Daryl & Johannie's Travels

Sunday, August 26, 2007

The day after September 2, 1752

No one ever died or were born in England from September 3 to 13, 1752 !

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Ballooning @ Henley !

Ballooning over Henley-on-Thames

Asun and Johannie enjoying the fantastic summer in the UK

Friday, August 24, 2007

who's getting a Golf (from eBay) ?

Gil & Ben are happy owners of a 1.6liter 4 door Golf !

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Nikon's new D3 and D300 !!!

Alright, Nikon's two new flagship DSLRs are officially announced: D3

12.1 megapixel, full-frame sensor! (23.9 x 36mm) Finally. ISO 25,600 !!!
3-inch VGA live view LCD (920,000-dot, That's triple the area resolution of the Canon 40D and 1Ds Mk III.)
Two CompactFlash card slots for overflow, backup, or copying
New EXPEED image processor
9fps in full frame, 11fps in DX crop; 51 point autofocus (with "3D focus tracking")
HDMI HD out (wohoo !!!)
New Kevlar / carbon fibre composite shutter
WiFi
Digital Horizon (like in fighter plane cockpits)
Active D-Lighting
$5000, November release

D300

12.3 megapixel DX (1.5 crop) sensor
3-inch VGA live view LCD
New EXPEED image processor
51 point autofocus
$1800, November release

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

it's about time Canon catches up...

It's about time Canon catches up with the Nikon D200, with their newly released EOS-40D. Except that they didn't add the GPS tracking. LiveView is nice... See the specs at DPREVIEW. Funny how the specs are almost a direct copy of the Nikon D200...