My blog - July 2004
Ludlow Castle
July 31st 2004, 7:13pm
I've just been to Ludlow Castle, in Shropshire. Photos are on the photos page. Now I'm off to the pub.
And now, breaking my rule of not updating a blog entry unless there's a mistake, I think I'll expand on that, since there's enough room for a little more text here.
Just after lunch I decided I wanted to go somewhere and have a play with the new camera, so I search on the internet for castles and found Ludlow Castle. Actually, I found Stokesay Castle first, and I was planning to go there via Ludlow, but Ludlow Castle turned out to be far bigger and more interesting than I was expecting, so I ended up taking several hours looking round it, and didn't get to see the other castle, even though it was just a few miles down the road.
I did call in at the Severn Valley Railway on the way back since the station was right by the road. I took a few photos of a steam train, but they weren't very good - too many tourists all over the place.
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How Cool Is My Sister's New Car?
July 30th 2004, 9:03am
Liz has a new car. I want to swap it for my Golf - it's far too cool. Except I wouldn't be able to fit my guitar stuff in it.
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My Brother Is A Married Man
July 17th 2004, 10:25pm
I've just got back from my brother's wedding, where I was best man and guitarist. I really wasn't looking forward to doing the speech, and at one o'clock this morning I gave up on trying to write one, and just winged it instead, which seemed to work.
The weather was beautiful, which was quite amazing considering how cold and wet it's been all week. Everything went really smoothly and it was a great day was had by all.
I hired a car for the wedding because I thought my old Golf was a bit tatty for driving the groom to his wedding in. I got a Vectra, and although it looks nice, it's actually a very average car, and I'm quite happy to stick with the Golf. The Vectra performed reasonably well, although it was only a 1.8, but the interior of the car is really boring, and the controls are a bit irritating.
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Comment posted by Mr & Mrs Ots! at 10:25pm on July 17th 2004
Hello from the newly-weds!
Comment posted by Maret at 10:25pm on July 17th 2004
I agree it was a lovely wedding !!!!
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Let Us Play
July 9th 2004, 10:56pm
I got my camera today. Yay! I have been playing with it ever since. It's amazing - definitely the best camera I've owned. All the buttons are in just the right place and work exactly how you'd expect them to. Well, exactly how I expect them to anyway. It does weigh a tonne, but that's partly because I splashed out and got the battery pack/vertical grip as well.
This evening I went to the Nexus Graduation Concert and took loads of photos. I set the camera to ISO 1600 and used the 28-90mm lens, which effectively becomes a 45-128mm lens on this camera. So I was able to get some good shots from the back of the room without using a flash. I was very impressed when I got home - the pictures were nearly all really sharp and well exposed - I was expecting loads of camera shake since I wasn't using a tripod.
Oh, and although my new toy kind of overshadowed the concert for me, it was probably one of the best performed concerts Nexus has put on so far. Chama Mulenga's performance in 2001 was very good, as was Dweeb's last year. But generally, they just keep getting better.
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Comment posted by Paul Morriss at 10:56pm on July 9th 2004
How much did the Canon cost? Having been given a digital one I realise that the point and shoot/no focus digitals have quite a lot of limitations. So I'm not throwing my SLR away yet.
Comment posted by James Ots at 10:56pm on July 9th 2004
Just over £700, from http://www.bhphotovideo.com in the States. That's including the kit lens, a 1Gb memory card, two extra batteries and the vertical hand grip/battery pack.
I'm still very pleased with it. I've just installed the hacked firmware which gives me ISO 3200, flash exposure compensation, manual selection of autofocus mode, mirror lockup and a few improvements to the user interface.
Comment posted by andrew at 10:56pm on July 9th 2004
Shouldn't that be 'weigh' at ton?
Comment posted by James Ots at 10:56pm on July 9th 2004
Okay, not sure how I managed to spell that wrong. I've corrected it now.
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