hughden
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With the Thai Apple store having a sale on the Ipads, it would not surprise me if Singapore (where some Apple items are shipped from, and China) stocks the new ones. The sale must be for a reason!!!
The price reduction is worldwide from all Apple stores.
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Yeah baby, it's really free!
Fantastic!!
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So yeah, how do I get one in Thailand? lol
MBK few days after release. Direct from Apple US via shipito.com.
Doesn't the Apple Store ship international...also Amazon
The Apple Store in each country only ships within that country. The Thailand Apple store (which actually ships from Singapore) does not have the new iPad on offer yet. As a consolation, they are selling the current model at a discount! Expect we will see the new iPad available in a month or so; not the same long wait as last time.
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I don't understand the obsession for a USB port. I can drop files (PDF, movies, text, images) onto the device via iTunes, I don't want a USB size hole in the side of the iPad, which you could do little with anyway.
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Camera adapter kit.
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DPreview gave it a Gold Award, so maybe it has some merit.
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OK - I'll bite - here's my money where my mouth is. This photo (if I can get it to load up) was taken with a 3,000 Baht 5 MP Cannon. The file is large so one can better pick it apart. Zoom in and look at the detail. If people just need a point and shoot then the cheaper cameras are just fine. I have expensive cameras as well but can not cavalierly fault the inexpensive ones. Depends on what you need. The 10, 12 and 14 MP ones available for less than 10000 should be much better than my cheapy but I am satisfied. Again I definitely recommend some good software for post processing
!For the size posted, a 5mp camera will take a better image than a 10mp camera, everything else being equal. Even so, the dog on the right seems to have white area where there should be brown fur, highlights being blown out due to a small dynamic range from the small sensor.
Have to disagree on the super zoom option, these ridiculous zoom lengths result in poor image quality.
I'll put my mouth where my money went. I bought the GF1 with the 20mm f.7 lens, and it has been the most enjoyable camera I have ever owned. It regularly produces images that delight me. I have a Canon 1D which cost me 150,000 baht and I admire it for what it can do. But I love my GF1 and it is my camera of choice unless I need to capture sports.
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Would be interested to know of a camera for less than 10k that takes excellent photos.
What is an excellent photo? You do not need a Lieca to take an excellent photo (to turn back time) and you don't need the highest price camera today to do so. For commercial publication there are points to have such equipment but for normal consumer user it is often a waste of money - just like that Lamborghini for driving to the Bangkok mall.
One that does a reasonable job of capturing colours accurately, produces a pleasingly sharp image, is not filled with noise, has sufficient dynamic range so the highlight are not blown out and shadows are not filled with dark noise, and doesn't produce images that look like mush when viewed full size. And a camera that allows the photographer sufficient control so he can build his skills over time if he wishes.
The OP has a budget of 20K. For that money can buy something like a GF1 which produces images of a quality sufficient to satisfy the demands of stock libraries. Or he can spend less than 10k and get a sensor the size of a small pea, a camera that only produces acceptable images in ideal conditions and is likely to disappoint more than it pleases. You pay your money and you take your choice!
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I have the LX5 and the GF1 and they are both great cameras. But the new Olympus seems to outperform the LX5 in many areas. The GF1 with the 20mm F1.7 lens will beat all of them and can indeed be had for less than 20k nowadays.
Would be interested to know of a camera for less than 10k that takes excellent photos.
A stolen one.
That XZ-1 has a 28mm lens, which is why some still lean towards the LX5 24mm for landscape.
Good point.
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I have the LX5 and the GF1 and they are both great cameras. But the new Olympus seems to outperform the LX5 in many areas. The GF1 with the 20mm F1.7 lens will beat all of them and can indeed be had for less than 20k nowadays.
Would be interested to know of a camera for less than 10k that takes excellent photos.
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Olympus XZ-1 is receiving very positive reviews. Smaller and lighter than the Canon and excellent images. About $600.
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iMovie for the Mac will make movies from photos. Easy to use and good results. Plenty of on-line help available if you get stuck.
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F1.4 gives twice as much light as F2.0, a.k.a a one stop improvement. F1.8 is a third of a stop improvement.
As least this is what I have been told!
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It is breathtaking, I can't believe it, when I said a few days before mockingly I don't want a 18-1000 mm equivalent lens I thought, I am really talking almost about something unachievable.
Well, we are almost there= Nikon - super wide-angle 22.5mm to a staggering 810mm !!!
Next step would be an f2 throughout however after a built-in polarization filter
With these heavy barrages of new cameras coming out every day the effect on me is to postpone buying a new one and see what's up next. And on you??
What are you waiting for??
Plus I wonder what this will do to the inventories of the dealers. They can't sell quickly enough their stock, i.e prices must come down even more rapidly.
