Dreaming of Digicams!!
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Originally posted by littlestream:Oh, Rhonda.....you are really cute (funny). I chuckled at your "shang yue" bit.
Must I wear my "chu ying tai" costume? 
Yeah, we wear those pretty period costumes, then I pretend-strum the qin whilst one of you recite some 'high-class' chinese poetry and rotate your head as you recite it, and the rest can sip beer / wine from those delicate porcelain chinese cups! 
I think I've watched too many period dramas, growing up.
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Flowers perhaps?Maybe a bee or two insideOriginally posted by Rhonda:Wow... a lotta information! I think I have reached my memory limit for tonight! I'll definitely be experimenting with the MACRO mode and then I guess I'll understand better! 
Thanks, jOhO, for checking out the specs for me!
Can't wait to post my amateur attempts here! -
Bees?Originally posted by LazerLordz:Flowers perhaps?Maybe a bee or two inside Should steer clear of them! Skali turn out to be fatally allergic to bee stings, then, mati! Then, headline tomorrow, "Latest Buzz : Nurse stung to death for poking her camera lenses into a bee's business". -
ahah yeah well.. i'm quite "creative"Originally posted by Rhonda:Wow... you're really in demand! But of course!
And the last sentence... kwei ni xiang de chu!
neh.. not that high in demand, i wish. just that that day is really VERY hot... very very very hot. it's the hottest day for wedding every year, without fail. -
good advice!Originally posted by LazerLordz:
Now now..let's keep your paycheck intact and your hands free from injury.. 
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Wah jOhO.....so in demand one...........I also want!!!Originally posted by jOhO:i'll be "shang-ing yue" at a wedding! ahahah
it's the most popular date for weddings. i've already rejected at least 20 enquiries for that date becos i was booked more than a year ago...
so for as long as i shoot weddings, i dun presume i'll ever get to shang yue. unless of course the bride's name is "yue" in which case, i shouldn't really be eyeing another man's woman. 
Can you be my photographer for my 25th Wedding Anniversary? I will be old but can you touch up your pix so I look like 25 years old? I didn't have a wedding portrait at the studio (my biggest regret) so this will be a "make-up".
Say can pleaseeeee.........errr......it will be in year 2009 -
Originally posted by littlestream:Wah jOhO.....so in demand one...........I also want!!!
Can you be my photographer for my 25th Wedding Anniversary? I will be old but can you touch up your pix so I look like 25 years old? I didn't have a wedding portrait at the studio (my biggest regret) so this will be a "make-up".
Say can pleaseeeee.........errr......it will be in year 2009
Are you flying back to Singapore then to celebrate? Or are you going to buy a flight ticket for him to Canada? -
Depending on exchange rate lah......maybe I can buy a tix for him.Originally posted by Rhonda:
Are you flying back to Singapore then to celebrate? Or are you going to buy a flight ticket for him to Canada? But one way. Cheaper for him to come then for me and hubby to go home ley.
Why we hardly go home? * sigh *..... the cost of one trip can buy a resale car here.
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Hmm... got a question... what is a 'CCD'?
I just realised that the A510 has a 3.2 megapixel CCD but the A520, the one I'm eyeing, has a 4 megapixel CCD... and the difference in price between them is $100. -
CCD- Charge Coupled Device.Its basically the sensor that detects light coming in when you snap a picture.The lens opens, and the light falls on this sensor, which is made up of millions of tiny detectors.Originally posted by Rhonda:Hmm... got a question... what is a 'CCD'?
I just realised that the A510 has a 3.2 megapixel CCD but the A520, the one I'm eyeing, has a 4 megapixel CCD... and the difference in price between them is $100.
3.1 and 4, denotes the number of pixel detectors, which translates to the amount of detail that you can capture.The higher the megapixel, the more detail, but it can alsomean more noise too(since noise is also something part of detail).
Another definition I found on the web says
"Charge Coupled Device: one of the two main types of image sensors used in digital cameras. When a picture is taken, the CCD is struck by light coming through the camera's lens. Each of the thousands or millions of tiny pixels that make up the CCD converts this light into electrons. The number of electrons, usually described as the pixel's accumulated charge, is measured, and then converted to a digital value. This last step occurs outside the CCD, in a camera component called an analog-to-digital converter" -
Ooooh... thanks!Originally posted by LazerLordz:CCD- Charge Coupled Device.Its basically the sensor that detects light coming in when you snap a picture.The lens opens, and the light falls on this sensor, which is made up of millions of tiny detectors.
3.1 and 4, denotes the number of pixel detectors, which translates to the amount of detail that you can capture.The higher the megapixel, the more detail, but it can alsomean more noise too(since noise is also something part of detail).
Another definition I found on the web says
"Charge Coupled Device: one of the two main types of image sensors used in digital cameras. When a picture is taken, the CCD is struck by light coming through the camera's lens. Each of the thousands or millions of tiny pixels that make up the CCD converts this light into electrons. The number of electrons, usually described as the pixel's accumulated charge, is measured, and then converted to a digital value. This last step occurs outside the CCD, in a camera component called an analog-to-digital converter" Helps a lot! Now, I know!
