haha, hair dryer??

Tamron SP90mm f2.8 is one of the best macro lens in the world if not THE best... Just browse in the internet and read about the reviews, and i'm sure 98% of them gave it a 10/10 rating...

aiyo, the motive is to clear the dust, not heat the dust la fren

An alert for those of you using stuff like Thirsty Hippo to absorb the moisture.

The ones I leave in my wardrobe turned liquid after some time! Now, we don't want that tipping over our camera and stuff, right?

use hair drier to blow mah, takkan u blow with ur mouth rite, if the saliva goes die la

the hair dryer you use can blow ar? my one the speed is just like my mouth blowing only anyways i think you might damage the coating la if heat it, i think... why risk it? just buy a blower, chip chip @ RM40

??!!, my thirsty hippo when in used condition got water inside it too, but the thing is sealed quite well

This post has been edited by andy: Jan 25 2007, 11:30 PM

Somehow, I had the liquid seeping out of the container. Had to say sayonara to one of my fav. skirt
I won't want to risk it with my photography kit!

Edit:

Wait..IIRC, kena peel off the paper for the thing to work?..then how can it be sealed? or did I remember wrongly?

..dunno lah, sudah lama already, never use those stuff after the bad experience.

This post has been edited by ??!!: Jan 26 2007, 12:02 AM

no no, it will be sealed, the seal is the entrance for the vapour i believe, some special hippo tech la but i still have mine with water in it, can show you too, no sips

yea they collect water at the bottom of the container.....i also have mine, no sipping no problems...maybe yours got cockroach bite a hole at the bottom??

edit:

just wanna know, normal PnS camera do not easily have fungus, what makes it so special that dslr can catch fungus la? Nowaways , kindaa lazy to maintain my dslr already, just treating it like a pns camera...but stupid thought of fungus making me stress........anyway daily activity, sometime bring out without bag, jsut carry around, then bcome home just leave on table...air-con room..then in day time the room no aircon, kinda hot....but camera lieing inopen..duno how easy i can get fungus le?

This post has been edited by porkchop: Jan 26 2007, 01:21 AM

u staying in KL?? i know the air there is dryer, i not that easy lah. if like me u r staying at Kota Kinabalu, where we r located beside the see, the humidity here very ganas one. if the camera not take out for sun bath in 1.5 month, for sure kena fungus liao.

thats y i put 10+ selica gel pack in my camera bag.

inkle.

Was juz browsing the forum when I came across this thread. I know it had lied dormant for quite a while but I thought I might want to bring it back to life again

Anyway, for inkie: i am from KK too. i juz bought an air tight container from Servay supermarket for RM 50. It has rubber seals at the edges so it shouldn't leak in air that easily. For the silica gel, I got a bottle (500gm) for RM 22.00 at the camera shop in Wisma Merdeka. 500gm is A LOT of silica gel. I think the small packets that you got from the label shops are the "non-reversible" type (i.e. used once, throw away type). The silica gel I got from the camera shop is blue in color when it is dry. After it absorbed moisture, it turns purple / pink / red. What I did was if it changed color, I just dump it into the microwave for 5 minutes to remove all the moisture trapped in the silica gel, let it cool down, and then put it back into the air tight container. I think it can be used for a very long time. Of course, it is a hassle having to reheat the silica gel now and then, but for RM 72 (vs. RM 300 to RM 500 for a proper drybox), I am not complaining!

On the side note, do you do photo sessions often? How is your skills coming along? I thought since we are both in KK, maybe we can have some yamca session now and then to share photography experience. Learn from each other mah...

Sham.

What the current best price now i can get for 400D kit set (hopefully come with free bag, 1 or 2GB CF, free or discounted filter, tripod (optional la)

Last, must be warranty by Canon Malaysia..i am in KL yo...

i do have my camera in silica gel ...but the thing is these gel always change colour already then need to throw

You can just microwave them (use the lowest power setting!) and they'll turn back to their original colour (blue?) once all the water trapped inside of them has evaporated.

bring ur cam in action (sun bathing) everyday

no need silica gel

This post has been edited by shinchan^^: Mar 4 2007, 10:48 PM

The gel no need to throw away leh. Sayang lor... pinkygirl. just spread the gel on a shallow glass plate and dump it into the microwave & "ting" for 5 minutes (low heat). It will turn back to blue and you can use it again.

shinchan, camera can take out to use often but not all lenses can sunbathe every day wor...

Sham.

Optically speaking, it is superior and should beat both Canon and Nikon original by slight margin, usually at wide open. But the autofocusing sucks....

Try using the Canon original one and see, operational experince is really smooth and fun to use. It make the Canon one enjoyable to use.

Anyway, there are always pros and cons;

Tamron -> Optically perfect, but autofocusing suck! Good for young people with good eye but no money
Canon -> Everything very good, but asking price too much! Good for people already working and have saving

My advise could be, if you can upgrade your budget, still go for the Canon one la... Try use-use, really siok.

This post has been edited by TheVoIP: Mar 5 2007, 01:47 PM

come to think of it, even if you've dried it, how are you gonna use it when the packaging has already been ripped open? takkan you wanna spread all the silica gel all over the beg?

I am paranoid about placing non-edible stuff in the microwave which I use for my food.

put it into those film container. punch a couple of holes in the cover... viola!