(via Wissen belastet)
Sorry, this post about German translation mistakes is not available in English.
And there’s a “1.4” to go with the “50mm”, since this is about my new lens, the Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM.
First test object, especially to compare the depths of focus, was my greening Christmas star (poinsettia), the longevity of which I wrote about here in late February, here first with maximum aperture of 1.4:
And with aperture 8:
If you’re interested: On this gallery page I’ve got seven more aperture steps.
Short and sweet:
(via picspack) 
Requested on April 3rd (with a regular letter), e-mail confirmation of receipt on 9th – and yesterday the money arrived on my account. 
I’m talking about the Cashback campaign by Canon – which they handle in their Promotion Centre in Tipperary (Ireland), hence the title – for my new EOS 40D camera, and given several reports by others about periods of 6-8 or more weeks, I was quite surprised, in a positive way.
(Though it can’t balance the negative surprise caused by my tax bill, which also arrived yesterday, even remotely…)
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