I’m feeling way too lazy to dig back into the EXIF of this shot from many moons ago, I can say with much certainty that it’s 50mm and f/2 and the E-500, but the shutter and the iso elude me. And those don’t much matter; at the time, last June, I was, if I recall correctly, experimenting with narrow depth of field and common objects around the house. The reason it appears today is that I haven’t had much time for pictures for their own, and this site’s sake over the last few weeks, I’ve spent almost all my photo time doing portraits and preparing prints and such for export. And when there has been time, well, it’s not been cold but it’s been chilly outside, and I don’t much like that.

Backburnered has also been my proper test of the zuiko 14-42 lens I’d close to panned a month or so ago. You see, I’ve borrowed the lens again, the very same one I figured was factory flawed, because a little while ago I reviewed again the whole of the shots I took with it and decided I’d made too hasty a judgment. Back when I fixed cars for a living, we had an old saw that would come up around the shop from time to time, “it’s a poor mechanic who blames his tools”, and I think in the case of the 14-42 this just may be the case here. That said, it’s been bolted to the camera a week now and I haven’t had it out the door even once.

It’s at times like this in the past I’d regard myself as slumping photographically, judged solely by current output. But that’s not the case – as I mentioned above I’ve been very busy as a photographer, but when I have the camera it’s for hire, and the rest of the time has been spent in Lightroom and off getting prints made. no, still not printing at home, and still not sure same is econmical.

late. off to sleep. talk to you soon.