new lens :)

yesterday i picked up the canon 50mm f/1.4. it's rather nice, nice background blur and decent sharpness, IQ is decent too but i'm not too picky about that stuff so it's plenty good enough for me. :)

there's quite a story behind this lens. i went to black's at first ($429.99) and i tested out the display a few times and i concluded that i wanted it and so the salesguy went to get a new one for me. so in the afternoon i was with my friends trying it out and the pictures i took looked alright, but when i zoomed in on them, i found that its autofocusing was off. after much deliberation, we thought it would be best if i exchanged it, since i don't have time to have it calibrated before i leave for vacation. so back to black's!

now we're at black's and we tell the sales associate of my problem and felix shows him a picture of me in which the lens backfocused. and then he asks me "did you take this picture, or him (felix)?" LIKE WTF. IT'S A PICTURE OF ME DAMMIT. how can i take a picture of myself?! (well i can but since it's 50mm focal length i wouldn't have been able to taken a picture like that of myself) but that's not it, he goes on to say that the focusing issues were human error, not mechanical error! hey buddy we know what we're doing! (well i sort of know what i'm doing but felix knows what he's doing) yeah, but i told him i still want an exchange and then after he goes to get another one from the stock room and lo and behold, none left! so then he goes on to say that i can have the display lens and i hint a few times that i rather would not like to have the demo, and he suggests that i can have a discount. then he calls his manager who tells him no he can't give me a discount on the display, but he can offer me free prints. I DON'T WANT FREE PRINTS I WANT MY LENS. and that's when i decide that i'd rather try another store and ask for a refund. i felt kind of bad though because i could see the disappointed expression on his face that he didn't get the commission for it.

so then i went to vistek ($459.99). it was $30 more but i felt it was worth it because i would have had to drive to toronto/markham for a better deal and it was worth $30 to be able to relax for the few remaining days before i leave for korea.

i'm sorry if you're not into photography and you had to read all those boring words that probably mean nothing to you, so here are a few of my favorite snapshots from yesterday:

okay i admit the lobster shot isn't great but look how cute it is! :)