BEQ Equestrian Competition

By edy507 on 7:01 PM

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Sunday, 8th March 2009, BEQ Equestrian Center, Jerudong, had orgenized a competition in conjunction to the 25th Brunei's National Day. The competition were divided into two session, in the morning session was the dressage, in this session, the judges will judge on how well the rider control and give command to the horse. While in the afternoon was the jumping competition, where the judges will judge on how well the rider give command to the horse when their's an obstical pole ahead and how fast the rider can complete the obstical course.

Since my aunty's son is one of the student in the BEQ Equestrian Center, his instructor has a faith in him that he can handle the pressure of the competition, where he enter both competition. Eventhough, his a newcomer in this competition, but he did manage to take third place in dressage competition, and fifth place in jumping competition.


Congratulation to Mohd. Danish Daniel Hj. Alfian!!!! for the third and fifth place

























New Kits On The Block

By edy507 on 6:26 PM

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Finally my flash unit, Nikon Speedlight SB-600, has arrived. I bought it from my friend, SirZaLee, as he want to buy a new flash unit. Before I buy it from him, I assure him that he is not going to use the flash until his new flash arrived. As we come to an agreement, that he's not going to use the flash unit until his new one arrived, so he's willing to let it go.


Before doing the agreement with SirZaLee, I did text my other friend, Hiero, that we gona hang out and I want to treat him, since he help me looking for my first dSLR camera, for lunch on Saturday (today).

As Saturday (today) came, SirZaLee bring along his SB-600, now belong to me *sigh*, as he came to school. Before lunch hour, Hiero rang me, to inform that his going to be running alittle bit late. Since my lacture finish early, so I just talking with my frineds at our hang out place at school to kill some times.

As the time shows half pass 12, I just went straight away to the Mall, where there is an Electronics Expo that being held at the Mall's lobby. Before taking pictures on the expo, I went to the Mall's food court and having some bits of sandwich while waiting for Hiero. As soon as he came, I have my second meal during the lunch *LOL*.

While having our lunch, I asked him to teach me how to use the flash. After finishing our lunch, we decide to take some photos of the Expo. Below are some of the picture that was taken by me during the expo, and my using my first Nikon SB-600.




Testing my Nikon D60

By edy507 on 4:51 PM

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After a few days having my Nikon D60. This is the first time I try to take a 'real' pictures. I try to take pictures of a flower, by the way, it is really windy during I took the picture but I manage to take the picture of the flower. By the way, please give comment(s) so that I can improve on my photography.

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Want to see the full album just click any of the pictures

Nikon D60 (My first DSLR)

By edy507 on 7:30 PM

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Finally, now I have my own DSLR camera. Thanks to my friend Hiero, who helping me to persuit my first DSLR camera. He brought me to one of the camera shops at Tutong town, Rose Photo Studio. Though it was a second hand, but I'm glad to buy the camera, since it was only 3-4 months old (the day the previous owner bought it), and with a very good price that been offered. The purchase was included the Nikon D60 body, kit lens (AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm VR), Hoya Circular Polarizing 52mm Filter and the Nikon bag.


Sensor
23.6 x 15.8 mm CCD sensor
Nikon DX format (1.5x FOV crop)
10.2 million effective pixels
10.8 million total pixels
RGB Color Filter Array
12-bit A/D converter

Anti-dust measures
Image sensor cleaning system
Airflow control system
Image dust off from reference frame (using optional Capture NX software)

Image sizes
3872 x 2592 (Large, 10.0 MP)
2896 x 1944 (Medium, 5.6 MP)
1936 x 1296 (Small, 2.5 MP)

Image quality
NEF (12-bit compressed RAW)
JPEG fine (1:4)
JPEG normal (1:8)
JPEG basic (1:16)
NEF (RAW) + JPEG basic

Color space
IIIa (sRGB - more green for colourful landscapes) default
Ia (sRGB)
II (Adobe RGB)

Lens mount
Nikon F mount (with AF contacts)

Autofocus
Three area TTL phase detection
Nikon Multi-CAM530 autofocus module
Only with AF-S or AF-I lenses
Detection range: EV -1 to +19 (ISO 100 equivalent, at normal temperature)

Lens servo
Single-servo AF (AF-S)
Continuous-servo AF (AF-C)
Automatic AF-S/AF-C (AF-A)
Manual focus (M)

AF Area mode
Single Area AFDynamic Area AFClosest Subject Priority Dynamic Area AF

Focus tracking
Predictive focus tracking automatically activated according to subject status in continuous-servo AF

Focus area
One of three areas can be selected

Focus lock
Focus can be locked by pressing shutter-release button halfway (single-servo AF) or by pressing AE-L/AF-L button

