Tuesday 14 June 2011

Week #21 of my NEW52 life ...

I'd been coveting a new lens for my camera since the beginning of the year, but I really couldn't justify the expense as DH had only just bought me a lovely new zoom lens for Christmas ... it didn't feel right to cough up even more money for another lens so soon. That though, was before I knew I was being invited to a friend's wedding in Italy. Once the invite dropped on the doormat in January, all I could think of was, how nice it would be if I could have a 50mm f1.4 lens to take with me ... ~sigh~

I started browsing the Internet and came across Warehouse Express, a UK supplier offering a Nikon 50mm f1.4 G AF-S lens for what I thought was a not too unreasonable cost. The only catch was they had no stock. In fact, everywhere I looked had no stock. Every site said I could place the order, but they didn't know when goods would be despatched. It took a while to figure out why, but then I eventually realised ... it was the knock on effect of the terrible earthquake & tsunami in Japan earlier in the year.

Fast forward to Thursday 26th May at approximately 1:25pm ... my lunch break [at work] was almost over and I was just about to log off my laptop and get back to my day job, when I casually glanced at the Warehouse Express website and ... finally the available stock sign was GREEN ... they had 2 in stock!!!

It took me all of 10 seconds to make my decision! My bank card was whipped out of my purse sooooooo fast, I almost gave myself a plastic cut ... and with furious fingers flying across the keyboard, my order was placed ... and the very next day, this lens would be mine!


I the depth of field I'm able to achieve
I that it's easy to use
I my 50mm lens

I'm still practising using it, but here's just a couple of photos I've taken with it [so far] ...


DH not quite frowning, but not quite smiling either


floral decoration at a recent wedding

So you see, my "new" for this particular week was quite big ... but just wait 'til you read what week #22 had in store for me ... I can honestly say, I lost count of all the "new" things I experienced. I'll be back this weekend to share some of them with you!

4 comments:

Soco said...

Wow! Lucky girl! I agree with you Sue, it was definitely a good decision! :)

Helen said...

oh it is a beautiful lens ... hardly ever off my camera! Enjoy and can't wait to see more!

listgirl said...

Hip hip hooray for the new lens! I laughed out loud when you said you almost got a plastic cut from whipping out your charge card so fast, LOL! Enjoy it, your photos are beautiful!

Leiko said...

"My bank card was whipped out of my purse sooooooo fast, I almost gave myself a plastic cut ... and with furious fingers flying across the keyboard, my order was placed ... and the very next day, this lens would be mine!"...probably my favorite quote I've read this week!!! Cannot wait to see what you do with it! the 50 is soooo yummy!