I had been wanting to buy a DLSR since very many days. However I was always put off buy the associated cost and all the hassle of the many lenses that I would need to play around with. I have nothing to put a mark on the sheer image quality that comes along with an [...]
I bought my first camera sometime during May 2005. At that time, when I was thinking about buying my cam, I had done a lot of research on dpreview and I had all but settled on HP’s camera, the HP Photosmart R707. At that time this was what I thought was the best compact camera around in the market.
Mangalore Trip
December 4 2008 - In: Travelogue prashu
Going to Mangalore over the weekend. Leaving tomorrow night and getting back on Tuesday morning. A friend and colleague is getting married there on Sunday. Not in Mangalore, but in Kundapur actually. We got tickets only until Mangalore, so we get down there and then take a local bus to Kundapur. We dont have accomadation too, [...]
After 2 days of spotting the owlet, I decided to go with the camera today and take some snaps. I got up at 5:50am and after some required post getting up stuff, I headed out with my camera. Today morning was a little colder than normal and quite foggy too. I was walking along to [...]
Whenever I am finally able to buy my D-SLR, this is what I will buy. Camera: Nikon D40x ~ Rs. 30,000 OR Canon 30D Used ~ Rs. 30,000 Lenses: Macro – Sigma Macro 105mm F2.8 EX DG ~ Rs. 21,000 Wide – Sigma 24-60mm F2.8 EX DG ~ Rs. 23,000 Wide – Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 [...]
Bheemeshwari Trip (rant alert)
October 18 2006 - In: Travelogue prashu
For better and happier accounts of the trip do look up http://yathin.livejournal.com/138092.html and http://deponti.livejournal.com/138374.html Anywayz, so on saturday deponti invited me over to Bheemeshwari along with yathin and amoghavarsha to see the rare Grizzled Giant Squirrel. The drive was good and once we crossed Muthathi we spotted a Jackal along the road. Unfortunately none of [...]
Went to National Market and bought a Panasonic DMC-FZ20S on saturday. Took some shots on saturday night at SAP and got used to the cam during the whole of sunday. Pretty happy with my buy. Paid 30K including a 1GB hi-speed/fast SD card. Panasonic Site http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmcfz20.asp http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/lumix/fz20/index.html http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/FZ20/FZ20A.HTM
I’ve been looking to buy a digital camera since god knows when. Been reviewing lots and am having mixed decisions about them. Currently my favourites are HP Photosmart R707 in the small category. Its got good ratings and feature set. Among the long zoom cams I am having a liking to the Canon PowerShot S1 [...]