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A stranger in our midst
Brain..can’t…compute..eyes see a Canon lens, but brain knows only Nikons live Chez Spud. So what is this intruder doing here?
A photocopier accessory
Despite the universally accepted truth than Nikons are better than Canon, my neighbour insists on lugging round a big ‘ol photocopier with him. Bless. He takes great photographs but I was shocked to learn he doesn’t have a trusty nifty fifty in his armoury. It took me about 10 seconds to persuade him to buy one and today I took delivery of this little baby.
Mmmmm, pretty…look at its fastness, its bokeh-ry goodness, its compactness, its toner tray and ink cartridges….if he’d gone for the f1.4 it probably would have had an automatic stapler function.
Naturally I had to take it out of the box as I needed a couple of copies of some documents. Also, it needed a CLEAN. How can a brand new lens, right out of the factory, need a clean? I got busy with my Giotto’s rocket blower thingy and now it’s sparkly clean and ready to copy.
Joking aside, I’m so excited. I adore my 50mm and have to wrench it off my camera sometimes just to shake things up a bit. I can’t wait for Adrian to get going with his new lens as I know he’ll be hooked in minutes and won’t be able to understand how he lived without it.
I love that feeling of letting people in on a secret, adding something to their lives that you just KNOW is going to be a hit. Which got me thinking about book recommendations, when you can’t believe that someone hasn’t ready xyz book and you implore them to read it. And they do, and they love it, and you all bask in the shared wonderfulness of the discovery.
For me, it’s A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I get a thrill when I come across someone who hasn’t read it but I’m also a little bit jealous as they are about to get to read Owen Meany for the first time. Bitter sweet. A bit like watching West Wing or Mad Men – it’s so fabulous you can’t stop watching it but at the same time you want to slow time down because you know at some point The Last Episode will come.
So what’s the book, the music, the programme, the ‘discovery’ you have that you love to share with people. Share it with us, we all need a little joy!
