Day Twenty – Thursday 26th Feb – Camera shoppin’
Comments Published February 28th, 2009 in UncategorizedWoke up around 8-9 and watched some LOST. Then me and Tim set out to find some breakfast. I ended up with Cheetos and Cookies. Yum.
I’d seen earlier on google earth I was just around the corner from Asia’s largest gun museum, so me and Tim left Aya in the apartment and set off on an epicly manly adventure of looking at guns, drinking beer and arm wrestling. Okay, maybe not the last two. Well, turns out, none of those things. After getting to the gun museum we were basically told to go away. ? We have no idea why, but there were some people playing badminton in the museum lobby! WTF!?
After having our manliness questioned; we had to take action. So, we decided to head to the camera shop to check out some expensive gadgets and do some bartering. Man-stuff.
It turned out the camera shop was actually an entire camera mall! Three stories of near-identical stores, all selling cameras from compacts to DSLRs. Tim fancied a DSLR after having taken a few pictures using my 400D. We were looking at the 350D, and the 1000D, but Tim reached into his bag of manliness (and wallet) and splashed out on a 450D. The shops in the mall were very strange however. They didn’t seem keen to budge on price which is strange for China. So I tried getting them to throw in extra memory cards / batteries and they still weren’t biting. At one point a guy offered us a price on camera + some extras of £476. We said we’d pay £470 – cash, there and then, and he said no! Crazy.
Then while heading up the escalator to the third floor, my lens cap fell off my camera and down the gap. I’d lost my freaking lens cap in a huge camera mall. Oh the irony. I bought a cheap non-canon replacement – but it fits like crap and will probably fall off and get lost, but at least I was in a place where a replacement was easy to find.
Tim bought his 450D, and off we trotted cameras in hand.
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