My signature dish of tuna pasta, something I learned watching TV on my first trip to Sydney. I do slight variations of it every now and then but the basic taste is usually the same. Having moved to the new place, acquiring new crockery and other stuff, I can now make pretty decent looking food pictures out of the camera.

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So my friend bought his NEX-5, and I managed to compare it side by side with my cousin’s GF1. They both have pretty compelling features, even some features that I wish I had on my D300 (like a magnified live view when you manually focus your lens that really helps you get the focus point spot on, and of course, video). Having tried both, neither will replace my D300 anytime soon. Even as I read in forums about people having these new wonder, miniaturised cameras take amazing photos, the D300 still win hands down on certain areas. AF performance still can’t be beat, and being heavy allows you to take those low light, slow shutter indoor shots (although this is negated by image stabilisation in either the lens or camera system) and this is also helped by using a viewfinder (an electronic view finder is an add on and extra cost for the other cameras) which makes your face double as support for the camera to hold it steady.

The last reason is probably the most important in that I have an awesome set of lenses at my disposal to be used for taking pictures. Brought my 85mm f/1.8 to the park with Alfie and decent high ISO, fast AF plus large aperture of the lens allowed me to take some really great photos of Alfie running in the park, playing with Vyanne and catching the tennis ball. Will post some of these pics in a subsequent post as I think I have too many Alfie picture in the past few posts.

I tell people that you can do most general photography with the kit lens of whatever camera you buy, but there are times when the other lenses you have in your stable prove to be more useful for the occasion. This was one of those instances and now that I’m more familiar with my equipment, I find that I’ve become more proficient in getting better images out of it. Heh, it just makes me want to grab the camera more often to make photographs.