The Quasi-Unlikely Donation : Sigma 80-200mm f4.5-5.6 for Canon FD
April 9, 2010Ruel Tayko, an old friend of ours, sent me a message a few days ago that he found an old cameras lens in their house while cleaning up. He told me quite frankly that I can have it, and I agreed.
The Venerable Ruel Tayko AKA Mamu
Lo and behold!~ It was an FD lens. He did tell me it was made by Sigma, but he didn’t give any more details. Who cares anyways, a lens is still a lens, although the range for this baby is already covered by my mighty Vivitar 28-210 zoom. In any case, it was still a good enough find, something we don’t encounter everyday.
No, that’s not a diffusion filter. That is fungus, or probably something like it.
I got this dandy Minolta P2000xi too!~
Aight, so the stuff needs cleaning up, and well, I can’t really use a Minolta flash. Still, I’m really grateful for these gifts. The solution for the lens is to find a Canon body…~
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ah c’est la vie!
Hands All Wet In Mono
April 8, 2010
I’ve posted this shot many months ago when my D40 was still spankin’ new. But I didn’t have the software to work it well enough, so I posted the semi-untouched raw version. Now, I wanted to give it more impact and feeling~hence the very late PP that I applied here.
Shot with Nikon D40, 50mm f1.4
Old Shots Revisited : Dansalan Nights
April 6, 2010
This one was an outtake from last year. I was trying to just take a photo of something!~
Shot with Nikon D40, 18-55mm kitlens
Rise Of The Frankenstrat And The PVC Guitarstand
April 5, 2010My semi-faithful Stratocaster, Nina, has been out of commission since November last year. Her sudden breakdown led me to frantically search for a replacement. Luckily enough, I found an LP Special on the Internet and bought it, eventually turning into Maya.
I was grounded at home for vague reasons during the weekend. So in order to calm myself down, and find something productive to do. Then I found Nina stagnating in the corner of my room and I thought that since I had the day off, I’d try to get her to twang again. I would have loved to get her to work with all three pickups working - until I saw my Live Without A Net DVD…
Notice the single humbucker, and the missing tone controls and phase switch. I left the phase switch permanently turned to the humbucker, and taped shut the switch, which in turn I taped under the pickguard. Neat stuff!~
Here’s a little test video. My legato and tapping have gone stink since I started playing Schenker stuff more seriously hehe. Ah well~
So now, I have two working guitars but only one guitar stand. That proved to be a problem last night because I just propped up the Strat then went to sleep. The solution was to put it on a guitar stand. But I didn’t have the money for it, plus a guitar stand costs upwards of Php800. Then I decided to McGyverize a stand. I sketched two basic designs on lose sets of paper, then chose the second. I bought a few elbow pieces from the local hardware, and fabricated the frame out of a piece of PVC water pipe.
Ah yes, a little bit of work went well for this morning. And here’s how my axes look like in Karimlan.
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ah c’est la vie! 
