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Blood and gore! Movie 1 (~20MB) and movie 2 (~120MB).
Update (25/7) : James said he couldn’t finished watching the 2nd movie (too much blood and gore?) The Lady had no problem watching it thou. She said once the lamb was dead taking its carcass apart wasn’t so bad. She even noted that there was a [...]

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To prepare for a little presentation in the debriefing of our Archaeology trip to Inner Mongolia, I was going thru the video footages I shot during the trip. I have therefore had an opportunity to review the use of my Sony CX7.
Video filming is hard. Staging is necessary for decent results, and by decent results [...]

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I took my old Domke bag with me on this trip, and it has worked really well. It holds a DSLR w/ kit lens and a 50/1.4 (not used at all), 1 spare camera battery and 2 spare videocam batteries, a GPS, a Photobank, a pair of gloves, my hat, a notebook, a pack of [...]

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Been running around not getting quite enough sleep, so updates have slowed down.
House moving.

Da Zhao Temple, the home temple of Qing emperor Kangxi.

A big Buddist scripture wheel.

Some fscking!!!! hot!!!! dry chilli pepper. A small one had my mouth burning!!!! for 10 minutes. AVOID. AT. ALL. COST.
We then took the plane and flew to Chifeng in [...]

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We took a tour bus to the grass field

and visited a Mongol tent cluster, for tourists.

We had some traditional Mongolian tea and snacks. This is that salty tea. With stir-fried millet.

We had some local friends who are into traditional Mongolian singing and dancing to come with us, and we got the traditional Mongolian traditional guest-welcoming [...]

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The new Hohhot Museum. Gigantic square in front of the museum. WICKEDLY COOL. MUST. SEE.

Free to get in. Sunday morning. Long queue right before 9am.

Astroturf behind the museum.

Handsome museum staff.

Huge dinosaur. It visited Hong Kong not too long ago.

Ancient rock drawings in Mongolia. These are replicas.

Hmm…

Mongolian mobile tent. Genghis Khan had one which could seat [...]

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We took the afternoon flight from Shenzhen, which took three hours to get to Hohhot. Got bumped up to First Class. Absolutely charming air hostess. Food was so-so. Got there at ~1800 hours. The aerial view outside the window when the aircraft was approaching landing was simply stunning.

Nice new airport. Style of Norman Foster. This [...]

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A new Swiss Air Blower wouldn’t remove that spot on the CCD of my Canon D70.
Neither would a Lenspen.
I went to James’ office and tried out his wicked CCD cleaning kit, consisting of special purpose cotton slab and a methanol-based solution. That didn’t work either. In fact, more dust got onto the CCD.
The Lenspen took [...]

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Taken at the Temple of South Sea God.

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The workflow sucks.I am now deeply convinced of the usefulness of the BT wireless microphone. You could pick up much better sound by sticking that mic close to the speaker, plus any conversation between the speaker and the audience. This beats a shotgun mic. Pretty much ideal for my needs. One little nit to pick: [...]

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I bought a Panasonic DV camcorder soon after Jasper’s birth, and after 5 and a half years of faithful service, it has just died, flashing “GET SERVICE” in red on the screen. I have been looking at a replacement for a year or two now, but never got around to it due to budget and [...]

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Just bought the DVD. EXCELLENT. Highly recommended.

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Link.

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Excellent. Link.

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Yau Leung.

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Find out what this is all about.

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what ever it is. To be revealed on Monday morning Pacific time, or around Monday midnight HKT.

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