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Taking my new Canon 400D to Italy

  • Posted on July 28, 2007 at 11:44 pm

Finally it’s my turn to take a couple of weeks off work!! Tomorrow I’m off to Oslo, and on Monday I’m catching a plane to Rome, Italy. As I’ve never been to Italy before, I’m excited to see as much as I can of a country that I’ve heard so much about :)

Earlier this summer E brought our Canon Ixus 850 camera to a bar where somebody managed to spill beer on it. As this was a new camera (bought last December), we were hoping for the best, but a camera that only takes pictures of black nothing isn’t very useful… The Ixus is supposed to be a good quality camera, but I was never really satisfied with it. Because we needed a camera for our vacation, I decided to do something I’ve thought about for a while, namely buy a digital SLR camera. I remember liking the Canon SLR EOS 500 I bought in ’94, so I again chose Canon over Nikon. The 400D was in my price range, but I wanted something more versatile than the cheap standard lens. After some googling and talking to a couple of photo experts at work, I decided that Canon’s EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM and Sigma’s 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC Macro would suit my needs. They’re both good all-round lenses, and more zoom could lower the quality of my pictures. I ended up buying the Sigma. Even though it lacks the image stabilization and has less zoom, I’ll be able to use lower shutter speed – and the price was considerably lower.

As the proud owner of a brand new SLR camera, I’m hoping my vacation to Italy will provide lots of opportunities to try out the features of my 400D. Who knows, maybe I’ll even get to posting some pictures here. Have a great couple of weeks y’all!

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Canada, eh?

  • Posted on July 15, 2007 at 2:27 am

A couple of years ago I visited my relatives in Vancouver, Canada. Even though I spent less than a week there, I fell in love with the area! No wonder; after a scorching hot summer in Mobile, AL, I flew over the beautiful Rockies into the luscious west part of B.C. with its green mountains and blue waters. I hadn’t seen my relatives for more than 10 years, but they gave me a warm welcome and showed me around.

Back to the present. This week one of my dad’s cousins from Vancouver and her husband came to visit us here in Trondheim. They’d had two weeks of rain in the Baltic sea, Denmark and the southern part of Norway, but were greeted by the sun here in Trondheim. They stayed at my parents house, but I took a couple of days off work so that I could try to return some of the hospitality they had showed me.

E and I prepared dinner for them Tuesday night after my mom and dad had picked them up in Bergen (a two-day drive from here). Wednesday evening we went for dinner at our local tower restaurant with a view of the whole city and the surrounding mountains and fjord. Thursday we had an early lunch at my aunt and uncle’s house, followed by a get-together with several of my cousins, my dad’s cousins and my second cousins. Friday I actually went to work. Today was the last day before the Canadians return home, and we had a dinner at my parents’ house. We even watched 9-milimeter movies from when I was 5 years old – hilarious :)

The result of this very pleasant visit was that I even more than before would like to go on vacation to the US. And while I’m there, revisit Vancouver. All I have to do now is save up the money :P

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