Mar 16
Posted by KhoKing on Sunday Mar 16, 2008 Under Photography
Fujifilm F100FD just released on yesterday in Japan and I have the privilege to be the among the first to get my hands on one!
The box…
Front view…
Rear view…
Ok…I knew the above are meaningless…I will update with some actual photo tests at various ISO later…getting tired already today… 
For your information, the available ISO setting from Fujifilm F100FD are:
- ISO400
- ISO800
- ISO1600
- ISO3200
Wait for my update “tomorrow”… 
Sorry for the late in updating, here’s the continuation of the review:
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Mar 16
Posted by KhoKing on Sunday Mar 16, 2008 Under Photography
I ordered a Tokina AT-X 116 PRO 11-16mm Lens for my customer few days ago.
As usual, I check every unit of lens before sending out to my customer. To my dismay, I found the Tokina AT-X 116 PRO 11-16mm Lens that I received on 13th March 2008 (Thursday) is defective. There are some defect or weird pattern on the front element coating. I showed it to my wife and she agreed on the “butterfly” pattern.
The defect is actually quite hard to notice, unless you put it under the correct light angle.
The photo below is under a slightly different angle (see the lens hood angle is different), and you can’t really see or detect the “butterfly” defect:
Here’s a closeup of the butterfly:
For me, it is NOT acceptable, though unlikely the defect is going to be shown on the final image.
Since my customer trusted on me on getting a good copy of Tokina lens, so I always put myself in my customer’s shoe. If I have to pay $$$ for a lens, I would expect it to be “perfect” or “near perfect”. Since I can’t accept this kind of defect myself, so I rejected the lens and returned it to my supplier. I shall receive a replacement on Tuesday or Wednesday.
My apologize to my customer for the delay of delivery by extra few days… 
Yes, I sell the lens at ShaShinKi.com. The Tokina AT-X 116 PRO 11-16mm Lens can be ordered at:
http://shashinki.com/shop/…t-x+116&x=0&y=0
Mar 16
Posted by KhoKing on Sunday Mar 16, 2008 Under Family
I went to buy two pieces of birthday cake “for” Megumi on 14th March 2008, celebrating her 9 months birthday as promised.
I went to a few stores, all have their cakes sold out. Later only I knew 14th March was the Japanese men’s valentine day…so all women went out and bought all the nice cakes for their love one.
So…now big round cake and I have to settled on the small cut cakes. Since Megumi is still not allowed to eat the cake…so nevermind lah…
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Mar 16
This is one of my love to eat dish! Fried sotong (hmm…what do you call it in English?)…Ok…I remember now…squid…
Not easy to fried till golden colour…sorry…I don’t know how…you will have to ask my wife…but I can tell you it tastes GREAT! Very crispy and chewy! 
