{"id":1800,"date":"2012-04-19T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2012-04-19T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T01:24:55","slug":"michigan-light-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/michigan-light-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Light Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not sure How and when the Michigan Light houses got into my &#8216;to-do&#8217; list but i was hoping to do it as soon as the weather got a little better. For a change it was real nice to see $3.70\/Gallon on the gas price. All of us, Chicagoans are living the $4.20\/Gallon lifestyle(Grrrrrrr&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I knew i can only get to 3 of them even while i was planning the trip. So i planned the visit so accordingly to fit the two days i got.<br \/>\nThe 3 light houses i visited,<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Grand Haven Lighthouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitgrandhaven.com\/grand-haven-lighthouse-conservancy-110\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Haven Lighthouse<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Little Sable Point Lighthouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitgrandhaven.com\/grand-haven-lighthouse-conservancy-110\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Sable Point Lighthouse<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Big Sable Point Lighthouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitludingtonstatepark.com\/stories\/big_sable_point_lighthouse_ludington_state_park_lake_michigan\" target=\"_blank\">Big Sable Point Lighthouse<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And it was time to take my 5D Mark3 for a spin. I&#8217;m not gonna review it though but I am gonna put together things that i like about this camera. I did start capturing a video review and decided not to go any further, the sole reason being.. \u00a0I&#8217;m a horrible hand model&#8230; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. First things first, this camera gives me rubber fetish.. yes i said that.. the gripper has been redesigned and it feels so good to hold on to.<br \/>\n2. The LCD panel &#8211; I can write an entire blog to speak about how great it is. 3.2&#8243; with 1,040,000-dot resolution. It is so much lively.<br \/>\n3. Looks like Canon is trying to make their version of Trey Ratcliffs and now 5dM3 can shoot upto 7 exposures in AEB which is great but a dedicated HDR mode!?(Really Canon). A dedicated HDR mode on 5dM3 seems lame to me and it didn&#8217;t perform well either.<br \/>\n4. Electronic level &#8211; when i used Canon 60D, amongst others i did feel it too.. daamn wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have an electronic level in Mark II. and Canon put it in 5DM3(So, Canon was listening&#8230; who knew). It&#8217;s another great feature when you shoot pictures or videos. Takes out the guesswork and the tiny bubble-levels (which easily gets lost in the camera bag corners) out of the equation.<br \/>\n5. And now you can shoot both on a Compact Flash card &amp; SDHC and can also choose which card to store.<br \/>\n6. The AF-System &#8211; 61Point System(Holy.. hell.. that&#8217;s what came to my mind) Canon has put together a separate menu screens for the AF system and the AF is just\u00a0unbelievably\u00a0sharp.<br \/>\n7. One of the most expected feature &#8211; 60fps video.. It&#8217;s here<br \/>\n8. And the other obvious features that everyone knew was coming to 5dM3, the lock button on the dial which prevents from changing modes when a follow focus &amp; other additions are in the way, Audio monitoring jack<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When i was shooting early morning on this Michigan trip, i did turn on the LCD backlight and guess what happened, My exposure wasn&#8217;t the same as what i metered before turning on the LCD. I hit myself in the back of my head and told &#8216;Not more than 3 shots a night(!) for Kumaran anymore&#8217;. Later i did realize it wasn&#8217;t me and it was the camera. I&#8217;m pretty sure this isn&#8217;t something that can be fixed with a firmware update. Though Canon has already acknowledged the issue and has stopped shipping further, I&#8217;m sure someone&#8217;s a$$ is getting kicked at Canon&#8217;s quality team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I&#8217;ve already got a couple of emails asking if it&#8217;s worth upgrading from 5dM2. I did have the same question but now i&#8217;m sold&#8230; the reason being, 5dM3 is entirely a new animal.<br \/>\nNew image processor &#8211; DIGIC 5+,<br \/>\nNew AF system<br \/>\n5DM3 &#8211; It&#8217;s just worth every penny spent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I did spend most of the time playing with the video features and the video is coming sooner on my next blog.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the shots,<\/p>\n<p>Big Sable Point Lighthouse, \u00a0My personal favourite.. A 2-mile hike to this historic lighthouse was completely worth it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter p3-downsized\" title=\"Michigan001\" src=\"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Michigan001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"626\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Little Sable Point Lighthouse, can be reached by a short diversion from the main route.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter p3-downsized\" title=\"Michigan002\" src=\"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Michigan002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"626\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lake Michigan beach near Ludington State Park<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter p3-downsized\" title=\"Michigan003\" src=\"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Michigan003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"629\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Again,\u00a0Big Sable Point Lighthouse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter p3-downsized\" title=\"Michigan004\" src=\"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Michigan004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"626\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grand Haven Lighthouse, Next to the GrandHaven State Park which was under construction and was closed to visitors. Would have been nice if the &#8220;<a title=\"Pure Michigan\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/H9U1hVRMkuE\" target=\"_blank\">Pure Michigan<\/a>&#8221; Commercial mentioned it somewhere(grrrr)..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter p3-downsized\" title=\"Michigan005\" src=\"https:\/\/aperturism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Michigan005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"626\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this trip isn&#8217;t over yet, \u00a0there are 12 more lighthouses i have to visit all around the lake Michigan and I&#8217;m hoping to do it before the end of this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"p3-fb-like-btn-wrap\">\n\t\t<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Faperturism.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F04%2F19%2Fmichigan-light-houses%2F&layout=standard&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&width=450&height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure How and when the Michigan Light houses got into my &#8216;to-do&#8217; list but i was hoping to do it as soon as the weather got a little better. For a change it was real nice to see $3.70\/Gallon on the gas price. All of us, Chicagoans are living the $4.20\/Gallon lifestyle(Grrrrrrr&#8230;). 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