Here are two new lenses that I bought off Amazon.com recently. They’re both exceptional lenses that I had been wishing to buy for the past two months….and… as usual I wasn’t able to hold off on them any longer and bought both of them last week..! The one on the left is the Zuiko Digital 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens, which I paid $675 for it…! Which is double the price of my camera…lol….It’s extremely useful to use though when I travel and also it’s very useable in tight indoor space as it can take in 180 degree field of view so for example if you point the camera towards the front it will be able to capture someone that stands right beside you on your left! Also it can create some amazing bloated out imagery that would give me an entirely new perspective of the world…so stoked to make tons of use of it!

The one on the right is a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 prime lens (fixed focal length / no zoom….oh the fisheye has no zoom as well) . It’s a very “fast” lens as they say it because of its f/1.4 aperture rating, i.e. I’ll be able to capture nice imagery in really low light environment without much blur causes by camera shake. This is really useful as my camera doesn’t have built-in image stablizer. I think I paid something like $350 for this one…..so these two lenses totaled over $1000….! Kind of crazy but I’m sure what I get out of them will pay for the price.

I just sold my Fujifilm F50fd digital camera that I got from Ebay like 3 weeks ago…lol. Sold it to a guy on Craigslist for $350, not bad at all~ Reason selling it was to invest in this Canon G9 camera, much higher end than the F50fd even though both are 12 megapixels (here is a review, here is another one with sample images.) The F50fd was overall a great camera, slim, handsome looking, powerful… but the image quality was worse than expected so not too long after getting it I was already in search of a replacement 8O. After couple dozen hours of research, I ended up picking up the top-of-the-line Canon G9, which is a 12 megapixel with a 6X optical zoom and an image stablizer. Turned out to be one of my best decision made this year, the image quality is stunning. Great color, accurate focus, good low light performance (ISO 400 with not much noise), and solid steel sturdy body. Macro performance is amazing too, I was placing the lens as close as 0.5 cm from an object and it was able to focus with ease! Movie taking quality was great compared to the Fujifilm F50fd - color was accurate and I was able to zoom in/out during recording.

I’m looking forward to utilize my new camera to its max during my next vacation to China in the coming month!