Today is really a crazy day. I planned to get a Canon S90 this weekend at the IT Show. Met JH and RS at City Hall station. I thought I should check with some traditional camera store to see how much S90 sells, so that I have some price point to compare before I enter IT Show. We went to Cathay Photo at MS. They quoted me $690 (actually cheaper after some bargaining) for S90. We continued on to IT Show Cannon booth. They quoted me $749 for the same S90. IT Show is actually expensive! But I must say that they tried to sweeten the deal by giving more free gifts. But those "free gifts" they offer is useless (eg. USB SD card reader) and definitely cannot justify the difference they are charging over what Cathay is asking for just next street. IT Show used to mean cheap and lots of bargains. It seems like that's not always the case anymore.

After getting my S90 at Cathay Photo. Before we take this camera for a test drive, we paid Pris a "visit" at Candy Empire. Halfway, as we were walking, it rained! We were forced to go to Singapore flyer to seek shelter. That;s where this camera took its first photo. I'm not familiar with the controls, even I've used Canon PowerShot before in the past, S90 have so much more controls than the previous Canon P&S. Totally overwhelmed by the controls, I kicked it into auto mode and shot all the photos in auto for the rest of the day.
After the rain stopped, we walked to the Esplanade. There is a jazz band playing today and I figured that this would be a great time to test the limits of this camera since its quite dark there. This is shot in full auto mode, 22mm equivalent, f4.9, 1/20 sec and ISO 1600! I've never seen a P&S camera produce something this clean at ISO 1600. Sure there is definitely noise in the shadows and the image is very soft due to noise reduction algorithms. In the end, I still ended up with a photo that looks ok enough to post here.

After this test shot we decided to go home. We took the usual route walking through City LInk, and halfway through, A MASSIVE human jam! I've certainly never seen City Link jammed up so serious like that before, not even when there is IT Show going on. Something must be wrong somewhere. Even I'm quite tall I can't see through the crowd. I tipped toed and held the camera high up to take a shot. Can you see where it ends? This is really crazy!

See the HMV store to the right? We decided we could take a shortcut through HMV. Guess what, we managed to squeeze into HMV and after a while. The the HMV gate behind us was closed!

But why? They closed the gate because the anti-theft detectors at the gates is sounding off like crazy ALL THE TIME! People are taking advantage of the situation to STEAL! Great, now we are trapped. We walked around, looking at DVD's for a while before deciding that we should join the crowd to leave HMV

The worst part is after joining the crowd and exited to the main corridor, the rear gate opened. =.= We eventually walked to Raffles station and took MRT from there. When JH and I boarded the train headed towards Boon Lay, it was not packed at all! I wonder is City Link still jammed.

Walked past NTUC building and took a shot. Converted to B&W in Aperture 3.

Usually I'm not a big fan of preset scene modes on camera. But while playing around with the camera while I'm eating, I came across the Nostalgic mode, I especially like its B&W mode. It simulates old film cameras graininess and high contrast. Straight from the camera, no processing done in Aperture.