Scattered Thoughts . . .

I haven't been completely happy with the photos I have been shooting while Sheila and I are at the hospital so I've been searching for a more appropriate lens to buy.  The lens I had been using for documenting our hospital visits was one I had chosen for our trip to San Antonio almost three years ago. At the time, I needed an inexpensive ultra wide angle lens and that previous lens had served its purpose in San Antonio as well as in other places such as at the lake house and other cities.  That being said, that previous lens really wasn't a great lens though because the only part of the image that would be sharp would be the center of the frame. The blurry edges of the frame for my hospital shots was not working for me at all. While we were at the hospital, I was capturing photos of Sheila composed near the edges of the frame only to find that she was always blurry when she was situated near the edge of the frame. It was driving me crazy! This new lens needed to ...

This is almost not worth writing about but I'm still pretty excited by this so I felt I should write something. Plus, I'm worn out enough to keep me a bit sedentary and at my desk today. I'm so worn out, actually, that my vision is a bit lousy today too. Anyway, I'm here at my desk and figured I should write a little bit. I've been evaluating my lens and camera needs over the past few weeks. I'm not going to bore you with all of the details of my decisions but this evaluation process got me looking at what is available at this moment in time. I found a couple of Hasselblad lenses on clearance... at a fraction of their original cost... brand new... at prices so low that I could not walk away from the deals. I picked up a Hasselblad E 16mm f2.8 pancake lens. I actually needed to replace a Sony version of this lens that I had dropped and I accidentally found this one on clearance.  The image quality created by this new Hasselblad lens is far better than the...