Ok, I lied about the title, its officially 1.14am and I have not yet finished packing. I guess I only packed the important ones, or the things which I deemed as important such as my camera gear and my laptop.



That's right, my camera gears! I will be at Chicago and New York in the upcoming two weeks so I definitely know I can take loads of pictures there! What's in my bag above? I have packed in my D700, an 80-200mm f/2.8 lens, a 14-24mm lens (I want to shoot when I am on top of the Empire State building!) as well as a 50mm lens. Also together with my camera gear is my MacBookPro and I am packing all of these items into my new Lowepro FastPack 250. Not too bad eh?

I still got loads of packing to do and double checking to do so I am going to continue packing and hitting the slack soon.

My laptop is currently copying photos over to a portable hard disk where I am supposed to pass some photos to Grace and I am also considering trying to figure out where should I backup my entire laptop documents. Probably into one of my external hard drives. Ah, I do things very last minute!

At the same time I printed out an eBook and I will be reading it on the way to US as well as brainstorm and plan out my slides for my presentation at ShootFest and for a photography workshop which I am giving at my company.

Update: I added some more info on the specs of the new camera :)

In my last two posts there were a lot of hype about the Nikon D3x and I did manage to scour the internet for some good old rumours about the launch and perhaps leaked details. Now that the official leaked details are out and that it has been displayed on Nikon's Pro magazine, I can't help but look at myself and think that it doesn't really matter that much to me.

Yes its great to have the extra megapixel count, and yes its expensive. Perhaps I might be more interested in it when I start doing commercial photography or landscape photography. But at the moment, I have to improve on my own skills first. Make do with what I have and then I can only progress onwards from there.

Anyway if you are interested in the camera, you can find out more information about it here, here and here.

What will be the market's response to this camera especially at the time of a financial crisis amidst a global recession?

Tecnical Specs:

• 24.5-megapixel CMOS FX format sensor


• Full resolution shooting at 5 FPS


• ISO from 100-1600 (expandable to 50-6400)


• TIFF, JPEG or NEF (RAW) file formats up to 138MB (wah lau eh! nowonder there are already 16Gb CF cards available already)


• Newly updated EXPEED image processing system


• Expected price, USD$8000.

Image gallery available here.

Other related links below.

• Official announcement by Nikon Malaysia


• 28-page PDF brochure on the Nikon D3X from Rob Galbraith's site (its a download link)


• The World is your Studio (Nikon Imaging)