FOCUS

I never really knew too much about my Dad's line of work growing up. I knew that he was a private investigator, and I knew he had a lot of cool equipment... but I never paid much attention to any of that. After he died, most of his stuff was placed in a corner of a crawl space at my sister's house. Well, recently my brother learned that both of our cameras are compatible with something called an "adaptor ring." Once an adaptor is on our camera, we can then use any old style manual lens of ANY make. Suddenly that camera equipment that my Dad had once used for work is now, once again, usable!! It's been a lot of fun to play around with some old Tamaron, Nikon and Olympus lenses. My favorite one by far is the Tamaron 500 mirror lens. That thing can zoom!


A couple of days ago I went up to the south hill in town to get a picture of the temple. I couldn't see these windmills with the naked eye, but the lens picked them up without a problem. I'm not sure if these are the windmills close to Fort Macleod or the ones closer to Pincher Creek. (John says Fort Macleod so we'd better just go with that as he is always right.)



Of course, the downside to this lens is that it requires manual focusing -something that I have yet to figure out - as you can see. That blasted tree in the front is so blurry, it completely ruins the picture.



So I tried again tonight and got this shot.

Again with the blur! I think it is the same darn tree, in my way every time. Considering how long it is taking me to figure out this whole manual focus thing- it'd be easier if I just cut down that stinking tree and eliminate it entirely.

But don't worry - I won't.