The ode to shopping, part N

As seen from pictures, I have moved to stalker-mode remote photography approach. Right now only 9x equivalent zoom (no extender yet), but I'll upgrade when I feel the need for more toys (probably before leaving Tokyo anyway - no sense leaving points lying around on my point card!). Oh well. Spent hour of quality time photographing freaks at Nagoya station, with only limited success.

The 70-200mm lens is nice, although heavy. The shopping was painful experience, I was considering two alternatives (cheap one and the one I bought) for almost two hours. Finally decided that going with more expensive is seldom regretted, and spent too much money ;) The amount I spent was enough for them to want to call Luottokunta back home if it was ok to sell it; the last big Visa purchase only required local authorization, but guess this one was bit bigger.. Nasty part was, I waited like 15-20min for the authorization to be processed.

Here's to hoping that I won't purchase any more expensive stuff this trip, already 3k eur over budget and still almost 3 EXPENSIVE weeks until I return home (not living in student dorm for 2 weeks -> hotel costs are high, sigh)..