Domestic vermin picture of the day
I was up early a couple of days ago taking pictures of yet another snow flurry, and I couldn’t resist taking a picture of Mr. Bignose Cat when he hopped up on the sofa looking for some affection.
How fortunate it is for humanity that the African Wildcat is a social feline. Leo would be a pretty formidable pest if he didn’t like people, but all he uses his inch-and-a-half-long talons for is to grab my hand if I stop petting him.
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Better sensitivity to red light, plus a long exposure (f1.8 @ 1/3rd second, no white balancing) with the light coming from streetlights and the pre-dawn reflection of the sun off the clouds. The sensor on the *istDS is a lot more sensitive to red light than it is to anything else, so I really have to crank open the aperture to get it to register colo(u)rs like the way my eyes see them in low light, and since the f1.2 lens disassembled itself I don’t have that sort of aperture anymore :-(
I want a f0.95 lens, but the only cameras you can get those for are rangefinders and they’re expensive (Canon lenses for a long discontinued Canon rangefinder – you can buy them for US$1000 on ebay, if you’re lucky, and have them converted to M-mount for another US$600 or so) or hideously expensive (Leica – if you’re a CEO at a big US bank, you can take your hopey-changey government payoff for campaign contributions and spend US$14000 of it for a M-mount lens) plus they’d require spending buckets of money for an Epson R-D1 or metric shitloads of money for a Leica.
But I digress. Yes, the *istDS puts a red cast on everything in low light, unless you’re taking telephoto images of Rigel or Spica. It’s pretty, isn’t it?
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Like the orange cast to the light; wonder what it comes from.