“2.8 lenses are just too slow”
          -adam tow

yeah. ok. then my lenses must be crazy ass slow. but [url=http://www.tow.com]adam[/url] was nice enough to lend me his precious [url=http://www.usa.canon.com/eflenses/lenses/ef_28-70_28l/ef_28-70_28l.html]canon 28-70/2.8[/url] and i’ve been playing with it for the past few days and i must admit that i’m surprised about the lens. it isn’t quite what i expected.

my biggest shock with this lens is that i actually find this range to be rather limiting, surprising as that may sound. i used to use a 28-105 as my primary and when i went back to look at the images, i found that the majority of my images are either in the 28-50mm range or at 105mm.

when i’m using the 28-70, i feel pretty cramped. not much of a zoom to work with and not nearly wide enough. i never thought that this would be a lens that i would walk away from. i never thought that i would walk away from any L lens. but i feel that for the money, this lens is not worth its hefty price tag.
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today has been flying by like you can’t believe. i don’t know where it is going, but i’m surprised that it’s already midafternoon.

this weekend i finally broke down and ate some beef. yup. and it was good. i went to whole foods and got some beef for fajitas and made two batches of fajitas. one chicken, one beef. i had almost forgotten how good beef was until i had my very first fajita. after that, it’s over.

the bad thing about whole foods beef is that it is actually rather pricey. i think that it is almost double the fair market value of comparable beef at safeway. while i was at safeway over the weekend, i saw this family buying all sorts of beef. new york steak, tri-tip, top sirloin…there was more beef on the conveyor belt than there was anything else…with the exception of beer.

beer and steak. steak and beer. mmmmm.

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