This recipe can be made as banana bread or as muffins. With chocolate chips or dusted with powdered sugar. My mother use to make it as a round cake with sliced bananas and cream in between topped with chocolate icing and coconut. If you are dairy intolerant replace the butter with soy butter and the milk with rice milk.

Edmond’s Banana Cake

125g (4ozs.) Butter
175g (6ozs.) Sugar
2 Eggs
2 Mashed Bananas
1 tsp Bicarb Soda
2 tbs Boiling Milk
1 tsp Baking Powder
225g (8ozs.) Flour

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, mashed bananas, then Bicarb Soda (baking soda) dissolved in boiling milk. Lastly add flour and baking powder previously mixed. Bake in two greased sandwich tins (I used the small paper loaf tins and the friand tins) until they turn golden brown at 180 degrees celsius (350 degrees fahrenheit).

One of the reasons I bought the Canon 5D was for its full frame sensor. A full frame sensor in layman terms basically means being able to capture in your images what you see when you look through the eye piece. Nothing is cropped or cut. In other words what you see is what you get and I figured if I could spend money on L lenses then I ought to save on a camera body with a full frame sensor to get the most use out of them. I wasn’t disappointed.

Canon 30D, 50mm f/1.2

But while I’m absolutely in love with my new camera, there is one characteristic about my 30D that I like. And that is that I can get up close, let’s say, to a floral arrangement as seen in the image above in contrast to the closest shot of the same floral arrangement using the 5D below. I have since wondered why anyone hasn’t come up with the idea of making camera bodies (one with a cropped sensor) with an eye piece that represent the exact cropped image after you push the shutter button. Either way, a cropped sensor comes in handy when you want to get as close as possible to your subject. Another reason to keep your old camera I say!

Canon 5D, 50mm f/1.2

I recently upgraded to a Canon 5d (my previous camera was a 30d which I kept as backup). Prior to purchasing the 5d I rented one to see if I would like it. I liked it. One thing I don’t like about the 5d however (and I noticed this about the camera when I rented it) was the amount of time it took to upload images from my compact flash memory card onto the computer compared to the 30d (I don’t use a card reader yet). What usually takes five minutes to upload 20 images with the 30d took over an hour with the 5d. Obviously the RAW files in the largest format on a 5d takes a lot of memory compared to the 30d but when you’re pressed for time all that waiting can be irksome. Then I had an idea. I wondered what would happen if I took the card out of the 5d and put it in the 30d THEN uploaded the images onto the computer. In other words would the images upload onto the computer faster. And sure enough they did. One good reason to keep your old camera.