Izune @ KL International AV Show 2009

It's another change to visit the annually held KL International AV Show. Finally this exhibition, which features demonstration and sales of Audio Visual product, including amplifier, LCD TV, Projector and as well as some accessories and media discs, been held in same old place, the JW Marriot Hotel at Jalan Bukit Bintang. Dated on 24-26 July 2009, though i can only manage to visit the show at 24 July only due to schedule crash with some other activities.

This is actually my 3rd time to visit the show.
My 1st trip visiting KL AV show by joining my company trip. on 2007
My second trip, which is last year, i visiting this trip personally, and purchase my very 1st USHER S520 bookshelf speaker from the show
and finally, Trio to the show visit, I reach KL on 23rd and walk arround KL area, along with purchase of my new WINER camera backpack. and during 24th, which is friday, off i go to visit the show.

1st shot coming, is KL Night view shot from the Gardens. Thank for my old coursemate and a very experience photo kaki, Mr George Lim for joining me during the shot and also his precious advises.

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Coming up next, Lucky draw at the AV Show enterence, so many lucky draw items. but until today i did not receive any contact, again... I have no fate to bring back any of the lucky draw items, for 3 years already. haaa...

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Next...
NEW! Aktimate Ipod Hifi Active Bookshelf speaker. Looks like many keep chasing the momentum of Apple Ipod, no more age for orange though.

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See the price in case if you're interested. Haha

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Up Next, New stuff, Giraffe wireless HDMI transmitter and reciever. Quality of connection is good, Full HD no problem man, but drawbacks.... it's a 1 to 1... haa. better than a long log HDMI cable been laid around your house and office.

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Man, see the transmission range, left side TV hooked up with transmitter, and reciever is at far right end.... it's a 1 to 1.... Why? specialist claimed that this is the best achievement of wifi transmission. To be continued....

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here comes the Panasonic. nice entrance ehh...

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Round curved projector system ehh, use curved instead of flat screen + 3 projectors.

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Showing off? Projectors....

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Classroom/Lecture hall system? Oh, ir's portable speaker, good to use to setup a lecture anywhere. Idea for life ehh...

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Of course.... TV... want to have a 52 inch in your bedroom? haha

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OK, time to go to the next booth, it's Philips...

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21:9 scaled TV, which is new, and also the ambiance light behind the TV make the screen more relax to look at.

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Some gadgets,

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Bar style home theather + the Cinema 21:9 ratio TV.

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Next booth, a booth with many choice of promotions for stereos, players, amps, TVs ect.

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Philips again,

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Life's Good, LG

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LG tall-boy home theater

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YAMAHA is back again. Seeing this YSP digital sound projector for 3 years already.

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Speakers and TV.

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Coming up next, something higher a bit end.

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Onkyo and Jamo

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360 degree midrange and tweeter.

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At that time, a Abang bring his ONIX to test the Maudaunt Short Floor Stander Speaker.

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Abang's ONIX amplifier

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It sound just nice. only a bit noisy at high frequency....

Pioneer home theater and TODOROKI Subwoofer.

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Poineer reciever with USB input. It's a merit for customer...

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KEF floor stander. One of a well-known brand.

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TOSHIBA

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Stereos.

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Whaferdale bookshelf. which i quite like the shape

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Time to upgrade to BD...

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High end hifi and studio equipment seller.

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Crowded, so i dont go inside

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Maordaunt short speaker structure.

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Marantz amplifiers

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Want something sounds but hidden? In-wall speaker is your choice.

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Q-acoustic

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Rogers.

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Hitachi and toshiba

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abTus, a solution of AV networking.

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Pioneer the pioneer

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Car speakers

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Car theater

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Man, 5 amp blocks and 5 subwoofers

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High end speaker

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Well consider this blog is still long stories behind, i would like to just calling it the 1st episode. stay tuned for the 2nd episode.

To be continued.

Bon Odori 2009

Yesterday i visited 2 place.... with one of my You Xuan Old friend, Tang Khai Lun.

We meet each other at You Xuan song composing society in alor setar.
And it seems that we meet again on last month autocity convention... it's fate ler, maybe...

So, back to story.... 2 places we had visited, 1st is Queensbay mall. The reason? it's to survey a bit on the charity boat rolling activity. hopefully can shoot some boat rolling action. But donno which stupid group again keep polluting the air, our beautiful penang end up to be covered with serious haze. which would be against us as a photography lover...

On the main stage, we meet a band , which give us so many suprise.
1st is the vocal... handsome yet very good voice ler....
He sang cantonese and chinese song.
and then, most suprisingly he sang Billie Jean....
it has been some time since the King of Pop passed away, but anyway people still keep missing him.

2nd place we visit is the bon odori at Padang Kota Lama....
and we withness so wonderful japanese cultural events shine in the most important spot of the heritage town of penang.... george town.
and the event blast until the climax with the fireworks display....

It would be a good experience for me to sharpen my skill on dealing with night event. With A700, not much big trouble here. still a long way to go though.

And i wish to share the photograph i took in yesterday event.....

enjoy ya

Operation Mangroove

Yesterday i went to a bistro named OXO, near queensbay mall....

Reason? Of course not to eat. (huh?) Not for drink also (Jay Chow's Cowboy also only drink milk. haaaa)

I have a mission....

