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Hey Alyssa, is Singapore's theme park like the gold coast's?
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fan4collingwood wrote:Hey Alyssa, is Singapore's theme park like the gold coast's?
Nah, it was just a small water park.. We saw it in a brochure on our first day there, so we caught the train over to the other side, and went there.. However, on Sentosa Island, there is apparently a good theme park.. We didn't go over there though.

It has 4 basic slides, a big children's water playground, a relaxing pool that goes around the whole park that you float in, and also this awesome pool called the "tsunami"... It's just a basic, large wave pool, then out of nowhere, at random times throughout the day, the water starts to get faster, and all of a sudden, the waves go really crazy, and you just get thrown around everywhere! It is sooooo fun!! :D

I'm thinking that they made it, before the tsunami though, otherwise it wouldn't be the most appropriate pool :shock:

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My fave pic from my sydney trip.

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nice :) great pic!
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Great Pic Lisa, I love the bridge at the end of the street.
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Yeah, it kind of gives it a kind of symmetry, doesn't it? I like the leafless trees in front of the old buildings... kind of a feeling of age and melancholy. And then you have that bridge dominating the horizon. I like.
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Do you want to buy that bridge?
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thanks guys, it's one of the best pics ive taken. Someone said it would look good with old cars in the pic. I cloned some old ones into another pic, but not finished it yet.
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Ahhh..... maybe someone here might be able to help me...
I know I'm getting a camera for my birthday soon. Just a little digital camera. I was wandering what the best thing to look for in a camera is? is it better to have a greater optical zoom? or bigger megapixles? or any other features or special things I should look for?

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Big megas and big opticals. Don't be fooled by "digital zoom", it's a con.
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member34259 wrote:Big megas and big opticals. Don't be fooled by "digital zoom", it's a con.
Yeah spot on.

If you want a camera just for fun, then anything in the lower budget will do fine.

If you want something that leads you into photography itself, then with 5mpg or more and the highest optical zoom in the budget.
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What camera would you recommend to some wanting to start off in photography EBB?
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BBHS wrote:What camera would you recommend to some wanting to start off in photography EBB?
In terms of a DSLR? I started off with the Olympus E-500 twin lens kit. Practically, any DSLR in the lower price would be a sufficient entry.

Popular household models are; Canon - Nikon - Pentax

You can purchase a DSLR Pentax K100 (6mgp) for under $600, comes with 1 lense.


DSLR = digital single lens reflex
"..which stands for single-lens reflex, refers to a type of camera that employs a rotating mirror (either a pentaprism or a pentamirror) that reflects the image that comes through the lens onto a focusing screen."
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Thanks EBB the research begins. Heading back over to Swiss soon want to take some decent shots this time.
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