Review on Yashica EZ F521

I just brought this camera(Yashica EZ F521) for my GF, it's quite a nice camera to have in you pocket or bag. My GF totally love it, and it's acts as her birthday's present too, and it's cheap too!!!

With the price of S$99(brought in Mustafa(a shopping center which open 24hr in Singapore), comes with a 2GB memory card, 3X(AAA batteries, a AV/USB cable(able to connect a TV and PC using the same cable, a User Manual, a hand strap, a pouch(which i forgotten to add in the photo below) and a Software and User Manual CD.


When you get this camera the first thing you'll notice is that, it's very small(compared to the photo you see). Some People like to call this camera as a digital holga, it's not one but close to a holga.

Turning on the camera, there's a welcome message showing "Yashica", you can also change this welcome message to your image if you like it. The starting up of the camera took around 3sec which considered quite slow to me, but it's still ok if you intend to use this camera for fun shooting which you could waited.

ok let's see what is in the menu, there are:

Function of the camera
-Resolutions: Which default is set to 5MP, but you can also set it to 12MP, 5MP, 3MP, 1MP or VGA.
-Quality: Super Fine, Fine, and Normal
-Metering: Center, Multi, and Spot
-White balance: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, and Tungsten
-Exposure
-Driver Mode: Off, Self-timer 2Sec, Self-timer 10Sec, or Burst
-Effect: Normal, B&W, Sepia, Negative, Red, Green, or Blue
-Date Stamp: Off, Date, Date&Time.

In the Camera Setting:
-Auto Review: Off, 1Sec, or 3Sec
-Power frequency: 50HZ, or 60HZ
-Power Save: 1min, 3mins, or 5 mins
-Date & Time
-Language: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, T.Chinese, or S.Chinese
-TV out: NTSC, or PAL
-Start-up Image: Off, System, or My image
-Format
-Reset All

See with just S$99 you can get all this, what amazed me is, this is a 5MP camera, and it could actually converted to a 12MP(By-interpolation) anytime you like.

The two photos show below are shoot in 5MP, and 12MP. they are further cropped to see the differences.

5MP Cropped:


12MP Cropped:


Compared both the photos, the 12MP proved to be better, but not that obvious. Still it's an add on function to me, cos I'll still be sticking with my 5MP.

I also see other people review, they say when you taking the picture while moving the camera will give you some funny result which is something like these:

This photo i shot while i was walking at a fast pace, and the photo show that the leg was some how distorted.


These 3 photos were shot while i move the camera, when the shutter is pressed.




These funny shots will turn out to be like these, were due to the Electronic Shutter. Because, this camera does have a real shutter like those you find in SLRs or other compact camera.

Now for the Marco shooting (Take close-up picture 20~50cm away from camera, When you do this the Macro light indicator will light up)


Looks very clear to me and the color were nice too. Maybe a little over exposed.


This also quite nice but maybe a little over exposed too.

So i tired a set the Exposure to -1EV, turn out the picture looks better(i think)


Now for the flash.

It turn out to be quite a powerful flash.

Now for the Landscape:


It turn out to be quite nice.

Shooting against the sun:
The building doesn't seem to be darken or black out.

And it produced quite a nice looking red flare, Due to it's red plastic lens.

Now to test indoor with little light source:

It doesn't seem to go well with low lighting.

For the Technical Specifications:

-Sensor: 5MP CMOS.
-Display:2.4" TFT Color LCD
-Focus Range: Landscape: 150cm~infinity, Macro: 20~40cm
-Lens roughly around 43mm
-Aperture: f3.0, Fixed Focus at f7.0
-Shutter: Electronic Shutter
-Resolution: Still Image: 4000x3000/ 2592x1944/ 2048x1536/ 1024x768/ 640x480
-Sensitivity(ISO): Auto
-White Balance: Auto/ Daylight/ Tungsten/ Fluoresce/ Cloudy
-Exposure Control: -2EV~+2EV in 0.3 step
-Burstsnap: Yes
-Flash Mode: Auto/ Force/ Off
-Self-Timer: 2Sec/10Sec
-Storage: 32MB internal memory/ External memory support SD/MMC up to 8GB
-TV system: NTSC/ PAL
-Power Supply: 3AAA(alkaline/ 1.5V) batteries
-Ambient temperature: Operating: 0~40 degree C/ Storage: -20~60 degree C
-Microphone: Built-in microphone
-Safety mark: CE Mark, FCC image
-Dimension: Camera Body: Approx. 110(w)x(66(H)x48(D)mm)
-Weight: Camera Body W/O Batteries: Approx. 125g

In summary, I like this camera so does my GF. i did not regret buying it. Although, the only problem in this camera i see is that the camera display had very low quality. What you see in the Display can be very different when you upload to your computer.

Overall, it's very cheap and nice. Digital Holga? Not one, but very close. I'll still buy it if you ask me again.

Trip to Kukup

Last Saturday, my gf and i went to Kukup, as she never went there before. So i setup my GPS (even i know how to go there) before going, it was almost 2pm before we were all prepared and ready to go. And the GSP show me a new rote to Kukup.

Then during the trip, the GSP show us a shortcut, to my surprise it was a muddy road. At first, i thought that it was just a small little stretch only. In the end, it was a 10KM!!! muddy road. I only can drive at the speed of less then 50km/h throughout the muddy road, in the middle of the way through the shortcut we found a corn flied. So we stop and took some photos, the flied was very beautiful.
See the photos yourself.

After some shot of the corn flied, we proceed with our "muddy" journey. After almost 20mins of struggling, we finally see a whole stretch of "decent" road. I was so happy to see a decent road.

After some time we finally reach our destination:
Kukup







It wasn't the first time i went there, but still the salted fishes, dry seafood, and the fresh seafood here, made me come here for lot's of time. Since it was my GF first time here i had to show her some of the holiday's getaway house, which is build on the sea, and a ride on a boat to the kelong and the new builded mangroove swamp.

At the end of the day, i brought a fish about 500grams which is rather big for the two of us to eat, at the price of only RM12. Then we when back to Perling and asked one of my friend to cook the fish for us. It was a wonderful day, i'm so glad that i went there with her.

Successful Research of Mango Dessert

Today i had successfully made my own mango dessert, the only problem to that is the cost of this dessert is too high. Therefore, further research on other type of mango had to put into consideration.

After that I'll put this as a extra dish in my new shop's menu

The things which is in this mango dessert is mango(ofcos), sugar, and Thai Grapefruit.

Here's the pictures

No Business Today

Today, my dad's place no people. i think becos of the Puasa, and lots of other people selling makan outside also which deeply affected our business. Hope that this Puasa things is over soon.

Car Accident Happen in Taman Perling

This morning around 10am, a Kancil hit a Mitsubishi Storm. The Kancil on had the front bonnet hit, but the Mitsubishi Storm was turn over.

I saw this accident while i was walking my dog, and i go on to ask about the situation. Luckily no one was hurt in the accident, from what i heard from the people who arrived before me. It was the Kancil fault which hit the back of the storm, which caused the Storm to steered away from the road hit a brick and turned over.

The owner escaped with minor injury.