16 January 2010
Hybrids of european aurochs and american bison can be found in Toksovo.
Hybrids of european aurochs and american bison can be found in Toksovo.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Mirror lenses: Samyang 800mm
There are a lot of 800mm mirror lenses (Samyang, Rokinon
, Vivitar
, Bower
, Phoenix
, Opteka
etc.) on the market and most of them are very similiar with the only one difference: label.
As you can see, these type of lenses costs around 200-300$. It is about 40-50 times less than price of Canon 800mm. Disadvantages: manual focus and absence of image stabilizer may make you crazy if you have no tripod.
Diameter: 105mm
As I've said already, it is pretty hard to use this lenses without tripod.
Samyang 800mm is mounted onto Canon EOS 450D via T-Mount -> EF
adapter:
You can also buy 2x converter
to get amazing 2560mm focal length
Install it and your camera and lenses will start looking like RPG 40 Antitank Grenade or some part of gas mask:
You can find sample photos that I have taken using my Canon EOS 450D camera with Samyang 800mm below.
Alexander Column's Angel (distance ~70m)
Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
Face of the Angel of Alexander Column (distance ~70m, Samyang 800mm + 2x extender). Yet another disadvantage: this type of lenses are not so sharp, but remember the price.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
View on the Admiralty building from Vosstaniya Square (distance ~2km, Samyang 800m + 2x extender)
Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral's Angel.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Crescent at the Mosque.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral's Angel.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral's Angel.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Saint Isaac's Cathedral and part of Peter and Paul Fortress
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Alexander Column's Angel
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Angel of Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
, Vivitar, Bower, Phoenix, Opteka etc.) on the market and most of them are very similiar with the only one difference: label.As you can see, these type of lenses costs around 200-300$. It is about 40-50 times less than price of Canon 800mm. Disadvantages: manual focus and absence of image stabilizer may make you crazy if you have no tripod.
Diameter: 105mm
As I've said already, it is pretty hard to use this lenses without tripod.
Samyang 800mm is mounted onto Canon EOS 450D via T-Mount -> EF
adapter:You can also buy 2x converter
to get amazing 2560mm focal lengthInstall it and your camera and lenses will start looking like RPG 40 Antitank Grenade or some part of gas mask:
You can find sample photos that I have taken using my Canon EOS 450D camera with Samyang 800mm below.
Alexander Column's Angel (distance ~70m)
Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
Face of the Angel of Alexander Column (distance ~70m, Samyang 800mm + 2x extender). Yet another disadvantage: this type of lenses are not so sharp, but remember the price.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
View on the Admiralty building from Vosstaniya Square (distance ~2km, Samyang 800m + 2x extender)
Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral's Angel.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Crescent at the Mosque.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral's Angel.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral's Angel.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Saint Isaac's Cathedral and part of Peter and Paul Fortress
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Alexander Column's Angel
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Angel of Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
You can take a look at comparison with Canon EF-S 55-250mm here: http://sahikon.blogspot.com/2011/10/canon-ef-s-55-250-vs-samyang-800-at.html
You can buy these lenses and accessories on Amazon:
Friday, August 26, 2011
Around the Europe for 30 days, Helsinki (10-Sep-10)
10 September 2010
The end of a breakfast in Scandic Continental and the beginning of a new day. Good Morning!
I left the hotel and went to the Central Railway station to buy InterRail ticket.
Vertical panorama of well-known Mannerheim (linear projection, Hugin).
Panhandler at work near Helsinki Central Railway station. I had a stereotype that I will never met beggars/panhandlers/homeless on the streets of European countries. As it will be shown, this meeting was not the last.
Postal office is also placed near the Central Railway station. Nice neon sign.
I recalled immediately Soviet Grocery store, when I saw the entrance to the Postal office. From the very first sight, it looked like Postal Office was selling everything but not the stamps, envelopes and postcards.
By the way, previous photo may help you if you want to find business hours of Helsinki's Postal Office.
And afterall, I came to the Central station and bought Interrail Global Pass. This kind of ticket allows you to take any train in Europe and pay nothing or pay a little for the seat reservation. Some of the participants are not related to trains at all (e.g. some ferries offers discount for Interrail owners).
I had a lot of time before my ferry to Rostock, so I decided to walk around.
The travel journal in the Postal Museum's store had the map of the USSR on it:
The Postal museum was very interactive. This museum is the perfect example for me what may happen if things are organized and managed well.
Postal car:
Post in different times:
Postcards of different times (horizontal panorama):
Interactive Postman game. Bike is the game controller: everybody can drive the bike of the postman to help him deliver the post.
