Avotius
Some guy
Taipei-metro said:
hen li hai oh? You have to be from taiwan...frankly I dont know how I ended up with the scholarship, maybe its because I am the only one to turn in an application form. I didnt get 40000 rmb though, I got 20,000 rmb, which is still a good chunk, and I was thinking more along the lines of useds equiptment too because i still need to be able to aford my rent (31 dollars a month)
Even better, I am a photography major, when I expressed my interest in getting a leica there was not a reaction from my class. Why? They are all second year students also studying photography, surely it must have ment something to someone right? No, most of my class has never used their camera outside P mode and why just a few weeks ago the teacher found out that only 3 of us happen to know what the appature on the lens is for....oh hell. And doesnt mater, one of the mucho young lady students is my gf who is interested in my leica even before she saw the movie Eurotrip.
ps. you can still see the bombed out air field here and many old houses painted all black so japanese bombers cant see them at night. Also Mao's (or Mao lao tou [Mao Old Head] as my gf calls him) compound is still here, but as far as I know you cant go there.
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CZeni said:
so I guess I dotn have to worry about one matieral over the other, heck, my canon 50 1.4 is plastic and it doesnt bother me all that much...but then again I dont expect it to last for more then a few years either
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ywenz said:
the market for leica in china is still pretty big, and theifs usualy take first then ask questions later
Avotius
Some guy
Taipei-metro said:
I am actually half chinese so I blend in untill someone gives me a good look over and asks me if im from xin jiang province. Eh doesnt mater, this is actualy sichuan fine arts academy so its very common to see people wandering around with digital cameras hanging from their necks.
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dll927 said:
yeah isnt it also neat how girl out number boys 3-1 here?
ps. that one kid policy takes a lot of flack, but take New york, quad the population, then make it smaller, and you have chongqing. The main city here has 4 million people, but the area around the city added in is 35-40 million... with a population of 1.4 billion it is pretty nessesary to try to control the population some how, its something you really have to see to believe. Before I used to question this whole one child thing too but if you come and see you might think its a good idea...but not an effective one since most of china's population lives in the country side where they dont care about such laws since they work for themselfs and dont answer to any officials.
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Taipei-metro said:
the figures here say 1.4, either way, its too many people. Soilent green anyone?
Taipei-metro
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Avotius said:hen li hai oh? You have to be from taiwan...frankly I dont know how I ended up with the scholarship, maybe its because I am the only one to turn in an application form. I didnt get 40000 rmb though, I got 20,000 rmb, which is still a good chunk, and I was thinking more along the lines of useds equiptment too because i still need to be able to aford my rent (31 dollars a month)
Even better, I am a photography major, when I expressed my interest in getting a leica there was not a reaction from my class. Why? They are all second year students also studying photography, surely it must have ment something to someone right? No, most of my class has never used their camera outside P mode and why just a few weeks ago the teacher found out that only 3 of us happen to know what the appature on the lens is for....oh hell. And doesnt mater, one of the mucho young lady students is my gf who is interested in my leica even before she saw the movie Eurotrip.
ps. you can still see the bombed out air field here and many old houses painted all black so japanese bombers cant see them at night. Also Mao's (or Mao lao tou [Mao Old Head] as my gf calls him) compound is still here, but as far as I know you cant go there.
Taipei metro... from Taipei, Taiwan? hello hello...isn't that a hint?
Joking aside, cogratulations, you must be a very good student.
A couple of years ago three of my photographer friends invited by the Chinese, visited and photographing 3 gorge damn and villages maybe submerged, I believe some maybe near Chongqing...
Say " Bu yeo lao nien zou woe... woe hsu yeo yi dien kon jian.."( don't stick on me all the time would you? I need a little space!) to your gf... She may loves you more. Haha...
Enjoy your study in China.
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Some guy
Taipei-metro said:
yeah yeah, I have actually been to taipei twice, my mother is from there and most of that side of my family lives there. Oh, and im a lousy student, my good friend who also happens to be my teacher and I disagree on everything related to photography, he says leica's are the most fragile cameras ever and not worth getting because program cameras work much better, in fact his camera is an Olympus epic, a neat camera but....um....where is the profesional control? And to make things better all the photos he says are good that the other students take I think are lousy, we have yet to agree once. wooo! But then again I am the only one who talks out in class because im a windbag.
ps. my comment was because you said "oh" a very typical taiwan inflection, here in this part of china we say "sa"
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peter_n
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OK so here is a shot of my M7 + 35mm Summilux ASPH taken about a minute ago - hence the keyboard, sorry about that.
With respect to the color of the camera I would say don't worry about it just take what comes along. Lenses though are different, you will pay a penalty in weight for Leica silver lenses because of their brass construction.
With respect to the color of the camera I would say don't worry about it just take what comes along. Lenses though are different, you will pay a penalty in weight for Leica silver lenses because of their brass construction.
peter_n
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The hood BTW is an eBay special from dealer heavystar. About $7 for the 46mm wide. So much better than the ridiculous hood that comes with the lens!
Taipei-metro
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Black lens white body, call it a panda, which lived in Sichun province only.peter_n said:
It is a beauty.
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Some guy
peter_n said:
yeah I think that might be the kicker right there, I think im gona go for the chrome on chrome, something about that black lens on that body that looks weird to me. Plus I also happened to fidn this photo a moment ago:
Thanks for the picture by the way, it was very helpful