During my recent balik-kampung trip, i was soo semangat nak amik gambar .. you-know-why-la. So last Sunday morning, around 630am i urged myself to the infamous fisherman’s jetty, Tg.Lumpur hoping to photograph the fishermen at work. To my disappointment, it was an off day for them and what is left for me to shoot is an empty jetty and few stranded boats. Here are some shots tapi rasa macam tak best pun ..

This is an abandoned boat, but notice the astro dish??

The jetty seriously uzur, kayu banyak dah reput

Anothr abandoned boat

Tempat mandi

Mia is well known as a late sleeper. We are a bit worried if she falls asleep earlier than her normal sleeping schedule as we too have to stay awake as well. The solution?? Barney!! Yes, she will insist on watching Barney over and over again till she feels tired and ready to get back to sleep.

Last weekend, she strikes again! but this time at my hometown in Kuantan. She woke up at 4am and refused to sleep. As usuals, we Barney-ed her repetitively, loud enough to disturb our sleep. Since all of us couldn’t sleep, we decided to bring Mia to nearby beach, TC hoping she’ll be tired throughout the day. Besides, i was also keen to try out my deetujuhratus. It was 630am in the morning and our photo taking session lasted until 830am. However Mia to no avail was still wide awake, not until 11am ….

i must say this .. my deetujuhratus rawkss!!

When i first brought home the D700, i quickly ran few test shots and the outputs were totally AWESOME!! Truly AMAZING!! It’s definately worth every $$ spent.

The very first test was to prove its low noise ability on high ISO setting. I had my Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 mounted, i picked few Mia toys and position it at the ‘not-so-bright’ area of the house and take a few shots on various settings. I purposely tried on the fancy-colorful toys as to see how its color rendition’s like and i must say i’m very pleased with it. 

This is the set up. Few toys with various colors againts a green background.

Throughout the test, the camera was set to the followings.
F-Number: f/4.0
Exposure Program: Aperture Priority
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Metering Mode: Pattern
Active D-Lighting: Auto
White Balance : Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Image Size : Small (2128 x 1416)
Image Quality : Fine

0.8s, f/4.0, ISO200

1/5s, f/4.0, ISO800

1/10s, f/4.0, ISO1600

1/20s, f/4.0, ISO3200

1/40s, f/4.0, ISO6400

1/80s, f/4.0, ISO12800

1/160s, f/4.0, ISO25600

I noticed the noise is only clearly visible at ISO12800. At ISO6400, it still performs tremendously, perhaps comparable to ISO800 on D200 (or even better). In the near future, i guess this camera would definately change the way i shoot photos from flash-dependable to available-light hunter.

To dearest mommy, no worry you can expect me to use this camera for a long period of time, perhaps 2 years – but i can’t promise that for lenses tho ;) ..