Zhengzhou day 5 : Kaifeng

Yesterday was a great day out. It was really warm and as usual lots of people around the streets. After doing some necessary trips we had a stroll down the small streets and did a bit of sock shopping :). I really love these small streets selling food and bits and peices.

This is the kind of stall that we went to to buy socks

Zhengzhou day 4

Today I'm going to break my tradition of always uploading images and never any text.

Anyway, today I my discovered the camera district of Zhengzhou and although most of the shops did not sell any ricoh at all but on the the usual canon and Nikon stuff, one shop did sell them. This in itself is rather boring but they did not have any old ricoh camera, they sold the blue cheesy looking GRD1 !! :) Now I must be the only one to think this camera looks not so great however it's as close as you can get to a disposable looking camera without re-doing the paint job yourself (see my other posts on pink cameras).

They are asking 3300 RMB for it so I'm still thinking if i should get it and think later or not... The pound it very low at the moment so this would be around 300 pounds.

Other than that the usual scooting around town trying to get a nice pic but today I'm not very happy with the results. May post one later.

One last thing : Google blogger spell check detects that 'nikon' is wrong and offers me 'Nikon' but 'ricoh' is detected wrong but Google offer no suggestions that match 'Ricoh'... This is very disappointing.

Zhengzhou day 3

Today I realized how glad I was to have both RD1 and GRD with me. As much as I love the quick snappinest of the GRD and all it's advantages at night time in some situations it just doesnt work for me. It works to a degree but when I look back on the pictures, those taken with the RD1 just look like it was when I was there. However riding on the back of an electric bicycle, the GRD was just fine and gave some really grainy shaken up images at iso 1600 that at first glance I would probably delete.

The picture above was taken on 'small' chinese new year in Zhengzhou which was a great evening to attend. It was totally packed in the streets but people still managed to get through each one with their electric bike or whatever old vehicle they had.




This is a GRD1 picture taken riding behind an electric bike. Bit shaken up but i like it.




This is an RD1 picture of a wish baloon. Although most made it to the sky, one got cought in a tree and failed :)




Fireworks




The army was out too













This is where my wife like to come when she goes back home.

Zhengzhou day 2

After Qatar, Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Waiting for the plane to Quatar

I am adding the ariticles as a go along but I cannot use my Q1U so it's a bit awkward to update the blog.
Anyway, off for a quick holiday in China :)

snowing

It's finally snowing this winter and this 4 days before my plane flies off to hong kong. Hope the planes won't get delayed as this is what usually happens with me... Taken with the GRD1 @iso 1600 and not very sharp.