The Price of a Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 IS Lens (Singapore vs USA)
What’s up with price of Canon lenses in Singapore? With the strengthening of the Singapore dollar, they should be getting cheaper.
A photographer friend of mine here in Singapore just purchased a Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 IS lens from B&H Photo Video in the USA. He was able to place the order online with a [...]
Harry Potter Leaked with Photos from a Canon EOS 350D
Any photographer worth his salt knows how to save photos with and without the metadata. A leaked version of the latest Harry Potter novel was painstakingly photographed page-by-page and and circulated on the internet via BitTorrent before the book’s worldwide release last Friday. The somewhat blurry photos showed each pair of facing pages of [...]
Amazon buys www.dpreview.com
In a surprising press release today, Amazon.com announced that it has acquired www.dpreview.com. Here is an excerpt: “Dpreview.com is by far the most authoritative source anywhere for straight talk about new digital cameras” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “We at Amazon.com have been their fans for a long time, and we [...]
What is the future of photography - Still Photos or Video?
Photography has already gone through one mega trend already in the last 10 years. - the rapid adoption of digital SLRs, digicams, digital camcorders, and the explosive evolution of photo-editing software. The speed of the digital revolution left many experience amateurs and pros struggling to catch up. Is the shift to video another photography tsunami? [...]
YouTube Banned in Thailand
The Thai government has banned access to Google’s YouTube website after it broadcast material critical of the country’s King… reports the BBC.
Thailand is everyone’s favorite destination for shopping, nightlife, beaches, etc. Easy-going Thais tolerate a wide-range of behavior from visitors arriving from all parts of the globe. There are exceptions, however, and the monarchy [...]
