Last week the temperature suddenly dropped a few degrees and presaged the arrival of fall so when I heard there was another photowalk planned I jumped at the chance to savour the last days of good weather. On a lark, I took among my load a really crappy camera: the Olympus Trip AF S-2.

I don't have much to say except that I feel pretty comfortable with my 7D even though the 60D does pretty much everything the 7D does for most shooting situations and has an adjustable (and improved) LCD for more comfortable video shooting. The 7D has the greater FPS. 8FPS vs 5.3.

This is one of those situations where DPReviews' nice side-by-side comparison web feature is extremely useful.

On the L lens front, I think a few people who always wanted an L lens might be drooling at replacing their consumer mid-to-telephoto zoom with the new EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM. I'm not sure if it replaces their nice consumer 70-300 that I used to own (before going up to the 100-400L) but you can bet the build is going to be substantially better.

Cue: "Hinterland: Who's Who" music...

I've only done a handful of video so far with the Canon 7D so no marks for creativity on this one. I was more impressed that I could actually see something reasonable at ISO 6400. This was about 20 minutes after sundown so while there was reasonable light to see someone with, to the naked eye actually you could hardly make out this beaver swimming in the pond. Obviously, I would have benefited by using a tripod and/or stabilizer.

This doesn't count for much on a day with hostage takings gone wrong, people stuck under the earth for months, and planes going down but: I hate that whenever I plug my iPhone into cradle it kicks my scanner off the Twain-chain. And all of my scans go into the ether. HATE. THAT.

I've been to a number of Zombie Walks now but stopped going because it's so much work. It's not the walking, it's the running around taking photographs. Plus, to be in the spirit of things, you have to be part of it, not just gawk and not just take pictures. So I hadn't been there for three or more years so I was amused to see that the hordes of the undead had swelled. From the picture below I would estimate 2000 easily, and probably more.

Although Indian Arm isn't that far away from civilization it very well could be since there is nothing along the inlet except assorted lodges and houses. This spot where I took this long exposure was in a relatively sheltered part of the inlet, a tiny park called Twin Islands. We had the good fortune of snagging the best campsite facing the inlet. It was such a warm night we never bothered to set up a tent and instead took naps between long exposures.