Day 6: Kyoto part 2
15th October 2007
So after a good rest (and making some adjustment to my plans) I decided to visit the East side of Kyoto today and the West side tomorrow.
I woke up at 3am that day and went through the routine of cleaning my gear and plotting my route. It was also the first time I slept in a futon since arriving in Japan and I must say the experience was great! it was comfortable and absolutely relaxing!
I took a shot of the view outside of my window at 4am to test my gear.
More shots from the long range sigma (70-200mm)
After using the Sigma for so long, I am still impressed by its performance although I have notice some of its evident weakeness especially at 200mm as it becomes very soft when the aperture is opened all the way to f/2.8 (closing it down to f/4.5 seems to fix the problem).
Here are some shoots from it
I also realized that doing post-process sharpening on pictures taken from Fujifilm S5 pro where the image setting has been adjusted down to 6MP or “m” on the camera instead of “L” are a lot better then post-process sharpening on 12MP or “L” JPEGs. As the sharpening does not introduce a lot sharpening artifacts, in fact it’s almost nil.
So until then pleasant dreams~!
AHHH I can’t get it out of my head!
I found this youtube link to one of Nana Mizuki’s song called “Secret Ambition” which is also the opening to the anime Nanoha StrikerS
Honda roadshow at QBM
Yesterday went out to the QBM with a few of my friends (ChewingGum and Khang Wey) as there was a Honda car roadshow taking place there and reports indicated that there would be some nice looking ladies there. It was a slow Saturday and I was bored.
We reach there at 11:30am but the ladies only appeared at about noon-nish. I only paid much attention to the Honda stream as it was really cool looking although I wish they had a civicover there. Still what really interested me was the civic hybrid that was stated in the brochure.
From what I gather, there is only one hybrid in the whole of Penang? Hmm, still they had an excellent offer on their Honda Citys, RM1850 discount (It was only RM1000 for me when I first got the City).
Here is a shot of Franklin which I turn to B&W as it looked better that way.
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