Saturday, August 29, 2009

RV school value: 精通双语 effective bilingualism

好我还将用华语写。hmmm 可是相机有一些比较技术性的词用华语不好写。。。 用一下英语抱歉。

DPreview.com's review for the Sony Alpha a380 is out. Very interesting camera, weird design. Looks like some kinda Super Zoom instead of a proper SLR. Once look you can tell it'll be quite pathetic. Well it's aimed at 1st time SLR users, so it looks and feels like a compact. I've tried it at the Sony Style showroom, 100% compact-style handling. For a start, you push the left button to pop out the flash, just like on compacts. No dedicated flash button. It's got a very small and light body. This is big compromise, many crucial control buttons are gone, and the Exposure Compensation button is place at a real hard-to-reach spot.
The hand grip is also tiny, any smaller, you won't be able to even tell it's an SLR. It provides very poor grip, though I think the rubber material feels quite good lolz. Altogether, this adds up to very poor handling.
Next, the on/off switch is located around the shutter release, just like the zoom dial around your Canon IXUS or Nikon and Panasonic compacts etc. Real stupid compacts users will probably think that's the zoom dial. "Hey let's zoom in! Oh why did the camera off!!!??? *#^@#!!!". lolz. Yet Sony claims it's meant for 1st time SLR users switching from compacts -_-||| Bit of an irony.
It's got a revolutionary Live-View system, design to provide Live-View shooting just like on compacts. The a380's eye cup is also 'blended' into the design. This adds on the the more 'streamlined' overall look, making it really like a cheap point-and-shoot. I'm not saying it's ugly, it's quite beautiful in fact. But because it's design revolves too much around being compact-like, it greatly lacks the power and feel of a true SLR, so I'll be labeling it as 'TOY SLR'. Yes. lolz. EOS 500D so much better :D wanna post a picture but Blogger seriously screwed zzz.

好的不说相机了。现在是周末,一会儿打算出去逛一逛,骑车去IMM 买点东西,研究一下耳机。现在好忙啊,要处理的事情太多了,尤其是破 cip,还快考试了。。。不过我该乐观一点。星期一学只上到 10点多。放学后可以跟朋友出去逛一逛,得去Jurong Point 买样东西 :D。我也跟 HK 约好一起去健身房。那个人是练到走火入魔了,一个礼拜去三四次。我也可以去 Ken 的家,把可恶的 CID 模型给完成。等他从 npcc 露营回来再跟他约吧。他家有可乐喝 哈哈。 再过一个礼拜也放假了,到时候至少有可盼望的事情。