Our New Year presents
Since it is a bit too early for the Russian Orthodox Christmas yet (it's on Jan 7th), these are actually our New Year presents (also a bit too early ;) ), counts as Catholic Christmas though ;)
(BTW it always confuses my Chinese friends that there are two Christmases, "how a god can have two birthdays" they ask).
Even since we moved to US I was missing ability to drive fast (hate the tickets in US!), so recently reading how modern race simulators are doing good jobs, I decided it might be a good way to obtain some real skill (and a safe one at that too).
So I got a racing chair (playseats), Logitech G27 wheel, playstation 3 and GT5 Prologue.
Pretty happy with that so far.
My wife got Canon 5D mk2.
We were long thinking that it would be nic to have something to shoot video with. The camcorders are not up to task since we mostly shoot our video in pretty dark conditions (shows and concerts) so it seems video DSLRs are the only contenders in this field regardless of their shortcomings.
an example of truly low light shooting with 5Dmk2 is pretty amazing
We also test-drived 7D while performs pretty good too (the difference is mostly visible on our 52" TV, not on small laptop screen):
Another unexpected benefit of 5D turned out to be in the pictures area. Somehow the pictures turn up much more fine detail that I get used to with my 1Dmk3.
For example our recent dinner looks really lovely:
And at that happy note, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.
Aiyaa~!
Great stuff!! That's my dream camera right there.
I like your racing game set up. Brilliant (^^)
Drool~~~~~~