Mission ManGroove

Objective: Hunt down Mangroove singing group, snipe them and withdraw...
Snipe? of course not using gun lar. using my DSLR-A700

i had promised my friend, who's one of the singer and pianist of Mangroove, to photoshot them for blog photos.... To put those photo in their blog profile.

And with this mission, I visit the bistro with my "weapon" and take a few snaps of them there.

But looks like the enviroment is against me, the lightning there is dim, with tungsten lights arround, and really not good for photography, luckily i bring my A700. With it's awesome noise performance, still the dim light is against me. Slow shutter will blur the photo, as during performance we cant expect those mangroove in perfect silence, so the only choice, high ISO, 50mm 1.7 lens with 1.7 wide open, flashgun, and of course, a little bit of noise from the high ISO.

Anyway after a bit filtering and editing, whala......


Hope you all enjoy it.

My photography gear

I did not own any camera since i was small, everything change since September of last year, when i bought my very 1st DSLR, the DSLR-A200.

The DSLR-A200 included 2 lens, the 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 Kit lens and also 75-300mm F4.5-5.6 Telezoom. This 2 lens kicked off my photography journey, giving me chance to experience telephoto shooting which many other people not able to experience without purchase a telephoto lens.

My second gear, HLV-F42 flash gun has been bought on october 2008, I used the flashgun to shoot for some events, including my friend's wedding. On november, I bought my 3rd lens, the 50mm F1.7 minolta prime lens. I bought the lens before my trip to panama, it's a great lens for portraits and low light.

December of 2008, my battery fully depleted during my shooting in an event. Disappointingly after my both flash and camera battery depleted, i have to give up shooting the rest of event, and due to that, i bought my second set of batteries.

Febuary of 2009, i own a victory ball head tripod, which helps a lot on low light photography, and also long exposure photography.

March of 2009, I had visit the 2nd kingmax 4GB compact flash card with i visit DCIM.

May of 2009, finally i found my dream lens, the 70-210 F4 beercan.
I purchased vertical grip for my A200, for better grip and extra battery capacity.

June of 2009, Finally i get my DSLR-A700. I bought the baby beercan, to replace my kit lens.

In conclusion, my gear list is as following

DSLR-A200
VG-M30
SAL1870
SAL75300
HLV-F42
Minolta 50mm F1.7
Minolta 70-210 F4 a.k.a. Beercan
Minolta 35-70 F4 a.k.a. Baby Beercan
DSLR-A700

And with these gear, it's time for me to continue push my photography skill to another height. Time to work hard... :P all the best to myself.

SOEM Photography Club

For quite some time i heard that there are some sort of photography gathering held by design member, going out to somewhere to photo shooting portraits.

And yesterday, the club is having another photography session at penang beach near queensbay mall. Therefore for the 1st time i join the event. Packing in both my DSLR A200 and A700, equip with my kit lens, Beercan and 50mm prime lens, i depart for the gathering at 6am.

In the photography session, we shoot some dawn photo, some "beach" photo, with some very nice little accessory, and finally 2 lenglui, which one of them is my colleague.

That's indeed a very tiring day. Furthermore i dont sleep well on the day before, therefore i nearly collapse when i return from the shooting. And finally now i finished to filter and post-editing my photos... time for some sharing....



Hope u all enjoyed it. :P and btw i'm so happy with the A700. it's a very worth purchase somehow....

Passion in sound

I am so grateful been granted the chance to enroll in 2 activity which my passion will always remains there... all the time....

1st is my job as a speaker designer.... my passion about sound, music, movie and sound system. Wandering around the world of compression and depression of air do come easy... but indeed enroll and master of it is insanely hard. There are magic everywhere in this field.... like very funny changes of speaker system which seems doesn't affect sound in so called "common sense" will change sound drastically (Another magic, Twink~~~) Not many people can get so-called "clear impression" of my job.... What "Acoustic Design Engineer"??? you mean electrical engineer? mechanical? ect ect... not at all.... We, acoustic design engineer are partial electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, artist, sound critics (Of course we have to criticizing our creation to improve)....

We always make sound, and also make noise occasionally....
We always make speakers, and also make rubbish sometimes (5S fury)...
We always a try and error specialist. we try and fail and try again like crazy... as sound very subjective 1 lor...
We always make magic... Talk nonsense (actually it make sense)... like "You change this and tat component, and the sound become bla bla bla...."

We.... anyway, save the elaborations and jumps to conclusion straight away.... I love my job... haa....

Hopefully my company and boss don't fired me... hopefully...

And second passion i have, save for next time lar.... there is always "To be continued"...

Map de Photography

Late i have been thinking about where i should go in the world of photography.

We know that photography is a very wide hobby. There are actually so many things to snap, like landscape, portraiture, Macros and a bug's life, abstracts, events, weddings, products, yummies ect ect..... In this so big world of photography i had been wondering, where do i belongs to...

Lately i always photoshooting events. I am also trying to enroll in portraits photography and other try like sports, race and landscape photography. And after quite some time struggling, i had decided to major in event photography.

I add in Picasa slide show for my latest event photography.... hope it works....



And it really works... Hope all of you will enjoy...

I'll add more photo in the gallery.... and wish that those who are in the photos will get excited with it..... cant wait to share out all the photos...