So I leave Singapore for the UK tomorrow, and am going to miss a good part
of the Buskers' Festival. Anyway, Canon's a major sponsor and they're
holding a digital photography competition over the week to get the best
'Busker's Moment'. Up for grabs is black 300D kit and some photo printer,
which I'll probably win, but that's not my story.
So at one of the venues today, I saw this other guy with a DSLR (noted to
self: It's lookin' good. Not much competition!). At some point, I was next
to him and lo and behold! An *ist D! Not a speccy lens, but it felt like a
familiar face.
"Are you taking part in the photo competition too?"
"Oh no.. I'm the official photographer.."
Pretty cool, I thought. Good to see an official position with some faith in
scorpion moustache gear. Anyway. He wasn't really the talky kind so I slowly
drifted away.
By the way, for any of youse thinking about visiting Singapore anytime soon,
beware. It's Canon infested. I kid you not! They seem to sponsor everything,
and everywhere you go, you'll see big red letters. If you looked on the
roads, every 3rd car is a taxi. Every 5th taxi has a Canon logo on it's
advertising board! It's crazy. One saving grace however, I -think- I looked
out of my window the other day and saw a Pentax ad on a double-decker bus. I
was too sluggish on the draw, and couldn't get my camera out in time. I had
a really good reason for wanting the shot though. If you ever read my
nonsense, you'll have noticed by now I've given up the ist D for the 20D.
The ad though, if I saw it right, said 'Pentax is who I am'! How totally
neat! Lousy marketing still, but I thought it'd be nice way to let everyone
know I'm not beyond redemption :-)
So. Yes. I spent the whole day trying to get a competition winning shot, and
get this- day 4 or 5 with the camera, and I've hit slightly more than 1350
frames. 5fps drive and a flash which can keep up is a -really- easy way to
clock up some mileage. Also, I thought that competition was going to be
easy, seeing how it didn't look like that many people were shooting buskers,
but the last venue I went to today was mad! I've never seen so many
laypeople (sometimes you can more or less guess) with DSLRs! I guess the
technology's really taken off here. Mostly 300D shooters, though I spotted a
10D or 2, 1 other 20D, an ist D, several D70's, and quite a few prosumer
cameras too. P&S digitals were so abundant I won't even start.
Enough ranting.
Cheers,
Ryan