I left the postal museum.
...To be continued.
P.S. You can always find all posts related to my trip if you will search posts by tag "around the europe".
The end of a breakfast in Scandic Continental and the beginning of a new day. Good Morning!
I left the hotel and went to the Central Railway station to buy InterRail ticket.
Vertical panorama of well-known Mannerheim (linear projection, Hugin).
Panhandler at work near Helsinki Central Railway station. I had a stereotype that I will never met beggars/panhandlers/homeless on the streets of European countries. As it will be shown, this meeting was not the last.
Postal office is also placed near the Central Railway station. Nice neon sign.
I recalled immediately Soviet Grocery store, when I saw the entrance to the Postal office. From the very first sight, it looked like Postal Office was selling everything but not the stamps, envelopes and postcards.
By the way, previous photo may help you if you want to find business hours of Helsinki's Postal Office.
And afterall, I came to the Central station and bought Interrail Global Pass. This kind of ticket allows you to take any train in Europe and pay nothing or pay a little for the seat reservation. Some of the participants are not related to trains at all (e.g. some ferries offers discount for Interrail owners).
I had a lot of time before my ferry to Rostock, so I decided to walk around.
The travel journal in the Postal Museum's store had the map of the USSR on it:
The Postal museum was very interactive. This museum is the perfect example for me what may happen if things are organized and managed well.
Postal car:
Post in different times:
Postcards of different times (horizontal panorama):
Interactive Postman game. Bike is the game controller: everybody can drive the bike of the postman to help him deliver the post.
I left the postal museum.
...To be continued.
P.S. You can always find all posts related to my trip if you will search posts by tag "around the europe".
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Around the Europe for 30 days, Helsinki (09-Sep-10)
Hi,
I'm going to start posting here photos from my railroad trip around the Europe (2010'09 - 2010'10).
Let's get started! The first part is Helsinki, Finland.
My trip started in my hometown, Saint Petersburg. It is not that Saint Petersburg in Florida, USA, but the original one - Saint Petersburg in Russian Federation.
Helsinki is the capital of Finland and can be reached by train Saint-Petersburg - Helsinki for example. At the time of writing, the fastest train (a.k.a. "Allegro") will overcome this distance in about three hours, but at the time of my trip it was six hours (this train was known as "Sibelius").
09-Sep-2010
Hometown, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Finland Railway station.
I took afternoon Sibelius, so I arrived at night to Helsinki Central Railway station (aka Helsingin päärautatieasema and Helsingfors centralstation in Finnish and Swedish accordingly). The station is organized well and not so big, so there was no problem to navigate in the right direction.
I booked room for one night in Scandic Continental online via booking.com. This hotel is in walking distance from the Helsinki Central Railway station (~10-15 minutes) and can be reached easily.
Try to find some panorama stitching bugs on the photo of my room in Scandic Continental:
P.S. You can always find all posts related to my trip if you will search posts by tag "around the europe".
I'm going to start posting here photos from my railroad trip around the Europe (2010'09 - 2010'10).
Let's get started! The first part is Helsinki, Finland.
My trip started in my hometown, Saint Petersburg. It is not that Saint Petersburg in Florida, USA, but the original one - Saint Petersburg in Russian Federation.
Helsinki is the capital of Finland and can be reached by train Saint-Petersburg - Helsinki for example. At the time of writing, the fastest train (a.k.a. "Allegro") will overcome this distance in about three hours, but at the time of my trip it was six hours (this train was known as "Sibelius").
09-Sep-2010
Hometown, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Finland Railway station.
Inside the car of "Sibelius" train. The car was almost filled with a group of tourists from Asia (as far as I remember, they were from Indonesia).
I took afternoon Sibelius, so I arrived at night to Helsinki Central Railway station (aka Helsingin päärautatieasema and Helsingfors centralstation in Finnish and Swedish accordingly). The station is organized well and not so big, so there was no problem to navigate in the right direction.
I booked room for one night in Scandic Continental online via booking.com. This hotel is in walking distance from the Helsinki Central Railway station (~10-15 minutes) and can be reached easily.
Try to find some panorama stitching bugs on the photo of my room in Scandic Continental:
P.S. You can always find all posts related to my trip if you will search posts by tag "around the europe".
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Test results: Google Socialize rocks!
I wish to have Google Socialize integrated with Facebook as well.
Google Socialize twits almost immediately. Twitterfeed checks the feed every 30 minutes and may skip some posts.
Google Socialize twits almost immediately. Twitterfeed checks the feed every 30 minutes and may skip some posts.
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