{"id":524,"date":"2008-12-30T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-01-06T22:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:51:53","slug":"2008-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"What an exit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took probably 3 to 6 months to arrive but it&#8217;s finally here. A free camera strap from SmugMug! They were offering a free straps and stickers through a photography forum in the US, and I happily filled in my name for one. The stickers arrived in a month but there were no sign of the strap. I actually gave up waiting for it to arrive and today &#8230; suddenly it appeared!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/images\/misc\/SmugMugStrap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strap is pretty cool and the quality is rather close to the OpTech strap that I have. It&#8217;s made from some springy material (though not enough for the camera to be springing around) that reduces the load of the camera when you sling it on your shoulder. I&#8217;m gonna use it for my old Nikon EM that&#8217;s married to an original Lensbaby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, I swear not to buy another camera this year after this one &#8230; a red Olympus XA2!!! I had a XA2 before but it somehow died along the way. It was the common black version and today &#8230; a friend was selling off a red one and of course I jumped at the opportunity to buy it for a pretty reasonable amount at S$90. Apart from a little loss of paint at the bottom (at the battery compartment cover), the camera seesm to be in very good condition. Been eyeing for a red one for a long time but didn&#8217;t wanna pay some crazy amount on eBay for one. So this is probably a great way to end 2008 for me. Haha!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/images\/cameras\/RedXA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps this camera will cost me more than the S$90 too. My General Manager was actually eyeing this camera when he saw it on sale in local forum but too bad I had already confirmed buying it. So since it&#8217;s year end now &#8230; he&#8217;ll probably strike me off the bonus list (if we are getting any). Damn! This red baby is gonna cost me a month&#8217;s salary!!! Maybe I&#8217;ll go paint my spoiled old XA2 red and give it to him instead. Muwahahaha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took probably 3 to 6 months to arrive but it&#8217;s finally here. A free camera strap from SmugMug! They were offering a free straps and stickers through a photography forum in the US, and I happily filled in my name for one. The stickers arrived in a month but &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=524\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}