The view from above

Landing

Flame on

More photos: Cub Hot Air Ballooning

After heading into work this morning to poke a broken server, I headed out to take a few photographs at the District Patrol Camping Competition for an hour or so. Due to a lack of leaders I ended up helping out with the Archery for one session, and then had a go on the rifle shooting for a bit while consoling myself over the rugby results.

More photos: District Patrol Camping Competition.

I took another trip to Old Warden with the old fogies yesterday, and although it didn’t actually rain it was overcast for much of the day resulting in loads of drab photos. White planes against a white background don’t make for exciting viewing. As it was fairly windy a lot of planes didn’t actually fly, and they’d only line one up on the runway at a time making for slow progress at times. The sun did make an appearance towards the end of the day, but could have done with being a few hours earlier.

More photos: Shuttleworth Spring Air Display - May 2009

Standing up for too long at the St George’s Day activities on Saturday wrecked my back again, at one point on Sunday I had to resort to crawling across the room as I couldn’t get up. However two days of painkillers and rest and it’s pretty much back to normal again, and after an hour at the Doctors this morning my painkillers have been restocked for the next few months.

I ended up spending a couple of hours this afternoon in Royal Victoria Park with Alex, Jo, Ethan and Evie. We spent a couple of hours wandering around in the afternoon sunshine, and I gave the 5D and 24-105IS kit it’s first proper workout.

Path and Tree

Ethan and Evie

Tree

More photos.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you use a lens designed for a crop sensor on a full-frame body, then wonder no longer.

My Sigma 10-20 is designed for 1.6x crop bodies only, but will fit quite happily onto the 5D, and produces images as follows.

10mm
 

11mm
 

14mm
 

17mm
 

20mm

Amazon have bumped up the price of the 5D and 24-105 kit by nearly £200 since I ordered it on Monday. Looks like I managed to time it perfectly.

This thing is nice. Slightly larger and heftier than the 30D, and compared with the crop cameras the viewfinder is superb. I’ve not really had a chance to play with it much yet, other than a quick test shot taken at ISO3200 which is remarkably clean, even before attacking it with Noise Ninja.