I have been caught on camera while on duty during one of my company’s event a couple of weeks back. Not often that I get to be in front of the camera but this picture was shot by one of my senior managers in the firm.
This picture was taken at Equitorial hotel in KL in front of one of the conference rooms. Tripod behind was initially setup to take some shots of the event’s participants but that was changed because there was another professional photographer there who handled that portion.
As a Nikon shooter myself, I have only one thing to say when Canon launched their latest camera on Tuesday, the Canon 5d Mark II, and the one thing I can say is, “Wow!”.
Here are the specs below.
Overview given on Canon’s website:
High Performance for High Expectation
Canon’s update to the wildly popular full frame EOS 5D is here, and it’s better than ever. The EOS 5D Mark II has a stunning 21.1-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with DIGIC 4 Image Processor, a vast ISO Range of 100-6400 (expandable to ISO L: 50, H1: 12800 and H2: 25600), plus EOS technologies like Auto Lighting Optimizer and Peripheral Illumination Correction. It supports Live View shooting, Live View HD videos, and more. It can shoot up to 3.9 fps, has 9 AF points plus 6 AF assist points, a new 98% coverage viewfinder, a 3.0-inch Clear View LCD (920,000 dots/VGA) and a rugged build. Full-frame shooters rejoice!
Again, these specifications are just amazing and there are already several comparison shots at high ISO between the Canon 5D Mark II and the Nikon D700. Other than that would be the ability to record videos especially now that you would have a range of lenses to use to record those videos. That means shooting videos at f/1.2 and have such amazing shallow depth of field.
Personally, still way too expensive for my taste! I guess I better start poisoning Alex and Grace to get this awesome new piece of hardware pretty soon 
Sources: Dpreview & Terry White
Amidst the financial crisis some parts of the world is facing as well as dropping fuel prices (currently at USD$96), there is always time and space on CNN to highlight our country. Previously it has never been in any sort of good light that we are highlighted, especially if we hoped that news like this might attract more foreign investors.
Anyway, here is a snippet of the article from CNN.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s opposition leader demanded Thursday an emergency Parliament session for a no confidence vote in the government, insisting he has secured enough defections from the ruling coalition to topple it.
Of course this talks about what has been going on around our country and what are the current headlines screaming. The Star is back to their cutdown web page to reduce bandwidth whilst Malaysiakini is screaming the headlines that “Anwar seeks emergency House session“.
News Strait Times on the other hand is highlighting on another matter, “SAPP senior vice-president and youth chief resign” whilst MySinChew is saying that Anwar demands a “Special” session of Parliament.
Our ex-prime minister, Dr. Mahathir, has this to say about the ongoing financial crisis. Whilst many people are wondering on why a blogger was detained under the sedition act. Apparently some said that he was charged because he asked that the national flag be flown upside down and this has caused much grief to certain parties.
Wikipedia states that based on International flag terminology, flying a flag upside down means to show that a country is in distress. With so much going on, this country is changing ever so rapidly. I guess change is inevitable, whether it may be that the economy will face another crisis on a global scale or maybe there might be some sort of a life line in our current state of affairs.
I had an interesting conversation today with one of my colleagues over lunch and it was about the failing financial crisis. Out of all of these, somewhere out there, in the midst of a whole economic downturn, there is someone out there who is actually on the benefacting side. Who knows, maybe until when the shroud has been cleared, only will we know what was the real cause or who might be the real cause.
Many people have been harping on the date and finally, the 16th of September has arrived. What does it mean to me personally? Frankly, I couldn’t care less about the date nor can I really care about the significance of harping about the date. To me, it is in the minds of the people, to me, today marks a day where there is a group of people who are trying to change for the better.
News websites have been cut down to plain versions without the multimedia components in order to meet bandwidth expectations. So far, the two that I have seen would be Malaysiakini and TheStar. So far, claims have been that the numbers are there whilst mainstream news says that it is just a lie. Who knows what the future holds for us but one thing for sure, the ball is definitely in motion.
Here are what some bloggers have to say as well at Rocky’s Bru and Jeff Ooi on recent events.
Other updates would be that RPK and Theresa Kok are still held under ISA while our law minister, Zaid Ibrahim has resigned over the use of the ISA.
With so many events happening around us, I just wonder what would really happen. It is a public holiday here in Selangor tomorrow but I will still be working as my office is in KL. Should I travel to KL tomorrow on the LRT or should I try alternative methods instead?
Anyway, tomorrow will be a new day and I will be monitoring the situation on news website tonight!
(Update 4)
If you have the chance, head over to MIS’s blog on his thoughts in regards to RPK’s arrest.
Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been arrested under ISA. As the author of the popular Malaysia-Today news portal, RPK has always been the centre of the limelight in many of his interesting articles posted on his news site. The arrest came as a sudden thing to me especially after reading that the MCMC has been ordered to remove all blocks from the website. Reported in by RPK’s wife that he was detained a little over an hour ago.
Personally, I am rather shocked and saddened that such an action had been taken.
Read here for the Star’s account.
Read here for the Malaysian Insider account.
Also reported on other blogs:
