kasia in a nutshell

Here's my collection of pictures from this year's JavaOne. I divided it into three categories:

• General images from around the city. Mostly from touristy spots.
• Musee Mechanique is a little museum of old amusement machines located at Fisherman's Wharf. Some are interesting, some fun but most are definitely in the creepy category.
• This year's JavaOne backpacks were a fashionably-stark orange. It made spotting the geeks rather easy. I dedicate this last collection to the designers of the backpack. Good work.

Note: these were all taken with a 50mm prime lense, so "zoom" is created with photoshop.

Posted by kasia at 07:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have a pretty nice camera, a dslr[0] but what I'm still lacking is a decent collection of lenses. I have a couple good ones that take decent images but require either good lighting or a tripod. Things I don't always have handy.. so I decided it was about time to purchase a new lense. After careful research, the canon canon 50mm f1.4 seemed like a good, not overly expensive[1] choice. Fast lenses are great but they can very quickly run into $$$.

Here's the first picture, uncorrected, straight from camera, in poor indoor light.

Geek stuff: hand held 50mm 1/15th F1.4 ISO200

[0] Canon Rebel if you're really curious
[1] $309 at bhphoto

Posted by kasia at 07:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)