Comments Off Thanks to a seminar organized by the company, I got flights into Singapore for this weekend. Spent some time after the office matters were completed to look for Linksys Singapore to repair my wifi router (power adaptor faulty) and then lounging at Peninsula Plaza to look at the camera shops there and hoping that I’ll find the lenses that I want in one of the used camera shops around there.
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Comments Off I’ve been working on another beta page for the last few months but can never get the willpower to finish it.
In this page I intend to put all the stuff I own (not too much since I dont upgrade for fun regularly). I’ve got something like 20% of it but the most important one of course. D70 is up next, then my PDA and after that my lovely B&O phone. But for now, they’re at http://nangka.org/gadgets
Comments Off Another day to test out my new D70.
Noticed that the file names of the pictures are starting with “_DSCXXXX” instead of the usual “DSC_XXXX”. Googled a little and realised that its because I’m using a Adobe RGB colour profile instead of the sRGB setting on the camera. PRefer to use Adobe RGB since I dont usually print the picture out without any postprocessing in Photoshop or other graphics applications. Never trust the post processing capabilities of a camera.
Tried again to use an always faulty SanDisk 256Mb CF card on the D70. The pictures looked alright on the camera but when I take it out of the camera and use my CF card adapter to copy the pictures to the PC I always get a messed up file. It shows the right picture size but the picture always looked a little messed up, garbled actually. But it worked well when I connect the camera directly to the PC. I think I can conclude that its got to do with the pin connections on the CF and the CFcardreader. How and why I dont know yet, but got to be sure to use the D70 next time to transfer picture when using that particular card. All my other 128Mb cards are ok.
Comments Off Finally got my hands on the Nikon D70. Called up a shop yesterday evening and they have a bunch of them in stock so I just popped over, got a whole bunch of cash and came home with something new to fool around with.
The only unfortunate thing about it is that the price has increased 5% at that shop (much more expensive elsewhere I checked) from the last month I checked, and that was when there was no stock and you had to wait a week or two for the stock.
Comments Off Shucks. Don’t see any LEDs lighted up on my Linksys BEFW11S4 WLAN 4 Port Router today. Just went dead line that… *snap*…. It was working this morning, I was using it to surf on my Powerbook and in the evening its just dead!
That damn router is just 4 months old! Now I’ve got to bring it back to the shop and hopefully they’ll replace it. Distrupted my access to the internet for a while. Had to hunt for the utility to do PPPoE for my ADSL account. In the past it was done by the Router, which is never turned off. Now its off forever. Well, at least till I get my replacement model.
Comments Off I find this site quite useful for another angle on the D70. At least it mentioned this problem with locked mirror, which I heard from friends with D70. Seems to be an isolated incident and its not a major problem.
No, I’ve not bought mine yet. Now I’m thinking of buying some additional lenses first before I grab the D70. Something to do ith cash flow. A 50mm f1.4 and a used 80-200mm f2.8 would be nice.
Comments Off Sony just recently released a new small PC, and this time they’ve almost reached the size of a large PDA. And it runs Windows XP! The U50/U70 is only released in Japan and I think even if you can get one and install English XP on it, it’ll be difficult to get the drivers and applications that comes with it.
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