Decent?! You call the 35mm f1.4G bokeh as DECENT?!! Wah!! What will you call a good bokeh then? STF lens is not applicable.. LOL!

Then again 35mm is not wide in my books.

All my gear lust is gone for now. Haven't really had any decent shoots for a while now... blame partly on Diablo III and partly on a bad streak of luck in life. My son has just been recently discharged from hospital. The bill took away a Zeiss 24mm f2.0 SSM...

haha... his expectation is high... 35mm is nice on a APS-C but not that wide...
but again.... wide or not depends on user...

Handheld shot of the moon. Too dark?


Camera: Sony A57
Focal: 250mm
F/number: 6.3
Shutter: 1/400
ISO: 125
Metering: Spot

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fansoption : Wah! I like your new style! Can make into wallpaper! LIKE +100

Hehehe.... the 35G is not known to be an excellent all-rounder lens by most people because they expect it to be extremely sharp with wonderful bokeh. It achieved the latter but not the former. Only the STF was able to achieve both, but at the expense of autofocus.

Anyway, I wish your son a speedy recovery. It is not easy being a father. I am coming to terms with this because I am now a father too. Have to balance between work, family and photography (and in your case, worse. gaming too! ) Hopefully when your son grows up, he will earn enough money to buy you at least a few Zeiss 24mm F2!

Thanks for your concern. He's ok now. Back to his mischievous old self. Well, I'm lucky Diablo III is not such a good game. Helps to cut down playing time. Now feel a bit bored playing ady... Dun think I want to start playing any other games. Haha.

You know, I would give up all the Zeiss lens just to see him smiling and healthy. I bet you would do the same too!

I'm sure in time my gear lust will return... now looking forward to 3rd week of August for Animagaki. Codyx promised to give me a tour and shoot lots of cosplayers!!

shootkk : thank you like my new style. hihi.

Come, 2 of u challenge see who can be a better dad for their kid... Either way will be a win win situation. Ahhahaha

i do think 35 bokeh is nice. i uses it.. on FF and crop, thou FF has a lot more kick

if not prime, which is better? ofcourse search for sharpness also..
kitlens replacement...

16-50mm f/2.8 SSM

Yeah, I would give up everything to see my kid face palm me, or hit me on my cheeks when I'm holding him. Hahaha.... priceless. There me go all sentimental about fatherhood. Better snap out of it. This is a photography thread, not a parenting thread!

An impromptu "job" I had to do because I was asked by my friend to do some promotional shoot for his car magazine here in Sabah. It was in conjunction with one of the model search competition. Basically I have to cover two things. One is the visit to the Honda showroom by the contestants, and the other is the photos for an upcoming Honda advertisement / article that is going to be featured in my friend's magazine. Quickly go home to pick up my camera. And here is a teaser photo. Sorry, only screen shots of my laptop's LCD, as I cannot show the proper photo yet. Publication agreement, obviously. Lifted off my facebook page directly.



One thing good about Sony's cameras (BOTH the DSLT & Nex systems), if you have a very involving client, your client can peep right over your shoulder and see what you are shooting. And your final captured photo is 95% accurate! He will be happier with the result in a much shorter period of time! And I shot the entire session using just the SEL1855 kitty lens....

thanks to the TruBlack technology LCD screen that gives brilliant accuracy of the output.

if this one.. any reason to get zeiss?

wow, reading at your signature, you are rich many of your lenses are over lapse

i donno.. my dry cabinet can 'beranak' lenses one..

i can be a "bapa angkat" to all your lenses.... and I am willing to do it for free.

mua haha.... good excuse...

Zeiss has a much superior coating than this.