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My Old Faithful Canon IXUS 500

I bought this Canon IXUS 500 about 5 years ago through a friend. He got 2 discount vouchers on buying this camera at slightly cheaper price with some freebies, and he was kind enough to share the vouchers with me (He bought one himself too). It is the very first camera that I bought for myself. I used to like this camera a lot. It is easy to use, give good shots and produce nice picture. I have been using it to capture all sorts of pictures that give good memories. Well, 5 years are too short and good enough for a camera to last? I don't know. Lend it to my parents few years back when they went to China. Maybe it's due to the cold weather there (they went there during spring season). The camera gave some problem after that. I sent for repair once after that. Since then, I becoming not so like the camera already. The quality of the picture has become not that good already. And also the battery is not lasting anymore. I have to charge the battery right before I need to use it. Else it will be depleted over time and when I want to use it, it can only last for few shots before I get the battery low warning. So I seldom use it anymore. As I do not have another camera, so indirectly I'm taking much less picture now.

At the beginning of the year, I planned to get a new camera. So I waited for the sales in March. I also search through the web for the new camera. However just before I manage to purchase the new camera, the Canon camera went death. :( Well, it's due to my careless too. I put in on my lap and it dropped to the ground when I was attending Hao. So I have been without camera for a month. I could not capture the picture of the kids until I get the new camera. The new camera that I'm looking for, according to the news will be brought into Malaysia by end of March. I hope it will be available in the Malaysia market very soon. I can't wait for a new camera!

Wedding photo

Do you wish to have such beautiful picture like this taken for you?  Photo courtesy from Photogreative.

Nice wedding photo, isn't it? Well, this is not my wedding photo. How I wish I could have such nice photo shoot being done on my wedding day. How I wish I could have met this old friend of mine back to when I got married 4 years ago. So that I can hire him to be my photographer on the day I got married. Hehe

When I got married 4 years ago, I just got few friends of mine to be the photographer for the day. At that time, the cost of hire a photographer for the day was not cheap. We thought we could have save some money by just asking favor from friends for it. The results? Well, since they are not professional photographer, what kind of quality can we ask for. Especially after seeing those nice wedding photo taken by my this professional photographer friend, now I'm feeling regret for not hire any professional photographer on my wedding day.

This friend of mine is my primary schoolmate cum neighbor. We used to take the same school bus to school together as we are staying in the same neighborhood. We lost contact to each other after we went to different secondary school. We resumed contact each other when he got married more than a year ago. He had been taking wedding shoot for people for years. You can view his profile here. Photogreative is setup by him and 2 other partners. They offer professional photographing service for actual wedding day and outdoor pre-wedding They also offer actual wedding day video service. Besides wedding, they also shoot picture for baby/family portrait, pet, event and food/products. See this nice baby photo taken by my friend. Click here for details of the packages available. And if you are member of the Malaysia Brides, you can enjoy discounted price from signing up their wedding day package promotion.

Later I'm going to get him to capture some nice pictures of my 2 kids. Hehe cant wait! :)

Printing photo online

Since I bought the digital camera, it becomes very seldom for me pay a visit to the photo shop. Why? Simply because I just need to upload the photo to the PC for viewing, without the need to send the film to the photo shop for it! We tend to snap lots of photo using the camera (since no need film, can always just delete it if we don't like it). So tonnes of photo have been taken. Occasionally we just pick some photo that we like and send for printing. However as I'm lazy to drop by the photo shop, we have stopped doing it.

When we bought the color printer about a year ago, I even went to buy some photo paper, thinking of printing the photo at home. However the quality is never be as good as those from the photo shop (not sure if because the paper quality that I buy, or the printer is not good enough). And also the ink run out very fast. So I think it's probably still more economical and worth it if just send to the photo shop for printing, even though the price for printing has been increasing.

And now with eoe online, I can send the photo for printing at anytime, without leaving the home! All I need to do is just to upload the photos, then they will do the printing and deliver the printed photo back to me directly. This is so easy and convenient! What's more, the delivery is FREE for orders RM35 and above. eoe Online is a home-grown Malaysian photo retail site. They are having promotion now and I can't believe it. It just cost you RM0.30 to print 1 4R size photo and 5R at RM0.50! It's so cheap! And if you are a blogger, they are having this eoe Online Blogger’s Review Program II for you! All you need to do is do a review on eoe Online and get 50 4R photo prints for free! And what is more attractive is, you get a chance to win the grand prize to an Olympus E-520 kit with a 14-42mm lens worth RM2499.00!

Just this evening, while having dinner, I was telling hubby that it's time for us to buy a new camera already. The existing Canon IXUS 500 that I have for few years, is becoming not reliable already. The battery also run off very fast. That's also one of the reason why I seldom take photo nowadays. So I definitely need a new camera! Well, even I didn't get the win the Grand prize, I still can shop for the camera online with eoe Online. With Internet, everything become so simple and convenient. I can do it at my own time, when there is no interruptions from the kids. :)