New Lens

Taken with the OLD lens.

Taken with the NEW lens.

I recently bought a new lens for my SLR. It's a fixed focal length 50mm lens, and is much brighter than the zoom that came with it. I wanted to see the improvement, so I asked my son to swing his arm quickly and I shot these two photos. The one where you see his arm is with the new lens. Both were shot in existing light, only moments apart, and with the aperture wide open. It's not scientific (i.e. his arm's speed likely differed), but the difference in the shots is apparent.

More Exercise

On Wednesday morning, I repeated my exercise of Monday, adding just a bit. On Friday, I racewalked about 2 miles in the early AM. On Satrday, I jogged perhaps a half-mile several times as I watched the Footlocker Northeast Cross Country Meet. I also wound up meeting and having (a very late) lunch with one of Dyestat's people. The upshot is that I may wind up having a few pictures published by them.