Newer, Bigger, Badder and Better than ever before!

Thats Right Folks! Regular blogging is back! Some of you may know I recently made a trip to Bangkok, and although the shooting oportunities were in fact endless, much to my dismay I was unable to take full advantage of them. However not all is failed! This trip to Bangkok did produce a lovely piece of fruit! I am now the proud and happy owner of a brand new Nikon D300! After much hunting, searching, shop scouring and painfull feet, I finally found a new boxed Nikon D300 in Pantip Plaza in Bangkok. with it I purchased a 50mm f1.8 lens and a sigma 70-300. Neither lenses being particularly my first choice, I was expecting the kind of quality images from when I first began shooting, however I am quite pleased to say both lenses have impressed me thoroughly. despite not having good range on the wide end of photography I never realised how much fun the 50mm is. Aditionally the 70-300 has also continued to impress me, it may not be as lovely as my 70-200 f2.8, but it certainly pulls its weight, especially in macro. My only issue with it perhaps is its focusing engine, as its a little slow, loud and imprecise, especially when macro is involved the depth of field is so small I often have to switch to manual, which without a tripod can be quite painfull to shoot.

[Bangkok pics still under processing will be up soon :)]

Aditionally Yesterday upon my return from Bangkok I was also able to purchase the first nikon flash of my kit! A brand spankin new SB 900, which I promptly put to use blinding my cousin and aunt with lots of pics :D. My aunt was also doing some baking in the kitchen, so thus I took the oportunity to use my flash and a difusser panel to do some food photography. I should note, being an excited doofus I forgot to reduce my ISO to 200 after doing some shooting in low light, so I beg eternal forgiveness for the noisy images, however at 1600 Nikon has delivered and with no photoshop involved the noise levels are quite minimal. Especially when viewed at these sizes. Anywho I shall stop rambling on, and allow you to enjoy the images. :D

say hi to the new kit! :D

Oh Yes! also, with my new camera I have vigorously gotten back into the daily photochallenges! to keep up with that you can click here!

On a final note, I have oficially begun a rebuild of the blog. December is coming up and What a beter time to launch a new blog than in the New Year. Seems only fitting, New camera, new gear, new passion, new direction, new site, so the only thing missing is a new blog....I will be attempting to incorporate my daily photochallenges into the new blog aswell, so you guys can get everything in one spot!

Enjoy!

More of Roshni's Photoshoot

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An important Difference! Canon Eos 350D/400D vs Canon 30D/40D

For today's blog post i thought i would outline a crucially important difference between the Canon Eos 350D and its predecessor the 400D range of DSLR's and the Canon Eos 30D and its own predecessor the 40D. When i was first getting into SLR's and DSLR's I made the grave mistake of opting for a 350D when I had the option of getting a 30D ( i wanted to save the difference for my ultimate upgrade to a 5D), thinking that the only real difference between the camera was autofocus points, size, speed, and Megapixel count. Little did I know (and a few review sites forgot to mention) that there was indeed an extremly vital importance between the two Camera ranges, very much in the same way that the difference between the 5D and its younger cousins is that it has a full frame chip, as opossed to a cropped one. The important jump from the entry level Dslr's to the 30/40D is that the Entry level camera's do not possess a shutter! Yes thats right, they lack a shutter. Now if you are wondering how the heck does it take the pictures, well the entry level cameras, instead of having a real shutter installed, they emulate the effect of a shutter by quickly activating parts of the sensor chip to simulate as if it was a shutter going past recording the image bit by bit. Now if you dont know the effect that this has on your image, think about when you turn your tv on, particularly the old projector tv's theres always a moment of static/noise before you get a clear image. In the same way that as a camera chip is activated it creates a certain ammount of digital noise which is of course shown in the picture. The advantage of having a real shutter is that the chip is always on, so the initial static has already dispersed and the chip simply records the light that is let thru by the shutter. :)

Just a little bit of random camera knowledge for all those looking to invest or upgrade in a DSLR, or who simply just didnt know. and for those who were eagerly hoping for some images to be put up today, dont worry this is not the last post of the day, i will have some up (hopefully) by the end of today so just keep checking back, or just suscribe to my RSS and be notified! :D (the atom feed is available at the bottom of the page...should really set up an anchor link for that)