Scattered Thoughts . . .

Yesterday, we drove out to Cabot to install a second monitor and Fire TV for our granddaughter, Kenzie.  This provided me with an opportunity to test this new Zeiss lens I picked up last week.   I only shot a few photos because it was a dark, gray, and gloomy day with very flat lighting.  To make matters worse, the clouds were creating an odd, unappealing color of light too.  Most of the leaves are off the trees now so the landscape around here is rather stark but I did find some patches of color worth capturing in photos.   As always, I was shooting out the window of a fast moving car... Even though the photos are nothing worth printing, I'm liking what I'm seeing from this lens.  The photos are sharp especially considering I was shooting from a fast moving car.  My guess is that my next opportunity to shoot using this lens will be in the snow.   On our way back home from Cabot after setting Kenzie up with a monitor and Fire TV, Sh...

When I picked up my primary Sony camera about ten years ago, it came with a basic "standard kit lens".  This wasn't a particularly good lens but it was lightweight so it got a little bit of use every now and then.   This kit lens was a bit large to use all the time but it was the lightweight characteristic of it which offset the rather uncomfortable size and made up a little bit for a lack of sharpness.  It still was rather bulky for lightweight carry all day long, wasn't all that great for low light photos and the sharpness was lacking but, in good light, I would occasionally get some good shots with it though.  This photo, at right, is one of the good photos I captured with it. I rarely used this lens because it was large enough to be uncomfortable to carry around all the time and, at best, it was a rather average performer, generally speaking.  If it performed well, I could overlook the larger size of this lens but I found I rarely used it.  I defin...