free-lensing in Vienna...

baby sea lion

yet another baby born at Zoo Schönbrunn means yet another blog post with pictures of cute little baby animals ;)
this time it's a baby sea lion, who is 3 days old right now, but already can make quite loud noises





and some more from today ;)

baby giraffe: Arusha

finally caught a glimpse of the newest member of Zoo Schönbrunn. A "little" baby giraffe called Arusha!! she's actually not that little considering she was already taller than me when she was born ;)

well I guess compared to the other giraffes she's still tiny

still a little wobbly on the legs and following mom around, but oh so cute!!

new lens: Tokina 28mm f2.8

I went to a flea market last saturday and purchased an analog Tokina RMC 28mm f2.8 for only 8€ :) ordered an adapter as soon as I found out which mount it is so I could use it on my digital camera. Today it finally arrived, so naturally I used the trip to the library to test it out.

the guy at the photography store said it won't compare to a digital lens, which I already expected cause it's a third party lens and an adapter is necessary. so I thought those definitely won't benefit the quality of the pictures, but I think it's doing quite ok on my Olympus :) ESPECIALLY for the price I paid!!!

self portraits are a little hard and took quite some time since you have to focus manually...

also took my first steps into freelensing. takes some time to get it right and most of the shots are out of focus, but I'll definitely will try it again

will try it out in the Zoo the next time I work and will also try to get a proper pictures of the baby giraffe that's been born in Schönbrunn!!!