Twin City Photos

Back from Germany and back in the local time zone (slept till 4:30 this morning, yeah), finally getting around to posting again. This is one of the pedestrian walks leading up to the Hofbräuhaus, a required stop for any trip to Munich. We did miss the Octoberfest, but there was plenty of Octoberfest beer left, in many places drawn from wooden barrels. There’s just no describing the flavor an authentic Octoberfest beer has. Lets just say my first beer back home was a bit disappointing.

This photo was taking with my new 70-200mm f/4L image stabilized lens, hand held at 1/25th sec at 70mm (about 110mm if you include the crop factor of my Xti), focused on the ‘Fan Shop’ sign. I’m pretty pleased how the IS works. My choices were an f/2.8 or f/4 with IS (f/2.8 with IS was a bit steep). The IS gains you about 3 stops vs the 1 stop. Seems like a good choice.

We ended up with a BMW :) as a rental car, and I got it up to 220km/hr (almost 140mph) on the way from the airport to Munich, before I ran out of open road. The speedometer went up to 260, maybe next time we’ll have a little more road.