This trip to Malacca was made together with a few friends and I had earlier bought the coach tickets at $18 for a seat on  Super VIP 26 seaters coach and one bottle mineral bottle free.
I stayed at BaBa House the 2 previous times  at Malacca and this time I decided to stay at Hotel Puri which is at the same street as BaBa House this time round. A quick call to the reservation line and 2 standard rooms were reserved. It costs a bit more than Baba House.
We met …

I owned a few vintage Olympus rangefinder like the 35 EC and was pleasantly surprised when I read that Olympus is launching a rangefinder style digital camera - the Olympus PEN EP1.

Olympus PEN EP1

What makes the EP1 different from the other digital cameras is that is interchangeable. From the photos from the Internet, it seems to have a stylish metal finish just like the good old film rangefinders. It  weighs only about 335 grams and has a 12 MB pixels sensor.
Hey but it doesn’t come with a optical viewfinder, you will have to shoot through …

Have you wonder what to do with the thousands of photos sitting in your harddisk or DVDs? I often do that and recently I decided to do something to one of my favorite photos - a close up of a lotus. I felt that I need to display it in my dinning  room. In this case, I need to print it big for a maximum impact. When I said big, I meant REALLY BIG, not really billboard size but at least 80 by 60 cm.
Recently I print my lotus photograph …

I blogged about the Great Singapore Sale (GSS) last year focusing on D300 prices. Now the GSS is back! How much has the price change? Well for the D300 body , the price is now S$2,688 compared to last year S$2,999 but last year offer came with a 50mm f1.8 lens. So the price for D300 really have not drop a lot.
So what about the D700 body ? It is S$3,888 with a 8GB Compact Flash (CF) card and a Nikon branded Lowepro bag. It is really a good offer? …

Let see…how many manuals do we have on a camera setup?
Quite a few and here they are :
1. Manual or instruction booklet
I know many of us put this aside once the camera is out of the box.  DO keep it around as you may need to refer to it at one point or another on some of the functions. The 80/20 rule works here. You only use 20% of the camera functions for 80% of the time. For the other 20% of the time , you may need to refer …