Well just as you has just bought your D300 and think it is the greatest camera, Nikon announced the D700.
Cutting through all the marketing talk, here are the major features of this D700 camera that matters to me (a D70 user).

FX – full frame! I could use my AF 20mm lens now was a wide angle lens!
ISO 200-6400 – useful in certain situation
Live mode
Image sensor cleaning – wow no more dust specks on photos

Price and date of availability is unknown yet.

Olympus 35 EC
Well I can said that this Olympus 35 EC camera, when compared to the plastic compact cameras, it is solidly built. I have the silver chrome one with cool black leatherette covering. There are a few unique features regarding this camera. Firstly, the film advance function. Instead of a lever, there is a thumbwheel which you roll it to advance the film. One hand operation is possible. The film is also loaded at the right hand side of the camera back. So you will wind the film from …

ha… Nikon Singapore contributed to the Great Singapore Sale (GSS) by having some promotions. Let me focus on D300 as I am considering one for myself. One first look this seem to be of a good price as S$2999 has always been the Recommended Retail Price (RRP) and now we actually get a 50mmf1.8 lens frees! Of course there are some other freebies like the 4GB memory card.
Well, all I can say is that if you usually buy from the big departmental stores like COURTS, BEST DENKI, then this is …

This photo was taken using a 16mm fisheye lens. The fisheye lens can create an unique perspective not seen in other lens. However do not overuse it or your photos will look boring. Due to the wide angle, it is easy to include a lot of empty foreground or worse still , clutter foreground. In the photo above , some cropping is done after printing to reduce the bare foreground.

In the age of digital photography where special effects can be achieved through Photoshop, filters are not so much in use. However the following filters are good to have when doing landscape photography.

polariser – improves color saturation, cut off reflection, make sky to be more blue. Cut off the light by 2 stops so watch out for the shutter speed in case it get too low.
Grey Graduated – Mine are from the affordable Cokin P121 series. It helps to balance the big difference in the exposure required for the bright …

Do you need a monopod ? I would use it for the following reasons

sports events where I need something to support my camera to minimizes camera shake
events where space is a problem for setting up a tripod
i need a walking stick! In fact there are some trekking poles which double up as a monopod too. For example the The Leki Sierra FotoSystem

tripod! we know we need it but we left it at home. We bring it out but never set it up to use it. 
Personally I would rate tripod as one of the most important equipment that I use and own, even more than the lens. I use it for macro photography, low light photography, portrait photography. So how do you select one?
Some of my thoughts here :

get a reasonable good one..avoid those that cost S$20-50.
get a metal one.. avoid plastic legs tripod
get one that the 3 legs can be open …

Finally a full frame DSLR from Nikon -  The Nikon D3
Not surprising it is loaded with the latest features:
“Incorporating the large CMOS image sensor developed by Nikon, the D3 features 12.1 effective megapixels and a sensitivity range from ISO 200 to 6,400 at normal setting. The image sensor of the D3 is a CMOS sensor developed by Nikon with a sensing area of 36 x 23.9 mm that is compliant with what is known as “35-mm full size”. Nikon will use the term “FX format” for the image format of …