What a Weekend

Spent most of the weekend at the hospital, not for myself, but what a weekend. Friday morning, got to work, phone rings. It’s my wife! She has fallen down the stairs and broken her ankle.

Packed up, drove back home, and long story short spent about three days at Hershey Medical. Wife is back home now, however immobile, and living that living room life.

Somewhere in there it ended up being my birthday, managed to still have a get together at the Appalachian Brewing Company, food was good, beer was good. All in all, it was an unexpectedly busy weekend, which was unexpectedly challenging.

Also, later on Monday, Comcast had a fiber junction box that lit on fire, burnt out, and fell off the telephone pole near where I work. They fixed it surprisingly fast given the circumstances, but then it was impacting nearly 75 accounts.

Took some occasional pictures on the iPhone through my travels. Here’s to many weeks of a rather changed existence.

Gear Adventures

The Canon photography ecosystem has been undergoing some signficant changes in recent years. They have left behind their long time EF lens mount, and converted their new mirrorless RF mount system. One unfortunate side effect is that they are not allowing the same third party access to the RF mount system that they did for the EF mount.

As a result, Sigma and Tamron are unable adapt their excellent line of lower cost lenses to this new platform. This is a topic that has been covered a great deal on various channels, especially given that the new RF lenses cost a fortune compared to the old EF days.

I have been eyeing the EOS R line, but given the cost of lenses, I’ll wait it out.

I have been shooting on a 50mm 1.8 on my 6d Mark II for a few years, and have recently been wanting to do more with photography. I decided to swing over to mpb.com, a site that sells and buys used camera gear. I have used them previously, trading an old 70-200 2,8 for a Fuji X100F, and then trading that for my 6d Mark II. Anyways, I started looking through the used EF lenses, and found that the prices on the EF gear have gone down.

I ended up snagging a 24-105 f/4L, and 70-200 f/2.8L IS, and a 35mm f/2 for a song. I started shooting over the weekend with the 24-105, and what a difference a lens can make. I’ve long used a 28-135, and the colors on the 24-105 are so much more vibrant. I suppose the L lenses really do make a difference afterall.

Here are some shots from the weekend: