Dinar & Dirham

Suatu ketika, aku tertarik pada sang penceramah yang mana beliau hanya menyatakan yang dinar emas amat ditakuti oleh pedagang asing. Dah hari ini baru aku terjumpa satu link yang mana telah membuat aku tertarik akan isu ini. Dinar adalah syiling emas yang diperbuat dari emas 22 karat (916) dan mempunyai berat 4.25gram. Manakala, Dirham adalah syiling perak yang tulennya 999 dan mempunyai berat 2.975gram. Menurut Khalifah Umar Al-Khattab, piawaian berat telah ditetapkan antara dinar dan dirham iaitu, 7 dinar bersamaan 10dirham. Ini dari segi asasnya. 

Yang menarik minat aku apabila membaca satu link ini adalah, harga seekor ayam pada ketika zaman Nabi Muhammad SAW adalah 1 dirham, dan hari ini, harga seekor ayam masih lagi 1 dirham. Dan harga seekor kambing bersamaan 1 dinar. Memang logiklah harga kambing pada masa kini memcecah RM500. Harga tetap same walaupun zaman dah berlalu 1400tahun lepas. Inflasi sifar. Kalau kat Malaysia, harga nasi lemak dulu 10sen je, time mak ayah aku lah. Time aku dulu 50sen. Sekarang, yang Rm10 pon ade. Jangan nak pelik. Jadi, dari sinilah emas dan perak dijadikan penyimpan nilai yang unggul.

Daripada sini, aku pon teringin lah nak simpan dinar ni. Survery harga dinar, memang mahal. Dalam 400-500ringgit. Tapi ade juga yang dinarnya murah. 100dinar bersamaan Rm160. kalau tak silap aku Ni dinar Iraq. Memang jatuh sekarang, tapi ade yang bajet dinar ni naik harganya selepas askar U.S keluar dari Iraq. Kalau harganya naik, memang kaya lah. Pelaburan yang menjadi. So, mungkin aku akan invest duit lebihan kepada dinar ni. Tapi duit tak menternak. Huhu. Fikir punya fikir, terjumpe pulak satu riwayat: Abu Bakar Ibn Abi Maryam melaporkan bahawa beliau mendengar Rasulullah SAW telah bersabda "Akan tiba suatu zaman di mana tiada apa yang bernilai dan boleh digunakan oleh umat manusia. Maka simpanlah dinar dan dirham (untuk digunakan). Mungkin ini cara terbaik untuk elak riba. Wallahualam.

 

 Dinar Emas Kelantan

 

Gambar depan dirham

Gambar belakang Dirham

Know yourself

Dear Muhammad Adib, below are your Personality Tests result:

Who is your true self: 

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

Your view on yourself:
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You are down-to-earth
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : People like you because you are so straightforward
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making  a decision that usually appeals to both parties

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking:  
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You like serious
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Smart
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Determined people
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You don't judge a book by its cover
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : So good-looking people aren't necessarily your style
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:  
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person

The seriousness of your love:  
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : So you will find yourself with plenty of dates

Your views on education:  
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You listen to your own instincts
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Tend to follow your heart
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : So you will probably end up with an unusual job

The right job for you:  
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You're a practical person
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Will choose a secure job with a steady income
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Knowing what you like to do is important
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Find a regular job doing just that
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You'll be set for life

How do you view success:  
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You are afraid of failure
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous

What are you most afraid of:  
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : You don't ever want to be unable to take care of yourself
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ : Independence is important to you

So, this is the result that i've taken. It's on facebook actually. The test is so simple, multiple choice question. you can shot the answer if u dont knw. haha. But, honestly, this test is 90% reliable especially in Education part. Seriously i dont like study. Haha. Most of them are true. Try it out.

World ranking website

A few weeks ago, i bought a book about how to make money with blog. It just a simple guide and gives me general idea about how to generate money from blog. So, in that book, there is one part which we can check website value. How much your website worth? Haaa..if you want know, just check on Alexa website. I just want to share with you guys, my blog worth is: 

 

Haha..my blog is so worthy until that website dont have any data to count in. (it's no worth actually)

This is how the high valuable website like google take place in. 

Part 2: DSLR lens

In previous part, i've talked about the major specification that will affect the price of one lens. So here, again i will talk about the minor specification (extra feature) that could affect the lens. These extra features are important based on the what type of lens that you want. Features that i'm talking about are: 

Silent Autofocus

Silent auto-focus is useable for photographer that want to capture the wild life.They need a silent lens zoom. When the lens focusing on the subject, they eliminate the noise of grinding. Thus, it create a silent focus.Basically, this feature is commonly known as Ultra sonic motor (USM) and Hyper sonic focus (HSF).

