The Samsung ES30 sold like hot cakes when X-Cite had a promotional offer for KD. 19.900 (exclusive of memory card). My office colleagues brought a few couple of these cameras using the X-Cite Express Delivery Service. Watching the bug around the office, I decided to make a small review of the camera.
The Samsung ES30 is a compact entry level digital camera. I guess the popularity is because of the low price and with its weight (approx.140 gms). It can easily slip into a shirt pocket. The camera boosts a CCD sensor with 12.21 megapixels and 5x optical (35mm film equivalent: 27 – 135mm) wide angel zoom lens. The Minimum aperture wide is f3.5 and Minimum aperture telephoto is f5.9. The camera has a surprising 3 inch TFT LCD screen; the screen can be viewed clearly even on bright sunlight. The camera support includes built in Program AE selection, Smile and Blink detection for portrait photography, macro support up to 5cm away from the subject, JPEG file format, 640×480 pixel VGA movie resolutions @ 30 fps and ISO rating from Auto to 1600 for low light photography. It supports Video out, Mono Internal speaker and Microphone, USB 2.0 Hi-speed and SD/SDHC memory card. Memory card supports 4GB on SD and 8GB on SDHC.
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On my way to work today I heard the summer deal offer by X-cite on high-end cameras. X-cite have been offering some really 1 day cool offers, they also have been quite active marketing their products. In fact, I tend to leave early to office on Thursday’s, so as to hear “Mr. Anil Tom” of X-cite speak on FM 99.7 of their latest promotions.
Since my blog is dedicated to camera’s and the offer from X-cite being so tempting on Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras. I couldn’t resist from posting. You can check about their offers here and if you are a Facebook fan, you can search for X-cite by Alghanim Electronics.
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TOKYO-Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce that two of its products are recipients of the prestigious TIPA Awards 2011 for photographic and imaging products. The Nikon D7000 digital-SLR camera was selected for the Best D-SLR Advanced award and the COOLPIX P300 for the Best General Compact Camera award.
The best photographic and imaging products in a number of categories, announced between April 1, 2010 and March 31, 2011, were selected for the TIPA Awards 2011 through voting by editors from member camera and imaging magazines from nine European countries, Australia, Canada, China, the United States of America and South Africa.
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My first visit to Red Bull Drift Challenge. The Event took place on Friday 22, 2011 at the Kuwait International Fair, Mishref. The sandstorm was bad, though I just braved being there for close to 2 hrs. I didn’t wait till the closure of the show and the winners announcement, since the storm just kept hitting on me and my camera gears and the light was turning bad.
The judging panel consisted of Lebanese Rally Champion and Middle East Hill Climb Champion Red Bull’s Driver Abdo Feghali, Middle East Rally Champion Mishaal Al Nejadi, and Kuwait Champion Salah bin Eidan.
Click here to see my Flickr photo
Kuwait hosts the local qualification for this event on April 22 and the winner will have the chance to compete in the final round taking place in Lebanon on Friday, July 22nd 2011.
This event is open for the public and Motorsport fans are invited to watch the Red Bull Car Park Drift event from the grandstands located at both sides of the track. Hope the weather stays good and dustfree. You can check on their website for more info.
Location: Kuwait International Fair, Ground 5
Time: 15:00 – 18:30
