Jayvee Fernandez is a tech enthusiast, EAN certified SCUBA Diver and underwater photographer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. His photos and videos have appeared in various international and local publications including Random House Germany, Discovery Channel Canada, and CNN.
While waiting for a friend the other day, I decided to take some night shots of the Alabang Town Center. The traffic was horrible so it made so much more sense to wait it out in the mall than to go home.
I walked around for the better part of the evening (yes traffic was that bad) taking pictures of everything that caught my interest.
I moved around the strip of restaurants, the main court which had its share of disgruntled people also waiting the traffic out, and the center promenade where CBTL was still brewing.
I moved on to The Spa located in a more secluded area of the mall to see if I could get some interesting shadow play. I was surprised to find the final picture in my digital film roll afterwards.
On my way home from the office, I passed by an arcade and saw 1980’s remakes of video game classics like Pac Man and Galaxian. Ahh, the nostalgic 80’s. Now that things are much more complicated, you can reload those experiences from when we were kids by going to the 1980’s arcade site.
Jed goes by many names. A lot of people know her as the sister of Miriam Quiambao. Some know her as an active member of PSI. The dudes in the industry refer to her as the marketing manager of Mobile 1.
As for me, I personally call her Mildred. She gets annoyed, slaps my arm and calls me ‘lolo.’
You see, Jed hits very hard, just like any other 80’s child who developed upper and lower body strength by playing street-wide patintero, tumbang preso, shato and cops and robbers. She was one of two girls in a street filled with boys. But she was the tallest.
She is my trusted friend, confidant, and also happily engaged.
Been testing out a semi-new Olympus SP-500UZ, which I’ve observed to sorta belong to a new subclass of prosumer cameras. Although technically I’d still consider this a point and shoot device with some advanced features. Why? because it’s cheap! (relatively)
They’ve lowered the price of this class of cameras to about P30,000.00, made them much lighter and damn well portable. This particular model is equipped with 10x optical zoom and 6.0MP. Now the Sony equivalent is capable of 5.1MP and 12x optical. It’s also got this shake correction mechanism for those of us who do not possess the talent of holding a camera with the fine motor skills of a doctor. The Olympus claims to have advanced red eye correction and Turbo image processing. Hmm, okay. Cool. It still shakes though so that sucks.
I really thought the camera wasn’t so great after reviewing some shots. This is one of those weird instances where the images viewed in the viewfinder aren’t as good as when they get imported to iPhoto. Maybe it is due to the huge 2.5 inch LCD viewer. Or maybe not. Whatever.
One thing I love about Olympus is the super macro mode of 2cm distance which not too many cameras have. I needed to use a tripod to steady my hands for most of the shots came out blurry in S-macro. I am an Olympus D-540 owner so the premise was the same, except that I was holding something slightly heavier.
So my verdict? Well, all I need to do is grab myself a set of rechargeables and I’d give this baby a 4/5. I really love how easy it is for the flash to be manually released and closed to take those careful macros.
I wrote this mini preview as an excuse to show off my cute dog pic on top. Ain’t he cute!