I think... I'll still go for the A520. You know how the typical consumer mentality is like, right? Was just talking to elindra about it. Imagine having your mind set on a particular model for days already, it'll be hard to 'downgrade' to lesser models! -
er laser.. ahah i dun think i'll enter into a discussion why more MP not necessarily = more detail. let me know if you do wanna discuss that tho.
ok, layman's terms for CCD (or any other image sensor)
imagine you had a grid of 100 x 100 buckets on a football field collecting water.
after the rain, u could measure the water level in each bucket and come up with some data.
1 bucket = 1 pixel
rain from sky = amt of light entering camera
rain in bucket = amt of light recorded by camera
DURATION OF RAIN = SHUTTER SPEED (technical you would need one of those retractible roofs on the stadium to signify a shutter in this example.
this is a simplistic example. in real life, there are MANY more "buckets" and a bucket only collects a certain COLOUR of "water". (in other words, there are "buckets" - the correct term being "photodiodes", that collect "red water", "green water" and "blue water")
and of course no water is involved, the light creates a charge in these photodiodes and the intensity of this charge is recorded and interpreted by a computer chip to form a pixel. many pixels then form the image. -
Ahhhh.... So, many many buckets = nice nice photos!!Originally posted by jOhO:er laser.. ahah i dun think i'll enter into a discussion why more MP not necessarily = more detail. let me know if you do wanna discuss that tho.
ok, layman's terms for CCD (or any other image sensor)
imagine you had a grid of 100 x 100 buckets on a football field collecting water.
after the rain, u could measure the water level in each bucket and come up with some data.
1 bucket = 1 pixel
rain from sky = amt of light entering camera
rain in bucket = amt of light recorded by camera
DURATION OF RAIN = SHUTTER SPEED (technical you would need one of those retractible roofs on the stadium to signify a shutter in this example.
Anyways, bought my digicam yesterday! Tried to use it and snap night shots of the Singapore skyline but all the shots were yucks... I need to read the manual to know how to operate it.
Ah well, soon, there'll be shots from my new digicam-baby for you guys to critique and give me pointers on! -
If there's one thing about jOhO, he can turn the complicated into something easy to understand.
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er.. wat r the things to consider if i wana buy a digicam? fel like takig photography
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My digicam suck alot of battery de.. how ah? Rechargeable batteries like so lousy. Muz use Energizer Titanium batteries den can.. jialat..
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Ratty, here are a few websites you can look at to answer your question on what to consider before purchasing a digicam. Hope you'll find them helpful!Originally posted by RaTtY81:er.. wat r the things to consider if i wana buy a digicam? fel like takig photography
http://www.epinions.com/buyers_guide/Digital_Cameras_buyers_guide_p1.html
This is a very detailed and easy to understand article.
http://staff.washington.edu/corey/digicam.html
http://www.troutcom.com/gdtpug/0201article1.html
http://www.viewz.com/shoppingguide/digicam2.shtml
If you need to read more on this topic, try any of these sites listed in a Google search :
What to Consider When Buying a Digicam?
Go get your digicam soon and join in the forays of the bunch of us trigger-happy shutterbugs! -
thz
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buy the Nikon 8800Originally posted by RaTtY81:er.. wat r the things to consider if i wana buy a digicam? fel like takig photography
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how much isit? wanna like try out photographyOriginally posted by the Bear:buy the Nikon 8800 -
I'm now slowly getting acquainted with my digicam-baby, the Canon A520. I was on a long journey on the MRT today and was reading the manual and realised that I have just bought myself a camera with a whole lot of fanciful features and I sure hope I'll get to master them soon!
Well, there's nothing that'll help you get acquainted more than practice, practice, practice! So, here are the first few shots I took with my digicam-baby!
Constructive criticisms are welcome!
First shot! Whilst waiting for a friend near the MRT Station, I looked up and decided to see what my digicam-baby can do on Auto mode.
Then, a test of its optical zoom capabilities...
Next, I tested the optical zoom even more... by taking this photo of foliage... from the 7th storey of a block of HDB flats!!! Awesome what a 4X Optical Zoom digicam can do, isn't it? I was impressed by my digicam-baby! 
And next, peekaboo... a zoomed in shot of the flowers grown by someone residing on the floor below. For this, I dangled my digicam-baby over the railings.
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wow the pics r nice
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Dangled?? Whew..please take care of your baby
Bet you had loads of fun with your camera. Shots look fine for on-the-spur moments.How much did you buy your Canon anyway? -
There's a Canon promotion right now in conjunction with the Great Singapore Sale. You can see details in the poster on Page 1 of this thread.Originally posted by LazerLordz:Dangled?? Whew..please take care of your baby
Bet you had loads of fun with your camera. Shots look fine for on-the-spur moments.How much did you buy your Canon anyway?
My digicam-baby was supposed to be sold at a recommended retail price of $499 but I got it at PS Computers at Funan Ctr for just $459 and it's still inclusive of the freebies that come along with it during this promtional period. Naturally, I was mighty pleased!
I think I'll read the manual some more and try to absorb as much as I can and then put it into practice. The digicam-baby came with a free lesson too, but I think I will schedulue it later, after I get to spend more time practicing on it first so that if I have questions, I can ask them all in class.
The shots are very amateurish but I think, good enough for me.