今天能吃到大大塊的石班（不只是炸漿）覺得非常感動～～～

萬萬猜不到還未開售的鏡頭不只在Nikon showroom先睹為快，還可以試過夠為止。那天在showroom足足停留了一個多小時，鏡不停的換，服務員仍然沒有半句話，不得不讚Nikon的服務進步不少！

我的測試帶來了過千的點擊率！:D

坦白說我是不太會玩不能預計結果，不能親眼對準前方的那種人，Lomo、Holga注定不我那杯茶。況且120底片真的太昂貴了，如果不是每張都能爆光的話我覺得太浪費了。

現在想起來又點不捨。

最近我賣了兩支陪伴我多年的鏡頭。雖不完全是因為窮，不過多多少少也能幫補一點點，反正年尾也是時候大掃除。其實近幾年已經很少用到它們，它們慢慢地給恆定大光圈、定焦和超聲波馬達的鏡頭所取代。其實當年從底片轉到DX數碼的時候已經很少用上它們，本來以為再轉回全片幅可以給它們派上用場，但可惜年代和技術的不同它們仍然難逃被取代的命運。

說來鏡頭是一項不錯的投資。舊的鏡頭買少見少仍有市場，再加上鏡頭最近年年漲價，我發現鏡頭就算用了八、九年，如果保養得宜仍可以保值八成以上。當然還不可以算是賺了錢，不過若果把拍過的照片計算在內的話該算是物超所值！

Nikkor AF-D 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5 IF-ED

Nikkor AF-D 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 IF (macro)

For loyalty Aperture user like me, the greatest news is Apple finally upgraded the long-waiting Aperture! Before that, sometimes we would feel iPhoto seems more advance in like geo-tagging, face detection, Facebook and Flickr photo sharing. And finally, all these have been integrated into Aperture and makes it double in size. I can’t wait to download the trial version before Chinese new year holiday, but I think as the software I use the most, it’s still worth to upgrade. Just like if it’s one of the most useful lens (hopefully Apple provides upgrade package!), so why not go ahead and upgrade?

Honestly I feel it’s not only large in file size, but also more resource consuming. That’s why we can guess Macbook Pro will be coming very soon! I don’t want to replace my MBP yet. So I guess I will work with both Aperture 2 & 3 a while, and I won’t convert my Aperture 2 library to 3 until I feel more comfortable with the speed.

So let’s go deep into the changes I observed!

The user interface of Aperture 3 is very like the same as 2, so you shouldn’t have much problem to start including all the shortcut keys you’re familiar with. Know how to optimize workspace is the task for any Aperture user.

As mentioned, it has Face & Place migrated from iPhoto. In project panel, it looks very much the same as iPhoto, of cause it supports folder and smart album as before.

Aperture 3 is now 64-bit! That means it can allocate more than 4GB of memory. Well actually I feel it’s more CPU bounded than memory…

Good and bad, the old plug-in were written in 32-bit, to use them you have to restart Aperture in 32-bit. However, I think Aperture 3 can let me eliminate the Facebook and Flickr plug-in from now.

Many features for import

Nicer camera setting display

Focusing point display

Flickr and Facebook synchronization, great!

Place (geo-tagging)

Face, it found many strangers, haha!!

New metadata view option

New selective adjustment