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The Canon IXUS 300HS, taken with my Canon EOS 5D. It feels good to take a nice product shot. Canon’s wildly popular IXUS range has been stuck in a rut for several years in terms of design and features. Was I glad when they recently announced that they’d be launching the IXUS 300HS/IXY 30 with the same 10MP [....] Continue reading Canon IXUS gets reborn One of the more surprising announcements from the PMA event – Sony’s jumping into the small hybrid dSLR space too, after Olympus and Panasonic made a big splash with their Micro Four Thirds cameras (Pen and GF1 respectively) over the past 7 months. They showed off some concept prototypes (above) and plan to launch by the end of this year. From [....] Continue reading Sony joins the prosumer bandwagon The new Olympus E-PL1 at an affordable USD$599 price point. I have to take my hat off to Olympus. The Olympus E-P1 Pen camera was launched only about half a year ago, taking the photographic world by storm with its classic design, great image quality and realizing the big potential of the Micro Four Thirds standard. It carved out a [....] Continue reading The Pen family expands really quickly
Updated 28 Jan 2010 with three new images Some time ago, my friend Sanjay asked if he could use some of the dawn photos I took from my home living window for his Windows wallpaper. I kept forgetting about it but I’ve finally compiled them into a Windows 7 themepack, made [....] Continue reading Bishan Skies, now a Windows 7 theme pack (Updated)
The sky was looking pretty gloomy this morning as we packed the kids off to school. I took these pictures at about 730am, and decided to shoot it in black and white as I wanted to eliminate the video noise at ISO 800. From dpreview.com : On Lenses For Small Cameras The year 2009 will surely be remembered by photographers as that which finally saw the long-overdue arrival of the large-sensor compact system camera. Indeed ever since compact digicams were first introduced, the obvious next step seemed to be to develop the basic concept with larger sensors and interchangeable lenses; so much so [....] Continue reading We want pancakes! It’s been a long time since I used my Canon EOS 5D as I’ve been too lazy to lug the big thing around. Funny, when I bought it in 2005, I thought it was a really light dSLR . But with the purchase of the Olympus Pen this year, [....] Continue reading MacRitchie Gremlins This is the 6th chapter in my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier”. The previous chapters were getting a bit too serious, so here’s something less philosophical, but no less important. The photo above is that of our wedding bands which I designed after watching too many episodes of Xena the Warrior Princess. Whenever people [....] Continue reading Chapter 6: The Wedding Survival Guide |
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