Law of attraction says: Ask and you shall receive. And oh be specific. It could be asking for women’s rain boots to anticipate raining season or maybe a DSLR so you can have better pictures for your honeymoon trip (yes, this is one of the many reasons why we changed from compact digicam to DSLR)

Actually it was an impromptu decision to sell my compact digicam Canon IXUS 870 IS to my in-law and get our very first DSLR. All happen in one night, except it took us 2 days to get the DSLR cause need to pay in cash and bloody ATM’s daily limit is super low.

This is one point that I hate from purchasing stuff/service from this town, cause you can hardly find shops with debit/credit card swap machine. IMHO it’s so ineffective and not convenient, have to go ATM to cash out and bring tonnes of money instead of a debit card.*grumpy face*

Back to the DSLR story, my boy and I did online research and asked friends for an affordable-yet-have-good-quality-and-suitable-for-entry-level kind of DSLR. We managed to list down a few among Canon, Olympus and Nikon before going to several camera shops in town; 2 shops to be exact; and experience the real products.

The first shop is in Wisma Sanyan ground floor, where the staffs looked at us blankly most of the time and can’t even described the specifications of the products that we fancy. So we headed to a camera and photo printing shop nearby our neighborhood. As expected, the shop owner who has knowledge in photography described our short-listed products very well.

His input helps us a lot in making decision before we finally nailed it down to Nikon D3000, RM2050. Besides camera bag and 4GB SD-card, he also gave us a tripod. We went in the shop excitingly and came out with a wide smile. Good customer service, know his field well, good price and gift, can’t ask for more to be a happy customer.

If you are wondering what happen to my loyalty towards Canon brand, the entry level DSLR 450D and 500D was quite expensive and not so worthy compare to Nikon D3000. That’s why. But I am still Canon hardcore fans when it comes to compact digicam. I am saving to have one in the near future. Can’t live without bringing one in my bag.

After getting the new toy, we went to KuTien Memorial Park in the afternoon for trial and error session. I am still not getting used to manual setting and big heavy camera hence I was modelling for my boy most of the time. Oh well, photography is the subject that I hate the most back in college.

He loves playing with the manual setting, while for me it is mostly auto (for now) and must learn how to take self-picture with this heavy toy.

Look, I can jump! With a smile and a peace pose some more.

His turn to kick a*s-ing

Can’t wait for our honeymoon trip next week! It’s gonna be 10 days without computer and (maybe) internet line.

P.S. Will be launching the new layout design tomorrow.