Anyway, last entry I talked about some basic photography knowledge and one must learn the key terms like aperture and focal length before you can start choosing lenses. Last week, I posted 2 videos, one was about my Olympus PEN EPL-1 Micro 4/3 camera, and the other one about Bokeh!
Well, after all those compact camera years, I have already got fed up with the image quality of the Panasonic and Canon compact cameras, now I need something better -- sharper and more bokehlicious. Compact cameras just can't give me that, but because I was on a budget (and I'm still on a budget now), I have to choose my lens carefully, balancing the cost and the image quality. And of course, I went onto DigitalRev to get some major input (using Johnny 5's catchphrase)!
After watching it, which lens do you think I have chosen?
Words you should hear:
robbing the bank, jail sentence, Santa's a perv(ert), "cheapoy", trying on the girl, aperture blades,
kitchen floorings, blue LEDs, pink snowflakes, acid trip, Disco Inferno, colour fringing,
not-so-toyish, bangs for your buck, decent level of sharpness, weather-sealed sexy chunk of glass with a red ring on it, justified it in your head
Vocabulary:
bokehlicious -- see last entry
on a budget -- having limited cash
catchphrase -- (n)[C] a phrase which is often repeated by and therefore becomes connected with a particular organization or person, especially someone famous such as a television entertainer
perv -- (n)[C] UK informal for pervert a person whose sexual behaviour is considered strange and unpleasant by most people
try (sth) on sb --
phrasal verb
[M]
to put on a piece of clothing to discover if it fits you or if you like it, here it means "experimenting on the girl".aperture blade -- (n)[C] usually plural the blades of a lens
 |
| 9 aperture blades Image from dyxum.com |
colour fringing / purple fringing -- a type of distortion in which there is a failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same convergence point. See Chromatic aberration
 |
| Purple fringing seen around the edges Image from Wikipedia |
decent -- (adj) socially acceptable or good
weather-sealed -- (adj) weather-proof, not affected by the weather
justify -- (vb) [T] to give or to be a good reason for
Resources:
Technology: Basic Photography & How to shoot Leica on a Micro 4/3 camera @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/04/technology-basic-photography-how-to.html
Website: DigitalRev Camera Reviews & Videos @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2010/06/website-digitalrev-camera-reviews.html
Movie: Short Circuit @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/03/movie-short-circuit.html
Chromatic aberration @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/catchphrase
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/perv
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/pervert_2
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/try-sth-on#try-sth-on__2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever:_The_Original_Movie_Sound_Track
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammps
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Bang+for+the+Buck
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/decent
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/justify
