its using the body's motor... no it will be noisier compared to SSM but almost the same with SAM...

my deepest condolences

sea water is super corrosive la.. high chances cannot save d la...

did you try to switch your flash on when it dropped into the water?

Some travelling pics from thailand trip.

http://zhishan90.blogspot.com/2010/12/hat-...-flight-to.html


Christmas at LCCT by zstan, on Flickr

My flight is at 12pm so we arrived at the airport at about 10.45am as we had check in the night before.

However, once we board to plane, the captain told us that the flight had to be delayed as the check in system for the passengers in the terminal has gone down! WTF?! So those people have to manually check in the passengers for TWO hours! Yes. I waited in the plane doing nothing for 2 bloody hours before we take off! =______= The worst part is the prettiest air stewardess on board is stationed behind while i was seated in front


Malaysian Skies by zstan, on Flickr


DSC09446 by zstan, on Flickr


DSC09439 by zstan, on Flickr

Finally at about 3pm, our flight touched down. The Hatyai International Airport was amazingly small though.


DSC00299 by zstan, on Flickr

To make life easier we engaged a tour guide for our trip and he came with a van to pick us all up to the hotel.

Some street shots through the van:


Pretty looking(from the back)western lady by zstan, on Flickr


Men on Bikes by zstan, on Flickr

After a 30 minute, we arrived safely at our hotel, Golden Crown Plaza Hotel. =D


Golden Crown Plaza Hotel by zstan, on Flickr


DSC09498 by zstan, on Flickr
Interior of the Hotel


Hotel room by zstan, on Flickr
My hotel room. Quite spacious la. Recommended!

This post has been edited by zstan: Dec 31 2010, 10:47 PM

HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS!!! HOPE WE CAN GET NEW BODIES AND LENSES FOR THE NEW YEAR!!


Fireworks 2011 by zstan, on Flickr

and while i was shooting the fireworks just now.... i suddenly miss my lens hood sooooooooooo much!! look at the terrible flare! need to photoshop here and there to save my pics.


A badly flared picture by zstan, on Flickr

oooo i city also got fireworks.

happy new year! yes but when i moved to another place...got some flare crept into the side my pictures as well..so need photoshop them away...if got lens hood then no such problem liao

thanks. i also went the wrong way. i thought one-u got but apparently no.=/ picked the wrong spot for the first few shots also.
anyway, sometimes if the background is too plain, it makes the fireworks look boring as well.

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At about 5pm Malaysian time, our tour guide picked us up in a van and we then visited the Klonghae Floating Market.

I was expecting that the 'market' were afloat on water and we had to use a sampan or some boat to visit the market but in actual fact, the 'stalls(boats)' were just parked at the shore.

Before we reached the 'floating' market, we had to pass through another night market as well. Many varieties of food and other stuff can be found here.


DSC09554 by zstan, on Flickr
Look at the crowd! It's only 5pm local time~


Women cooking. by zstan, on Flickr
A local woman cooking something. Didn't get to try this stall's food though. =/


Pineapple! by zstan, on Flickr
Pineapples!! As a non-pineapple lover, these fruit were hard to resist as they are VERY VERY SWEET compared to the ones sold at Malaysia. A must try at Hat Yai, Thailand.


Insects delicacies by zstan, on Flickr
Fried Insects! No i didn't have the courage to try. ><

After a 5 minute walk, we arrived at our destination.


Klonghae Floating Market by zstan, on Flickr
Floating market


Klonghae Floating Market by zstan, on Flickr

This post has been edited by zstan: Jan 1 2011, 03:06 PM

haha. this is considered floating market mer?

nope. family not interested. =/

you mean my shots? i just used programme mode and let my camera worry everything else for me.

buy a BLUE eraser and rub your hot shoe and it should be okay.

going to bring my camera for servicing soon. if it costs more than rm300 to fix my flash problem i am gonna get the a55.

just back from self poisoning session sending my camera to service and repair at sony style curve.

before that i tried to mount my flash gun and tamron 17-50 on the a55. OMG ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO LIGHTTTTTTTTT~~ not forgetting that the 18-55mm is also hanging off the body of the a55.

all these add together i still can hold the camera with one hand for 10 minutes without any strain at all!

i may agree that this combo is ugly but the weightage distribution is very very nice and very well balanced.

AF on the a55 was very very good as well. omg~~~

on a side note... the 'extra' 2MP means that the a55 is using a totally new sensor (same with the a580) compared to the a33 which uses the NEX-5 sensor.

performance wise the new sensor would be certainly better than the older sensor( THIS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THE NEX SENSOR IS NOT GOOD)

so its NOT JUST TWO EXTRA MEGAPIXELS!! its a whole new different sensor! what you pay is what you get!

This post has been edited by zstan: Jan 3 2011, 09:53 AM

*envy*

what did u get a? the S frame?

what camera?

sorry to say that there's no concrete link. same thing like saying nikon is using sony sensors but we don't have absolute evidence.

but its all over other forums like DP Review and sonyalpharumours.

NEX-5 has 14.2 megapixels, so does a33. you cannot just add or remove megapixels from a sensor. that's what i know la.

This post has been edited by zstan: Jan 3 2011, 12:30 PM

i didn't claim anything la. but some reports and reader comments shows that a55 is slightly cleaner at high iso(iso 3200) than the a33. about half a stop better.

my point is, and what i believe and read from is, a33 and a55 have different sensors. so by saying that a55 is 'only 2 megapixels better & got gps compared to the a33' is really undervaluing the a55.

and yes, i could be totally wrong.

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Added on January 3, 2011, 1:27 pmmy not so concrete source

http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/is-there-a-big...topic70941.html

This post has been edited by zstan: Jan 3 2011, 01:27 PM

sunsets are easy to catch everyday... why not you go try and see which settings suits you best lor

this is why i am going to ditch my a300 and buy a new a55 which is sooo damn lighttt

multi segment metering works well for me.

Light meter is usually used for studio shots or those big big big group shots where they use multiple softboxes and lightings.

where got small la.

fits and weigh perfectly.