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This is my first time attend­ing DSLR enthu­si­ast sem­i­nar. I really hope for some­thing extrav­a­ganza but I guess I’m just feel­ing fine after all. I am sure if the sec­ond sem­i­nar would still be the same topic as this one, I count myself out!

I expect I would find more tips and trick for bet­ter and stun­ning pho­tog­ra­phy. Obvi­ously the sem­i­nar didn’t ful­fill my needs although I must admit am impress with the speaker’s knowl­edge in pho­tog­ra­phy, their con­nec­tion with the well known artists are awesome!

Nev­er­the­less this sem­i­nar is well suited for new­bie and ama­teur. Top­ics includes

• Work­ing with color man­age­ment between cam­era, PC and printer.
  Not a new input for me but a refresher. Mr. Kaz Chua (speaker) talk about few thou­sand ring­git equip­ment to cal­i­brate screen color – maybe alter­na­tive free true color cal­i­bra­tor soft­ware could be use­ful for poor guy like me! (soft­ware cal­i­bra­tion may not be 100% accu­rate but not a bit deal for experimental)Canon is not just pro­duces cam­eras, in Malaysia Canon prob­a­bly the largest print­ing equip­ment dis­trib­u­tor. There’s no sur­prise if you have a Canon cam­era with Canon printer, your pho­tos should look really stun­ning and has­sle free with your PC cal­i­bra­tion. (maybe)

  Any­way, be gen­tle with RGB and CMYK color pro­files If you are too worry with your pic­ture out­put, covert your pic­ture to CMYK pro­file using Pho­to­shop before print­ing. Good luck!

• Print­ing res­o­lu­tion (DPI)
  If you are using 72 DPI that’s for web! Dur­ing my time work­ing with my friend’s com­pany, I design and work­ing with grayscale ads in 200 DPI on a daily basis. My Celeron proces­sor is suck at this point, crawl slower than snail! These day core 2 duo proces­sor make these job an ease!
• White color bal­ance
  I am so lost in this topic. Since the speaker did not really give a proper point on how to have bet­ter con­trol over white color bal­ance while tak­ing photo, if you are a pro, care to share? appre­ci­ate your input.Mr. Kaz explains using AWB nor­mally work fine.
• Noise
  I pick up a bet­ter idea on how to use ISO from the Copal Digital’s staff. I vis­ited them too often. I have become too famil­iar to them. In fact I was invited by them to join this sem­i­nar for free (I heard the sem­i­nar cost RM150). Thanks dude!

There’s few other thing that were men­tion in the sem­i­nar by another speaker, Mr. Teoh. As advice by the Pro, invests in cam­era body and lenses should worth it! In exchange you get qual­ity pic­tures and prints. The speaker notice that not many Kuch­ing peo­ple using Canon EOS 1D mark lll com­pare to Kota Kinabalu’s sem­i­nar! I am not sur­prise though, Kuch­ing peo­ple is always on a con­ser­v­a­tive side and they often use Nikon.

Kaz Chua

Teoh Peng Kee

EOS Expe­ri­ence Sem­i­nar 2008 Kuching

Since the sem­i­nar was held in 5 stars hotel, lunch was fantastic!

Inter­est­ing enough, I met my school mate that I have not been in con­tact for the past 13 years! Adam is still the soft spo­ken guy that I know since pri­mary school. Went to New Zealand to fur­ther study, he is now mar­ried with 2 chil­dren and a job as an accoun­tant. He intro­duces me to Jason who was in fact a school mate too! Jason is work­ing for TM.

I also bum in Canon staff also a friend of mine. I love his story about a rich peo­ple in Philip­pines who spend their time BBQ-ing at the ceme­tery dur­ing weekend!

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I learn a lot from this sem­i­nar although it wasn’t really what I expected. I hope next year Canon will give us more mod­els to shoot!

Pho­tog­ra­phy is Expen­sive hobby!