Excited over Nikon new goodies

I was offline most of the day and when I reached home in the afternoon I saw that Nikon has announced a few goodies before Photokina. 

Nikon D7000 DSLR - http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2010/0915_d7000_02.htm

AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 & AF-S Nikkor 200mm f/2G ED VRII - http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2010/0915_af-s_35_200-03.htm

What excited me the most was the announcement of the new Nikon Speedlight SB700. According to the press release its suppose to be a replacement for the Nikon Speedlight SB600.

Nikon Speedlight SB-700

September 15, 2010

A wide variety of functions with simple operation for digital-SLR camera users of any skill level

TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the Speedlight SB-700, a compact Speedlight offering multiple functions with simple operation in a compact size.

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Long day in June

The day started off quite early at around 7am. There was a portrait session at 8.30 am. With some friends. The shoot was quite interesting as the portrait is of Affy, and some how every time shoot her the back drop will be green and stuff. I wonder why! 

Anyways I got to see something I only have read about and seen on videos. 

Elinchrom Ranger Quadra

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Bubbles

Last Sunday went to a portrait session in the morning with the guys. Desmond brought a long a prop. Bubble maker. heh~ Anyways he was playing around with it (we all did) and few of them flew up and stayed in shape for a fair bit. I was using my Nikkor 17-55 f2.8 lens and had set the Auto Focus (AF) point to where the bubble actually was. I was expecting the AF to fail as the bubble was transparent. 

Note : I cut the dimensions to 16:9 ratio but no zooming in, unless stated :P. Trying out something Pazuzu mentioned.

AF point on the bubble!

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New Gear

It was something unexpected. Yesterday I came home after going out to have breakfast, and saw Yeo’s facebook status saying something about the Sony Cybershot DSC-T90. I was looking to buy a compact a few months ago, but decided against it during that time as it there was no good deal around.

When there was a pre-launching sale at the Sony Center, where by the purchase of the newly launched Sony Cybershot DSC-T90 and a free Sony Ericsson w595 was given. I could not pass up on the opportunity. The catch was that it was only for the first ten buyers. The eleventh till the fifteen would get a J series phone.

I went to the Sony Center at Boulevard to queue, when I arrived at 12:45pm Yeo was the first in line(he was there since 10am), and I was the ninth in line. So I had to sit and wait for about two hours, not being able to leave the seat. Because if anyone who leaves the seat to go pee, eat or what ever, the place would be lose and others would gain it! What a gimmick. Well thankfully Kuching people were not so kiasu. So in the end, only about twelve people were in queue, some were just sitting down to watch the Blue-ray movie.

This was taken at home with my DSLR.

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