Canon Zoom Lens EF 70-200mm F/4L USM

I picked up a the above mentioned lens last Saturday from a local shop on Victoria Drive called Multiple Electronics. I went there in hand with a quote I printed from B&H, not expecting them to come anywhere close however the guy at the sales counter took my quote and made me a deal that wasn't much worse than what B&H offered plus shipping. So instead of having to wait for the lens to be shipped, I got to walk home with it. I also picked up a sturdy tripod and circular polarizing and UV (lens protecting) filters.

I have taken a few shots with the new lens, but not much to write home about yet.

Eye-Fi

There was an offer through Google and Picasa a while back for $50 for a 4GB Eye-Fi SD card for your digital camera and 200 Gigabytes of web storage capacity. Since I was already familiar with Picasa, and I was nearing the limit of my 1 GB of free storage, I decided to take them up on the offer.

For those of you out there that do not know what the Eye-Fi does, here is a brief summary:

After some initial setup, the 4GB Eye-Fi SD card becomes a wi-fi tether to your computer. When you put the card in to your camera and take photo's with it, as soon as you are within reach of your wi-fi or a predefined wi-fi hot spot, the card will begin to upload your photo's taken to your computer.

One thing I didn't realize about this offer is that the card supplied only works with JPG files; which is great for most of the point and shoot camera's out there, but not so great if most of the photo's you take are in a RAW format. Apparently Eye-Fi does make a card that works with RAW photo's, but that was not what was included in the offer.

That having been said, I do think that the Eye-Fi has a great product, and I have used it and it works; I just wish I had read a little deeper into the offer to begin with.

I added a link to my Picasa Web Album.

Welcome

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This is my first web log, and my first post. I hope to showcase some of my photography here and share a little of my life with the rest of the world.

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