Finally going
digital
 I
borrowed a Nikon D70 SLR from a friend for the weekend. It's about
time to switch to digital. D70 is Nikon's cheapest digital SLR
and when it was originally announced (January 2004) it was the
answer to the new sub-$1,000 digital SLR market, its apparent
competitor being the Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel. The D70 features
six megapixel CCD sensor and Multi-CAM900 auto focus system. I
took some pictures around downtown
Toronto (Dundas Square
and CN Tower), and some
animals and kids.
I also tested my telephoto lens. The lens has focal length of
70-300mm, but the photo taken on digital camera and film camera
is different due to the crop factor. Crop factor comes from the
fact that the CCD sensor is smaller than the a frame of 35mm film
camera. The digital slr crops out the center portion of a given
lenses field of view, but the image is still at the full resolution
of the digital sensor. The angle of view is reduced to the same
as that of a lens of 1.5 or 1.6 times greater focal length on
a 35mm format camera, which means that picture taken with my 300mm
lens looks like a photo taken with 450mm lens on film camera.
That allows for some good looking macro shots of flowers,
wood or a squirrel
:-)
New Soccer Site
 Soccer
Forums have moved to a new site Soccer
Toronto. We'll try to turn it into the authority site for
Toronto Soccer with
sections for Toronto
pickup soccer (both indoor and outdoor), Toronto
soccer leagues, soccer
pubs and bars in Toronto, and a lot more. The new outdoor
season in Eglinton Park start next Thursday (April 14) at 6pm
providing the weather will be good and the ground will be dry
enough. The winter has been long and we all can't wait to start
playing again. Some of us have been playing squash this winter,
so hopefully our shape will be better than at the beginning of
last year's season.
Update - May 11: SoccerToronto.com ranks #1
on MSN & Yahoo for most of the targeted terms (soccer Toronto,
Toronto soccer, Toronto soccer league, Toronto pick-up soccer...),
which is a great achievement considering that we're been up only
for a few weeks. And more good news - seems like none of those
terms are sandboxed
on Google, since the site is in top 10 result there too!
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