... walk down memory lane

Was at the Pudu area early this morning, with Canon's latest, a pre-production 1Ds3 in hand, 3 of my favorite lenses (24mm, 50mm and 135mm).

One of the older areas of Kuala Lumpur, Pudu or "Half-Jungle" as it is known by the local Chinese, this area used to be situated in the fringe of what was KL; now, "Half-Jungle" is situated right at the center of town, bordering the well-known Bukit Bintang and Golden Triangle of Kuala Lumpur.

It is a mixture of the old and the new, with many failed attempts in developing the area caught in between the nooks and crannies of the place. There is a failed and abandoned hotel project; old early 20th century walls and shoplots sitting right beside a shopping mall; quaint little shops selling mostly food and printing presses also dot the area. In addition to that, Pudu has the largest wet market in the whole of Kuala Lumpur if not Malaysia.

There is just so much to shoot in Pudu, a week might be needed just to properly explore and photograph the area.

My main intention to take the 1Ds3 out was to test out it's low-light capability and it's usage in photo journalistic-type work. All I can say now is that it exceeds all my expectations of a PJ or street camera; focusing was fast and accurate, auto-whitebalance as well as exposure on Av mode is basically point-and-shoot : It is as if the camera was reading my mind, outstanding piece of equipment; I wouldn't and I think nobody should ever have doubts in using this camera for low-light work. It's ISO3200 is very useable with a little bit of noise-reduction.

Some might scream : "I don't need 21MP for my work!"; you can always shoot RAW + Small JPEG for those. Small JPEGs are around 5MP and if you do have a killer shot, you can blow it up to billboard sizes easily by processing the RAW file. This camera gives you options, options that you never had before and that is gotta be worth something. :P

Right... one more photo before I sign off.

Disclaimer : All comments and images shown here are referring to a pre-production Canon EOS 1Ds MK.III, hence may NOT represent the actual performance of the production models.