Delivery day
27 June 2007 19:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kribuThe delivery time announced yesterday - approximately 17:19 - turned out to be approximate indeed... the furniture arrived half an hour earlier. But as the delivery guys called in advance to confirm that someone would be there to receive it, it wasn't really a problem.
So anyway, now we have two boxes containing pieces of what I assume is the kitchen cabinet set, and one box containing my shelf. Will have to start assembling that first... should be managable today.
And earlier, I also received my new Sigma 17-70mm lens... woo! I don't really know just how great it will be at macros, but it certainly focuses much closer than any other lens I have... can practically shove it against the target (not that this would be practical with insects) and it still seems to focus just fine, even though the specifications state 20 cm as the closest focusing distance. Will have to see how well it works in practice, I think. It's certainly pretty, and quite noticeably heavier than the kit lens (which it's going to replace as the "short range universal zoom lens", I think), which isn't necessarily a good thing... but something I knew in advance, so that's okay. What will take some getting used to is that the zoom ring works in the opposite direction compared to Pentax lenses.
I ought to stop buying new lenses for a while now though. It's addictive. I mean, I'm already thinking that "oh, but I still need a universal zoom lens for when I want to travel" (note the "need" there... I've been thinking about the Tamron 18-250mm , which is supposed to be pretty decent, but it's also not very cheap), and then there are the Pentax "pancake" primes which are terribly tempting... *sighs wistfully*
So anyway, now we have two boxes containing pieces of what I assume is the kitchen cabinet set, and one box containing my shelf. Will have to start assembling that first... should be managable today.
And earlier, I also received my new Sigma 17-70mm lens... woo! I don't really know just how great it will be at macros, but it certainly focuses much closer than any other lens I have... can practically shove it against the target (not that this would be practical with insects) and it still seems to focus just fine, even though the specifications state 20 cm as the closest focusing distance. Will have to see how well it works in practice, I think. It's certainly pretty, and quite noticeably heavier than the kit lens (which it's going to replace as the "short range universal zoom lens", I think), which isn't necessarily a good thing... but something I knew in advance, so that's okay. What will take some getting used to is that the zoom ring works in the opposite direction compared to Pentax lenses.
I ought to stop buying new lenses for a while now though. It's addictive. I mean, I'm already thinking that "oh, but I still need a universal zoom lens for when I want to travel" (note the "need" there... I've been thinking about the Tamron 18-250mm , which is supposed to be pretty decent, but it's also not very cheap), and then there are the Pentax "pancake" primes which are terribly tempting... *sighs wistfully*
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Date: 28 June 2007 03:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: 28 June 2007 06:43 (UTC)As I spent the morning writing a few novels in response to D at B5TV, I don't have time to take pictures of unpainted shelves now though. Maybe in the evening. ;-)
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Date: 28 June 2007 18:07 (UTC)It shows for me, anyway. And yes, it definitely needs to be painted blue. (And I think should attempt to not fill it with lenses and lens boxes...)