Updates

» 23 Sep 2005, 12:34pm in technology, personal, photography - 0 comments

At last some updates! I've been busy, gimme a break would ya? :)

Photos from my canoe trips to The French River and Algonquin Park's Barron Canyon are now online. I should have pics from last week's trip to Killarney online sometime on Sunday. I had an amazing time on all of these trips, each of them offered amazing scenery, and different from my usual trips to the Algonquin interior.

Next weekend I will be heading to Algonquin yet again for a solo hike of the northernmost loop of the Western Uplands backpacking trail (from the Rain Lake access point). I'm really looking forward to trying out some ultralight backpacking techniques, it should make the 3-day, 40km hike very enjoyable. I will also be doing some fall colour photography, so keep your eyes peeled for even more new photos the week after next.

Speaking of photography, and as some of you already know, I will be upgrading my Canon EOS Digital Rebel to the brand new Canon EOS 5D in mid-October. In preparation of the full-frame, 13 megapixel sensor, I've been replacing some of my existing lenses with some higher quality glass from Carl Zeiss. My Canon EF 17-40mm f4L is being replaced with Contax Zeiss Distagon T* 28mm f2.8, Distagon T* 35mm f2.8, Planar T* 50mm f1.7, and Sonnar T* 85mm f2.8. This will handle my wide- to medium-angle landscape photography. These lenses feature exceptional sharpness and contrast across the entire frame, and an almost 3D appearance that has become legendary in photography circles. I'm also replacing my standard "walkaround" lens, the Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS with the new Canon EF 24-105 f4L IS, which on the 5D, will provide wide to moderate telephoto capabilities, Canon "L"-series image quality, and Image Stabilization - a very good replacement.

I've begun planning a trip to The Adirondacks in upstate New York for the middle of October, just after my new Canon 5D arrives. This will be a car-camping, hiking and photography trip, and I hope to hike some of the "high peaks" area around Lake Placid, and some of the other river and lakes sections of the area. More info soon.

Next week has concerts for Interpol and Metric, very exciting. NHL hockey is starting up again, go Wings go! And a new gallery exhibition in Toronto by Ed Burtynsky is coming up next month, which I'm excited to see.

I'd say that's about enough for now, more soon!

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