“Canon BG-E2 Battery grip for EOS 20D”
“Canon EOS 20D”
Nono and I sorta kinda went on an impromptu Hidalgo trip, along with his orginal plan of having his ImageTank serviced.
Ended up buying this:
[BG-E2 Battery grip][3] for the [20D][4]
Updates and other stuff
Updated the nBLOG Photo Archive (not to be confused with the main gallery) to paginate the photos. Since the photos used in the blog are small(ish) – there’s no need to generate thumbnails, but loading all of them in one page has its share of penalties with regards to bandwidth. The pagination of the pages should solve this problem.
I also will be applying the pagination to the complete article archive for the same reasons. Read More
Ramadan #3
“Canon EOS 20D”
“View product page”
Nono and I went on another pilgrimage to Hidalgo as I accompanied him to get his 20D and some other stuff.
We then went to Aperture Banawe to get his ImageTank, and have my ImageTank warrantied (the batteries were acting up). I must say that the new batch of tanks are pretty sexy as they’re now silver instead of the sick blue I have – I wish they’d just replace the unit with a fixed, new batch instead of fixing the same one hehehehe but that’s just my OC-ness on color-coordinatedness talking.
And of course, I just had to buy stuff. After all, why go through all the trouble of circling the whole of Metro Manila (Quiapo to Banawe) when you don’t intend to get something out of it! Read More
Some useful photography stuff
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Nono pointed out that the 20D too, supports rear-button focusing (RBF)! This means that you can use the AE Lock (Exposure Lock) button [at the back of the cam] for focusing, and not be forced to half press the shutter button.
I’ve then since added some information about the function to my previous post.
This has a number of obvious benefits – mostly during sports/events photography where people prefer tracking using AISERVO. But in a practical sense, RBF is great as you can take your shot regardless if you’re focused or not. Normally, if you’re on AF (auto focus mode), you’d have to focus by half pressing – and as long as it’s not yet focused, you can’t trip the shutter.
This is a sensible approach, but can be frustrating at times: If you focus on a subject, and know that you’ll be taking another shot of them (assuming you’re not on continuous drive), you’d still have
to half-press and waste time as the camera re-focuses on [probably] the same point (which is ridiculous if you think about it)
RBF allows you to trip your shutter regardless, so it’s a kind of pseudo AF/MF focusing mode, which I think is pretty cool and useful.
Random thoughts
A big thank you to JC, for pointing out a bug in my layout due to the Google Adsense ads I included.
For some reason, both FireFox and IE don’t display my Google Adsense ads. I’m guessing its the part of the ad-blockers (which speed up pageloads)
Anyways, because of that, my site has been looking strange for the past couple of days without my knowing. It’s fixed now, so all is back to normal.