Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!columbine.singnet.com.sg!not-for-mail From: "aNdY" Newsgroups: fj.comp.dev.digital-camera,rec.photo.digital Subject: Re: Seeking advise on good digital camera Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:44:54 +0800 Organization: Singapore Telecommunications Ltd Lines: 91 Message-ID: References: <1149347997.632748.29210@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1150003568.952997.304560@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.74.43.193 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.comp.dev.digital-camera:2356 I am shocked . Yes, I am an Asian, and Chinese but from Singapore. I have no idea I am rewarding myself. Indeed I am not a wealthy person but I have enough to get whatever I need. It is only a matter of whether I am willing to or not. Nevertheless, I don't think I am rewarding myself with a camera. getting a camera is just part of life. It is just that I have never went on a tour and I plan for one by end of this year. I'm already over 35. I wanted to see the Northern light, feel the snow, See the smile on people's faces, feel the joy and confidence. etc. Life is short. MY dad just pass away 2 weeks ago, in fact on 27 May. He left with nothing as he left. Hardly a decent photo. Not even memories. I don't have much photos. Just I thought I should get a good camera. The world is really too beautiful. That is why people travel. So, if someone is says that I am laughing, ok fine. I have not laugh for decades. I thought maybe some beautiful pictures which I took myself can cheer me up. Now why will that give anyone red eyes? Right? I hate challenges and indeed getting a camera is a big challenge but I did not ask for it. Seriously. If you have seen the TV ads, where people went places and take down beautiful pictures. You will understand. Anyway enough said. I have learn a lot about digital camera. I hope by this month I can get the camera as it is the Great Singapore sales. But I believe the price of camera will falls over time as better models appear. It is just whether I get them or not. The link to get digital camera and the advises on what to look out for given by a few sincere people are indeed helpful, shocking but helpful. The rest is up to me. I am unsubscribe from the newsgroup now. I doubt any more information can be helpful to me as I already got to read a lot. So, take care strangers. Thanks for all the help, especially to Paul. Hope you read this. God bless you... .... farewell... "Fake" Andy "Panno Zhai" wrote in message news:1150003568.952997.304560@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com... Bill P wrote: > I've been following this thread for the last eight or nine days and I have > come to the conclusion that the whole thing has been a wind up. Mr aNdY has > been having a laugh. Does anyone else feel like that? I do not think so. It occurs to me that aNdY is an Asian, in particularly, Chinese. The motivation of Chinese is unperceptible for westerners. It is deeply entrenched in the Aisan/Chinese culture that one should work hard and disregard his own desires and feelings . The common wisdom is the the wellbeing of the society is above the wellbeing of individual. So, I presume, aNdY worked hard for a long time and saved some money, and now he wants to reward himself for his hard work. He wants to buy a "good digital camera". He presumes that once he gets the good digital camera, he will have an unstoppable fun with it. However, he has no idea what exactly pleasures he wants to receive from the camera because his society prohibited receiving pleasures. So that he figures out that, being unable to figure out what are his needs, he just buys a good camera and this will ensure that it will address his probable needs. Thus, he figures out, the challenge is just to find a "good" camera. However, the westerners know only too well that there is no such "good" camera by itself. One has certain needs, and the "good" camera is the one which addresses this particular needs. For everyone, what makes the camera "good" is different. Thus, aNdY will be unable to find a universal "good" camera. Many people (myself included) recommended him to go to the shop and see which camera feels good in his hands, and to look at the pictures made by other people and thus find out what are his interests. Obviously, aNdY has no photographic interests. This is his tradegy of an Asian. I am not loughing at him, I am sorry for him. I myself know what I am talking about, because culture-wise I am sitting on a fence between the western and oriental cultures. So, not expecting that aNdY would discover in himself any time soon what are his interests and needs, I gave him a best possible advice in another thread. Go and get the camera with the best lens possible (as a rule of thumb, the best lens is the largest (i.e.,m widest) lens). The camera with a good lens will surprise its owner with the quality of pictures regardless of his photographic capability (as compared, say, with the camera of the same clas but with less-then-good lens). The other advice which I would give is to get a camera with the best (easiest) possible ergonomics. This will ensure that the person will be motivated to take the camera in his hands and to go and snap few shots rather then let the camera collect the dust on shelf. This is how a path to self-discovery and self-development starts. There is no other way. \/