u need tele at the beach seriously, 50 wont do any good.
leave the 50 at home... u going to shot day time more... even night, u wan to shot wide... bring a kitlens, and UWA.

day time, the tele can give u bokeh effect

for night shoot, very depending u wanted to walk out or not, most people stay inside the resort only at night, maybe some beach dinner shooting, use flash

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.

Wonka: I've never been to Bali but the 11-18mm, 50mm and a light tele would do. (Meaning a 55-200mm is good enough.) I've brought a flash before but end up never using it.

mechaboy, go ahead and buy it..i sold mine for rm1400 last month

freddy, oooo thanks for the tips, somehow blackcard method need alot practice to make good...sadly fireworks only allow us 10-13mins of practice...
oh here are my "wriggly" shot of the fireworks..

btw, can a remote shutter control the A550 for bulb mode?? i dont wanna touch my camera when the shutter is open..

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Added on January 3, 2010, 12:09 amps. how to NOT capture the smokes too?? teach me if its controllable??

go borrow tele, serious, no tele, u wont like to walk close up to people to say "cheese" hahaha

what to check when deal with 2nd hand tammy..? 1750 2.8 to be exact..

bysquashy :  here.. http://www.pilpi.net/software/JPEG-EXIF_autorotate.php

taken from http://www.alphanatics.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13686

credit to mechaherc

Good stuff, the processing is fast too. Thanks nashakir and mechaherc! 

nice program ar? 

last time i was searching for this lens no one's selling haiz..

the smoke is hard to avoid.. but somehow the smoke is brings some kind of beautiful effect to me..
last time i practice the blackcard method with my sister playing the fireworks (the handheld, small2 one) at my front yard..
y must say "cheese" ah?

Found a bug though

I wanted to confirm the orientation on photos in the previous album that I manually rotate. When I tried to do it, it will rotate the photos even after I've manually rotate them. Quickly press CTRL-Pause to stop it.

Emailed the owner about it

None the less, I like the tool a lot!

does 18250 process good quality photo as 16105?

Tele for the beaches! (Penang, but Bali should have more!)