Sony Photo Contest

Sony just launched a photo contest. As one of the official FIFA Partners of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™, Sony invites photographers around the world to send their best soccer images. The theme of this photo contest is Soccer!. And the choice of subject and location is up to the photographers. The best part is the prizes, Sony will pick 2 Grand prize winners who will each have a chance of winning the highly sought after tickets to the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ finals. What's more, Grand Prize winners will also walk away with a Sony DSLR camera package.

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Beautiful Lake Toba

Have you ever been to Indonesia? Usually if you ask someone about Indonesia, his quick answer is Bali. Yes I agree Bali is a beautiful island with many tourism sites. But Bali is just a little part of Indonesia. There are many other tourism sites besides Bali in Indonesia, one of them is Lake Toba, which is located in the province of North Sumatra.
Lake Toba is a volcanic lake and it has 100 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide, and 505 meters (1,666 ft) at its deepest point and considered as the largest lake in the southeast Asia. It has a very astonishing location as it is surrounded by tall mountains and with the large island of Samosir in the middle. I was very fortunate that I had an opportunity to see, enjoy the lake and capturing beautiful scenery there. Here are some of them.

What camera I should buy?

If someone asked me what camera I should buy, I will not answer it right away. That is a very common question from someone who is about to purchase his first camera. Well, usually I will ask him back to know what of his motivation and what he is going to do with his camera. Then I will ask him his budget. I need to know if his budget will cover what he is going to do with his camera.
There are many ways of what you can use with your camera. Just for taking family pictures, remembering great holidays, capturing your daily activity, hobby or learning photography in more serious way. If you will use your camera for taking your family holidays, for sure I will not suggest you to buy a new DSLR from Canon. Instead, I will suggest a compact digital camera which handy and easy to use.
How about the budget? They are variety of camera available in the market now with variety of prices. Your budget then will lead you to what camera you are going to buy. Today I can say you may have a good camera with less than USD 500 if you only need it for taking pictures of your children. But if you are about to be serious with photography, I have to say that you will need more.
Well, basically if you asked me what camera I should buy, it’s really up to what do you do with the camera and how much budget you allocate for it. In digital photography world currently, I can say that quality comes with the price.