trip to the other side of Atlanta for the Fourth of July. See some friends, eat some fried stuff, blow up a few things. We decided against the post-sunset, crowd fueled public display of fireworks due to some people having imminent meltdowns. Still, the street festival was entertaining.

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Home Work

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We’ve been doing a lot of renovation preparation around the house. What that means is we decided to redo the floors in our living room And, once we started looking at floors, expanded it to a short hallway and then the dining room. And while we had repainted the living room and hallway when we moved in last year, we had done nothing with the dining room. (Well, aside from buying a really funky dining room set with pumpkin orange leather chairs.)

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The War Goes On

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The camera war between Nikon and Canon, that is, as Nikon announced their next camera – the D700, a “full frame” chip camera that slots in just below the top-of-the-line D3. Aimed squarely at Canon’s full frame 5D, it looks likely to tromp it based on the specs published. 

A lot of my students ask why I’m so interested in the full frame cameras (currently Canon’s 5D and 1Ds Mark III and Nikon’s D3). A lot of it has to do with having grown up with 35 mm film and part of it has to do with some esoteric bits of optics and physics.

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