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September 25th, 6:35pm 0 comments

New gear - flashes and keys

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In the last two months I have been seriously considering picking up some photography and music gear. After balancing the numbers, I figured the poor American dollar meant that it would be cheaper to pick it up from the US and have it shipped to me here in Singapore, than to actually buy here in Singapore itself. Case in point - Akai MPK is US$70 on Amazon. Buying the same keyboard locally is over SG$200. I could buy more than two from Amazon for the same price.

I set up an account with Shipito.com earlier this year for this purpose of buying overseas. Shipito act as a middleman between users and US-based vendors, and as as result I have an American postal address. They are exceptionally efficient and provide a huge amount of information to us through their website. I had a DHL Priority package sent to me - it departed Torrance, California last Wednesday, and was delivered to me Friday evening. Shipito are really cool guys and I highly recommend them. Their service charges are extremely reasonable as well.

I bought an Akai MPK Mini, a 580EX MII Speedlight, Hoya 72 UV filter, speedlight extension cord, some Bose IE2 headphones for gym, Honl speed strap and colour filters, a diffuser, intervalometer and a mini softbox. Needless to say, Friday was a good day.

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