SWC@McD & TARCian BBQ Photos

Photos of TARC SWC Party at McD Sunrise can be found here:

http://swcatmcd.blogspot.com/




Photos of TARCian BBQ at Paradise Beach can be found here:

http://swcbbq.blogspot.com/

Camera Lens - Front Element Scratches

Its amazing how much dust or how many scratches a front element can take without significantly impacting image quality. Here are a couple of images taken with a lens with a fairly bad front element.

You’ll notice they’re a bit soft and underexposed, but there’s no ‘image’ of the scratch, just like a dust particle can’t make an image on the sensor: the light bends to much through the subsequent elements for the dust or scratch to be visible in the image.

And the lens that took the images above:

As you can see, scratches and lots of dust in a lens may cause loss of contrast, loss of light gathering, and lens flare, but even so, will not be visible on the image. Dust on the sensor may show up on an image, but a bit of dust within the lens or scratches on the front element really aren’t something to worry about.

As a couple of people pointed out, that shattered lens did behave completely differently when we stopped it down and shot into the sun. The next shot is backlit by angled sun, stopped down to f7.1, and a pretty refracted rainbow shows up, along with a further loss of contrast. The last shot is directly into the sun, which would cause some flare with any lens, but nothing like this :-)

BTW – one interesting thing was when aiming into the sun the lens lost the ability to autofocus entirely, not surprising I guess when you see the final image.

Update:
Article from LensRentals.com

BMX & Inline Freestyle Battle @ Queensbay Mall

DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM

RULES AND REGULATIONS / SYARAT-SYARAT
1. ‘BMX & INLINE freestyle battle’ is organized by Penang Extreme Sports Association (PEGA).
2. This competition is opened to all.
3. The contestants will be responsible for any injuries/accidents that occur during the competition.
4. The contestants will be responsible for their own belongings. The organizer will not be responsible for any losses.
5. The judges decisions are final. Any appeals will not be entertained.
6. The deadline for registration is 16th May 2009 and email your form to coollen@hotmail.com
7. Confirmation of registration is from 5:00pm – 6:00pm on 17th May 2009. The organizer reserves the right to disqualify any contestant who is late or has failed to attend the registration.
8. The organizer reserves the right to disqualify any contestant that does not abide by the rules and regulations stated in the registration form.

SEMESTER BREAK!!!

What would you do at home during your 3 weeks semester break?
A. Sleep in the morning and wake up at night.
B. Play games 16hours a day.
C. Eat all you want, everything is free!

[D.] All of the above. Muahahaha!!

TAKE 2 of MALAYSIA

Took these photos while I was reading the newspaper last Saturday at McDonalds.
I find some of the articles very interesting at times...
See the relationship/similarity between them?
Source: The Star newspaper - 26th April.

They always say a picture can tell a thousand words, so I'll let the pictures do the talking and you do the thinking.