With such a wide zoom range, the one thing you can be assured of is that the image quality will be poor. A nice toy for holiday snaps perhaps, but not much else.
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Don't put your subject in the middle of the frame. Putting the subject about one third of the way in from the side of the photo will give your shot more balance and be a more pleasing composition to the viewer. In this case I would have put the subject to the right of the shot, so she is looking out over the rest of the image. Google "rule of thirds" for more info.
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The higher quality compacts take excellent photos and are good for macro because the smaller sensor gives you a much larger depth of field than using an SLR.
The Panasonic LX5 can get really close to a subject.
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I have just moved from iphoto to Aperture I am not to good with editing etc but i have found it really for organising . easy to use much better than iphoto in my opinion and the price is down to $99 if you buy it online.
also you can download a trial
The OP seemed to be looking for a Windows solution? However, if you are after Aperture (Mac only), then the new App Store has Aperture for sale for $79.99 as a direct download. It's good, but not as good as Lightroom for cataloguing and editing. Better at slideshows, facial recognition and GPS data; if those are what you are after.
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Adobe Lightroom. Great cataloguing tool and editing tools so sophisticated I almost never use Photoshop any more. Non-destructive, which means your original photos remain untouched, and LR shows you how your photo would look after your edits are applied. Then you just export the photos you want in the size and file type required. Also offers slideshows, web gallery creation and print management. I run it on a Mac but it is also available for Windows.
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covered 350,000times in this forum.
US itunes gift cards available online or in stores.
thanks, but I was hoping paypal [which we tried] or some other way would work easier. if that is the only way then he will have to do that. We didn't address the major problem though, the US apps wont even come up on searching like Dragon Dictation. He cant change the address to get it to come up because they say you are using a Thai address and the card isnt recognized so the search wont bring up the app
Sorry if I sound confuse because I am
I will try to do a search if I can find what I am looking for
As Negreanu said, covered many times in this forum; just look back through the topics.
In summary:
Buy US iTune store gift vouchers over the internet using PayPal.
Go the US iTunes store in iTunes (scroll to the bottom of the store, click on the Thai flag, and then choose the US.
Set up a new account using a US address, any one will do. Choose not to pay by credit card.
Select to redeem a gift voucher and enter the code you have purchased.
Credit! Go shopping!
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Using a Daily Mail article as a point of reference is not a strong basis for an argument. However, I agree. Only yesterday I went to wire a plug and discovered that I did not have a screwdriver of the correct size. Had to go and buy one, for about the same price as a screwdriver for the iPhone 4 would cost; scandalous. Last time I buy a plug.
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Someone please tell me what is the allure of an Iphone in Thailand without 3 G ?
The same as the allure in a country with 3G; only slower.
It's like asking what is the allure of the internet if you only have dial-up.
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My wife uses a Manfrotto 785b with her EP1. Extremely light, although personally I would prefer something a little more substantial. The Gorillapod is good for emergency use, although I have found replicas in the local shops for 400 baht and they seem to be just as efficient as the original which is three times the price.
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I got the LX5 and got the bug.
So far this is what I'm achieving, which is a start I guess.
Question: How much better will the GF1 perform over this. Is it worth it?
The GF1 has fallen dramatically in price with the intro of the GF2 (which apparently doesn't do much more than its predecessor). 19,900 with the 20mm f1.7 lens.
Very tempted. Seems the 20mm lens is the one to go for, but know little about the other kit lens 14-45mm zoom.
Canon 1D is ummmm . . . a bit outside the upper limits of the budget (like stratospherically). DSLR's are just too big as I do occasionally travel for work, like the UK or the Caribbean. Or I just pop around the village within 20mins scooter ride to the hilly bit here.
Thanks Hughden!
The 20mm F1.7 is an astonishing lens; outperforms the Canon 24-105mm L lens I used to have. The 14-45 is no slouch either. The dangerous thing with the GF1 and other Micro-four thirds cameras is the realisation that you can use a wide range of other lenses with the use of a suitable adapter. The Contax 45mm is the second best lens ever tested, and works a treat on the GF1. There are cheapo Russian lenses, even cheaper Chinese CCTV lenses, elegant Angenieux cine lenses; all with their own character. It's cheap, or potentially expensive fun and my lens cabinet is now full with all sorts of exotica. Plus there is the marvellous Voightlander 25mm F0.95 which is made for micro four thirds.
I have the LX5 which I use for macro and extreme portability, but the GF1 takes all my serious photographs. 19,900 is a very good price. Get the viewfinder too and you can use it on both cameras.
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Adobe Lightroom may be worth a look. Much easier than Photoshop and if all you want to do is to tidy up photos; then it will likely do 95-100% of what you need. I process hundreds of photos a month and cannot recall the last time I needed Photoshop.