my new ‘toy’

… the olympus SP-590-UZ digicam!

it’s a good digicam for me to move on to becoming a serious amateur, seeing that now i’m going to take lots of photos for my reporting to the herald and UCAN… and next year, maybe for malaysiakini.  the one thing i like about it is the zoom function. you know lah, many a times, i’m quite shy to go up right in front to take photos so the zoom function will help a lot if i’m far away.

how much did i paid for it? only RM1000.00. oh, second-hand lah actually, so that price. i bought it from my church’s assistant parish priest. he said he bought it somewhere in june this year so had been using it for a few months only. i think this model digicam came into the market in march this year, so consider quite new if consider in this year. few weeks ago, i saw in the advert, this model digicam went for about RM1400.00.

i had been considering buying a new digicam for a long time actually. the old digicam of mine  (casio exilim) was bought in 2003! 5 years is more than enough ‘life-span’ of a digicam. early this year, i discovered my casio digicam’s lens cover can’t be opened so sent to the shop. the staff said to remove totally the lens cover and instead use a lens film for me.  together with the film and cleaning of the digicam, i was charged RM150.

then the weekend while i was in johor for a workshop, i discovered something wrong with it – either a vertical line of light appears or the whole picture will appear very bright and very white. funny… sometimes this will happenned, sometimes the pictures will be normal. anyway lots of friends advised to buy a new digicam instead of sending this for repair as not worth it… so i did. bought one… one that is much better that my previous casio digicam. but i still need lots of time to get used to all the features. i had already taken lots of pictures with it but found some pictures didn’t turned out right… that is because i’m not familiar with the digicam yet. well, hope in time i will get used to the features and use them and managed to have good, beautiful, clear pictures. reading the manual is kind of confusing as some technical terms here and there i don’t understand. i wonder if there is a crash course in photography? just a few hours.

NOTE:  the citizen journalists graduation night photos (taken with this digicam) can be view on my facebook photo album. also see shuf’s facebook album for more better clearer photos.