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He Bought a Canon 500D

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 22, 2009 – 1:09 am -

Let’s talk about last week, I brought my brother to my favourite camera shop, the place where I bought my Canon EOS 400D.

I have been to a few camera shops to buy accessories, I realised that service is very important, there’s shop on Penang Road made me felt fucked up because the people simply quote me price and was so not honest, I don’t like that kind of service, I know what they are up to. So service is very important, be friendly to customer and they will come back again.

I personally recommends Matthew at Click N Snap if you are looking for camera accessories. Doing free advertising for him, wonder do I get any privilege or commission? Haha.

Brother wanted to look for a DSLR but he don’t want to buy in Singapore because the price here is cheaper. We spent like a few hours in the shop because he couldn’t make up his mind. After a long long consideration, he finally bought the Canon EOS 500D body with a Tamron 18-200 lens for RM3.5k.

I did not come home empty handed too, I bought a Chinese brand tripod, pretty solid, a clone to manfrotto. Tripod is a must need although we as a amateur don’t always use it.

Very random! Haha. Suddenly feel like want to buy new DSLR body. My current favourite body is the Canon EOS 7D which can shoot super nice HD video and pictures.

Tags: canon, Lifelog, Photography, Shopping
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Lomography is Not Cheap, But I Like

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 28, 2009 – 2:18 am -

I kept my two toy camera, a Holga and Diana F+ with Fisheye in the cupboard for a long time because I didn’t really have to time to take out to shoot but recently, I brought them out and shoot all the shots I’ve left in the film.

After getting the film to processed, and saw the outcome, my interest came back again. Have been surfing and checking out a lot of toy camera lately and my shopping and wish list increases.

OMG! I am so poor right now. Toy camera is cheap, the build quality is also cheap but I tell you what, it’s not a cheap hobby! Because you will have to spend for films, different type of films, send to shop to process, then scan into digital, it will be expensive.

Well, if you are into it, feeling arts, be sure you save a lot of money, earn a lot of money and never count how much you have spent, it will be a lot.

More shots are coming, don’t wanna post it all once. Not fun. Haha. By the way, the above shot is I did the scan from negative myself. Not bad right?

Tags: Arts, hobby, interest, lomography, Photography, toy
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4 More Days Left Until SPM Ends

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 27, 2009 – 2:35 am -

The SPM is very long, it started from 18th November and will be ending on 14th December which is almost a month, but then the exams are only 9 days and 5 days had past.

Not going to say so far so good now because the last paper I had on Wednesday, Additional Mathematics was pretty challenging, managed to finish all but then I knew I already got a few answers wrong. So hopefully, A it will be.

Tuesday was Moral paper, it was good because I’ve got all the moral values and definition in my head, it still running in there now, I just blah everything out on the paper. That’s the simple part of it, hard part was, a single word different from the definition will result a zero marks, hope I did no mistake.

I had plenty of time after that paper because it ended early in the morning.

Arron.

Wen Quan.

Charles.

Day 6, Additional Mathematics day was like an outing day for me. After paper 1, we had 4 hours in between until the next paper starts. Some went home, to sleep, to read, some stayed in school, some went I-got-no-idea-where and for me, I didn’t want to go home because I didn’t feel like reading, moreover modem spoilt and I couldn’t go online.

Chien Chern, Boon Hooi.

Found friends who were going out and joined them for brunch at Air Itam.

After that, went back to school, finding everyone didn’t want to go elsewhere and nobody wanted to go out with me, so I went to town alone, Prangin Mall, to buy a new modem and to develop my 120mm film. I just got plenty of time at that time, to town, buying, photo shop, and back to school, it just took me an hour.

When back to school, there’s like an hour more till next paper, real bored.

Forgot to mention, that whole day was black and white day, turned on black and white setting and mounted a 50mm lens. Weeeee, and thanks Jing Min for the last shot, skilled.

Tags: Black and White, BNW, chung ling, Chung Ling High School, clhs, Friends, Lifelog, Photography, School Life, spm
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Random night with 50mm

Written by Nicholas Chan on August 21, 2009 – 12:30 am -

I don’t really mount the Canon EF f/1.8 50mm II lens so often right now but I still like the lens a lot, it’s still the sharpest to me at the moment but it’s just the focal length that bothers me. Anyway, it still takes superb photo which I like! I wonder how well will it be on a full frame body. However, getting a full frame body will still be a long long way to me, I think I’ll stick with my 400D for another year or two. It’s still doing good with me and I take it anywhere I go.

Currently using a Tamron f/2.8 17-50mm as my multipurpose walkaround lens. Just 2 days ago, I removed the lens and mounted it with the 50mm and take it out with me to the tuition class. Snapped some shots of course. =)

Suzuki Swift’s dashboard.

Khalil Fang’s new album, Timeless on my iTouch. Have been listening the new album for a while. Like it.

Tags: 50mm, canon, Lifelog, Night, Photography
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Expensive Leica M8

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 11, 2009 – 9:39 pm -

Have you ever seen this before? A Leica M8 digital rangefinder. What wow me is the prcing at RM20k and of course the vintage look is pretty. Until now, I still don’t really understand what’s a rangefinder camera. Anybody who know can tell me more about it? I only know it’s expensive, it’s the famous Leica. You can manual focus and there’s a big aperture lens with it. =)

Tags: camera, digital, digital rangefinder, leica, Shopping
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Labour Day’s weekend with family dinner

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 3, 2009 – 8:50 pm -

Last Friday weekend was Labour Day’s holiday and it seems like everyone came back home to Penang. It’s actually not everyone, but it’s still a little family members get-together dinners over the weekend. There’s my mother’s side and also my father’s side.

I’ve decided to turn on black and white on my camera and take some shots in the restaurant. It turn out prettier than colour because I uses highest ISO setting in indoor and the noise on a black and white photo is lesser than a colour photo.

I went up north to Sungai Petani to visit my auntie there and had our family dinner there.

My cousin had recently bought himself a second hand DSLR too, it’s a very old model but it’s still functioning pretty good and it’s more or less then same. It’s a Canon EOS 300D. I believe he is the second one in among the relatives who get a DSLR. I was the first. Hehe.

Standing in the middle of the two men is the China man who operates the restaurant, Golden Door in Sungai Petani. The dinner was really long, it’s like 3 hours. It was long because the interval time between each dish was long.

Going next was Saturday’s night dinner with daddy’s side family. This time was in Penang and it was really fast. Haha.

Black and white photo really got feel. =D

Tags: Black and White, BNW, Dinner, Family, get-together, holiday, members, photo, relatives
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