jfrymdwsz: shutter count? well, changing the shutter unit is cheaper then changing an car engine. no worries.

btw, sony alpha unit has no way to find out the shutter count of the body, because to them, shutter unit is cheap, or by the time it dies, u are opt to upgrade already.

Bump for the Sony Thread because it has gone to the 2nd page.

what do u expect? you see all those stupid topics.

And now, for a more processional narration of the events at the Sony Alpha Convention 2011 in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center!


macdude, head honcho of Alphanatics on stage for the launch event.


John Shum, head of the training division, who makes sure all you Sony Alpha users get your free education, a crash course into using your camera!


The legendary Gary Friedman, writer of many books on Sony Alpha and long time guard of the Minolta keep. Very cool guy, who was a rocket scientist. For real!

He gave a talk titled Exploit Flash and Wireless Flash, which was a more mainstream, straightforward topic.


Bazuki Muhammad spoke on Art Of Seeing, Photo Journalism. Unfortunately he admitted he wasn't a talk-giver - he played half an hour of slides before answering questions. Each speaker's style would wildly differ after that!


Nikt Wong's excellent Street Photography with NEX - that turned out to be far more enriching and enlightening. I now know how to make a street photo appear immersive!


Azrul's The Art Of Portraiture showed us the history and evolution of portrait photography. Undoubtedly this was one of the more popular topics, though I did enjoy the left-field talks immensely.


Bernice Chauly gave a talk on Understanding Documentary Photography. It is interesting to see how different photographers prefer to work - either they control every element in their studio, or they get out on the streets and get the picture.


Eiffel Chong (ifer on this forum!), whose talk title alone (and maybe, reputation) made me sign up for his talk - Intrinsic Institutional Photography.

As it was, you could only sign up for 6 talks per person.


If you were keeping track, that was 6 talks above, so I figured I should crash the next workshop just like everyone else was doing (since some people didn't show up, and some people didn't think to look at their watches and realize a talk was on.)

And so, this is Mun Keat, with The Art of Wedding Photography. Again, an obvious mainstream topic that many would sign up for. Though I'd say I intentionally picked the left-field, less conventional topics to catch.

In between, they'd have shaolin monks demonstrate their art.


Ouch!


There would also be prizes to be given out, for people who would collect the most participation stickers (for asking questions during talks.)


syukur strikes a pose!


More winners, including the venerable ardent winner ctmipoh.


I caught the mimes talking.


A night view of a Petronas Twin Tower, with the Sony Alpha 55 and Sony Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm F1.8 ZA!

Oh, and all pictures in this entry were shot with that lens.


The highest-resolving Sony Alpha sensor (16.2 megapixels in the Alpha 55) gets matched with the 135mm...


...to get this 100% crop.

minimuffin, superstar.


leongleong (I think) in a distant portrait.


joejoe2004 meets the 135mm F1.8, at F1.8.

This post has been edited by albnok: Mar 30 2011, 09:52 PM

wow...albert spreading poison!..lol...i like 135 F1.8!!!!...

btw, i saw my flash+body repair status as "Ready for collection" in mysony.sony.com.my!..but they did not phone me or sms me to collect...so can collect or not??..lol..i sent to them on last sat..so fast punya meh?..

this page needs some spam...
from my old and trusty a300

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Ray Ng Photography


This post has been edited by d4rkholeang3l: Mar 30 2011, 10:55 PM

Ray: very pretty photo, let's see more from the set! ;-)

thanks, do check out my fb page

man, i really miss the alpha convention...


ray, wats ur FB acc name?

i think time for new version of alpha thread.

albnok: should have start ur sharing on new thread

and "I caught the mimes talking." made me laugh whole night!(or morning)

The reason I asked this SC thingy is becos I'm planning to buy a secondhand body,
and like most ppl buying used cars will want to know the cars' mileage, I also want to
know the same. So does any of you sifu know how to tell how used a camera is apart
from looking at its physical appearance (i.e. its wear and tear)?

BTW, roughly how much does it cost to change a shutter unit?

Thank you!




This post has been edited by jfrymdwsz: Mar 31 2011, 06:39 AM

That was one of the best pictures! Haha!

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Added on March 31, 2011, 6:35 amAlbnok: what was the talk about? The intrinsic institutional photography which ifer gave =]

This post has been edited by yuhi: Mar 31 2011, 06:35 AM

@jfrymdwsz

u really need to ask the owner about the shutter count..
IINM after 9999 count it will reset the counter.. so cannot tell how many looping circle..

I haven't hit the limit yet for my trusty A200. I'm wondering do you guys know what will happen when the shutter about to die? no respond of the shutter suddenly? Or it has some symptoms before it wants to die?

This post has been edited by flysheep: Mar 31 2011, 08:51 AM

The link is under my photo...at my sig oso got

Well, if your shutter dies, then it's time to get new body

muahaha either obsolete or cost of repair much higher than buy 2nd unit..

Agree with dat !old din go, new din come