Review: Belldandy and Holy Bell by Max Factory

I finally got my 1/10 scale Belldandy with Holy Bell statue by Max Factory during the holidays and it was worth the wait. Needless to say, this is one of the more eagerly anticipated statue for 2013 for people like me and we waited many years to finally get this scale figure. Here are my thoughts...

Review: 5th Anniversary Yoko Littner & Boota by SEGA

To celebrate the holidays, I finally opened my Yoko Littner & Boota figure from SEGA to share my review with you. And here are my thoughts...

Review: Story! Image! Figure! (SIF) EX Gwendolyn Statue by Yamato

Seeing how nice Velvet turned out, picking Gwendolyn's statue also by Yamato was a quick and easy decision. But despite coming from the same makers, this statue seems to be slightly less, compared to Velvet, in terms of quality.

Review: Nokia Lumia 1020

I had a chance to tinker around with the Nokia Lumia 1020 and was just doing some random tests to see if this can replace a DSLR or a dedicated point and shoot camera for normal day to day shooting. I'm just going to cover the camera and how it performs based on uncontrolled scenarios and I will not discuss anything about the smartphone features and design. Here are my thoughts…

Nikon D610 dust and oil issue

The early reports from early adopters are in. Did Nikon solve the issue with this iteration?

How much megapixels do I really need?

Pixels are the stuff digital photos are made of. Each pixel is like a dot, and each dot has a specific color that are put together to form an image that we can recognize. The more dots you got, the bigger the image becomes. So, exactly how many pixels or megapixels do you really need?

Ozinefest 2013

Since I've started collecting, I've always thought that it would be a great experience to visit Japan to take in the culture, eat the food, and visit the anime toy conventions. Then I learned that we've got events here in Manila which also showcase some scale figures and other anime toys like nendoroids and figmas. One did take place last weekend at the SM Megatrade Hall called Ozinefest 2013, so I took the opportunity to take a look.

Review: Story! Image! Figure! (SIF) EX Velvet Statue by Yamato

For my first scale figure review, we'll take a closer look at Velvet, a character from the game Odin Sphere. By the time I started collecting, this statue was already out in the market for quite some time which made it hard to acquire. Luckily, Yamato US still had this statue in stock and I immediately bought it.

Miku Hatsune VN02 Mix Statue by Max Factory

Hatsune Miku is a character from Vocaloid - a software where you type in the lyrics, set the melody, and a character sings the song for you without the need of an actual singer. Miku is one among many singers from the software and she has sooo many different scale figures, nendos, and figmas out in the market right now and the Miku Hatsune VN02 mix 1/8th scale statue was the one that I picked.

Dark Phoenix Bishoujo Statue by Kotobukiya

Marvel Comics has a character named Jean Grey who became Phoenix - a cosmic entity in the Marvel universe. The statue comes in 3 variants representative of Phoenix' different stages in life, the SDCC exclusive white Phoenix and a non-exclusive good girl green Phoenix and the good girl gone bad version Dark Phoenix. Today, we're taking a look at Kotobukiya's Dark Phoenix Bishoujo 1/6th scale statue.

Top 5 reasons to own a full frame camera

It's been a many years since I owned my first DSLR. I have a Nikon D90 and I love it. But despite the great capabilities of my trusty D90, I've always aspired to have a full frame DSLR.

At the time when the D90 was released, the cheapest full frame DSLR was very expensive at 120k. A few years later, Nikon releases the D600 – an entry level full frame DSLR currently priced around 80k. And with that price range, owning a full frame DSLR does not seem so far away.

So what makes a full frame DSLR desirable? Here are my top 5 reasons: