6/7 Perigee @ Full Moon
taken last 13Dec
It may be late but Merry Christmas everyone! :)
and last but not the least,
finally got my birthday gift this year

It's a great photographic tool that can make ordinary things like an ETS look like this:
I'll be using this lens w/ the A700 for the January Prime Challenge 2009.
Stay tuned!

Another Lame Attempt

But here's a lens that's far from being lame :P
Minolta 300mm

4/7 Biometrics
another lame subject :P

3/7 Curtain
Was just going for the details :P

2/7 The Peak

Sorry folks.
Was busy for the past few weeks practicing for our department's band's first ever gig :D
Some said it went well \m/

Back to regular programming, over at dyxum we just finished our week 50 (a week of prime challenge using only a 50mm) and it was a good time to use my recently purchased Min50/3.5.
It's really a very fine piece of optics.

1/7
Local Airport
I decided to do a no PP|no Crop set

It's already December :)

Last Monday was a spectacular conjunction of

Venus, Jupiter and the Moon sporting an Earthshine.

Here's what I call 'Portrait' :)

31/31

30/31

29/31

Soap Tray
28/31
KM7D|ISO1600|1/50s|MinAF50/1.7@f2.2

Improvements
27/31
KM7D|ISO1600|1/100s|MinAF50/1.7@f2

I'm Down (Lennon/McCartney)
26/31
KM7D|ISO800|1/20s|MinAF50/1.7@f2.5

Loot Bags with Faces
25/31

Happy Birthday Coby!
24/31

Some Faves
23/31

The Deep
23/31alt

(Revolution) No. 9
22/31

A Peek @ Cassiopeia
21/31

Heightened Senses
20/31

Smoking Pleiades
19/31

Sunset Venus in Scorpius
18/31

Hyades
17/31

Benjamin's Happy Buddy
16/31

Namesake
15/31

It's Full Again
14/31

Multiple Universe
13/31

Can't decide for 12/31...
The Atis
Early Moon

Bronze Bird
11/31

Mickey Mouse Blues
10/31

Orion's Revenge
9/31

(darn, running out of material for oktoberfestII :P will shoot something tonight...)

edit: got lucky with a lightning cloud when I got home that night
Doom's Day Cloud
8/31

postworthy
Something useful from sportshooter.com

the lens should have a built in collar that lets you switch between vert and horz.

found it when I was googling (darn, that word should be a dictionary entry by now) about monopods and heads.

The Wall Along the Staircase on an Early Morning
(old stuff newly installed)
7/31
(posted 01 to 06 today :P)

OktoberFestII is on @ dyxum
and I'm doing it with the Minolta 50/1.7AF in B&W
I'll try not to crop :D

That Familiar Sight
6/31

Rainy End
5/31

Sunny Start
4/31

A Messed Up Orion
3/31

Won't Come Out
2/31

Blower

1/31

A Different Perspective :))

fear high ISO no more :))
Shot taken with NR OFF
really love that GRAIN now :D

Luminance and Color Noise reduced 100% in LR1.3

Never fear noise again :D
Impromptu test shots after I upgraded my firmware to V4
ISO6400 with NR switched OFF
Love the grain - makes me want to print them to check how will they look on paper

I shall never fear going past ISO1600 again :D
Thanks $ony for breathing new life to a not so old cam :)

Just a few days to Sony's much awaited announcement of its FF DSLR (A900),
a firmware update for the A700 leaked.

Confirmed 'fixes':
NR OFF option
Better High ISO NR
2steps EV exposure bracketing
plus I'm hoping it will address the 'noisy blue sky' syndrome :P

waiting patiently for SAL70400G's price O_o

Canadian Geese

Postworthy
post: [images with watermark]
wanted to reply: Hi, looks like your images won't be needing any watermark yet
[with that calibre - no one will snatch it from you yet. Heehee.]

Leakage
(photo borrowed from the Net)

Exciting times specially for the Minolta die hard fans... not so for the 'can't afford' ones - haha!