Tuesdays, Sony Alpha 300, Beef Jerky.

Tuesday brings with it a blog post. Tuesday night brings Chili.

Quick Chili Recipe, that shall be repeated after the stank-ass dented botulism bacteria breeding tin of Almer’s Chili flavoured diced tomatoes.

By the way, I still cannot get over the fact that the people at Almer’s recommended that I eat the Tomatoes and then call the Health Board if I got sick.

1 Wad of chopped up (stewing) beef

1 Wad of Lean Ground Beef

1 Handful of cooked bacon (GREASE IS HOT-BEWARE)

1 tin of Almer’s Chili Flavored Diced Tomatos

2 tins of on-sale tomato paste

1 large tin of on-sale stewed tomatos

1. tin of each red and white kidney beans

1 tin of black beans

1 tin of pigeon beans

1 handful of seasoning — Includes Chili Peppers, and Whatever else you have.

1 measured amount of tomato sauce.

1 portion of leftover mushrooms

1 other pepper, washed, stemmed, seeded.

Instructions. Cook meat. Drain meet. Add Tomato based products to meat. Add Spices. Simmer. Add Beans. Simmer. Add Vegetables and Mushrooms. Simmer.

Serves 1 person for 1 week, eating 2 meals a day.  Serve with Garlic Bread and Immodium.

Camera, Sony Alpha 300 DSLR-A300. Fun.

I got a camera for christmas.  It’s a Sony / Minolta. I spent far too long looking for this camera, but i feel that i made the correct choice.

I felt that the Nikon’s that were of equal price were silly-stupid, and didn’t offer up the awesome.  Many of them didn’t take all Nikon lenses.  Lame.

The Canon XS and XSi looked solid, and were probably better cameras but lacked a few features that i deemed awesome. Canon puts the IS or Image Stablization into the lenses. Which improves performance, or shutterspeed/fstop, over the Sony but also increases cost.

Sony’s tilting LCD / Live View has come in handy. Especially for those tough over or under the adjacent bathroom stall shots. However, as the Alpha has the same mount as the old Minolta AF lenses — grabbing a used lense is cheap.

I hadn’t figured out all the buttons yet, and ended up shooting at 3200 ISO for half a day. Duh.

I ended up grabbing a Sigma 70-300mm f4.0/5.6 lense with a little macro feature at 300mm. It’s turned out well, but the autofocus has been a cunt. I may have to return it, but Henrys has a 90 day warranty.

So I shrunk the image down, cause i’m lazy, but you get the point. I was playing with the aperture and depth of field, and hadn’t read enough to realize that I should have let MOAR light in to have a clear photo without blurring around the edges, OR choose a focal point.

I shrank the zoomed crop down to 70 percent in wordpress, because it wouldn’t fit on the bloody screen.  All and all though, i was pleased with the results.

Damn thing wanted my french fries and kept getting closer and closer, until finally he just bolted.  This is me trying to figure out how White-Balance Works.  All of my other shots are washed out, and it’s too bad.  Most of the other shots showed his war-wounds, and cute little paws.

One final note, I bought a pack of Beef Jerky today figuring it’d last me a bit.  I ate it all by the time I got home, and then proceeded to eat two meals of the day from Burger King.  For some reason, I thought it was Monday and I’d be getting delicious King Supremes but instead got stuck with chicken sandwiches.