Taken at Uniqlo in Kashiwa using my “new” 24mm/2.8, inexpensively bought from a very friendly individual on Yahoo! Japan auctions (sent me the hood and a polarising filter with it; can a polariser be used on a digi? Suppose so. Realise more and more that the digicam behaves mostly like slide film). The guy said something along the lines... 

We will be taking a short autumn break and take care of family matters. No orders will be processed between Nov 11th and Nov 27th, 2005. All orders placed until 6pm Japan time on Thursday, November 10th will be fulfilled as normal, all others after the 27th. Thank you for your understanding. UPDATE: we’re back and continue taking and processing... 

Megaperls Webshop turns one year old today! Big thanks go out to everyone who browsed, purchased, linked, recommended and inquired. In fact, October saw so much traffic, that for a period of 12 hours or so this site went unavailable due to all bandwidth of the hosting package been used for the first time. Apologies for the disruption, but it came as...