These were taken over Christmas Day and Boxing Day near Winchester (Otterbourne) with just a handful of shots – the batteries for my ancient Canon 1DS are somewhat reluctant in the cold – and it was very cold on the second morning!
Grazing In The Misty Morning
Misty Morning
Mist On The Downs
A few photos from a few weeks ago … difficult to process so I’ve been lazy in keeping them back until now …
A Sign In The Sky
Darkening Island
Sandy Southsea
Walking The Beach
Nothing To Say
This was supposed to be a trip to Rowland’s Castle, but the railways let me down – sure there was a replacement bus service which I’m sure would get me to Rowland’s Castle, but back again ? Anyway instead of heading off there, I ended up in Havant with the best option there being a quick trip to Hayling Island :-
Post Interference
The “interference” here is the interference patterns in the water breaking up the mirror image of the post.
Distant Oak
Time for a pint ?
Bridge Fastening
An outing along the seafront to make some images :-
The Hovercraft
The quick way to get to the Isle of Wight, but leave your car behind!
Four Pillars
Rough Grain
All I can say is that it is about time it came out … indeed it is long overdue given the old Ds is now nearly 4 years old. The old Canon 1DS III is looking a little long in the tooth now in comparison to Nikon and other full-frame cameras – 21megapixels as compared to 24.5megapixels in the Nikon DX3. Of course high pixel counts are overrated, but for instance the DX3 is capable of recording relatively low-noise images at far higher ISO ratings than the 1DS3.
So where is it ? Of course there is a great deal of resistance to jumping ship and moving to Nikon from Canon because of the large investment in lenses that many of us have made. But sooner or later people are going to ditch Canon in favour of Nikon, so Canon needs to bring out the 1DS IV pretty sharpish.
Of course I am only interested because the new camera will cause the prices of second hand 1Ds IIIs to drop through the floor and I’ll be able to pick one up for a reasonable price to replace my 1Ds I 🙂