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I wanna new toy
Many of us through our live times pick up or drop hobbies. For myself though, my choice of hobbies have remained quite the same. I’ve got four interests / hobbies: debating, music composition, gaming,...
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Boys (and girls) with toys
After a nearly six month search for a new camera system to replace my current Konica-Minolta DSLRs setup, we finally decided on going with Nikon. We picked up a Nikon D300 at MSColor yesterday. This...
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"Got game or not…?"
Ling can say the strangest things. I was explaining and showing her the different functions on our D300 yesterday at home. Clearly impressed, she asked innocently: “Wah – got game or not too?!” “Aiyoh...
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"But my face is oily…:("
One of those effects of those weeks of spreadsheet-peering is that I’ve become intimately familiar with pricing of camera systems, lenses and accessories. It’s funny too, because currently right now,...
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HDR and CPL
One of those things I’ve never really gotten around to doing is play around with Photo editing software. I’ve had them for years – e.g. the very first digital camera I bought in 1999 (a Canon S10) –...
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Photographic toys
Here’s a picture of the equipment that Matt brought me, alongside a few other items I’ve picked up in the last month.:) From left to right: Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom Nikkor Lens...
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More CPL foolin'
More fooling around with the B+W circular polarizer filter coupled with the Sigma 10-20mm lens. This quick shot was taken at about 2 pm just outside the living room window over the last weekend, and at...
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If I could dream…
… it’d be of this lens: The Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR LOL. But I’m not crazy: the damn thing costs a whopping ~$2.5K.:(
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D300 + MB-D10
Most of the pictures I took when I first had my SLR in the 80s were portrait shots. Now, the right way to take portrait-styled pictures is to use an underhand rather than an overhand grip. Besides that...
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Armor Class = –10
Check this out: body armor for your expensive DSLR, or in the case below for the D300: Niftly called ‘Camera Armor’, the manufacturer’s blib states that: “Custom Engineered for the Nikon D300, Camera...
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One year later
Time flies! It’s been just over a year since I bought the D300, and I thought it’d be fun to do a short post on what’s happened to it over the first year I’ve owned and used it.:) Cost $2,450 then. Now...
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Musing about lenses
The professional class of photographers typically insist on prime lenses or nothing. But photography is just a hobby and extra-curricular activity for me. As optically incredible and perfect as some of...
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Sigma 18-250mm
So, after giving it a lot of hard thought, I decided a fortnight ago to get an all-in-one travel lens that would give me a bit more reach beyond 55mm, and which I hope will see extensive use when I’m...
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Revisiting HDR
My first HDR – or High Dynamic Range – photographic attempts were over a year ago (blogged here) and didn’t turn out so well. So, after reading the HDR book I picked up from Kinokuniya I went about the...
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