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backup your files!

Seems like a no brainer but not everybody can get a neat system backing up their photographs (if they are backing stuff up, that is). If you're reading this and you haven't even have any backup of your photographs, stop reading and get yourself an external hard drive or something so you can get to work.

Files do get corrupted or lost or deleted or damaged or whatever that they'd seem unrecoverable.

Back them up!

Just now I realised that I have lost a chunk of my photographs taken between March to June 2010 (which were around 85GB), and that include my recent trip to Japan and Singapore. I thought I've backed them up twice to my two separate 1.5TB external hard drives. Can you imagine how I must have felt?

I'd describe it as a low level heart attack. Plus I feel stupid, careless and irresponsible.

So I dug straight onto my three other hard drives praying that those chunk of photos are backed up there.

They are.

I was so frickin' relieved!!!

I am now in the process of backing these files up to my 1.5TB external hard drive. I'll back it up to the second hard drive tomorrow evening.

Backup your files!!!

photos for sale

Just in case you didn't know, I've been selling my travel pics on Lonely Planet Images for a while now.

The latest ones I submitted was Japan and Singapore and they're now online for sale.

Check 'em and buy 'em!

Nikon D800?

With all the rumours about the upcoming Nikon D800, I'm beginning to make a wishlist of what I really want with my dSLR.

I'm pretty happy with my D700 but if Nikon does decide to update it, please make the following happen.

A built-in GPS/geotagging unit.
The more I travel and photograph, the more I realise that a GPS geotagging unit is a must, especially when you travel for a few weeks. If you didn't take note of where you were and what you were snapping you won't remember what it was except if it was a very famous landmark. And let's say you're snapping somewhere where there is no landmark, a built-in geotagging unit is priceless. It's one less accessories to worry about too.

100% viewfinder.
It's really annoying when you've composed that perfect photograph only to find out that there are more to it on the sides and tops and bottoms. If Nikon could do it for the D300, why only have a 95% viewfinder on the D700?

Double CF card slot.
Not much of a big deal for me but it would be nice to have. Raw files on one card and lo-res jpgs on the other card. And please keep it as a CF instead of changing it to SD cards.

Lighter.
A no brainer. The more you travel, the less weight you want to carry. Even if you're not travelling overseas, the weight of a dSLR sometimes make me less willing to take it out. If only a full frame could exist in a D300 body or a D7000 body with menu layouts of the D700, that would be ace. OR!!! Or, if somehow Nikon could make a full-frame dSLR in a micro 4/3 body, God forbid, with the same features on the D700 plus the features I mention above, I'd grab one straight up.

Lastly please don't keep bumping up the megapixels. It's just not worth having. 12-16 megapixels are really good for quite large prints. If you need to make a poster, you wouldn't shoot digital anyway right? Plus I don't really want to run out of hard drive space that fast (I have to work in .tiff).

Of course I'm talking full frame here and I wouldn't mind having a second camera body just in case I need to shoot a wedding or events that needed wide angle shots to zoom shots.

Oh, and I don't give a damn if it shoots 1080p HD Video. I really don't.

not much of a zoo

OK, it actually is a zoo, I just didn't bring my telephoto lens. I only had my 50mm instead. I just wanted to try to take photos with some limitations.

Enjoy.