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Samui, 17th July 2013

You know, would be cool keep in your pocket a 10x zoom 16 mp camera. You don't know how many times I regret don't have a camera with me, or in my car.

Of course the quality will be the same of a point-and-shoot, but better than any smartphone.

Phone capabilities? More than enough for me. Just the screen, IMHO, is a bit small (256 pixel x inch and only 960x540) but larger than many cameras.

If I remember right, around 18.000 Baht

Cnet not convincing, but it convinced me....

If I can sell for a good price my new Galaxy 4 I think I'll get it!

Just see this new gadget from Samsung:

Wow, for me, having a decent camera always in my pocket could be great!

Here is a report:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/mobile-phone/3463750/samsung-galaxy-s4-zoom-review/

What do you think?

Somebody already has it?

can you give us some technical info on your camera for the Cobra photo? Camera body, lens type and focal length, mono pod? I see it looks like a shallow depth of field so I am thinking you are at the end of your zoom and maybe shooting wide open or close to it?

Canon 6D - Sigma Macro 150/2.8 OS iso 2000 1/320 f5.6 exposure -1.0ev fill flash (Canon 580ex ii Speedlite), distance 1/1.50 mt, Autofocus center point AI servo.

Ah ah. Maybe balls, but mostly was the will to get a good pic. If you could see most of the 20 pics i shot are blurred, shaken, not straight.

After the first pics thru the viewfinder, I just push the camera closer with my arms, without actually get closer with my head and body. Hihi.

Then when satisified, just go away, understanding I was shaking a bit for the emotion (fear?)

Today they were working, 2 makro operating, but my guess (and local Thai too) is that will necessary a couple of more years to be ready.

Koh Phangan airport

Thank you for the many compliments.

It was years I was trying to find a Cobra in the wild.

An amazing area of wilderness still left in KPG, I don't know for how long.

Today I'll be beck there

Coolest photo ever...

Good advertising for his company as for the photo just another shot of a snake.

Which company are you writing about?

I think Surat Thani Province

I'll tell everybody a secret:

I put milk cream in the Carbonara just because foreign customers are expecting a creamy pasta.

Absolutely we never use it back in Italy.

Just an egg mixed with plenty of fresh grated Parmigiano and black pepper.

Fried bacon (or real pancetta) and then stir fried for a 30" with the al dente cooked spaghetti, then close the fire and mix in the pan with the egg++.

Not too strong, not too soft.

Buon appetito!

Sorry to read that.

May he rest in peace.

As a prudent member said :

damaging the guys vehicle is a crime and serious escalation.

Please avoid this kind of posts.

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Pill Millipede A giant one!

Hard armour

The Banded Grass Yellow

Giant spider night hunting

Giant Spider - defense position

Watching from the jungle

Borneo pygmy elephant

Flatid Planthopper

Moth Lissa menoetius

Notodontidae moth: Dudusa synopla

The Common Tawny Rajah

The Bandless Bushbrown

UnID Hesperiidae Danum

The Buffy Fish Owl

Pyrops transversolineatus

Oriental Pied Hornbill

The Dark Veined Jay

The Elbowed Pierrot

A few more:

Male Orangutan

Buprestidae

Fulgoridae - Dichoptera sp.

Wallace's Flying Frog

Huntsman Spider

Crested Serpent-eagle

I drifted for 7 hours once, at night,northern Queensland, crocs,sharks, stingers,made the shore and crawled one km through the scrub,to a caravan park, i was beyond exhausted and my skin didn't look so healthy,and no pretty nurse waiting..lol, 23C water temp, yet i was shaking from the cold, muscles all pulled tight, water in the lungs, went under several times but regained consciousness, the longest battle of my life so far, only thoughts of my children pulled me through and gave me strength to hold on, i begged to God for something drifting to cling onto, didn't happen, that experience changed my entire life, glad he made it.

What a story!

Bravo to fight and win for your survival.