紅葉

autumn

三井の森

golfing at karuizawa today

Nikon Gear, again!

The Nikon gear I ordered from Australia through ebay finally arrived yesterday. It took a whole 4 weeks. According to the seller, delay was due to customs.

Anyway lucky everything was in order. Looking forward to shooting this weekend with the D300 and the super 70-200mm AFS lens!

Tomorrow and day after will be golfing days again. Took a day's leave tomorrow to go to Karuizawa, playing at the Mitsuinomori Country Club and Saku Resort. Temperature expected to be down to 6deg in that area !

Badd Girls

Visiting friend's birthday, so took him for dinner and later went to Badd Girls: Campus Cafe.

Most of the girls working here are part timers as they are mainly undergrads, or student learning make-up artistry, fashion or hair styling.

Upon request English speaking girls are available. If you're lucky some of them may take a liking to you and give you their phone numbers and email. Not Badd......

Nikon Gear!

Recently ordered the Nikon D300 body and AFS70-200mm lens from Australia. So since I have decided to go into a second Nikon based system, took the opportunity to buy a few stuff in Singapore, with the help of a fellow camera otaku. So eagerly waiting to use the new stuff, hopefully soon.

There has been much debate about the pros and cons of Full Frame vs Cropped Sensors. For me, cropped sensors provide the reach that would costs many thousands of dollars needed for full frame.

Cropped sensors also use the better quality image area of the lenses, and less subject to falloff (reduction in brightness around the edges) caused by light striking the sensor cones at an angle.

The smaller pixel but higher density of smaller sensors allow the same area of a photo to be at higher resolution than full frame.