after waiting 2 hours at danga bay this evening (becouse raining)

C & C are most welcome....


Exposure:  0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture:  f/6.3
Focal Length: 16 mm
ISO Speed: 800

the manual is written to simple and i cant really get it after reading it twice (enuff la twice, later2 baru read again)
i'm in the process of trying but the problem is i cant get them to work together..
i.e if i use the MZ45 on the body (mounted) then it'll work..
but when i put the MZ45 and F42/36 they didnt fire.. even if i mounted F42.. (maybe mau F58? aiyaaa)

i got 2 unit for the price of 1 F42 

Has anyone been to Bali before? Im going next month la. Just wanted to know what kinda places should I visit? Im going for 4d 3n. Oh and kinda lens should I bring along ah? Only 11-18 and 50mm would do right?

hahaha unless it is in korean, then i cant help u. hahahaha. btw, sony's flash must trigger with specific "trigger pattern" flash only sony can do it. they are not optical trigger-able.

for the MZ series, i have totally no diea, check if they are optical trigger-able, then it is very easy to learn already

Has anyone been to Bali before? Im going next month la. Just wanted to know what kinda places should I visit? Im going for 4d 3n. Oh and kinda lens should I bring along ah? Only 11-18 and 50mm would do right?

quite blur since i only had my 50mm so shoot..

any pointers on how to shoot fireworks? (ie. what lens, aperture,shutter speed)...

Q : I heard people use blackcards to block lenses during firework shoots, what do they do and how to use them?

A : Blackcards are to make your fireworks look sharp and to select the patterns you wanna "paint" in your image.

If you leave your lens to capture all the wobbly movements of the trails in the sky, do you think they'd ever look sharp? Therefore, it's best to use blackcards to take "snapshots" of the trails, making the overall image look sharper which is expecially important during the "explosion".

The 2nd usage of a blackcard is to block out patterns that you don't want in a display. If you have too many firework images stacked on each other at the same area of an image, you will get massive overexposure of those areas and the image will look very messy.

But do note that once you decide to use the blackcard, your effective "shutterspeed" decreases as you are not allowing any light to reach the lens when you block it with a blackcard, messing up with your background exposure.

Q : I hear people use bulb mode to shoot fireworks, why?

A : Combined with the blackcard, BULB allows maximum creative control.

Sounds fancy, innit?

Right... BULB is useful as we as photographers normally have no idea how the fireworks display will go, when will which burst go up and where.

Thus, combined with the blackcard and us counting the actual exposure time, we can get only the patterns we want on an image and the exact background exposure that we want as well.

more on this article: How To Shoot Fireworks

4D 3N tada syiok lar. U effectively get 2 days oni coz 1st n 4th day is moving around to n from airport. Nice places like Phuket n Bali u shud do at least a 7 day trip. Then u can rent a motorbike n really explore the place.

achew: thanks..need your advice. if i use iso1600, that should solve under expose?

u can use higher iso..or make the shutter speed longer if u have a tripod with u...

neo_lam: i try already(MS picture, don have photoshop), but more noise.

achew: thanks again, i should use high iso. still shy to bring tripod at crowded place...  

ieR: why i not step down to f5.6 ...there is any side effect, like shallow DoF?

next time i should pick setting more carefully