Gethin Hill .net - Random Ramblings

well, time has flown by an all the work i’ve been doing and money i’ve been saving is about to payoff, and be spent

In the morning, i’m off to Nepal, with a nice stop-over in Thailand first.  I shall be giving my camera and equipment a serious workout while i’m away, snapping pics of anything and everything!

When i get back, i plan to do several reviews of various bits and pieces, including my Lowepro Daypack 250 backpack, Canon 50mm 1.8, Vosonic and Nexto storage devices and possibly various other bits and pieces that i’ve put through field tests while i’m away.

So i’ll be back in a few weeks.. It should be awesome, but no doubt, it will fly by!! seeya all soon!

In preparation for my upcoming trip to Nepal and Thailand in about a week’s time, i needed to get LOTS of storage space for photos. There’s a lot of different options out there, and i think i looked at them all. Options including Compact Flash Cards, Portable Storage Devices, External Hard Drives and USB bridges. Also, to make things more difficult, i wanted to be able to have not just 1 backup, but 2 for peace of mind.. And, no, i didn’t want to lug a laptop with me.

I ended up getting the Vosonic 8860 and the Nexto 2700 Portable Storage Devices.

Nexto 2700 and Vosonic 8860

Vosonic 8860 and Nexto 2700

If you want to know why i got these particular models, and how i came to that decision, then keep on reading!!

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I’ve finally gotten around to sorting some of my images and uploading them to my gallery.
These were from a visit to Lone Pine Koala (and other wildlife) Sanctuary. Not too much processing was done before upload. Basic cropping if needed, sharpening and resizing generally. A fantastic place to visit for a day if you’ve never been and are around the Brisbane area.

You can see more in the full post or check out the Photo Gallery.

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Being the avid video-gamer that I am, I am signed up for the Playstation newsletter. In a recent email, was a quick competition in promotion of the new Buzz trivia game that was being released on PSP. It involved a few AFL related questions, of which good old Google and Wiki quickly solved for me. I ran through the quiz, pressed submit and forgot about it as always.

A month or so later, i get a phonecall from a lovely lady named Leah from Sony to let me know that i’ve been chosen as 1 of 5 runner up’s in this competition i’d entered, and therefore, had won a Sony PSP and Buzz game pack! I couldn’t believe it, and almost didn’t until this week, when in the mail i recieved..

PSP, Buzz and Win Letter

I’ve always been one of those people that think ‘i never win anything’ but that’s stopped this week. I won a PSP! I do actually have one already, so this new one will most likely end up Ebay to pay for more photography stuff.

So big thanks to Sony.. i was already a fan of their games consoles and this will certainly reinforce that!