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For Sale: Soligor 70-220mm Constant F3.5 Macro For Olympus Zuiko Mount Telephoto Lens

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Yes that’s right, I am selling this solid beauty of glass and metal. It’s a constant F3.5 even at 220mm. Originally got it for my Olympus OM-2000 but rarely used it as I shoot mostly digital now.


Clean glass. No dents or scratches. Very nice black finish. OM Zuiko mount.

Note that it needs the Zuiko to Four-Thirds adapter to be used on Olympus E-System bodies or Panasonic L-series bodies.

Works great with the Olympus E-3 and Olympus E-510 because you can enter the focal length of the lens with their latest firmware. You’ll get a 440mm F3.5! The only current Four-Thirds lens that gets to 220mm while being at least this bright is the Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 90-250mm F2.8.


Fully extended length with retractable hood and turned to minimum focusing distance.


It has a built-in tripod mount.

Includes 77mm front cap and rear cap.


Close up of the lens. It is a push-pull but it does not increase focal length when extended – instead, it goes backwards! Note the yellow macro ring, which gives a boost in lens extension.


Mounted on my Olympus OM-2000.

Sample Shots


70mm with Fujifilm Superia ASA 1600.


220mm with Fujifilm Superia ASA 1600.


Can’t remember the focal length but this was at 1/30s with Fujifilm Superia ASA 100.


220mm with full macro extension with Fujifilm Superia ASA 1600. It was evening so the shutter speed was 1/60s which makes it a tad unsharp.

Selling price is RM450, negotiable. Lens can be inspected before buying. Would prefer COD (Cash On Delivery) in Klang Valley. Please email albnok@hotmail.com if you are interested.

23 Questions

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1. What colour pants are you wearing now?
Tan.

2. Do you prefer light or dark haired guys?
Light haired guys. Easier to spot them in a crowd.

3. Are you currently frustrated with a boy?
Yeah man, that punkass hasn’t returned my money!

4. Do you have a best friend?
Kawan I semua best kan? Tapi yang hutang I, tak best.

5. Who was the last person you hugged?
The smitten kitten.

6. Have you ever had your heart broken?

Oh yes, she told me she was already together with another guy even before we broke up, and I got up and slapped her. So much for my beliefs in non-violence.

If you follow how I do memes, you’d know some of that is fiction.

7. Have you ever thought of having plastic surgery?
No, my skin is a bit tough and will need metal instruments to puncture and cut my skin. Plastic scalpels do not cut it.

8. Do you like your life?
Why, yes, I do! Wait…

Do I?

Really?

Do you?

Shit, now that you ask it that way… I wonder if I am really happy with my life, or if it’s just a reflex response.

9. Do you shop at Hollister?
I don’t know where Hollister is.

10. Has one of your friends ever stolen a boyfriend from you?
Yes. There was a time when Mr. Sia was largely missing in action. Watch your back imma gonna get ya!

11. Have you ever jumped in the pool with your clothes on?
Swimwear is a form of clothing, so I’d say… yes.

12. Do you have more friends that are girls or boys?
Let’s see – girly males not much (I just don’t attract their friendship), boyish males many, girly females not so much (thank GOD!), boyish females some. Thus, more boys.

13. How long have you had MySpace?
MySpace won’t tell me, but I first joined because Reza used one of my pictures on his MySpace profile and I wanted to see if he credited me.

Because he’s good-looking, has a sexy voice, and gets me into gigs for free, I’ll let him off.

14. Have you ever slapped a boy in the face?
No. Is it enjoyable? Will he enjoy it? Do you know any boys who want to be slapped in the face? Drop me a comment, let me know!

15. What are your biggest fears?
Slapping a boy in the face, and then him enjoying it, and then him trying to convince me that it’s enjoyable to be slapped by slapping me as well.

16. Has anyone close to you ever passed away?
No, but many people close to me have passed wind.

17. Have you ever cried yourself to sleep?
When I was a baby, and my dad said he was going out to the shop to buy some bread. Father of mine!

18. Have you ever not been able to get someone off of your mind?
A greater challenge is to get someone off your waist.

19. Do you believe in the saying, “Once a cheater, always a cheater”?
No. A good expulsion from school should do the trick.

20. Have you ever had a good feeling about something?
Yeah, every time she calls.

21. Do you ever wish you were famous?
No I didn’t. I think somebody else’s wish got granted on me instead.

That must mean that somebody else woke up one day with t!ts and a killer ass.

22. Are you currently missing someone?
Yes yes. Oh and I share the missingness of the nation – we’re missing Sharlinie! Please find her.

23. Please tag 5 people:
John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin.

Whatdya mean we can’t tag dead people? The morgue does it all the time!

Bone-breaking Blues

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Kids, watch out when you slam the car door. Make sure any of your fingers are not in the way.

You might break a bone and need surgery. For real.

(No that’s not me it’s Tarquin. You’re a brave man.)

On a more serious note, don’t sleep with your arm hanging over a chair! You could get a compressed radial nerve and paralyze your hand like what happened to great guitar shredder Dave Mustaine. Fortunately, he was very determined to getting back to his Megadeth glory days and managed to recover fully.

AV Talent!

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It’s pimping time. First off, check out Ahmad Fariz’s site!

Motiofixo

This guy was my ex-colleague! And he was just a webdesigner there. Check out his Frequency Cannon videos.

And then, there’s this most kickass video from the band Lied, singing Binky.

Adlin why’d you leave the band? Who else would make an angry angsty rock face and sing it the way you do? Now the video is null because you’re not the singer! Done by Adam Kitingan of Flirting With Sleep, who I’d met briefly with his cool uh… post rock band?

It’s quite cool to find out that people you know secretly have a secret supertalent at making videos.

