Repeat to yourself “it’s just a blog, I should really just relax”
Free Comic Book Day, which was on Saturday, was a joyous and magical experience for all. We, the true believers of C-U, sweated kittens (it was 200 degrees up ins!), ate some pizza, got some free comics, ate some more pizza, got some other comics that required the transfer of money, and sweated even more kittens.
And then a Stormtrooper tried to steal my friend Shaheen’s bike.
(That’s me.)
So. I have this friend, and she has this Pentax DSLR. She also has all these sweet lenses from her old film camera, but couldn’t get the digital camera to accept them. A couple weeks ago I put one of them on (the vintage 50mm that took the following pics), and this time the camera said, “yes sir, how may I help you?”
I told it to take some sweet pics, and also to have a hella trippy depth-of-field on the ones I take from a distance.
The camera said, “OK, but everything else is going to be manual.” *
Today, through the magic of inter-net and reading manuals and randomly mashing buttons, we managed to get her camera to accept all the other lenses, including this enormous beauty.
HUGE ups to Pentax for never changing their lens mount. (It’s ok that Canon changed theirs back in the 80s, since I’m starting from scratch anyway.)
*Much later (still today) I realized I could have just switched it to aperture priority instead of being a klutz on full manual.
This is for my pal Bill (who doesn’t even read this mess):
He played a concert in the brand new library’s brand new cafe area, as part of the grand opening celebrations. I took pictures of this, for his and the library’s benefit. At the time he joked that it would be funny to take a pic of the big LIBRARY sign on the corner, and photoshoop it to be spelled wrong, and see if the staff would be alarmed. I am too lazy for that level of shooping, so I did a joiner, since those are easier to eff with. (And even that took me five months to do!)