A: Tomball, TX. and Singapore, Singapore

[TheFantasticG]

Q: Where do I spend most of my time?

Anyway, I live in Tomball, Texas. Northwest of Houston... within twenty years it'll be just another "suburb city" of Houston, Texas.

I got my Nikon D90 in Singapore. I've been using a Canon S2 IS for the past 3 years and I hit my limitations with that upscale point&shoot. Decided it was time to move up to a nicer camera. I decided on the D90 because of the price point-to-low light performance. My experience with Canon, as two friends have them (The T1i and the Rebel XS), and they just do not preform as well at the higher ISOs that Nikon does.

I'm on NikonCafe.com as well, and have been looking for a local Houston forum to get locales for photography and maybe get in on some group photo walks... or set up a few if there aren't any going on.

To sum it up: Hey.

[Photoholic]

Welcome to TPF!

[tukaniray]

Welcome to the site ... was the Nikon D90 cheaper overseas?? And did you have to buy an adapter to switch to 110 coming back?

-Ray-

[TheFantasticG]

It was cheaper over in Singapore. I got it out the door for $1045 (after I got my taxes back at the airport) with the 18-105mm VR kit lens. Along with the Nikon big box bag, 8gb card, uv filter... all free to get me to buy the camera. It's registered with Nikon. The charger works on the 220V here in Singapore, and the 110V back home. Just takes an adapter for the Euro-style plug to fit the US-style receptacles back home.

I scored the MD-80 battery grip for $133. You aren't going to find it that cheap anywhere in the States, or even Bhphotovideo.com

[Ahh!]

Welcome aboard from Frisco. Looking forward to seeing things from your side of the rim.

[heard03]

Welcome to TPF Garret!

[TheFantasticG]

Thanks again.

I've clicked over 2000 shutter actions in the past 3 weeks. Granted, a lot were due to bracketing. I love that feature!

Gonna have a hell of a time going through them all and figuring out which ones to keep and which ones to toss.

I find that the more I use the 35mm f1.8G DX lens, the more I just want to keep that one on the camera.

[bondarnes]

A Big Denton, Texas Howdy to you!! Welcome to TPF. Kick off your shoes and make yourself at home.

[kneemeaux]

Welcome from another Tomballian!

[TheFantasticG]

Thaaaaaaaaaaanks

So far, so good.

[NikkiLoehr]

I worked in Singapore for 7 years...wow seeing this post makes me miss it;-)

[TheFantasticG]

I'm not so sure I will miss it... then again, most of my time there is spent in a shipyard. :(

[chris00nj]

Welcome to TFP, but I think Tomball is already a suburb city of Houston

[TheFantasticG]

It pretty much is. I don't really live in Tomball. I live far south of the "city" itself. I'm not really sure why the area I live in is considered Tomball.

[heard03]

There's a place in Tomball popular for chicken-fried steak, Goodson's is the name perhaps? After hearing about it we finally checked it out, it was pretty darn good!