Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 APO DG Macro

Phew, finally i am free to post some blog , recently is quite busy, can say that everyday is full with appointment like gathering with friends, photoshooting and meet up some friends. Of course , i do enjoy my current life although is very tired but just wish to spend more time with my friends before i back to nigeria.

I buy a Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 APO DG Macro when 2 week ago . Why i don't buy nikkor 70-300 VR ?

Reason:
1. Just try to save up the money and don't invest too much on tele lens, because i think i rarely will use it unless some fashion show event or animals/bugs shooting.
2. I had do alots review of this len, of course there are many bad comment on this lens, if you not demand too much on the quality, there is not problem at all, just beware of the weather and not too dark.
3. Try to search some sample photo from flickr , the quality is not bad if you dont demand too much.

Pros:
1. Cheap
2. Cheap
3. Still is cheap :)

Cons:
1. Focus quite slow when at 300mm. Because it don't have VR.
2. Noisy motor if you dont mind :)
3. 300mm not sharp, need tripod if there is not enough lighting :) Maximum magnification between 200mm and 300mm is 1:2.9 to 1:2.

Maybe i try to post some sample, all photo below is original, i never edit at all.... just to share some information for the buyers.

Length : 70mm
LightSource: Cloudy
ISO : 100
Exposure time : 1/100 seconds
Aperture : F4
Length : mm
LightSource: Cloudy
ISO : 100
Exposure time : 1/200 seconds
Aperture : F6.3
Length : 300mm
LightSource: Cloudy
ISO : 1600
Exposure time : 1/250 seconds
Aperture : F5.6Length : 300mm
LightSource: auto
ISO : 1600
Exposure time : 1/400 seconds
Aperture : F5.6
Length : 220mm
LightSource: Cloudy
ISO : 1600
Exposure time : 1/125 seconds
Aperture : F5.3


Some sample of the lens.....
Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 APO DG Macro, Nikkor 18-135mm, Nikkor 50mm

Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 APO DG Macro
Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 APO DG Macro


Conclusion, this lens quite good for using portraits shooting but marco is not that sharp if compare Tamron 90mm. Prime Len always provide better result. Of course, i believe that every photo need to be touch up to provide better visio. Sigma 70-300mm only provide normal sharpness at 70-200mm, if you able to touch up abit, that will be more perfect .

Enjoy shooting :)

Start my Marathon Activity after i back from Malaysia

I had back to Malaysia for almost 2 week, there is so many activities, went to Amsterdam, sing k, badminton, buy new lens, meet up with friends, gatherings, go singapore ( suddenly ), portraits shooting and etc.....

My leg never stop walking except work and sleep -__-'''

Let me summarize some my activities information. I think i will slowly post up if i got free time, i just transfer 700 piece photo from my camera. I think i will slowly post 1 by 1 when i back to Nigeria at end of October. But this 2 week i really do enjoy a lots with my friends.

13.09.09 Spent time at Amsterdam from 8am to 5pm while transit to KL
Shooting with 3 pretty girls. May May Low
Sharmin Wong
Sharie Chee

Went to Singapore by Firefly and meet up my lovely Junior ( Si mui ) Phylicia Tan.
And other friend too. Lynn Teo

I going to Hong Kong and Macau at 16 october, friend wedding shooting on 24/25 October, and might be my friend wedding guan trial shooting also. Hope i can perform well on the shooting, and don't disappointed my teacher Johntim and friends.

Finish packing and ready to back

Finally my 1st trip to Abuja, Nigeria is come to ending, but it still got long way to go. I will back to Abuja at 25 October again. Phew, just calculate my hotel payment. Totally i had stay here for 73 days !!!!!!!!!!

Honestly is seem long, but my feeling just like the time is pass so fast when it become to end. For the first time i leave home for so long. Don't know my parent got become old or no, my brother got more taller than me, my sister got become fat or no ....and my friends etc ...

Maybe something is changing in Malaysia but i not notice at all. Just able to know some latest status from facebook, forum or online newspaper.Just too easy for me to pack..hahah...few clothes to bring back -_-''' before that is luggage is full of cane food.Before that is full. Now is quite empty, don't know the officer will laugh me or no -_-'''
This is the thing that i need to put at office store room by tomorrow. Still got 4 tomatoes sauce .... -_-''' next trip la..

Well i think i should enjoy myself and spent my time with family and friends when i back to Malaysia. I miss malaysia.

My flight schedule
Amsterdam , i am coming !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Count down 13 days & back to Malaysia

Yup, i still got 13 days to go and back to Malaysia. I will back on 12/9 and transit at Amsterdam

So i will reach Amsterdam at 8am and plane flight off at 9pm. That mean i can walk around at the city of Amsterdam. I will capture the building architecture of the city and then i can post at my blog :)

My friend keep complain that why i don't update my blog, honestly there is nothing special for me to upload. I guess next trip, i will copy and paste the previous and post again ^^

Okla...let post 2 photo that i took recently. Nowday i become a very good chief , no longer photographer.. -_-'''
I know my brother Johntim had arrange many date for me, i guess this 6 weeks in Malaysia i will busy on dating...doting....dating...doting...haha.... @@ crazy wer...

Of course the activities like photographing with model may may ( Johntim, you better arrange), friend's wedding dinner , yamca, play basketball, dota+ing, eat eat drink drink ..... movie...phew..there are too much.... 6 week enough for me ???? I wonder and i wish i can make it !

Friends, i ayam kambing back soon ( i am coming back soon) !!!!!!!!!

Wuse Market, Abuja

Is sunday again, i really have nothing to post. Everyday the cloud so pretty and lots, i also becoome lazy to capture it anymore, i just waiting raining to come and i wish to took a photo of thunder.

