with more weight, the one that will get shaky soon will be your arm.

heavy doesn't mean more stable. in many cases even harder to be stable.

if you hold point & shoot like the way you hold SLR, i don't see how it's going to be more shaky.


no la.

if you notice, got $$$ is not poison come.

got $$$ is poison settled.

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Added on December 1, 2010, 11:23 am*when one's poison is settled, it becomes poison to others.

my only reason for BG is for shooting portrait (meaning vertical shots la). nowadays i often go without it for lighter weight.

i thought new ipad in April. hrm you ah complain no money go conference and all but ipad can buy. L also can buy.

how much you willing to spend?

charger there once turn green you can go shoot shoot liao.

don't need also grab meh?

most people just rush to use stuff la.

for me very simple, i come back. charge when i go sleep. if not 8 hours also easily 6 hours.

new toy no need to rush to play cos it won't run away.

since 2007 until now, covering so many events, occasionally using multiple bodies. till now i haven't experience accidental mode dial changes.

if they can replace, then i hope they allow 60D users to have it without the lock.

interestingly 2010 only they implement. that also on 60D. IMO no matter how, it should be made optional, perhaps some on-body mechanism to have it LOCK or UNLOCK rather than lock all the time.

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Added on December 2, 2010, 6:53 pmCanon thread so long also so few people complain. i also like being able to thumb flick.

i thought of Sony's dials but they were horrible, like the one on A280 or something.

what first what then what now? it's all the while wan la.

haha. yeah for past 3 years keep hearing A700 replacement, it never came so long.

as least Canon sayang us better, replacement come from time to time.

fastest yes. best way no. generally P mode with E-TTL is the safe combo.

shouldn't be that bad.

your environment varies in lighting, so it could be the camera telling flash wrong thing. depends where you point the flash and diffuser also.

there are so many variables but we certainly can pinpoint to the flash, even with Canon flash you can face different exposures.

for me, 3rd party or Canon flash, i've rarely use FEC.

those 3rd party flash may not match Canon units but shouldn't be too bad either cos if they're that bad they won't be selling well.

one thing for sure is you're still very new and it is very likely due to lack of experience rather than being flash problem.

what battery are you using? i haven't play with the 622 that's with me but the 866 looks alright so far. Maybe i should go KLIM or something to test drive.

last page someone mentioned about bounce and diffuser, actually you can use both together.

try maggi cup pointing upwards, you get bounced diffused light plus direct diffused light to the front. same goes to stofen.

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Added on December 3, 2010, 10:29 pmif 90% were under-exposed mean it's quite consistent la. if you have diffuser on then i'm not surprised you have to +FEC cos diffuser will reduce the intensity of output. the flash doesn't detect that, unless you're SB900 la.

sometimes if there are changes of light from ambient, the camera may have metered based on the brighter scene but when you shoot it happened on a darker scene, thus resulting in underexposed photos.

cheh so confusing wan you. never put lcd screen at max brightness....... unless surrounding so bright unti cannot see lcd.

yes, it works like that.

it's supposed to cater even for the diffuser's reduction of intensity but it isn't perfect. IMO the diffuser does affect because the system doesn't know what material it shoots through.

*btw about the SB900 detecting diffuser, ignore it. i can't find details on it. donno what that SB900 user told me true or not. haha.

come to think of it -kytz- i don't think what i mentioned above applies to your case, unless you're super damn lucky.

ok later i go jalan jalan see whether i get myself poisoned or not.

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-kytz- good try but where are the cars?

no idea about that part of TTL. i not technical person. btw you should secure it as tight as you can la. if can slip off mean not tight enough.

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Added on December 4, 2010, 1:41 pmand i didn't go to KLIM cos i think a lot of guys busy shooting girls. i wanna see cars laaaa.