Reading is fundamental, folks. Seriously.
In other news, my tax rebate arrived yesterday, so I did my part to stimulate the economy by buying a toy lens for my camera. Also file folders, light bulbs, and cat food. Exciting, eh? The rest is going to pay bills.
The lens is the Lensbaby I tried to buy a few months ago. I ordered it through a 3rd party and received the wrong mount for my camera, so I sent it back. Instead of replacing it with the correct one, they credited the charge back to my card, and I decided to be a grown up and spend the money on bills instead of re-ordering. I already have the Lensbaby macro kit. At some point, I’ll need to get a wide angle/telephoto kit, too. Those run $89.
Lensbabies have a fixed aperture, which you can manually swap out (I think the one I bought comes with three different aperture sizes). They also sell pre-cut fun aperture shapes (hearts, stars, etc.) as well blanks that you can cut yourself.
Anyway, my Lensbaby is shipping USPS (free!). I hope it gets here soon, because the wait might just killerate me.
red paper boat 