Once again, I appear to have a space problem. With the recent acquisition of a beautiful, gently-used 16-35mm f/2.8L Canon lens, I can no longer fit all my gear into a single camera bag. Considering the variety of camera bags that I own, this is kind of a scary thing. For the moment, I have settled on one bag (my Crumpler 6 Million Dollar Home) for all of my lenses and the 430EXII flash, and another bag (the Crumpler 4 Million Dollar Home) for the camera with 24-105mm f/4L lens attached, flash cards, and battery. At least that will make it a lot easier to “just grab the camera” for quick trips. And for a camera+lens quick trip I still have my beloved purple Crumpler 5 Million Dollar Home right there on the shelf where I can get to it. (And I’m not going to mention the fact that I had to put things like the memory card reader, rain cover, and flash battery charger in yet a third bag for this weekend’s trip.)
Now I guess I need to go update the equipment page to reflect my new toy. Hopefully that f/2.8 will result in some great low-light Christmas pictures.
And to make up for the dearth of pictures lately, due to the overabundance of work-related stress, here’s a picture of the new lens from when I tested it a few weeks ago:
