No idea who she is but I can see why Chips Yap uses her always.

I cannot help but draw my eyes to the luscious lips with matching red frills together with the background. Well taken.

Pics like this perhaps would benefit with a little fill flash. Otherwise, nice.

My favourite too !







Nice capture and motion blur. Great timing too.

Hard to say. But one thing I know, DSLR bodies always drop in price because to make way for newer models. If you were to play the waiting game for the price to drop or wait for new models to become affordable, you'll never own a DSLR.

Unless you have all the time in the world, the more you wait, the more time is lost enjoying what could be yours.

That's 1/18 scale. 1/10 will cost a bomb. BTW, that's a 2008 Calsonic car.

This is a comparo of 1/12, 1/18 and 1/43 scale.

The 1/12 is by Autoart. I think I got it about USD 500+ or so. Almost everything can be opened.

For the 1/12 GT-R, you can head specifically here;

http://s779.photobucket.com/albums/yy79/jc...n%20-%20Silver/

If you have any questions, you can head to the link below;

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1840752/+1300

No worries. I stayed at home too. Fathers day and was not feeling well too.

So you got it?

Not bad.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Jun 22 2011, 10:30 AM

What the review says is correct. I usually grab my bag with just one of the back straps and sling it onto one side only. But because the strap is thin, that particular strap that is used more often will stretch and get thinner then the other strap. A little ugly now.

I also find the bag material is also not hard / sturdy enough to keep your stuff inside the bag in their respective compartments.

I bought mine close to RM 500 if I'm not wrong. That's about 3 years ago if I'm not wrong. What to do... I was looking for something medium size to fit "some" of my gears. That was one of the very few around. Then the "some" gears turns out to be more gears.

The part that I like about the bag is the quick access to gears. I also like that there is a band strap at the back of the Kata that enables you to slot in the extended handle of a normal luggage stroller bag. The Kata can sit on the stroller bag very stable and you can roll along the stroller bag with the Kata on top. No need to carry the Kata on your shoulders if you have to walk in the airport.

Interesting find ! I see other patents as well. I also see a 200mm f/3.5 macro lens as well as 24-145mm or 28-145mm f/4 lens. The last one is puzzling though. Why would they want to do something that they have already done similarly with the 24-120mm f/4 VR?

Sad that around this region, it's difficult to get quality light. Northern and Southern hemisphere countries get better light. That is why most time when people go for holidays in those countries, landscape pictures turns out fantastic looking.

Ah... No wonder you're getting dark backgrounds... The SB-900 even though powerful is not to be used as a studio light.

You may be able to pull that off but at the expense of higher battery usage and possibly decrease the life of the bulb.

In my other comment, I mentioned that some fill light from the flash would be awesome. This is another example unfortunately.

To get the exposure on the face correct, the white tank top goes very close to blowing the whites.

If you want to rely solely on ambient light, you need a reflector to re-direct the light.

Perhaps it's a good way to clear people around you.

Silap lor...

90 degree upward bounce has it's limits. Like Kent3888 mentioned, if the ceiling is 5 floors high, you won't get any bounce effect. You'll only get direct light from the side of the flash.

Who lah?

Why you need such a powerful flash? You plan to light up the stadium?

Errr, nowadays got people sell kidney to buy iPhone.

Berapa harga? Any more pics of it? Wanna check out how big it is.

Thanks for the photo with your gear. Gives a good reference for size.

You tested on DX or FX body?

VR1 or VR2 version only affects FX body. On DX, they look the same.

VR1 performance is horrible wide open at 200mm. This is only on FX body.

Do you have the originals? Were both shot in RAW or JPG? Same exposure? VR switched on or off? On tripod?

From the first comparison pics, it does not seem that they were taken around the same time. The one taken with VR1 lens (left) has shadows while the one taken with the AF-D lens is overcast.

The one on the left exhibited some camera shake. So therefore the one on the right (AF-D) is sharper.

The VR1 problem is only evident on FX bodies. Not on DX. You would not have light fall off problems wide open at 200mm on the VR1 with a DX body. For years nobody seems to complain. However if you plan on using FX in the future, you'd need to get the VR2 instead or use the AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8 like me.

Look at the shadows below the mirror. Looks like more light on the VR1 shot as evidenced from the shadows. No shadows for the AF-D shot. Even though 10 minutes apart, make sure you get roughly the same shooting conditions. Oh, remember to mount it on the tripod using the lens' tripod collar ! Not mounting the tripod to the bottom of the camera body please...

Yeah, high shutter speed but that does not mean anything if the lens was not handled properly. If you take a look at your VR1 shot, you'll see that there's a very slight shake. You can see slight blurring on the edges of the signage letterings with t he VR1 shot. Use tripod, MLU and remote timer to eliminate all possible causes of shake.

Yes, I was nitpicking. Considering all the uncertainties and extra variables added in, I find only slight differences between the AF-D and the VR1 from your shots. That's expected because you shot them on the DX body. Anyway, what I saw was half half (sometimes AF-D better, sometimes VR1 better) but if done correctly, the results should favour slightly to the VR1 at all times on the DX bodies seeing that the VR1 has a newer optics.

On the other hand, the results would be more apparent if you had shot them using FX body which would favour the AF-D instead of the VR1. This is the main reason why VR2 came out. To address the shortcomings of the VR1 lens on FX bodies.

Why is it shot at -2EV? No wonder it's under exposed. When you pull back the exposure up in PP, the noise will come out.

WB is also off.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Jun 24 2011, 12:36 AM

Not saying that you cannot handle the zoom. Hope you are not taking any offense. Shooting the VR1 wrongly does not automatically make shooting the AF-D wrong too. For me, out of 10 shots handheld, I can probably get 3 or 4 tact sharp ones. Just being human. In my opinion, the VR1 shot is not fully represented correctly. It could be better. Look at the top of the words on the signboard "Perkhidmatan DOBI Setempat". The top edges of the alphabets are slightly smudgy.

The AF-D shot is more crisp but on second passing, I believe the AF-D shot is also minutely shaken at 200mm. But not as bad as the VR1 shot.

I know a person who owns one and rarely uses it. Actually, there is nothing wrong lah about collecting and appreciating exotic glass. It's like owning a Lambo but don't drive it fast on a circuit.

Nice. Before this, I also don't know who this Amy is. She's not drop dead gorgeous but very sexy.

Sorry to hear the run around treatment you got. I would think Photo Selangor is already infamous for those kind of things. When dealing with these kind of shops, it would be best to do own homework first (check price, specs and stock by phone) and only pay to commit once you see the stock with your eyes. If not, then best to go elsewhere or be patient.

When buying camera stuff, I doubt most would be lucky enough to be a "regular" kaki going back there for many times to buy many things. I doubt the shop owner would recognise you and treat you good when you come back. Not in my experience. Unless of course you really buy a lot of things lah.

Camera equipments are generally expensive and nowadays with the internet age, there are so many online shops that may (or may not) offer better prices as time goes by.

So I would say if RM 30 or RM 50 savings is worth it to you, then by all means get it from Photo Selangor. If it's not worth the hassle, just get it somewhere else.

For me, I would also factor in the hassle to get there and hassle of finding parking space. I would forgo the slightly cheaper price for convenience. Parking, petrol plus toll not cheap nowadays especially when you're short of time. That is why I just try to get stuff around PJ area.

Care to show the sample photo?

It might be that the camera was previously set at +2EV exposure compensation or something similar.

Unfortunatley, there is no such thing, at least in Malaysia.

At 18mm on the D5100, if you take a group shot of about 4 people side by side in full length head to toe, you should be about 5 to 6 feet away from the subject. If you focus the subject at f/3.5, you get a DoF of 5.5 feet thereabouts (1.7 feet in front of subject, 3.8 feet behind the subject). That's a lot to get the subject looking sharp !

Nice. Not bad. Mind sharing your technique? Repeated flash?

That's not old habit. That's the oldest trick ! I bet if you looked like a tourist, you'd be given a higher price.

Faster and more reliable focus plus better body on the D300s.

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Added on June 25, 2011, 4:52 pmYup.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Jun 25 2011, 04:52 PM

Ability to Auto Focus with the older AF-D lenses.

Post some samples. If you bring up the exposure and pixel peep in the shadows, you'll definitely see noise.

That's correct. But not if you use ViewNX or Capture NX2 as your RAW convertor. You can still toggle it off though in ViewNX or Capture NX2 and check which is better.

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Added on June 27, 2011, 12:01 amAre you both talking about the same thing?

One thing about the review is correct though. At wide open, the 35mm f/1.4, shoots really sharp.

This post has been edited by jchue73: Jun 27 2011, 12:01 AM

Aiks, late midnight and you post something like this? Cannot sleep now.

It would be interesting if you had cropped out the bottom skirt. It would look like she wore nothing.

Didn't know celciuz had a restaurant and bar at Fahrenheit 88.

That's equivalent to 16.5mm on FX.

That said, not a fan of the skintone. Less highlight protection, tone down on saturation.

Anyway, just to share an image captured off from Pre-F1 Qualifying feed from BBC that I noticed.