Brought my family out for dim sum breakfast at Chinatown this morning and lugged my E-P1 along hoping to be able to take some (more) test shots. Fortunately we arrived at the restaurant earlier and there wasn’t too big a crowd yet. Fitzand had lots of prawns and seemed to enjoy eating ‘xiao long pao’ (some steamed chinese dumpling) and later he was busy playing near the entrance where there were some drums and a gong there.
Auto focus was fast indoors even when lighting wasn’t that good. The 17mm f2.8 pancake lens was used.
Weather was crazy. It looked really gloomy when we arrived and by the time we left the restaurant, it was pretty sunny but started to drizzle. We had to rush to the car and thus I had only oppportunity to take a couple of random shots while carrying Fitzand and running to the carpark.
We were heading to Orchard Rd for some shopping when Fitzand fell asleep in the car and we had to head home instead to let him rest. While he was taking his noon nap, I toyed with some ideas for some experimental shots (on film) but just scribbled them down instead of doing it because I was just too lazy.
We wanted to bring Fitzand down to Clare Quay so that we can also have our dinner there at Brewerkz (yeah … fresh cold beer!) but ended up near the Esplanade instead. There was the national day celebration rehearsal going on and we thought we might as well enjoy our drinks/dinner there while letting Fitzand see the parachutes, planes, choppers, boats and stuffs. He enjoyed his dinner (especially the organic apple juice) and of course the rehearsal.
Of course I took the opportunity again to take more photos with my E-P1 but not of the rehearsal stuffs. Why? Do you think I can take proper photos of planes zooming past with my 17mm lens?
The little devil had big fun at the dinner table …
“Daddy … Cheers!!!”
It’s a little bit too challenging photographing Fitzand with the pancake lens because I’ll have to be pretty close to him and I’ll need to be on full alert in case me makes a dash for my camera or throws something at it.
So how do I like the E-P1 so far? After today’s few shootings sessions, I do have more findings about it. Not all positive ones though. Maybe I’ll write about it tomorrow or the day after. I’m tired now.