Would advice avoid Fotokem, but depend on branch and staff; The One U branch, advice to avoid, there's few stories, and sadly, it's not the staff, it's the boss himself. You can try google around for some complaints around.

Spam + Promote... Launching very soon...

Haha, well... part of the "want" list, hahaha

Based on size. Get a digital reliable one, no point get one that don't really work well, then you have to spend again. It's a long term investment, you can also store other things, but the resale value is still there.

Lastly, the cost to clean your lens if there is fungus, is worst than the dry box, and the lens quality is also affected after cleaning, etc. Imagine if you have more than 1 lens.....

As others mentioned, seems it fail to lock-on focus which most probably due to too close distance, but another thing is, it still allow you to take the photo. I'm not sure if this is the default settings or works this way when using LiveView, but this will result in image which did not focus and for normal user who didn't check the photo properly will think it's ok, or feel the camera has problem later.

The slow speed that you're experience is because you're using LiveView, the LCD will turn black for a moment when you capture. It's not like normal digital camera where the LCD still show images.


One of the reason: when you get higher megapixel camera, you will face this issue.
Just like you view a photo in small size vs large, the smaller one you don't really see the issue until you view the larger version.

They already repair? I thought suppose to call you and tell you how much before they proceed?

If straight clean for you, what if the charges are exhorbitant?

This post has been edited by Andy214: Oct 9 2013, 06:21 PM

Really depends what the person wanna achieve and use the camera for.

Decline in DSLR, it's always happening, many people buy DSLR, excited and bring it everywhere they go the first time, and slowly, the DSLR went into the cupboard and they use their mobile phones.
Even digital camera are troublesome to carry around with you all the time.
Those never use DSLR will want to get one because they think only DSLR can get good image quality, but after getting, only they know, they're many others thing they need to know and learn, and more maintenance on the DSLR, etc.

To many, the camera they use is for taking food or something they see, you don't need a DSLR for that, and if they bought it, most likely they will not want to bring it around later. Another scenario is they take for shooting small family events, gatherings, small parties, etc. You also don't need a DSLR for that and it's troublesome to carry around, moreover, without knowing how to use it, they still get blur shots for movement/action when using A mode, harder to share, etc. Someone using smartphone may already taken the shot and shared it, or send to others.

I notice many media/journalist (auto blogs/magazines) already using smaller mirrorless camera, it's much much more convenient for them to carry around, with much smaller bags, and more convenient for them to move around and squeeze through the crowd to get that shot. You may carry a DSLR, but if you can get the shot or angle you wanted, it become pretty pointless.

True, I dislike their pricing too, hehe

But the Nikon1 V1, drops half price (package) with the launch of Nikon1 V2. That's a good price

During that time promotion, I still saw some shops selling it (e.g. Harvey Norman). I guess while stock last, hehe

Other shops not sure still got or not.... but after checking out V2 looks and features, V1 seems less interesting already

Haha, havoc ler, even before the phone launch or available, dunno what Version already.
So serious until they disable the post count.

The scary part is, the N8 also not yet launch, already dunno what Version of the thread, lolx

Actually, what's the purpose of post counts? I still don't get the reason to spam to get post counts. And, we can't really know if the person wants to spam to get post count.
Some asking lots of question, I guess they maybe excited and too many doubts/questions/fear, so keep ask, got confuse, etc.

Oooh. Got it!

I see. Kind of like PhotoMalaysia rules, which you need to get minimum post count.

Facebook Pages likes will unlock more features right? That's why they want more likes and also to reach out further, whatever they post will feed your home wall; For commercial, there may be other reasons, if you Pages got many likes, your chances to get "recognized" is higher due to your page is deemed "more" popular. Lame yes, how they judge, but this is reality, just like how they judge winners based on LIKES on the photos. It breaks the nature of the competition, people who got more friends or who can get more people to click LIKE will win.

The problem is, when you go LIKE a Page, you'll receive updates which will flood your home wall; but now you have options to turn off this feeds already.

At one point, it seems like the purpose of using Facebook is helping people like this and like that, and what is the real meaning of LIKE?
LoL
But you don't LIKE, people start to 'not happy' with you and stop/don't want to LIKE yours as well, even if they actually LIKE it (the real meaning of LIKE), but they don't want to LIKE anymore because you didn't LIKE theirs when they ask to, lol
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, nothing against those people who send request, but those people who create this thing to judge based on LIKES.


True, I guess one of the purpose is to prevent those accounts created just for posting buying/selling? But then people still get away from the system by spamming for fun until they hit the minimum post count so they can start posting buying/selling. In a way, this actually created more spammers, lolx

This post has been edited by Andy214: Oct 16 2013, 07:09 PM

Focusing speed (and accuracy) usually more concern for action/event photography.

If the subject not big enough, the camera may backfocus. Not big enough means, the focus point around same size as the subject, OR it could be you focus on something not enough contrast or which the camera unable to differentiate, it may focus on something else.
Hard to explain, you have to experiment yourself, and see carefully whether it's really focus correctly, you can re-focus to double confirm. For far away, subject, sometimes you can focus on the shirt, rather than the face. Sometimes you focus on the face, the focus went focus on the background.

To better understand your situation, best if you have the sample photo and highlight where is your focus point.
EDIT: If you did focus re-compose, do mention it as well.
If you're using Focus Re-compose in high aperture especially, then it's most likely the problem.

This post has been edited by Andy214: Oct 21 2013, 04:38 PM

Small subject, if you focus the face, you may notice it's likely to focus somewhere else, either the background or something which not inside the focus point. After you taken the photo, zoom in and find where it focus, sometimes is totally not within the focus point, which can be really weird.

Even the face is well lit, but if the camera unable to differentiate or able to catch it, it will focus something else that is easier. It not like how our eyes see, not sure how to explain, but you can experiment on how the camera focus can easily lock on something fast and accurately, while something else, it just didn't really focus well or you can see it hesitates, OR, you try to release and half press again to re-focus, you may notice the focus plane may have changed. For contrasty and easy to lock on, you may notice there is no such issue, it just locks on easily and accurately.

It's annoying especially if you need to take large group photo in events or say wedding, and the focus went to the back or somewhere else. In such case, you can try take 2 photos, one which focus on the face, and another focus on the shirt, or something that the camera can focus and lock on easily and accurately. You may try compare the results.

Can really see clearly cause on mobile, hehe

The original size seems small, did you crop or you resize smaller to 2048?
Seems the backlight is bright, is the pic originally underexpose? Under this condition, bright background and subject is dark, the autofocus may have accuracy problem too.
How near/far is the subject, as in the focus point is around size of her eyes or you're further behind that the autofocus point is around the size of her head?

I see, viewing in smaller size should be OK, and actually the size is already HD quality

As you previously mention both of you moved, that could be the main reason.
If nobody moved, if the backlight is strong, the autofocus may have accuracy issue if the subject is not bright enough. This is just one of the possibilities or experience I encounter before, it may or may not be this current situation.

Also,
1. Is the subject in focus? or the camera still focusing?
2. If you half-press, did you press fully?

Are you shooting with LiveView ON (LCD Screen) or through the viewfinder?
If with LiveView, make sure the "box" turns green which indicate the focus is successful.