Last library image

This will be the last image I post from my outing to the Seattle Central Library. I was wandering through the reference section and decided to do some shots of the giant reference tomes that they have sitting around. Lots of them seemed sort of random to me; I'm not sure, for example, why it's important for the Seattle library system to have a copy of the Honolulu city directory from 1961. This seems like exactly the sort of information that should be digitized, instead of having this one gigantic book sitting around gathering dust.

Photobabble: The more I use it, the more I think my 35mm f/2.0 lens is clearly better than my 28mm f/2.8. I like its contrast and color rendition better, and it's sharper. Highly recommended. Both lenses end up being normal-ish in terms of field-of-view on the 20D; the 35mm has a FoV equivalent to a 56mm lens on a 35mm film camera (so, very slightly telephoto), and the 28mm has the FoV of a 45mm lens (so, very slightly wide-angle).

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