Good morning~!
Actually I had been following this thread for 1 year. Always reading but didn't comment anything because scare say wrong thing.

I would like to seek advice from experience people from here regarding the actual wedding day charges for a Malay wedding because i nvr shoot Malay wedding before, so far all my client is chinese and i guess the charges are different.

This Malay client is asking for 2 session of actual wedding day photoshoot. 1 is at bride's house, another day is at groom's house.

For chinese normally i charge nothing less than RM1500 for whole day with edit and develops.

For this Malay client they juz wants edited softcopy picture, I don't wanna spoil the market so would like to seek some advice here, thanks!!

good morning sifus, as u guys should know i am noob in hauls as i don't haul much.

just wanna clarify(i've asked about the same thing at canon thread as well), what's a grey set/lemon set?

does a local set means its manufactured locally and am imported set manufactured overseas(like japan for my tamron).is a local set better or imported set or grey set or lemon set better? in terms of quality and pricing.

so when people say, local distributors won't help u service those grey sets/lemon sets, why is that so?

thanks!

Goodmorning~it's a rainny morning here

From my understanding, grey set=imported set which the traders bought it from oversea and sell here. As for local distributed set is sold by local AUTHORISED distributor,for example Futuromic is the local authorised distributor for Tamron lenses. Lemon set is neither greyset nor local set, lemon set means the bad copy

I don't know whether the local distributor would help in servicing greysets or not,that's depends on the company policy or the contact with the authoriser company. Anyway,there are still some 3rd party servicing companies around

Do correct me if I am wrong

This post has been edited by iamKiet: Jul 27 2010, 10:08 AM

thanks. i think i understand much better now.

just like handphones lar~ ori Nokia sets from Zitron~ then u can send to local Nokia outlet for service or warranty for free~
where else AP set from 3rd party importers only free service or warranty from this importers~ you send them to Nokia outlets means u gotta pay~
same goes to cars~ grey imports BMW from Naza~ you only can warranty from Naza~ if u send it to local Auto Bavaria then you gotta pay~

ohhhhhhh...

but this doesn't mean grey set is not as good as a locally distributed set right?

wheres the wedding location bro...???ur price i think should be ok for them to pay as u said theres no developing involve...my fren charge around 800 for shoot and burn per day...so maybe u can work the price from there...just some guideline though...

This post has been edited by hazril: Jul 27 2010, 11:17 AM

normally greyset is the same quality as the ori set since all of them are imported from the same source~
but the difference is how they handle the stock during shipping and after sales service~ thats what you paying more for the ori sets~
not sure bout lens but like AP handphones (grey set)~ you gotta becareful~ some dishonest seller selling you re-cond (recondition used set) AP units at the price of new units~
as for cars~ there are new and re-cond units as stated by reputable seller coz they have to declare the details at kastam to pay the AP taxes~

and of coz, ori or grey set~ there are still chances of you getting a lemon set (bad copy) in anything you buy~ there are no 100% flawless in manufacturing process~

@hazril, 1st session is at USJ, second is at Cheras. Thanks for the guideline! nvr been to a Malay wedding ceremony before, any advice n tips?

chrissssssssssssssssssss!! pekabro?

Can show how you made your cover? Take a pic and share pls I'm scared the hole I make not big enough, will have alot of vignette.

Hmm, according to my friend who saw it in Tokyo, he says it's 85mm 1.2. Those German/Russian brand lens

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Added on July 27, 2010, 1:52 pmMy bad, he saw it in Osaka

This post has been edited by cassplayer: Jul 27 2010, 01:52 PM

cool lens. but its a manual focus one ya? Does it includes the mount too?

Yeah manual focus, mount can get in Malaysia ourselves with the AF confirm chip.

But is the AF confirm chip installed properly on the mount? Or use super glue + the finishing ugly?

How much is it? wah kinda nice I saw sifu cjlai's work on samyang lens and it looks ok.

According to my friend it costs around RM150. But it's an old & mint m42 lens.

Gotta wait for him to go down to Osaka again.

RM150, worth the gamble

hurmm...i think more or less the same kot bro...u covering the nikah session as well bro...???need some otai to guide u...i'll get some info for u from my frens later...

sigh. i lost the blogging competition. bye bye Sony TX-5. i will remember you deeply.

cassplayer: Ask your friend to get it anyway. Though I think you'll be disappointed when you see it's the Russian Jupiter-9 85mm F2.0, as your friend could have confused 1:2 with 1.2 (where 1:2 means F2.0).

F1.2 or F2.0 I'm still happy It's only RM150 according to the shop's tag by the shelf

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Added on July 27, 2010, 3:07 pmOh btw, how's that lens?

This post has been edited by cassplayer: Jul 27 2010, 03:07 PM

oho.. no wonder i saw the lens using the ratio.. actually referring to the aperture..