{"id":805,"date":"2005-04-19T18:59:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2005-04-19T18:59:22","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T01:59:22","slug":"new-camera-equip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"New camera equip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I ordered a new lens for my camera. It was a tough decision because I don&#8217;t have the stomach to order something that costs as much as the camera itself, but I wanted something with a nice focal range for general purposes. I tend to favor telephoto over wide angle, so I got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/bnh\/controller\/home;jsessionid=CmBmrhkYn4!896654772?O=WishList.jsp&#038;A=details&#038;Q=&#038;sku=149629&#038;is=USA\">Canon Zoom Wide Angle-Telephoto EF 28-135mm f\/3.5-5.6 IS Image Stabilizer USM Autofocus Lens<\/a> (as well as a lens hood and UV filter).<\/p>\n<p>While the lens I chose is definitely not the best lens on the market, it&#8217;s good for the price, and it will work wonderfully for our trip in October. Hopefully by then I will have mastered it. I&#8217;m still very uncomfortable with this new camera. I know it can perform better than my old Nikon, it&#8217;s just learning how to get it to do so that is my problem. I have no issues with macro shots, it&#8217;s just everything else. I&#8217;m hoping the Image Stabilization will help out as I tend to avoid using a tripod like the plague. I&#8217;m just too lazy to be bothered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I ordered a new lens for my camera. It was a tough decision because I don&#8217;t have the stomach to order something that costs as much as the camera itself, but I wanted something with a nice focal range for general purposes. I tend to favor telephoto over wide angle, so I got the Canon Zoom Wide Angle-Telephoto EF 28-135mm f\/3.5-5.6 IS Image Stabilizer USM Autofocus Lens (as well as a lens hood and UV filter). While the lens I chose is definitely not the best lens on the market, it&#8217;s good for the price, and it will work wonderfully for our trip in October. Hopefully by then I will have mastered it. I&#8217;m still very uncomfortable with this new camera. I know it can perform better than my old Nikon, it&#8217;s just learning how to get it to do so that is my problem. I have no issues <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=805\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}