Camera and a new place!

Oh man what a weekend! Nah I’m kidding, I did not do all that much this weekend, I did find an apartment, bought a camera and went to Yufuin! Let’s start with the most important! The camera, I went to a mall on Saturday to buy a camera, I had already done my research (with thanks to Eelco), I had been playing with the thought of buying a camera for awhile and decided now was the time, a good, relatively cheap camera became available.

I bought the Pentax K-X with a 18-55 lens, and a 55-300 Lens. Motives for buying the camera, were simple, it was the price, using it is relatively simple, it looks cool, is good a night photography and it comes with two lenses (other cameras just get you the body for the same price). This gives you an introduction of why I went to Yufuin.

(Next paragraph is full camera talk) I went to Yufu for the sole reason to play with my new camera, hehe. The place itself is not that special I think, it is a typical touristy Japanese town. It’s got a lot of character, but that’s spoiled by the amount of people in the town and the silly amount of stores selling the same stuff. But I came there to take pictures, and so I did. Took some nice ones I think, and a lot of blur! The effects I want to get out of my camera is going to take me some time a tripod and macro lens! I might buy a little tripod, but I am definitely not going to buy a macro lens at this moment. So I am going to settle for a Raynox 150, for doing some light macro work. I also went out tonight, after reading a lot about night photography, to shoot some pictures of the street in front of the house.

I think I managed to get a couple of nice ones out of it. Well that is for a first try, without Photoshop to work with. Oh yea Also found an apartment! It’s a nice place, LeoPalace in the middle of town, does not cost me as much as I thought, it’s got everything I need in it, fridge, washing machine, internet, futon, TV, microwave all I need is some chopsticks and an iron, and I’ll be set! I’ll get some pictures of the place up later. I will be moving house on the 23rd.

Listening to: Joell Ortiz

(edit: Added some pictures!)