Full time manual focus

Usually,when we do need to use Manual focus, we have to switch it on. But here, there are special lens that no need to switch on the Manual focus. These types of lens also have ability to focus automatically, but still, you can adjust with manual focus.

Internal zoom 

When the lens focus form wide angle to telephoto, the lens-which have external zoom, will increase the length. However, with internal zoom, the lens's length didn't change. The advantage of internal zoom are these lens focusing faster and smooth compare to external zoom. These lens also does not effect the balance of camera when standing on tripod. 

Image stabilization

Maybe some of you did notice about this one. In Canon, it's known as Image stabilisation (IS) while in Nikon, it commonly known as Vibration reduction (VR), With this feature, the blurry picture can be eliminate thus creation clear shot.

Superior optic

Some of the lens are created with special optic adjustment for distortion, reduce flare and stray light from the lens. As a result, it produce image with maximum clarity. It have different name, for example, Canon branded it with 'L' while Nikon are branded with 'ED'.Anyhow, these lens usually expensive at the market.
So, let me try some example:
From the description, this have silent autofocus system (AF-S), then ED is reffer to superior optic, and VR for vibration reduction. The focal length is 18-200mm which is wide angle to telephoto. No wonder the price is high. 

Part 1: DSLR lens

Last topic was discussed on what is Dslr and now, dslr lens. If we ask photographer, what make picture gorgeous and give us some excited mode? The answer is, Lens and technique. Technique is definitely required time to built, you need to learn and learn on it. Every single snap is worth . But lens, it need money, of course, to buy it. If we type lens in Amazon search box, for example, various type of lens come out which have different price. What  spec make huge different in lens price? I will talk about these differents.

Manufacturer

Lens are not interchangeable. Canon lens can be use on Canon camera and Nikon lens also can be used on Nikon. Unless third party lens manufacturer can be used on these camera. For example, Tokina and Tamron. Even same spec of lens, the price are still differ. This is due to the quality of lens produce by different manufacturer. Let me put some example.

IF you compare these 2 lens, both have similar maximum aperture (f/1.8),have same focal length and both are prime lens. But the quality are different. You can search in the internet and in some megazine, they rate both lens. From what i read, Nikon len on the right give high quality of picture. So, thats why the price is different. 

Focal length

There are 4 type of lens which are, wide angle lens, standard lens, telephoto lens and super telephoto lens. Each have different price. Each of these lens have own focal length. For    example, Wide angle lens cover from 28mm to lower, standard lens cover from 35mm-85mm. Each of this have different effect on picture and different style of photography.To prove this, i give you each of these lens price.Each of these lens have different price depend on the focal length as you can see.Even the maximum aperture is almost same, the price is still different. 

Prime Lens vs Zoom lens

Prime lens is the lens that have only one focal length, for example in the Manufacturer part. Zoom lens is the lens that have specific focal length for example in the Focal length part. How these different in price? Basically, the prime lens have advantage in high quality, it dont weight a lot and it not expensive. You can compare the example that i'v put in. The price are different. 

DSLR-Digital Single Len Reflex

Finally, i found it!!. A totally-good-website for me that give some informations about DSLR. It started when i  read one part from that website on how to choose lens that suitable for our photography style. It caught my intention. After i finished it, i searched another informations on the same website on how to pick up a super-extra-power DSLR camera. Luckily! i found it. 4 steps to pick a DSLR. I will tell u briefly what these steps are. 

1. In the 1st step, it is good to find out which photography style you are. What i mean here is, what type of picture that u would like to snap. There are action and sport, portrait, landscape, macro, low light, travel, indoor and spontaneous. These are important to identified because it will guide u to pick correct features of DSLR camera that suitable with our style. In these step, i choose landscape, low light and travel. 
2. This step is basically about how the DSLR function, what is DSLR stand for. It is quiet lame to know all these since you can get it from wikipedia. Unfortunately, it is a useful information since you get involve in these photography world. 
3. In this part, the writer discuss about the term used in this world such as megapixel, ISO, dust control, image stabilization, autofocus, continuous drive etc. Nothing much on this step. It's just information.
4. Last step, the writer give camera features that suitable according to photography style. This step require comparison between manufacturer to chose which one is suit. But, for me, i already have two choice! D90 and D5000 already in my mind, but which one? I already made my mind. Just go for D90.

The website that i read is : Digital SLR Guide

Waiting for D90 in middle of 2010!!!