Why is it?

It brings up a thinking of “too poor to own one”?

And why public has such a negative thought?

Can’t it be “I don’t want to leave my parents”?

Or “I want to look after my parents”?

Now does it looks humiliating?

Most of the people today want to live as far and as soon as they could from their parents after marriage. And why?

It does really sounds like they hate their parents and just want to stay away from them.

Does it sounds humiliating?

Public must have been missed that thought.

Most of the people today marry at the age of 30, or even worse, older than 30, still single.

Because what? Because they needed to have “asset” to fulfill “public admiral”.

One day when you’re old and you will have wanted to live longer to see your child’s life, or maybe your grandchild.

Too bad its too late.

Cause you’ve been trying to satisfy public, not yours.

Or maybe you won’t, because you hate one.

HAHA!

Give a person a million ringgit, he/she would want to buy alot of stuffs. Give a person a hundred ringgit, he/she will only buy 1 or few things.

When options overwhelming, thought goes wilder.

When I shoot, I have to pick wide angle, or tight cropping. Straight composition or slanted? How about setting? Vivid? Or standard? Sharpness, saturation, contrast? And then I ended up shot a bunch of no-keeper.

Lately I’ve been limited myself with a 50mm prime lens. So that I would’nt picky on cropping/angle. I will have to accept every picture I shot with the prime. Then I shot RAW only. To prevent a bunch of no-keeper.

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Today went to Penang. Looking for a tripod. There are a lot of camera shops around KOMTAR area. They offer competitive price, comparable or even cheaper than in KL.

But first I went to Plaze Gurney, just lurking around. It still early, around 3 pm when I reached there.

Nothing catch my eyes in Gurney… All those expensive stuffs were not really for me. Heaven for fashionista, no-no for me…

Walk along Gurney Drive… Some food stalls nearby already open, even its still 4pm.

Then I look at a log settled on beachfront and found some mudskippers, a fish species that can survive on land…

Can you spot the mudskippers?

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still didn’t found it? click here

Gurney Drive

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And then I went to Taman Kota Lama. My favourite spot to sit, and let the time pass by…

There are many old men hang around here...

And catch the sunset… Ops… The sun is on the west… Not east…

P/S: Picture taken with cam mounted on tripod. THIS IS THE FIRST PICTURE EVER ON TRIPOD!!!

WordPress is great… But not with the combination of Screamyx which make loading/uploading picture like waiting for bank loan aprroval.

One mistake that I rojaked this wordpress as well… Game, photograph, family, personal life, friends all under 1 web is just going to blur people out, “What the hell is this blog was about?”.

I will not abandon wordpress straight away, I’ll use 2 blog anyway. It will just become less post count for either one.

Have a nice day

Not only focused on A-mount, there were also general tips and tricks on handling SLRs or even digicam. Recommended for those who ever used or wanted to own a camera!

A-mount

I woke up and ready to bath around 7.40 later on… I saw this…

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Is this a squirrel?? It was wayyy uglier than I think squirrel was…

Well it just trapped inside house so what I do is open the door and went to bath. It was gone when I came out.

Squirrel isn’t cute =9

Held in e-Gate Starbucks.

E Gate

This is my first TT session – although there are Alpha Perak, but some how there are always some reasons prevented me from going TT (rain and stuffs).

To be honest, this is also the first time I ever hang out in Starbucks. Yeah I didn’t order myself a drink. What a cheapo me.

Overall its a new great experience. Discussing photography face to face, get to try new gears, shares point of view, comparing gears and etc. Now I regretted that I did not try harder to attend myself in Alpha Perak TT.

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Not much shots of the attendant. But I’ll put as much as possible.

Ivan aka Fishy

Zimmy

Zimmy & George

Hafeez testing out the Beercan

There are another 5 person. But sadly didn’t take any picture of them.

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Not much of poison tonight, don’t know its lucky or bad luck.

However the most poisonous gear was:

Hafeez's a300+50 1.4+VG

50mm 1.4 did impress me. While my shutter speed was limitted to 1/25 sec top on my 50mm @ 1.7. With 1.4, it allows me to do up to 1/60! A great advantage over blurry image.

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Another common poison was the COBRA – flashgun HVL-F58AM to be exact.

Why called cobra? Because its the only flashgun that can swivel right and left with flash still facing front.

Size comparison between my F42 and F58. F58 was much larger and could bump into my head while looking into optical view. The moving mechanism was very smooth! Compared to my F42 which have to press a button to unlock head position before it allows to swivel around.

F58 & F42

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Another typical poison: Beercan

Minolta legendary beercan

Great bokeh, sharp image, high IQ, internal focusing rotation, fixed F/4 throughout 70~210mm.

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But for me the most poisonous part was the flash diffuser. Strange enough huh?

F42 with flash diffuser

I managed to test the between diffuser shot and non-diffuser shot.

Here the shots:

Flash diffused

Flash not diffused

EXIF of both shots:

Focal length: 50mm

F-number:  F/1.7

Exposure time: 1/80 sec

ISO speed: ISO 100

Of course some people may ask: “Isn’t it the brighter the better?”

The answer is no. Non diffused flash kills the ambient light and too harsh for portraiture – which will caused unpleasent reflection on skin tone. Not to mention it wiped out the white balance and causes harsh shadow of subject.

I might wanna get one! Haha.

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The whole Alpha entry level DSLR, opss missed the a100.

From left to right: a350, a200 and a300

Got to test the kit lens SAL 55-200 too, one of the item on my wishlist while ago.

55200 image @ 200mm

Sharp indeed.

EXIF:

Focal length: 200mm

F-number:  F/5.6

Exposure time: 1/60 sec

ISO speed: ISO 800

I uploaded pic of 50mm to compare the subject distance.

Minolta 50mm 1.7

Left at around 11.40 PM.

Great time I had here. Looking forward for more TT and hopefully photoshooting next time. =DDD