AF Assist
White light lamp

Exposure mode
Digital Vari-program
- Auto
- Flash off
- Portrait
- Landscape
- Child
- Sports
- Close up
- Night portrait
Programmed auto (P) with flexible program
Shutter-priority auto (S)
Aperture priority auto (A)
Manual (M)

Metering
TTL full-aperture exposure metering system
3D color matrix metering II
420 segment RGB sensor
Center-weighted: Weight of 75% given to a 8mm circle in center of frame
Spot: Meters 3.5 mm circle (about 2.5% of frame) centered on active focus area

Metering range
EV 0 to 20 (3D color matrix or center-weighted metering)
EV 2 to 20 (spot metering) (ISO 100 equivalent, f/1.4 lens, 20 °C)

Meter coupling
CPU coupling

Exposure compen.
+/- 5.0 EV
1/3 EV steps

AE Lock
Exposure locked at detected value with AE-L/AF-L button

Sensitivity
Auto
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 400
ISO 800
ISO 1600
ISO 3200 equiv. (HI 1)

Auto ISO options
On/Off
Maximum ISO (200, 400, 800 or 1600)
Minimum shutter speed (1 to 1/125 sec)

Shutter
Combined mechanical and CCD electronic shutter
30 to 1/4000 sec (1/3 EV steps)
Flash X-Sync: up to 1/200 sec
Bulb

White balance
Auto (TTL white-balance with 420 pixels RGB sensor)
Six manual modes with fine-tuning
o Incandescent
o Fluorescent
o Direct sunlight
o Flash
o Cloudy
o ShadePreset white balance (immediate or from photo)

WB fine tuning
Yes

Image parameters
Preset modes: Normal, Softer, Vivid, More Vivid, Portrait, B&W
Sharpening: Auto, 6 levels
Tone: Auto, 5 levels, Custom curve
Color mode: Ia (sRGB), II (Adobe RGB), IIIa (sRGB)
Saturation: Auto, 3 levels
Hue: -9° to +9°

Viewfinder
Optical fixed eye-level
Penta-mirror type
Built-in diopter adjustment (-1.7 to +0.5 m-1)
Eyepoint: 18 mm (at -1.0 m-1)
Frame coverage 95% (approx.)
Viewfinder magnification approx. 0.8x with 50mm lens at infinity; -1.0 m-1
Focusing screen: Type B BriteView clear matte screen Mark V with superimposed focus brackets

Viewfinder information
Focus indications, AE/FV lock indicator, Shutter speed, Aperture value, Exposure/Exposure compensation indicator, Exposure mode, Flash output level compensation, Exposure compensation, Number of remaining exposures, Flash-ready indicator

LCD monitor
2.5" TFT LCD
230,000 pixel
Features automatic defeat via Eye Sensor

Built-in flash
Auto pop-up in Auto, Vari-program modes
Manual pop-up in P, S, A or M modes
Guide number approx. 12 at ISO 100

Sync contact
X-contact only; flash synchronization at shutter speeds of up to 1/200 sec

Flash control
TTL flash control by 420-segment RGB sensor. i-TTL balanced fill-flash for digital SLR and standard i-TTL fill-flash for digital SLR available when CPU lens is used with built-in flash, SB-400, SB-800, and SB-600
Auto aperture with SB-800 and CPU lenses
Non-TTL auto with SB-800, 80DX, 28DX, 28, 27 and 22s
Range-priority manual with SB-800

Flash compensation
-3 to +1 EV
1/3 steps

Nikon Creative Lighting system
Supported with built-in flash, SB-400, SB-800, and SB-600; Advanced Wireless Lighting supported with SB-800 or SU-800 as Commander.

Shooting modes
Single frame shooting (S) mode
Continuous shooting (C) mode: approx. 3.0 frames per second (slower with NR)
Self-timer/remote control mode.

Continuous buffer
JPEG: Limited only by storage
RAW: Approx. 9 frames (shooting continues at a slower rate)

Self-timer
2, 5, 10 or 20 sec

Remote control
Remote Control ML-L3 (optional, Infrared)
Camera Control Pro software (optional)

Text input
Up to 36 characters of alphanumeric text input is available with LCD monitor and multi-selector; stored in EXIF header

Playback functions
Full frame
Thumbnail (4 or 9 segments)
Zoom (magnified)
Slideshow
Histogram indication
Shooting data
Highlight point display
Auto image rotation
Stop-motion movies created with D60

Orientation sensor
Yes (Rotates user interface when using camera in portrait orientation)

Storage
Secure Digital / Secure Digital HC
FAT / FAT32
Supports firmware update via SD card

Video output
NTSC or PAL selectable

Connectivity
USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed)
Mass storage / PTP selectable
Video out
DC-IN (optional AC adapter and adapter connector)

Power
Lithium-Ion battery pack EN-EL9 (7.4 V, 1000 mAh)

Dimensions
126 x 94 x 64 mm

Weight (inc. batt)
522 g