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10 Custom Bokeh Photos
Found this neat article on creating your own Bokeh. Looks like something I can try with the 50mm.
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Nifty Fifty has arrived
After waiting for about two weeks, I finally got the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens from Merkle Camera on Wednesday. As mentioned in my previous post about the lens, Merkle did not inform me that my item was back-ordered until I sent in an e-mail. Their usual policy is that orders are sent out within 2 business days and, in the event that there was any delay, they’d notify me directly. Not only did they not notify me, their response times were abysmal.Onto the lens
I took a bunch of photos over the past two days and I’ve attached a few of them to this post. I’m still playing around with apertures to see what works best in what situation so I imagine that my photos aren’t the greatest.[nggtags gallery=2012_04_19_20 template=compact] (more…)
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OTA Channels
After setting up the antenna upstairs on top of a computer table and some boxes (not ideal but it works!), I can now get the channels listed below. I’ve also attached my TV Fool report to the right. The antenna is connected to the downstairs TV via a 50′ coaxial cable purchased from Infinite Cables (Warden/Alden).
At the moment, I don’t reliably get NBC or WNYB. As far as I know, WNYB is a religious station or runs religious programming 24/7 so I honestly couldn’t care less about it since I wouldn’t be watching those channels anyways. For NBC, I think it’s just a matter of turning the antenna a specific way. Their tower, apparently, is one of the more difficult stations to get from Southern Buffalo so I’m not too worried about it. If I really needed to watch NBC, I could just go upstairs and rotate the antenna.
2.1 WGRZ (NBC), also 2.2
4.1 WIVB (CBS)
5.1 CBLT (CBC)
7.1 WKBW (ABC)
9.1 CFTO (CTV)
17.1 WNED (PBS), also 17.2, 17.3
19.1 TVO (TVO)
23.1 WNLO (CW)
25.1 CBLFT (CBC French)
26.1 WNYB (TBN), also 26.2, 26.3, 26.4
29.1 WUTV (Fox)
29.2 TCN
41.1 CIII (Global), also 41.2
47.1 CFMT (Omni 1)
49.1 WNYO (MyTV), also 49.2
57.1 CITYTV (City)
69.1 CJMT (Omni 2)For more information on over-the-air channels/antennas, click here.
