The UPS website said to expect the package by 12PM on Tuesday. My wife waited patiently until 3:15, when she needed to go out and pick up Bella. At 3:21 the UPS man showed up. Oddly enough, the UPS website, even AFTER 12PM said the package was on time and should be delivered at 12PM. Now, you could argue that maybe they don't have a live update, but minutes after the attempted delivery I did see the failure.

So, if they know where the truck is, what's been delivered so far, and where I am in the queue, why can't I get a reasonable delivery estimate? Because they can charge extra for that. Grrr. I'm hating you more and more UPS.

Today I stayed home from work to save my wife from having another unproductive day of waiting for Mr. Brown.

I must say, the comments about the 1Ds Mark II having awkward controls don't do this camera justice. I've never seen anything as obfuscated as this, ever. I'm nearly 40, so I was around when home PCs were a new thing, when people tried all sorts of unusual things. The menu and image navigation controls are a particularly quirky design I hope to never see repeated.

The LCD screen is amazing(ly bad). The previous owner (who's name is embedded in my images, which you can't change outside of EOS Utility, which no longer supports this camera) had the LCD set too bright, so everything looked over-washed out and blurry. Now it just looks blurry. I mean, this screen must have been considered a joke in 2004. Truly.

The Custom functions are fun. Half of them are not camera settable, you must use EOS utility. For things as advanced as "Burst rate", with options as convoluted as 1, 2, 3, and 4. Nope, can't possibly set that in camera. You'll note above, modern copies of EOS utility won't speak to this camera. I told you it was fun!

The pictures though, they are pretty. It's hard to judge here, because, as usual, my images are slightly too big for my Flickr account, and Flickr resizes them. I've just noticed that images from this camera get super extra sharpened by Flickr. It didn't do that to my T1i or 7D images. No idea what Flickr is thinking. Perhaps I'll find time to upload some smaller images tomorrow.


70300L by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr


70300L_100pc by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr


85b by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr


85 by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr


50 by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr