INSURANCE FOR YOUR CAMERA GEAR If you are interested in insuring your photographic equipment against damage or theft while it's at home or out on the road, AA Insurance and PFM can both give you details of very cost effective policies to cover this and your home contents including computers and the like. Average cost for a year is 4 - 6,000 baht depending on the value of your stuff and at least one CMPG member wishes he'd taken some out after last year's presentation on insurance. Call AA on 053 230 127 or Andrew Williams of PFM on 0870 520 389.
STUFF TO BORROW We have track lighting and clip on lights, backgrounds, display boards and a small light tent available for members who regularly attend meetings to borrow at very moderate terms. For details, PM Wyndham by following the link to Private Messaging below.
Check out the latest news about the new CMPG Discount Card here and if you don't have one yet just ask at the next meeting!
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CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS
"Going To Work" Open - Anything you'd like to share with the Group "Ten Of The Best" - Your 10 favourite images: be prepared to tell us why you chose them!
Please upload your single image entries to the corresponding directory in the Assignment Entries folder (Max 5 files, about 1200 x 800 pixels) via the File Sharing application by 12.00 on the day of the next meeting. Presentations on USB drive can also be brought along on the day - please don't bring CF or SD cards.
In April 2010 we held an auction at the Chiang Mai Expat Club where the sale of 25 or so pictures donated by members raised almost 25,000 baht. This video was made with the help of Kevin's Animoto pro-account and shown in a high res version at the CEC meeting in late May as a follow up. If you'd like a high res copy please ask at a meeting - this version can be downloaded and distributed freely. More »
Grey Cards Are Your Friend: EJ Haas on colour balancing and why you should never leave home without your 18% grey card! Wyndham on Photoshop's TAT: An easy to miss tool that can revolutionise the way you make adjustments in PS3 and up, plus Dave Cross' Midtone Trick - a very neat way of colour correcting in just about any image. Plus, plus, plus.... Loy Krathong Trip arrangements and the 3rd Annual Exhibition selection process: how are we going to do it this time? Don't forget to bring us some pictures for after the break - Assignment: "Going To Work", Open or Your Ten Favourites. BTW, check out the winner of the Photowalk Contest on our website. (nothing after the link!). Phew! Read More »
Datacolor has announced the SpyderLensCal focus calibrator. The device allows photographers to measure the AF performance of their camera/lens combinations. On DSLRs with a micro-adjustment feature, this tool can be used to help determine the best values to set in the camera's custom settings menu to correct front or back focus. SpyderLensCal will be available from September 6, 2010 at a suggested retail price of $59.
Tamron has announced that it has cooperated with Adobe in the creation of profiles for the Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3's Lens Correction feature. The latest version of the image-editing software will automatically fix distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting for all currently available Tamron lenses (no word yet on the latest 70-300mm F4-5.6 VC USD though).
With promised write speeds of up to 80MB/s and read speeds up to 95MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I memory cards, to be available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities, have been proclaimed by the company as the world's fastest.
Panasonic has announced 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards that are promised to deliver 60MB/s read speeds (no specific write speed data has been given). The new memory cards utilize the faster UHS-I bus interface in achieving quicker throughput. As of this writing, no shipping or announced Canon or Nikon digital SLR supports UHS-I. This means Panasonic's new cards will operate within a bus interface maximum of 25MB/s in today's SD slot-equipped cameras from each manufacturer.
[ January 5th, 2011; ] The Sony World Photography Awards are entirely international, welcoming professional and amateur photographers to enter their photographs...Professional CompetitionEntry Close: 5 January 2011Submit your work for the chance to become the next Professional Photographer of the Year and win the coveted prize, L’iris d’Or, along with prize money of $25,000.The professional is a serious photographer with [...]
[ September 30th, 2010; ] The Lux Photography Awards is the newest and coolest photography competition around. We seek to find the best photographers in a variety of genres, and reward them with some of the best photography related gear from an amazing set of companies and individuals.Who Can Enter The Lux Awards?For 2010, the Lux Awards are open to [...]
