Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Temporary break from the series of GX85 posts and to write about something still related to photography – accessories! I’ve done a couple of posts on accessories for the m4/3 cameras, with the last one more than a year ago.
Previous posts on my first impressions of the GX85 here and here. In-camera battery charging – hooray – but no external charger supplied in the package – hissss boo!!! The advantage of in-camera charging is real – you don’t have
Part 1 of my comments of the Panasonic GX85 here. The GX85 has some similarities to the E-PL8, but since I don’t have one such unit, a comparison against the 3.5 year old E-PL6 will have to suffice. So, about
Mention Panasonic, and one would immediately think of the electronics giant whose refrigerators, TVs, laundry machines and all manner of household appliances line electronic stores like Courts, Harvey Norman and Best Denki here. The Japanese company though is as widely
Normally, most non-techie persons wouldn’t be aware of the in and outs of the smartphone industry. But the Samsung Note 7 battery exploding fiasco of 2016 was so widely reported that it even became talking points for persons who couldn’t
While there’s a decent number of camera manufacturers who’ve sign onto the now almost a decade-old Micro Four Thirds system, most of the prominent camera bodies we see today continue to largely come from the two standard bearers of the
Memory cards are a dime a dozen these days, with prices coming so low and capacity limits far outreaching camera sensor image resolutions. In fact, it’s quite common for new cameras to come bundled with Secure Digital memory cards. These
The Olympus E-PL6 spent the better part of 2016 in the cabinet: earlier this year, it started developing stuck shutter curtain issues alongside the touch screen becoming a little finicky. The latter was an annoyance but it didn’t affect photo-taking
2016 was a comparatively slow year – new gear wise at least – for the cameras I use. I still keep a expenditure log of items I buy, and over the year, acquisitions were a low half-dozen items that totaled
I don’t think there are many Singaporean families who’ve yet to visit Universal Studio Singapore (USS) – our island’s very own theme park – since it’s opening 5 years ago. We’ve largely put it off because the kids, at various
Early impressions of the Fujifilm X70 after about a week of use! The default color profile coming out of the X70 is subtly different from Olympus m4/3s. Not a scientific test now as I’m not a visual person, but the
I reckon I’m one of those very lucky hubbies – since I have a wife who chuckles whenever I bring home a new toy! This time round, it’s the Fujifilm X70. The impetus for this new acquisition started 2 months
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