My Canon A95 REALLY gone

Last week, my Canon Powershot A95 is really gone.

Thinking back, I bought this camera back in 2004 December. I was sort of feeling the limitation of what my 2Mpixel Olympus C200 Zoom can do.

This camera had captured many sweet memories.

Sometime in 2006, the famous E-18 error started to appear. And on Christmas Eve 2006, 2 days before I flew to Taiwan for holiday, the errors seen too much for me. It would be a disaster for me, without a camera in situation. That's why I bought my Canon DEOS 400D.

Since then, the E-18 error appeared more and more frequent. And we stopped using it.

Last week, I took it out to try the PC remote capture function and it works. I thought I could have some fun with this function. I plugged in a power adapter and ... *sign* Both the camera and adapter were spoiled.

I should had checked the adapter output voltage with a multimeter before plugging in. Nowadays, Canon seems to remove the PC remote capture function from the PnS cameras. Look like I have to source other ways for this function. Of course, I am also sad that my faithful A95 is permanently gone.

Macro Photography

Recently, there is a sudden lot of opportunities for me to shoot macro photos. And I find it fun and interesting to shoot insects in their natural environment. But I am lazy to find the names and label them accordingly.



Put some of the photos in the following site.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kimloon/Macro

First Attempt of Shooting Macro on an Insect

An unknown insect flew into my flat, last night. I quickly took a camera and had a few shots at it. It did not seen to be bothered by the flashlight from my camera.

Used Canon Digital EOS 400D with 100mm MACRO Lens

Vienna Photos

Was at Vienna, Austria for meetings. Reached there on a Sunday. Luggage was delayed, only came on Monday of the meeting. Went back to hotel during lunch on Monday to change to clean clothes. Temperature was about 4 C for the first 2 days. Then around 14 to 20 C for the rest of the week. Most of the days were spent in meeting. So most pictures are night shots.

Uploaded the photos in the following site.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kimloon/2008040611ViennaAustria

Singapore Airshow 2008

Took many, many, many photos (over 1,000) at the Singapore Airshow. The Airshow is from 19th-24th Feb 2008. I put some in this web gallery - http://picasaweb.google.com/kimloon/2008_02_1824SingaporeAirshow2008.

New Blog

Finally, I created a blog to put some of my fireworks pictures taken in Chinatown, Singapore.

http://sgchinatownfireworks.blogspot.com/