Photog Arsenal

Well, I've established my camera body last month. Now I'm beefing up complimentary gear. I traded my EF 50mm f/1.8 II



(which came from my pre owned 400D package) for an EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 V USM




Which i think is a good walk around lens. Had fun with this lens when my group had a photo shoot in UP (Pictures posted on my previous post.

I got a good deal with another EF 50mm f/1.8 II yesterday! This is for preparation for Saturday's model shoot. Anyways, Here is my current and "Planning to buy" gear list

Camera Body - Canon EOS 400D



Lens/es

• EF 50mm f/1.8 II
  
• EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 V USM

Bag - Crumpler 5 Million Dollar Home




Memory Cards

• 512 IBM Travelstar CF card
• 1GB Ridata 150x (I do believe this shit when transferring photo's to the PC)
• 2GB Kingston CF Card

Portable - Macbook Core 2 Duo 2.0 2GB DDR2 667 80GB HDD Superdrive

Leopard

I was unconsciously getting ready for my MAC OS upgrade leopard last weekend. Bought a pre-owned apple wired mighty mouse (Now I'm lusting for a wireless one) and maxed out my ram to 2GB.

Had a hard time doing the installation itself because i had to chop down the installation file from 7.1 GB to 4.4 GB or less to burn it into a single layer DVD because it had issues if burned to a dual layer DVD. Kudos to this guy for the step by step tutorial.

Here is a sample screen shot of my 6 hour installation :)

Project Wipe out

First phase of project wipe out "clean and secure". I have just applied it to my macbook and E61i (as for my last post). My next target is my workstation at home. For the past year my working area looks like a dump site!

PICTURE

Im looking for a new computer table to match my machine. I've been searching the net for the past 2 weeks and i havent found any of my taste. Well this at least, but i want a bigger one :)

I'll update the blog later :)

Gmask

Im here in the AZ's new home in fort (Net Cube). Been here since the movement so i have an active internet connection. Well, im returning to Fujitsu HQ next week, so im savoring every internet moment here hehe.

Im planning to gmask my phone since i had a really bad experience last saturday! When i was eating in rodricks (PODtographers shoot meet in UP) somebody called my and had a 3 minute conversation, when the call ended usually i wipe my phone of sweat to clean the LCD. I noticed the paint on the left side of the screen bubbling up so i kind of pressed it to see if something is wrong with it. Alas!, the paint chipped off and left a hairline crack on the paint of my beloved E61i which i was protecting like a father to a son (hahaha drama no?). Becoming slave to my beloved swiss knife phone i feel very iritated seeing it like this! Im actually debating if i get a metal case or just get it gmasked.

Currently i have a capdase case (Which i think i got ripped off) which exposes the aluminum part of the phone and some parts of the side:



1st option, buying a metal case. I read somwhere in the net that aluminum create signal loss for phones. Well, there aint no theory about it so what the hell. Another negative thing i see on an aluminum case is, the same problem i have with my leather case. Its damn bulky! Last and the most important, i lost the number of the chick who's selling cases for my phone! (Damn it!)


2nd option, having my phone gmasked. Well i have a sample gallery gmasked E61/i's. My choice of design is a 2 toned white and silver gmask.


I'll update this blog once decided. Cheers people.

Updated: 7:24PM

Im here now in coffee bean and tea leaf GB3 waiting for my phone to be gmasked. just chose the clear coating to be practical and simple. Will update again with pictures once i get my phone and hit the sack :) Cheers

Updated: 11:09 PM

It was hell going thorugh gmask! I picked up my phone at 8:00 PM knowing that it was clear coated. When i got to the gmask stall, the gmask person told me that we had a problem. When i looked at the phone, the small chip became large as if the phone had a disease ready for quarantine. I was histerical and shock at 1st and realized that it wasn't the gmask persons fault why the phone looked like that. I sticked with my original white/silver design. Here it is:



Well it costed 1.3k and a lot of stress. Satisfied and happy customer here :)

Long Weekend

Well had a long weekend last week. I only went to work like 2 days, Tuesday and Halloween Wednesday. Vacation started on October 27 - October 29 (local elections) and November 1 - November 4. I went to Net cube (new home of my client AstraZeneca) November 27 and November 29 for the movement. So no vacation for me hehehe!

Had a stressful shoot last Saturday at UP Diliman. It was fun because it was a start of a new photography group called "PODtographers" We were all from the same forum (podcental.ph) ipod and photography lovers :) Here are some pictures from last saturdays shoot.