He also made a 35mm relay adapter for his digital video camera (to give it shallow DOF like 35mm film movie cameras), though I don’t know how that looks like compared to Khai‘s.

He Terror Textual

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I got this message from a gay guy on Friendster:

I am just amazed by the size of your head. It is very impressive. Keep it up.

I don’t know why, but I giggled because it was so clever. I felt flattered!

Girls get hundreds of substandard, uncreative pickup lines from guys, of which maybe 5… might be good. I get one creative pickup line (uh, from a guy). Yes, that means I get only good pickup lines!

I didn’t reply him though, but if I did… I’d say:

You suck man.

The pink dollar is one to be respected.

I fix stuff. A gay guy probably has a tech savvy bonk mate. However, a lesbian’s mate is just as hopeless in fixing and parallel parking. Of which I have seen them try to exchange driver and front passenger seats without getting out of the car.

Cue Albert, who fixes and gets a free show.

The pink dollar is strong. They’re richer, be it the girl who goes for the money, or the guys who save on romantic dinners because they get straight to the point. Okay, not exactly straight, but you get my point.

Their love is so pure, so clear, so without pretense! They can be emotionally vulnerable while avoiding the friends trap that belies heterosexual courting!

I don’t shave often. Sorry girls, I look just a bit too good clean-shaved. If I shaved, it would be accompanied with a horse-legged limp.

What about Freddie Mercury, you may ask?

His thick moustache showed everyone WHO’S in charge. He called the shots. He woud kneel before noone!

Okay this is quite old, but so was this blog post which was saved on a text file for a very long time.

http://special.time.net.my/eb07/profile.cfm?ID=13

A CLEO Most Eligible Bachelor does the Rubik’s Cube! That’s right, he can solve one of those. He can also do rope jumps and splits. I can imagine a very McGuyver-ish moment where however unlikely, he will escape certain death with those three skills.

Oh, and Raj of Cornetto Love Perhaps Season 2 was also CLEO Bachelor #15.

Just earlier, I was in what felt like a Napoleon Dynamite moment, or at least how a camera would perceive it to be. A banal, inane scene. I stood queueing at a cash deposit machine where the people at the front were feeding it one note at a time. They told the rest of the queue that the machine was sensitive and so, I went for dinner. I came back to see somebody else also feeding it one note.

When it was my turn, I was fortunate that nobody was waiting. I tried all notes. All rejected. Two notes. Rejected. One note. Success!

When I was done, this guy came and I warned him about the machine.

Being a guy, he tried his luck anyway. Nope? Restack notes. Rejection! “It takes only one note at a time.” I told him. Reshuffle, realign notes. Nope? Flip them about. He kept trying his luck.

Ah, men.

Finally, how do you get a picture from me? If I’ve ever taken your picture, and you’ve ever tried to get it from me, you’d know I take forever because I don’t get on MSN anymore. However, Aaron Teoh did it well, in a very examplary manner. Thus, I’ll quote his email:

Hey dude, could you send me the picture you took of me? It looks good and i haven’t taken a decent picture in ages. Thanks man.

That’s right, that’s how you can ask Albert for your picture.

You could also be nice and wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I turned 24 today.

Vote For Cleanliness!

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I’m all for peace and harmony.

However, when you’re having dinner at a mamak near Paul’s Place and it gets raided and you get sent to a lockup too, you know that there’s something wrong with the people in authority.

When you get police knocking on your door and you so unfortunately know someone and you become the scapegoat suspect, you know you’re screwed the system is screwed (and it will screw you too).

Now if you’ve committed an offense, like driving under the influence of alcohol, and you get off with a lighter fine, that is corruption which does not seem so bad compared to people who have not done anything wrong who are thrown into deeper shit.

I’m a registered voter and I will vote. Even if the average apathetic Malaysian thinks there is no point, that everyone else thinks peace, I think that the people in authority should not be complacent.

“Why bother? Not like it will change anything.”

It’s that attitude that does not change anything.

I hope that the crowd who showed up for the Bersih Rally and braved the rain, chemical or otherwise, and the smoke, (from cars? Unlikely…) will do their duty. Shift the statistics. Show them that we care about where we’re going.

Azira and Su Ann, you guys are my heroes.

A question though: How does anybody know the true number of people who showed up? 100

Cat Tales

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Stray cats are the true kings of the world. Domesticated cats are only the kings of the house they live in; stray cats have the freedom to wander.

And often, a cat comes along and attempts to seduce you with its tail.

You stroke it.

Down the neck, up its neck, onto its forehead, where its eyes squint in joy. Down its neck again, and it changes posture.

Then, without any reason, it leaves.

Did you not give a good massage?

I saw it walk down the path, where it found another human, who called at it. “Meow“, he said.

To a cat that meant, “I have a free massage or free food waiting for you. Or both.”

True enough, it got another massage. It didn’t stay so long with him, though.

And as I waited for the STAR LRT to come, I thought, how great it is to be a cat! You just walk about and you get free massages.

Selamat Hari Jennih

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Happy Birthday Jen!


…oops, wrong Jen. Tumbuk kang!


Happy Birthday Jen!


So, like how old are you? (The second digit is in the unraised fingers of that hand.)

She still goes “ooo! AAA! EEE!” when I poke her. She’s still as cartoony as ever.


All shots were with the Minolta 50mm F1.4 at F1.4, and the Pro Tama 0.7x wide angle converter, to give a sweet softness while having the convenience of a 35mm F1.4 on my Sony A100 which has a 1.5x crop factor.


“Aiya, why my pictures all soft wan?”


Hello, halo!


CoDo, above Little Vietnam on the middle court of the 2nd floor of Midvalley, serves excellent drinks, like soda water with sour plum. I also liked their lychee with lemongrass jello.

Oooh, and all shots are just resized, and unedited. 🙂