New lens

As a sort of birthday present to $SELF, I got myself a new lens for my camera yesterday. Well, new—it was a a second-hand lens. In Merksem, apparently there's a photography shop that sells second-hand photography material; so I sold them my 18-55mm lens which was the kit lens of my Nikon D50 (I also have a 18-70mm one which outperforms the 18-55mm in all aspects except weight), and got me a Sigma 28-300mm (f/3.5-6.3) for about €150. That's before subtracting the €25 that I got for the 18-55mm.

The new lens isn't better than the 18-70mm in all aspects (it's not very good for objects close to the camera), but it's a good tele zoom.

So today, with this great weather, I went to the nearby nature area of the "Oude Landen", and tried out the new lens.

I love it.

Really.