Advantages: atmospheric, fullydevelops Mr Rochester's mad Wife Disadvantages: Difficult to read in parts,
?s existing characters. I feel there is an issue with prequels and sequels to classic books written by other authors. I have read some pretty dire ones including the sequel to Gone with the Wind. In my opinion classic characters should be left well alone and not tampered with at all. However I was pleasantly surprised with Wide Sargasso Sea. The book does taker most of the major characters concerned with the mad wife such as Mr Rochester, Richard Mason (her brother) and the servant Grace Poole and uses some of the situations that have been referred to in Jane Eyre. However it never refers to Jane Eyre herself and thus does not refer to any of the events written about in detail in the original Bronte classic
The book published in the 1960s itself is a slim volume and has only 156 pages. My copy is an old Penguin copy bought from a charity shop ...
Advantages: "We joined the navy to see the world?." Disadvantages: "And what did we see? We saw the sea." (Irving Berlin)
?I must go down to the seas again,
To the lonely sea and the sky.? (John Masefield)
Never fear; I?m not about to start waxing lyrical about the sea. I?m more in the Irving Berlin camp than in the Masefield. I quote the lines above to illustrate the fact that even the most feverish of fanatics for the sea has to admit that maritime views are limited, consisting as they do of just two lonely elements: water and sky. And it?s stretching a point to include the sky, which can equally be seen above land as above sea. So, essentially, we?re talking about water.
Water, it might be argued, is not entirely monotonous to look at. The sea has moods, which it expresses in the colour of its complexion. Sometimes, it can be a tranquil turquoise, sometimes an inscrutable indigo, sometimes a grudging greeny-grey. Occasionally, it rears ...
Advantages: Excellent field of view Disadvantages: none that I have found in months of use
Sigma Wide Zoom Lens.
If you want a panorama of a landscape then you
should try this lens.
Described as 12 - 24mm f5-5.6 EX DG Aspherical HSM
Technical details first.
To fit Sigma, Canon and Nikon (D)
Lens construction Groups/elements 12 / 16
Angle of view (degrees) 122.0 - 84.1
Diaphragm blades 6
Minimum Aperture (wide) F22
Minimum Focus (cm/in) 28/11
Filter size (mm) Rear Mount gelatin filter
Dimensions diameter x length 87/100mm / 3.4" x 3.9"
Weight (g/oz) 615/21.6
Fitted with Hypersonic motor.
Comes with its own carry case with a belt mounting attachment and template to make the gel filters.
This is a lens designed for a digital camera.
It is an ultra wide angle lens (122 degrees)
at 12mm along the diagonal axis and is ideal
for both indoor and landscape photography.
The lens ...
