August 2007 Archives

Canon has a Virtual Lens Plant in which you can see how lenses are manufactured.

It's a fascinating documentary video, and worth watching if you have any interest in camera equipment.

Image © Canon, Inc.

There's a long process involved in just making even one piece of glass. When you consider that many lenses contain between 10-18 pieces of glass with various coatings, and with precision being of the utmost importance... you can certainly begin to understand why good camera lenses are so expensive.

Image © Canon, Inc.

You can find more geeky camera goodness in the Canon Camera Museum.

Taken in February 2006, my family and I were at a toddler friends birthday party and young Sara here was walking around and carrying an assortment of balloons. She stepped into light shining in from a set of high windows which created hard shadows on her face... and her hair was standing up due to static electricity from balloons above her head.

She looks rather bewildered, but I think she was just starting to squint a little bit from the light.