Hey Mister, Mind Your Kids

The importance of the captioned utterance of annoyance is where you hear or say it.

When this was spoken, I was startled by the lady taking photos of her kid at a hotel swimming pool and aggreviated by the kids of the Mister who, rightly so, were left to kick, jump and run on the shallow side of the pool.

Naturally, the water splashed on her Canon P&S camera with the lens fully extended, uncovered in whatever way. I said "naturally" because that was a POOL! So the lady fretted and fussed about the children and hinted the Mister to stop'em to apparently no avail.

The Mister gave the lady an unfriendly glance and said and did nothing. There I was startled the unreasonable ego of her. A swimming pool is for swimming in the first place. She had probably no sense about this nor knowledge about the availability of some all-weather tough camera.

This brings us to a not-so-new-yet-not-so-old tough camera (forgive me, this is not a serious compact to be in line with this blog's theme): the Canon Powershot D10

This digital camera is engineered to endure almost wherever you go to produce the kind of awe-inspiring images that will earn your respect without fretting about water splashes and whatsoever. The PowerShot D10 and it is no ordinary digital camera is waterproof down to 33 feet (so the lady could have even dived to the pool bottom to shoot!), meaning suitable for even scuba diving, snorkeling or surfing.

Also it's freezeproof and can withstand extremes of temperature from 14-104°F, transcending the extreme sports of shooting next to a swimming pool to befit even snowboarding, mountaineering and more.

Then, it's shockproof for 4 feet!

This camera is recommended because partly of the inspiration from the lady's aggreviance, and partly of Canon's proven track records in its P&Ss. These special features are complemented by the DIGIC 4 sensor. So the IQ will be agreeable, to say the least.

Control-wise, there is no surprise, which is best for the general consumers. Main features of the D10 include:

-A selection of unique accessories available such as customized straps and interchangeable faceplates.

-DIGIC 4 Image Processor has evolved Face Detection Technology that tracks the faces of moving subjects and lets the shooter enter the frame seamlessly with the Face Detection Self-Timer.

-12.1 Megapixels, plus 3x Optical Zoom lens with Optical Image Stabilizer.

-Blink Detection alerts a shooter after a shot has been taken that a subject has closed eyes. (Does it work for fish? ...Hey, fish don't blink, idiot!)

-Smart AUTO intelligently selects the proper settings for the camera based on 18 predefined shooting situations.

Nevin asked me to write it light for the Saturday post. So here you are. And here goes a video review of the D10:

A Real Hero

(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the

New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

Eye Contact

(Leica D-lux 5) The digital era may make it easier to end up with fave shots. Even lousy photos may be turned likable after a few clicks in the post-processing workflow. But if digital advancement or amendments have any bearing on the cultivation of personal style, no photographers will need to discover his or her own photographer’s eye. Undoutedly, this is out of the question. Only with a trained photographer’s eye can we give a thinking gaze and capture an eternal moment, in our unique style. Style is the soul of a great photo. A few posts have been written in GXG to touch on the topic of photographer’s eye. Instead of finding an answer, which would require academic discussions, the posts are intended to give my general reflections and spark interests in moving towards further exploration of the topic. The posts can be viewed after the links: 1) Photographer's Eye: Storytelling 2) Photographer's Eye: Little Show of Observing 3) Photographer's Eye: Sight-Worthy 4

GX GARNERINGS

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