Recent content by keatz

Parisilk at Holland Village gives one of the best pricing. Since this is the New Year weekend, you might want to call first to confirm their opening hours. They should be open on Sat & Sun.

Depends on the type of pics you shoot & whether you are using a FF or 1.6x crop factor. If you have a FF camera, then the the Tamron 28-75 is fine. If your camera has a 1.6x crop factor, then the 17-85 would be a more useful general purpose lens. Picture quality is fine, much better than the...

I think you will find the constant f2.8 of the Tamron a lot more useful/versatile, especially as an all-round lens. IS is great, but it doesn't allow you to capture fast action pics, plus the aperture is f5.6 at the long end, compared to f2.8 for the Tamron. If you only want to get 1 lens, then...

Depends on the nature/type of pictures you take. Both are great lens; unless you are pixel peeping, IQ should be fine for both. I think the main question is whether the longer range & IS of the Canon 17-85 or the faster aperture of the Tamron 17-50 is more important to you.

You're welcome - I actually called CSC first and explained the problem to them. I was told to bring the printer down to CSC for recalibration - the person who took my call probably gave a stock answer. When I got there, the techician at CSC (who does the actual servicing) explained that the...

I just brought my selphy 730 to CSC for recalibration cause my prints were underexposed - big waste of time. I was told by the CSC technician that the 730 cannot be recalibrated - something to do with additional feature called mycolour. If you have a 720, then no problem - CSC can recalibrate it...

I just brought my selphy 730 to CSC for calibration today; I was told by the Canon technician that the selphy 730 cannot be calibrated - something to do with additional feature called mycolour. Their recommendation is that I adjust the photo on a computer before sending for print. The selphy...

Even on partial metering, area metered is quite big, hence zoom in so that you can meter on the subject. The canon manual (pg 84 for 400D) recommends to 1) Focus on the subject 2) Press the AE Lock button and 3) Recompose & take the picture... If you do not want a washed out sky, can always...

There are two possible solutions - adjust the exposure compensation (e.g. + 2/3, +1 f-stop as required) or zoom in, do spot focus on the building, use AE lock and zoom out to frame the picture.

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Paris Silk at Holland V sells it for $165 b4 GST. :)

I've been following the TZ3 and am thinking of getting it, but review of high iso performance @dpreview wasn't too encouraging. Are the iso 800 & above modes OK for 4R to 8R prints, in your opinion? Thanks in advance :dunno:

Last shot is the one w/o distracting background. Generally, you want your main subject to be in focus & the background blurred out, so that it does not distract the viewer from your subject. :)

Just do a google search for Canon EOS 30D LCD protector - there are a number of sellers on ebay. If you click on the link in the previous post, PQ23 (www.tagotech.com) is selling these for $40. They are not exactly what I had in mind, though. Anybody used these LCD Hoods yet & how do you find...

Hi, I just bought a Canon EOS 400D kit plus a USM II 55-200mm lens. I would like to get a LCD protector (the hard plastic type, similar to the type that you can get for the 30D or Nikon D200). The guy at the shop told me that the 400D can only use the soft film LCD protectors (like those used...