So yesterday I went over to my friend IKE Studio
, he is the one who has just purchased a new 5D. HK$31,000 with the verticle grip and spare battery. As I said before the first thing you notice is the giant 2.5″ LCD screen on the back, and wow, does it ever make a difference over the smaller screen on the 10 & 20… This screen gives you a much better view of what you are doing and will make a huge difference when shooting detailed subjects, well, actually when shooting anything. Then I put the 5D thru its paces to see how fast it is. On high JPG, you can hold the shutter down in multiple exposure mode and you will have non-stop shooting, it does not freeze to allow the camera to write the files to the card, it just keeps on shooting, on and on and on… Frame rate per second not sure but 4-5 frames a second. Then I switched it over to RAW-L which is the resolution that will require the most disc write time and tested it again to see how many frames you can get off before it pauses to write to disc. 20+ frames of RAW-L then it took a brief 4-5 second pause before it gave me another frame and so on and so on. Then when I gave it a small amount of time to write it saved all the cashed images in about 15-20 seconds and was then ready to shoot again. This is a huge improvment over the old 10 and 20s… We tested the camera using a normal ScanDisc 1gig card, not even the newer fast cards…
One more thing that I found very pleasant on the 5D is the large bright viewfinder, it is like the Nikon, big and easy to see what you are shooting, a marked improvement over the older models…
So could one say that I am a bit green over this new piece of kit my college has, well not really cause I will have one very soon.
I went down to Kwong Tai Photo on Stanley Street today to see my friend’s new Canon EOS 5D, . Initial impressions - Nice - Very Nice… A little heavier than the 20D but not so much, mind you we had it out of the box sans batterys card and and lens, so yes it is going to weigh slightly heavier than the 20. However, the handfeel and the 5D is nothing like the 20D. The first thing you notice about the 5 is the huge LCD screen on the back, a full 2.5″ across. The next thing you notice is the lack of all the ameteur program modes, the ones with the little icon of the cloud or the running man, none of that, the dial has . P, A, T, & M… It also has a sort of conical type ridges that give the dial a nice grip and feel. Then next thing to notice is the lack of POP -Up fill flash… not so sure this is a good thing, but mind you with the way the one on the 20 works, no one will miss this…
So tomorrow, we actually get to take it out of the box and put it thru its paces… Stay tuned…
Oh by the way … Santa I have been a very good boy…
So guess who we have been working for. Adidas, they had a big corporate conference and they brought out this guy, Jonah Lomu, yeah the big Rugby player guy from NZ… So for any Lions fans… remember… STAND IN BLACK!!!
Well done Hong Kong electric… after years of burning coal to provide HK massive electric consumption needs, Hong Kong Electric Company has finally started on the road to renewable non-polluting energy. A massive 70m wind turbine is nearing completion on of all places Lamma Island and once in operation will add a whopping 800-kW of energy, enough to power about 1600 average households. Read the HKEC press release here HEH - Press Releases
Solio - Portable Solar Powered Charger
Now here is a thing. Have you ever been out on the road and all of a sudden your iPod battery dies, well the guys over at BETTER ENERGY SYSTEMS have come up with the Solio - A SOLAR POWERED iPod charger. I have one and it works great. In addition to this they are a part of the CARBON NEUTRAL program which ensures that their production of these units does not harm the environment.
Smart people doing smart things for our planet - BRAVO!!!
Hi I am taking Portuguese for Beginners course starting on the 29th of this month, September 2005. We need one more for the course to run, so if you know anyone interested in studying Portuguese… please ask them to contact me and I can give them all the details.
Cheers
Sean
SDBPhoto.com is now accepting articles for publication on these pages. We are interested in informative writings on the subject of photography, photoshopping, business of photography & SEO for photography. Please submit to Sean @ We will include your l*i*n*k*.
There just the frikin bompa if you know what i mean, mercedes style and with new Tiger under the hood. Wah… You can handle any a job …its done!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa know what I mean!?!*@
Ya!
apple.com
If it was not bad enough that Sony is contributing to GLOBAL WARMING with their poorly thought out ad campaign. Now they are poluting cyberspace with SPAM. YES Sony is spamming me. I just got a promotional email from
Sony Electronics Inc.
Personal Information Management Office
1 Sony Drive, MD T1-5
Park Ridge, NJ 07656
Da! are these people nuts… spamming… surley the sign of a desperate company…
TaSony SaurUsRex…