Back to topic, Wuse market, what is this? Wuse Market is the largest in Abuja and provides a genuine glimpse of local life. 10 minute walk from my hotel. You can find every daily expense things on here , just a like direct market which you can buy cheaper things compare outside.

I had been to wuse market for twice time, the photo i took during first time, is around 10am, maybe it still early, not much shop started their business yet.

The photo below is those shop lot which sell your product, everything is sell on a pack, like beer or water, they don't sold 1 tin :P

let go inside the market....and see what can we get :)

When i went inside, my eyes also drop out.................WHAT THE....the size of the vege & fruits all is double bigger than malaysia......... @@

This Banana..cannot eat 1....As my manager told me, it need to cook only can eat :)
Of course, size also double longer :)

The pineapple bigger than my head -__-'''Pumpkin !!!!!!!!!!!!! Halloween is coming ~ hahaha...kidding


Time to go back lor...outside full of people :P
In abuja, there is not shopping like Mid valley or One U.......just a supermarket :)

Report finish....end

Weekender, i am sensibility person

Currently is the 6th week i at nigeria, nothing much different, i still working, cooking, reading, sleeping and eating the tomatoes sauce.

How i spent my weekend? Usually i will online chatting with my friends, facebook and reading book ( just starting to read), listening song and sleeping. Starting getting a bit boring, because it is nothing to give me shooting again. The cloud everyday is the same, it just look huge and a lots.

Moon here still same, i always can saw it through my window, actually here is a quite peaceful place if you like to relax yourself alone.

Still got 4 more week, i can go back malaysia. Got 1 friend tell me :" dont lazy why no update your blog". I telling him, i am a "sensibility" person. If i don't have the feeling, i had no mood to update my blog.

Currently, i just having a cup of nescafe coffee, wearing my headset and listening to Ah Mei's song, of course is emotional song also. 记得- From 张惠妹

Other activities i will do every weekend is watching 我猜我猜 ( guess guess guess) , only entertainment to cheer up my mood and laughing here.


The book i start reading after scold by Johntim :)

Sometime i will start at the window and start dreaming.......
Someone telling me ...
心比距离还重要
就算两个再靠近， 不会珍惜对方。。。 那到不如不要天天见面， 有机会给对方想念彼此。。 我觉得这样大家会更珍惜彼此相处的时间。。。感情会更好

Translate To english, because my reader Johntim dont know chinese. * haha
heart is important than distance,
Even if the two re-close, not to cherish each other. . . It would be better not to meet every day given a chance to miss each other. . I think that we will cherish the time to get along with each other. . . Feelings will be even better

My opinion, we still need to face the reality, i don't dare there is not a possible will happen, but in real life usually is not that perfect as you thought. However, life still continue and stay happy :)

Take care my friends

The most creature i scare off.....Lizard at Nigeria

The most thing i frighten in nigeria .....lizard !!!!!!!!!!!!

You able to see this kind me of creature at any street, maybe housing area -_-|||, during lunch time hour usually i need to walk by some street around 300m to reaturant. And the lizard just around in front me, i really afraid it jump to my pants. And it move very fast and alert on people.

So far only 2 kind of lizard i able to see ... Street lizard (define by me ^^) & Agama lizard

Common lizard : Street Lizard
I think the mummy is bringing his children go for outing....

Even i saw 1 lizard is climbing at my hotel -_-||| , maybe it too hungry and go inside the room and look for food....Agama Lizard -
Sweating....-_-''' , you only able to see this lizard rarely , i always saw him at people's rubbish bin and looking for food -_-'''


Other lizard can found at nigeria... Uromastyx Lizard
Uromastyx inhabit a range stretching through most of North Africa, the Middle East and across south-central Asia and into India.^[2] This area spreads across 5000 miles and 30 countries. They occur at elevations from sea level to well over 3000 feet. They are regularly eaten, and sold in produce markets, by local peoples. ( Lilian, you are right, really can eat ^^ )



Not sure it able BBQ to eat or no :P
Now i walk by those small street or there is a wall beside me at outdoor, i always alert of this creature... I think i got phobia to lizard -_-''' ......

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There is always need to be sacrificed something to gain other things

"There is always need to be sacrificed something to gain other things", This words keep appear in my mind this few days. As my new job require me travel frequently and stay onsite for 2 months.

Just feel guilty for my family and friends, because don't have much time with them. Example , miss out my sister's convocation, friend wedding or gathering. No doubt that i can earn some money when i travel.

Lucky i am still single and don't have any worry of relationship problem. Nov-December, i will be onsite again, and there is a lots of wedding dinner which i not able to attend, i wish i can be there play around and have fun with all my friends. I want to shoot photo, i want to "yam seng", i want to hang out with my friends..........

I will back on malaysia on mid of September, but i only will stay 6 weeks at malaysia, wish i can have a happiness period and fully utilize my holiday at malaysia.

人终要是要牺牲才能得到很好的东西...我牺牲我的时间与自由在这里，以前就是想到外地工作，看看外面的世界，可能在这里真是是太沉闷，没什么特别吧，我终于明白为什么我的同事都很怕过来。

已经一个月在这里了，也开始想家，想念和朋友出去吃喝玩乐的日子。 还有六个星期就可以回家了，我真的要坚持到底，捱过这段时期。 太多朋友的结婚喜酒不能出席，真的很过意不去。
人在江湖身不由己。。。。。。。

The Food i hate the most .....

Is 4th week i at nigeria now...i NO CARE..i still want to complain...who buy me so many TOMATOES SAURCE !!!!!!!!! I EAT UNTIL SCARE NOW !!!!!!!!!....



I come back u both sure kena me whack gao gao.....
I eat 2 tin jor...still got 9 tin..OMG....