Sometimes the best things in the world is free(or cheap). I’ve been looking at telephoto lenses for the past few weeks. I’m thinking of buying the DA* 50-135 f2.8(IQ is excellent but heavy and expensive) or should I settle for a DA 55-300(light and IQ is good for the money). I’m also considering the FA 77 Ltd(IQ is great, light but not flexible).

The last Wednesday night I saw a second-hand Pentax SMC 75-150mm f4 on the Clubsnap’s buy and sell forum. I got the lens for SGD 110 after bargaining. The lens is small but heavy. The zoom creeps a little when I put it on 75mm. I need to hold it when I shoot at that focal length. It is fully manual. I don’t mind though. At least I can work on my manual focusing skills.

For now my lust to buy new lenses is satiated.

Note:

IQ = Image Quality

This is old news but I still shook my head when I stumbled on it again.

Snippets from the Inquirer. This is a proposal made by Chiz Escudero.

Subjects like trigonometry, calculus, geometry, and algebra, should be taught only in college or as high school electives since these are not relevant to the everyday life of Filipinos, he said.

“If by any chance they are able to reduce the curriculum by half, we would effectively double the number of classrooms in a day and overnight, because we can now use the classroom twice over instead of simply being used once, given the overburden curriculum that our children have,” he said.

Sheesh!