A friend and her husband recently returned from a wedding with one of the best favours we'd ever seen: a strip of photos that appeared to have come from a photo booth.  But, they were unlike any photo booth photos we'd ever seen: the lighting was textbook, the images sharp and clear, and the colours as good as any professional photograph.  The reason was...that they were professional photographs.  The wedding photographer set up a booth and invited the guests to have their picture taken.

What a fantastic idea.  We simply had to build one.

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So Sony has started manufacturing digital SLR cameras.  Good for Sony.  Really.  But I felt compelled to post this rant when I saw an advertisement for a new Sony camera proclaiming it was a "Revolution in Digital Photography".

Just how is a digital SLR a revolution?  dSLRs have been around for years, most noteably by manufacturers Canon, Nikon, and Konica-Minolta.

The way I see things, there are two main types of digital cameras.  There are dSLRs, and there are point-and-shoots.  The advantage of the dSLR is that you can control every aspect of how your photo is taken and thus take some absolutely incredible photographs.  The disadvantage to the dSLR is that by definition they tend to be big and bulky, but nearly anyone who's tried a dSLR agrees that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.  The advantage to the point-and-shoot, on the other hand, is that it's generally small, and easy to fit in a shirt pocket.  You might not have quite so much control, but if one isn't a professional photographer and just wants to, well, point, and shoot, a point-and-shoot is ideal.

Sony, apparently, does not see things the way I do.

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While out with Tirra, Donna, Juanita, and a few others for a lovely walk led by Martin, Mango took a few pictures.  We've been noticing that our wall is extremely bare lately so have decided to make our own artwork.

I used a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens for all of these.  This is, as far as we know, the least expensive and also the lightest EF lens that Canon makes, but its optical quality is on par with 'L' lenses.  It, along with the 70-200mm f/2.8L lens, are our favourites.  The sun was shining quite happily, so we didn't need any special lighting.

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