if im rich i'll throw the lens back to him n buy new one. If rich i will not even look for him.. just go to shop outside selling more expensive lo.. But now every cent is my hard earn money.. RM has no value now

Right now i need to play along with him lo.. okey 1st get my camera calibrate right...now i do find there's somehow abit of inaccuracy in focusing even on my 50mm.. but the tamron lens sure has even more serious..since i try other ppl tamron works fine on mybody.

IM SO GOD DAMN UNLUCKY.. CURSED! both new camera n lens r not working well... i hv not been shooting peacefully for over a month now im going CRAZYYYYYYYYYYYYY......

clivengu: is not SONY used to be like that, but actually is Tamron used to be have front/back focus issue...but this seller is very irresponsible...

clive, bombard him nia all over the forum! let his smell all over the place. he ought to have at least 1 to 1 for first month!!! i have no arguement of how good the focus chip of sony, but day by day, it is getting better. if he still talk rubbish, borrow some A900/A850 let it run on APS-C mode and shoot, it will be very sure that the problem is the lens or the lens, and the lens, or the lens, must be the lens... it canot be the body problem!!! i think all of us can give u a hand by puting him in our signature as blacklist seller, let him canT sell in lyn or alphnatics anymore!

this is about irresposiblility! how could it be? where is our consumer right? let's us march to dispute zone!

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Added on October 19, 2009, 10:22 pmYL selling 1.5k new unit 1 year warranty

erh...the key is the exposure....
always remmeber that flash only LIGHTS up the foreground and not the entire frame (i do not if there is a super powerful flash that can do that)

Without flash:
1) use matrix metering so that the entire frame looks well balanced
2) turn on DRO if its super bright (when foregroud and background contrast is really high) - DRO is supposed to bring out "light in dark area" and "dark in bright area" get that idea?
-- that is probably the best you can get...else use ur popup, dont worry about harsh lighting, if u meter properly, the flash wont be harsh..but the limit here is ur flash-sync-speed.....
So why?
Say ur foreground is so bright that it requires 1/2000s at f/2.8, and now u are using ur flash to fill in the foreground right? with pop up flash, u are limited to ur flash-sync-speed say 1/160 (iinm for a200)...so if u shoot at 1/160, f/2.8 with pop up flash, ur background will be nicely exposed but ur foreground will be SUPER overexposed right?

So that is why u need an external flash that allows HSS (so that u can shoot at 1/2000). alternatively, use a ND card to reduce light entering the camera, OR increase the F to F/22 or smaller (but it defeat the purpose of using a f/2.8 lens)....
understand the idea above? If you do then dont have to read manuals or article liao

A shot taken quite some time back using fill in flash:

Ignore the low resolution

nope, u have to understand, it's actually harder for the metering AI to decide the exposure for 'darker (i hope No Racist issue here)' people... they usually will over expose a little to compasate it, thus you'll see photo a little brighter then usual just to able to see the constrast on the faces, thus also why, orang putih photo will always have nicer background due to faster shutter to compasate thier fair skin~  hence lower exposed background. even brown people will have slightly overexposed. thus where DRO comes in handy, but still, not enough for darker people

happy deepavali!! or am i too late already??
anyway.. trying some slow shutter pics last week.. since i'm still noob, i think i need to do better next time around..
its harder to get sharp pictures.. or is it my lens? ;p

anyway.. kutuk n komen are very much appreciated 



i learned something at least.. dont rely too much on bouncing flash... most pictures end up with dark eyes.. so need to be more attentive next time 

mcline - good shots, very nice. i like 1 n 4
achew - illuminate some light from the right is better
jimlim007 - nice bag. those stuff look comfortable putting inside thr. whr u got it?
poadster - u still hv ur raynox?

Camera Porn...Like.No.Other


a300
iso200
F6.3
1/30
F58 fires wirelessly from camera left @1/8
PP done on contrast adjusting only..

haha..saw templar they all did some portrait of their camera..so was thinking give it a try since i had nothing to do now..lol..C&C r appreciated  =)

Yes.... wanna let it go to budget for other buys.... and to spend time learning to take good pics...

u interested in buying?

errr...i think there r alot more pro in this thread..lol..u ask them queue up..u probably get a line from KL to Johor..hahaha

if u see anything particular in my photo..jsut let me know..i try to share as much as i could.....but "teaching" wise..well..im not there yet.. >.<

yeah i was once deeply poisoned by the lens when i saw the pic samples HERE..

that's why la.. the bokeh is insane to the max..

look how uncool the bokeh is compare to my 50mm f1.7

I AM STUNNED!!!! kena poison from 16-80..now 135...so much poison in this world

gaah better not bro... i don hv the moolah.....already selling my beloved bass guitar to fund for more gadgets... .... trying to save enough for a a850 by next year...(or equivalent FF camera )

unless a really awesome a700/a550 comes out ....still wanna test the a550 too...it has a exmor sensor!

smooth transition focus
which will make the bokeh super smooth.

new one (Sony 135mm STF) ±RM3.6k .. or around ±$1.5k sgd (achew  )