Went for a short Taiwan trip with Serene from 24th to 30th April 2010. Originally had planned to go with buddies but they aren’t free during that period of time. So we just went ahead and plan our first trip to Taiwan.
We toured around Taipei, Wulai and Keelung on our own. Occasionally taking cab rides to go hard to reach areas like Yehliu. Selected one picture from each day of our trip. Others are in our facebook.
Walked around Ximending (西門町) on the night we touched down at Taipei
Ended our second day at Raohe Street Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市)
It’s street shopping day! Rested our feet and had lunch at Hello Kitty Sweets shop
Had a relaxing bath at the hotsprings at Wulai (烏來) after few days of shopping
Visiting the 13 layers (十三層遺址) after Yehliu Geopark. We went to Golden Waterfall (黃金瀑布)
Calla lilies at Zhuzihu (竹子湖, Bamboo Lake) in Yangmingshan National Park (陽明山國家公園)
Found another gadget website that offers free shipping like dealextreme and suntekstore. Got to know of budgetgadgets recently. Ordered a cool camera pouch for my Canon S90. Can’t comment on the delivery speed but I hope they are faster than dealextreme. Had some issues with dx recently.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) has finally been ported to the Canon S90! CHDK extends the functionality of the camera like allowing you to control your camera remotely through USB! Not only that, you can create scripts to invoke the camera functionality.
One of the cool feature. It overwrites the shutter speed! The Canon S90 allows exposure time up to 15 secs. With CHDK, you can open the shutter way longer than 15 seconds! No bulb mode though. Time to get ND filters!
Installation is easy, download the BOOTDISK.BIN and PS.FI2 for your camera and firmware version. Load it into the root of your SD Card.
To start CHDK, start the camera in Playback mode. Hit the menu button and select update firmware. Confirm the update and the camera will reboot with the CHDK firmware.
Don’t worry, it doesn’t update the camera firmware, it simply loads the CHDK off the SD Card. CHDK is unloaded when your camera is rebooted.
Check out the CHDK website. While you are at it, check out the Canon S90 CHDK port forum thread.
The evening sky looks great. Doesn’t it?
Evening sky – After the sun sets
The sky looks great this evening! Took a couple of pictures and combined them together.
Took the Canon PowerShot S90 for a spin, snapped some pictures at night, snapped some pictures while shopping today. Here are the pictures!
Finally I can control the Timing Value!
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The Canon A85′s CMOS sensor decided to give me on me after seeing all those ugly shots I’ve taken in the past. Traded it in for a Canon PowerShot S90 through the Canon Privilege Purchase Program.
The PowerShot S90 that cost me S$595 with 8GB SD card & pouch
So why did I choose the PowerShot S90?
- It’s small and lightweight
- Outstanding image quality when compared to other compact cameras
- Better low light performance than other compacts
- Good JPEG quality with option for RAW image
- Fast F/2 lens
- Manual controls for aperture, shutter speed, flash exposure
Some not so cool stuffs
- Lacks HD movie mode
- Control dial is too loose which may cause you to adjust the exposure value unknowingly
Check out the Canon PowerShot S90 Microsite!
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