Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 – warranty repair

I have had the Canon EF-S 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 (dpreview.com review here) lens for about 2 years now, and although (as far as Canon lenses go), it gets a pretty bad rap. For general shooting in most situations, it certainly beats swapping out lenses while on the go. Recently the zoom capability just stopped, I couldn’t …

Left and Right brain conflict

I have loved this test ever since I first saw it, and I’m not even sure when that was. Why is it so hard? Well, apparently the right half of your brainĀ is trying to say the colour, while the left side of your brainĀ is trying to say the word. Have someone read this to you, …

Waterproof cameras… What to select?

I want a waterproof camera, and an old friend of mine once borrowed a Lumix (pictured) and it worked great. But at one point it got condensation INSIDE and as a consequence, no longer worked. It was repaired under warranty, but since he’d borrowed it, he bought his own anyway. On another trip, this one …

Transit Maps and Harry Beck.

Harry Beck was the original designer of what most cities these days use for transit maps. He first produced a map of the London underground back in the 1930s after realising that people weren’t too concerned about the physical geographic location of a station, but rather, their relationship to each other on any given (inter)connecting …

Fashion Shoot – Bang Kapi

I was fortunate enough to be sitting in Starbucks on the 3rd floor when this lingerie/fashion show just happened below me. Unfortunately, the staff of Starbucks eventually came and told me to stop taking photos… The first one is my favourite shot. There are two prominent Thai’s in these photos. Apparently they are well known …

I wish I could just sync checked photos from iPhoto

An open letter to Apple; “Please let me sync just checked photos to my devices” I have just posted this to Apple’s feedback section as a feature request. I know this is not probably something we will see, but at least I’m not just publishing this, I’m complaining in the right channels. I love iPhoto, …

WordPress and “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

UPDATE: It’s amazing the number of hits this page gets, where people get this (or a very similar) error and this has helped them. I’m very glad this helped, but I just want to add, this page is more than 3 years old now and although the logic is simple here, remember it is old …