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Canon EF 28mm f/1.8

08 Nov

I need to get 28mm fix lens. Currently I’m using 50mm the most but it became 80mm on 7D. I need a wider lens. So 28mm will be perfect. My Christmas present? :)

 
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ISO 3200 & 6400 on Canon EOS 7D

01 Nov
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50 mm f1.8, f3.6 at 1/60, ISO 3200

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50 mm f1.8, f3.6 at 1/125, ISO 6400

This morning when I saw my son was wearing his black custom, I quickly grab my EOS 7D and fire couple of ISO test.  I managed to get 4 photos since he constantly moving in hurry to go to school.

The 7D is set to 8Mb, with staircase compression (8M) and then I resize them again into 1067×1600 which good enough for regular printing. The photos are still pretty good and impressive. I can see more noise on ISO 6400 however it won’t stop me to print the photos for family album.

So I won’t hesitate to use ISO 3200 and in fact even ISO 6400 again – night time, indoor, birthday with candle light, …

 
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Beginner Cheat Sheet on Mac OS X

11 Aug

This more like Cheat Sheet for Windows Users

  1. Screen capture
    Command-Shift-3 : full screen shot
    Command-Shift-4 : select area for screen shot
    Every screen shot will create a image file on desktop.
    Control-Command-Shift-3 (or 4) : copies the capture into your Clipboard then you can paste on Mail, word, etc
  2. Install App: Normally you just drag the app into Finder. That it.
  3. Uninstall App: Drop the app to Trash.

This is live Cheat Sheet. I will update as often as I can whenever I found something interesting to note.

 
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Google Desktop Support 64bit

09 Jul

Finally my wait is over for Google Desktop to support Vista 64 bits. It just happened a mins ago I need to do a search on my documents and email to find old project requirement, and I was thinking, I wish I had Google Desktop installed. I know when I got my new machine, it didn’t support 64 bits. Nevertheless, I just did a quick search with ‘no-hope’ in mind.

I am really suprices and excited when I saw that yesterday Google release 64 bit version!

http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=58591
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Installing it now …

 
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