Mark Greenmantle Photography

I’d love to retire my main gig lens, the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 sometime in the next year and Nikon have FINALLY given us something worth spending the cash on.

from: http://www.photoreview.com.au/Nikon/reviews/cameraaccessories/afs-nikkor-24mm-f14g-ed-lens.aspx
Claimed as one of ‘the most hotly anticipated lenses in recent memory’, the new AF-S Nikkor 24mm f/1.4G ED lens has been designed for professional reportage and landscape photography. With its large maximum aperture and wide field of view, it features a new optical design that provides high image quality, minimal distortion and excellent edge-to-corner sharpness, especially at wider aperture settings

Thank you Nikon, it’s been a long wait for this beastie!

Mark Greenmantle Photography is now viewable via your mobile device. I’m still testing the different code for functionality and style but the essentials are (for now) up and running.

In other news, I’m looking forward to seeing the advances to Adobe Creative Suite when the shiny new CS5 is released in October this year. Fingers crossed that we might be able to test the beta version at Digilab Professional where it would certainly get a very good workout. Recently the newest version of Adobe Lightroom 3 beta2 was released for testing and it’s certainly winning me over, despite what seems to be a memory problem or gremlin in the code. My work copy had an issue with my Wacom drivers and other Adobe forum users reported the need to update drivers. Oddly though, I was using the latest Wacom driver. Using identical system setup here at home I’ve had less hassles and use the same drivers. *shrug* It’s a beta, these things are expected. Available here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

Keen to hear anyone else’s experiences with Lightroom bugs using the new beta. And here’re a few photos: