Elo elo! It’s been awhile since I last posted here so thought I’d give a few updates to friends and family. I just got back from a trip to Germany and Netherlands (Holland) for both business and pleasure.

Well, along the way there, it was a quick trip down to Kuala Lumpur to LowYat Plaza to get a new digital camera. Yes, I’ve had many different models over the years and my last one was a huge EOS 30D. But I felt it was time to really go back to having a slim camera and my itty bitty Sony Ericsson W800i doesn’t count.

And so, I walk away from Fotokem about RM1,699 (USD485) poorer but it came bundled with a great package of a free Canon Selphy Printer CP750, a whopping 4GB SDHC Card and a free case. Of course, including a protective screen layer for the LCD monitor.

This is definitely a good buy and I was so shock at the video quality. Ok, granted that the picture got noisy when I moved the camera alot but other than that, can’t complain. The original videos came out very crisp and very clear. The noise probably came from the sensor having to refocus all the time and processing a lot of image data as well from all the moving about. My 2 big gripes are on the Red-Eye Reduction feature which doesn’t work during picture taking and also the fact that the On-Off button doesn’t work that well i.e. having to press it a bit longer than usual just to get it to work.

On a side note, I enjoy going to the Fotokem Outlet at LowYat because there always have very good bundles for the camera and the staff are very knowledgeable about the cameras and stuff. Ok, so the Selphy 750 was dusty which actually brought to my mind on how on earth can a brand new printer, still in it’s original plastic packaging, come out very dusty. Thought that Canon’s quality control would be better than expected but strangely no. So, ho hum.

Anyway, pictures of the trip to Germany and Holland coming soon with text.