Dean's Blog

Nothing much going on today, other than the fact that my stomach is gnawing upon my backbone. Probably due to trying out the new equipment at Gold’s this morning, and trying to work off my Thanksgiving feast.

I have recently been updating my camera collection. actually, updating is a strange term to use, as the cameras I have recently aquired are older than I am. Yep, the good old Canon FD manual focus series. I have two FTb bodies, a series of prime lenses, and now am awaiting a factory service manual to fix a few quirks that have popped up. Still waiting to actually take any photos with them, but I expect them to be stellar. Going to try some lightning photography with them, as well as some nice portrait and landscape stuff.

Also on my purchases sleeve is a copy of Corel Painter with the Wacom tablet so I can whip up art without burning through Prismacolor markers. Ahh the joys of technology. The only thing that I am really lacking is an updated computer. My P4 2.8ghz is pretty ancient by todays standards, as it has a really slow FSB. Works fine, but I have an urge for more speed on the processing for Photoshop and After Effects. Time is money.. and it takes money to save time. Priced out a dreamish system yesterday that I would still have to build at $3500.00. Not bad, but that doesn’t include new warp-drive Quad Core processors. Something eerily cool about the words Quad Core.. kind of like Quad Damage in Quake.