Trivia

Pretty much had nothing to blog, so just thought will put in these:

Law of Mechanical Repair:
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

Law of the Telephone:
When you dial a wrong number,you never get an engaged one.

Law of the Alibi:
If you tell the boss, you were late for work because you had a flat tyre, the next morning you will have a flat tyre.

Variation Law:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

Bath THEOREM
When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

LAW OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

LAW of the RESULT
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

LAW OF BIOMECHANICS
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

THEATRE RULE

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

LAW OF COFFEE
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something, which will last until the coffee is cold

The Digital SLR War

Yes it is a battle between Nikon and Canon. Both of them trying to surpass each other to grab the ever growing digital SLR market. Canon undoubtedly captured the consumer and professional digital segments with their affordable digital rebel, the ultra professional 1DS. Nikon more or less captured the consumer segment with the D70 and now with its new D2X will capture the professional segment.
The camera has some of the world's first features: most impressive is an interchangable FOV (Field Of View) Crop factor, to put in simple terms, u can shoot at 5 fps in the 12.4 MP mode with a 1.5 crop factor and then u can shoot at 8 fps in 6.4 MP mode with a crop factor of 2. In the 6.8 MP mode, a 300 mm lens is equivalent to 600 mm.
The feature I liked the most is the ability to adjust and fire the camera remotely over a wi fi network. With the optional capture 4.0 software and the WT-2 Transmitter, one can set the camera in the desired position, come back sit at the comp and fire the trigger from the comp. This is just amazing.
The world's most robust I-TTL flash system with the optional speedlights enables the use of flash and flash settings without any cords or wires. This is supposedly like a boon to fashion photographers. ( I dont know much about indoor photography ).
Not to speak, the new robust battery can last for 2000 shots and doesnt drain when focusing the lens in manual mode. Battery life tho' not a major feature is a much desired feature.
The pricing is supposedly very aggressive at around 5000$ while the 1DS from canon is around 8000$.
Coupled with this, Nikon launches a new 300 mm AF-S lens with VR. Not sure about the pricing ( I guess it will be in the 4000$ range), but its impressive to see that Nikon is adding the VR feature on their telephoto glasses.
On the whole, very very impressive new equipment by Nikon. Oh, also Nikon launched a new film camera the F6, supposedly priced at around 2,500$. God knows who would pay so much money for a film SLR these days.

Great White Shark

This was shot in an aquarium in Tennessee. The pic isnt good but it seems to me as if the shark is gonna tear u apart :)