One dusty lens
My brother has an older Canon SLR camera that he probably used last when Swedes invaded Poland.. or well, it feels that way. His interest in photography never quite sustained as mine did. Today, I paid a visit to his dusty apartment and spotted his 70-300 Sigma lens collecting dust in the same general neighborhood as a couple of ashtrays and distinctly lacking in a lens cap. It tugged at my heart, sitting there all by its lonesome, unused for years.. dusty.
With his enthusiastic permission I took the poor little thing home, cleaned it off best as I could and mounted it on my Rebel. It's dusty, still.. auto focus took some toggling of the switch to work, but it did. Much to my delight, it has quite a decent macro mode! That's something I have yet to play with as, while it's a very interesting technique, it never quite seemed a priority. I like landscapes, see. I'm boring and amateurish that way.
Since my cats were not cooperating, I took it out to the woods to look for signs of spring, Very unsuccessfully, but I did get a shot of pussy willows I liked..
Comments
Your brother's lenses and camera can't be that old then as they must be of the Eos variety. I still have a couple of nice old lenses from my dad's old Canon SLR of the pre-Eos age and was disappointed to learn they won't work with the Eos 300D.
Posted by: ssp | April 12, 2004 06:56 AM
I used to have an old ae-1.... didn't everybody!
Posted by: Michael | April 12, 2004 11:30 PM