'All hope abandon ye who enter here'

Lightstream wrote in post #2270531
Wool....I went to the squirrel store and the squirrel at the front desk told me that the price had gone up substantially.. ever since their new acquisition (click here), something about "doing it like they do on the Discovery Channel" and not having to worry about the adoptions or side effects any longer..... so they don't have any extras...

Ah yes....I saw that a bit earlier today....I was afraid that might be a side effect on the squirrel market....Add in Permie's cat and Pet-Kal's hording....there won't be a squirrel to be found for years.

Hey, watcha drinkin ?
(I am just trying to keep this ailing thread alive ....otherwise its denizens might seek a domicile elsewhere....infiltrat​e photography threads. )

I am not drinkin' yet, Petey Boy...but I am passing out Morphine and IV fluids so the juices are just a flowin' here at work.

I wanted to go by the photo store and feel out the 100mm macro and the 60mm macro. Damn place was closed for lunch.

Claire wrote in post #2271082
I wanted to go by the photo store and feel out the 100mm macro and the 60mm macro. Damn place was closed for lunch.

In the meantime, just to tempt you. This one fine looking lens, too.

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Maureen Souza wrote in post #2271079
I am drinkin' yet, Petey Boy...but I am passing out Morphine and IV fluids so the juices are just a flowin' here at work.

Mo, I can't remember if I've ever told ya that my long suffering wife had spent her entire working carreer as a psychiatry nursefirst and then in intensive neonatal care. A very difficult profession at best of times, no doubt.

Yoda,
Tommy found a Danish store that has it a lot cheaper than the Swedish ones. B&H would cost me the same when adding shipping and taxes. Now I'm awaiting to hear what the Danish place would take for shipping. I am in such a crap mood today, and I'm close enough to be in such a bad mood I'd spend 4195 kr on that lens...

The 100mm 2.8 is 5595 kr...

Claire wrote in post #2271131
Yoda,
Tommy found a Danish store that has it a lot cheaper than the Swedish ones. B&H would cost me the same when adding shipping and taxes. Now I'm awaiting to hear what the Danish place would take for shipping. I am in such a crap mood today, and I'm close enough to be in such a bad mood I'd spend 4195 kr on that lens...

The 100mm 2.8 is 5595 kr...

Sorry to hear things aren't going well.. I know how it feels, some days you just want to ream someone a new one big enough to pack a 100 macro "gerbil-style" into them.


I say go for it.... 33% price difference is substantial. And even if you go full frame like me you can always keep your 300D for light duty macro work. Not like one needs 45 point Area AF and AI Servo to chase products around the lightbox

It also makes a wonderful portrait lens. The 'classical' portrait length is 85-135mm on 35mm film (note: 85 on crop camera = 135), so the 60 macro = 96mm, and that will do wonders. Bokeh is creamy smooth too, perhaps not quite an 85/1.2L but very very nice already.

The only bad thing about it, is that it's so sharp it makes good skin look bad. A little gaussian blur is useful before your subject decides to smack you for exposing all the flaws

PetKal wrote in post #2271128
Mo, I can't remember if I've ever told ya that my long suffering wife had spent her entire working carreer as a psychiatry nursefirst and then in intensive neonatal care. A very difficult profession at best of times, no doubt.

I think you told me that......One thing I couldn't do is Psych nursing. I never trusted the psych pts. Just not sure how much was real and how much extra wacky they piled on top of that

I have always worked a Surgical/ICU unit. Just love all the drains and incisions and drugs.

Maureen Souza wrote in post #2271161
I think you told me that......One thing I couldn't do is Psych nursing. I never trusted the psych pts. Just not sure how much was real and how much extra wacky they piled on top of that

I have always worked a Surgical/ICU unit. Just love all the drains and incisions and drugs.

My wife could not handle it either after a while for similar reasons..... eventually she switched to babies and then the work became less stressful on her.

My poor old mother was hoping I'd become a physician ......however, I could not stand drains, incisions, drugs and all that butchery/pathology stuff.....plus, was not a good enough study anyways.

I didn't like it at first....I almost gagged when i did my first big dressing change and I know when a patient was puking, I was doing it right along side of them. But after a few months I got past all that and started to focus on how cool everything was and how it all worked. I also started to enjoy the fact that I was helping people feel better. The human body is an amazing thing...it can be your best friend or your worst enemy. After all these years, I am still in awe of the darn thing!

Lightstream wrote in post #2271153
I say go for it.... 33% price difference is substantial. And even if you go full frame like me you can always keep your 300D for light duty macro work. Not like one needs 45 point Area AF and AI Servo to chase products around the lightbox

It also makes a wonderful portrait lens. The 'classical' portrait length is 85-135mm on 35mm film (note: 85 on crop camera = 135), so the 60 macro = 96mm, and that will do wonders. Bokeh is creamy smooth too, perhaps not quite an 85/1.2L but very very nice already.

The only bad thing about it, is that it's so sharp it makes good skin look bad. A little gaussian blur is useful before your subject decides to smack you for exposing all the flaws

I was thinking about using it as both a macro and portrait lens, and yes, did think of the crop thing. It would make a good portrait lens. Hm, if I get it, should I sell my 50mm 1.8 then??

Maureen, I remember interning as a nurse at a hospital during 9th grade. It was only a short time, but at a floor with very old people. The nurses were boring as hell and only wanted to have coffee breaks. They made me do the dishes and stuff like that, but otherwise I didn't get to do much.

As I finally got restless (and tired of listening to them over coffee), I began to sit down and actually talk to the men and women. I figured, if all the papers say nurses etc are too busy to talk to the people, then at least I can. So, I did. And they trully liked it. I listened to one woman who felt bad about being alone there, another man showed me how to make swans out of paper, a third woman loved my drawings and so on. One woman needed a wash, and nobody told me to do it, but I did it anyway. The old woman told me "This isn't your job, and I feel terrible that you have to see me like this." I think I replied something like "Don't be."

I don't know why, but her words just stuck with me. And when I left she kept one of my drawings and the man gave me some of his origami.

Good morning, all! Between Maureen's details about giving drugs and all the talk about macro lenses, I am already wishing I had a diet coke and it's only 9 a.m.

Nope, no using the 5D yet, but I did get my green POTN strap yesterday, grabbed if from the mailbox and while waiting for my son to come out of piano lessons, I put the strap on my 5D. That's all there was time for. Went to the planning board meeting for the town I live in and the school we were opposing, their proposal got denied. We were happy and sad. People here need good daycare. This couple seems very loving and have wonderful references, just didn't fit in the neighborhood. They'll find another place.

Getting back to the photography, though. Apparently a couple of neighbors took pictures of the land in question. They blew their shots up to 8x10 so everyone could see them. Great job for a P&S on plain paper. I was going to do that for them with shiny paper and full resolution, but I think the lack of professionalism was more convincing than what I would have done. Anyone have an opinion on this one?

Maureen Souza wrote in post #2271161
I think you told me that......One thing I couldn't do is Psych nursing.

I remember my wife telling me about one male patient. He was of Woolyboar's age and totally gone.....no speach of any sort would come outta that boy, just incessant stream "Bah bah bah bah bah....", very loud, all the time except when he slept or was sedated.
After a protracted therapy and such an abundance of ECT's that they started burdening the hospital's electricity bills, his situation improved to the point that he then started chattering "beep beep beep beep beep...". I think the Hospital finally gave up on him, sent him home or something to that effect. However, in the weeks just before his discharge, the night nursing staff were using him as an alarm clock.....he came handy to alert nurses to incoming shift changes and turn-overs.....Beep beep beep...beep.
That's a true story.