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Canon EOS 450D

Russell — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:41:03 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to get myself a SLR for over a year now, and I finally got one today! It’s a Canon EOS 450D, the one I wanted to buy since it was released last year. It came with the EF-S 18-55mm IS lens, which is good enough to start with. I also bought an original Canon bag and a Canon vest which has “EOS Professional”. Pretty cool!

Here are the basic features of the camera:

12.2 Megapixel CMOS sensor
Canon EOS Integrated Cleaning System
3.5 frames per second
3.0″ TFT LCD
Live View shooting
9-point wide-area AF system with f/2.8 cross-type center point
DIGIC III image processor
Fully compatible with all Canon EF and EF-S lenses and EX-series Speedlites

To note, this camera is known as “Digital Rebel XSi” in US market, and “Kiss X2 Digital” in Japan.

Here’s what it looks like:

Front view of Canon EOS 450D

Back view of Canon EOS 450D

Skeleton view of Canon EOS 450D

Top view of Canon EOS 450D

I can now take much better photos, and more importantly try more genres of photography, which wasn’t possible with my credit card sized Canon IXUS 70. So yay for me!

Addicted to Flickr

Russell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:19:31 +0000

I’ve been using Flickr for one and half year, and right now I’m completely hooked to it. I had a hard time to get rid of my Facebook addiction, but seems like giving up Flickr wouldn’t be easy. But hey, I don’t need to do so, cause it’s helping me to improve my photography skills and acquire more knowledge on photo-taking techniques by seeing the works for renowned photographers from around the world. So yay for me!

Here’s my account stats:

370 pictures;
23 sets;
223 contacts; and
137 favorites.

You can also see my huge list of tags here.

All the photographs on my account are under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, which means you can legally share, use, and modify them for non-commercial purpose as long as you put my name on the credit line and release them under the same license. If you want to use any of my pictures commercially, or looking forward for the high resolution version, then please get in touch with me.

Long love Flickr!

Flickr Pro Account, Yeah!

Russell — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:03:00 +0000

I was looking forward to get myself a Flickr Pro account for the last couple of weeks, and today Omi bhai gave me a pleasant surprise by gifting me one.

I can now store unlimited pictures, create unlimited sets and collections, archive high-resolution images, replace photos, access visitor statistics, and have much more fun! Woohoo!

Acts of Betrayal

Russell — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:58:32 +0000

My friend’s younger sister who’s 24 and has a 1-year old baby girl divorced her husband and married her best friend’s husband who also has a 1-year old baby girl. How pathetic!

If you know about similar incidents, then please share them with the readers.

Beauty Redifined

Russell — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:27:01 +0000

Isn’t she beautiful??? Haven’t seen such a pretty face in a long time!

4th Grader Tiktikis

Russell — Thu, 25 May 2006 00:34:14 +0000

Anjalin sent me the scanned photograph of our class 4′s yearbook picture of Dhanmondi Tutorial and I’m so glad to get it. We were so little back then! Anjalin says we look like tiktikis!

Just in case if you haven’t recognized me yet: I’m sitting on front row, between the girls.

For a larger version of the photo, click here.