The Nokia phones 2.6 inch TFT display that delivers more than 16 million colours too changes into landscape mode to a wide screen viewing experience on the Nokia N95. Camera module of the Nokia N95 is 5.0 mega pixel which is comparable to any digital camera available today. Each high resolution picture is powered by the clarity provided by Carl Zeiss optics and useful features like auto focus, flash and zoom. Video recording with greater detailing is another imaging aspect of the Nokia N95.

The Nokia N95 supports HSDPA other than quad band GSM networks. A specialized digital camera lets you take part in a video call across 3G network. Other means of data connectivity includes Class 32 EDGE and GPRS, WiFI, UPnP technology, Blue tooth v2.0, Infrared and USB 2.0. The device has a built in GPS Navigation system and a neat map application covering over hundred countries. A media player that supports all popular audio and video file formats, Blue tooth wireless stereo headset profile, 3.5 mm audio jack, built in speakers, stereo FM radio, a huge memory pool of 160 Mb and an expandable memory card slot makes the Nokia phones N95 a big name even in the music phone category.

Nokia phones, Nokia

Here we look at some main benefits of digital scrapbooking first:

1.Save your time – once you learned how to use the marvelous Internet to make your digital scrapbook conveniently, you will find digital scrapbooking works quicker

2.Save your money – digital scrapbooking helps you save the money to buy gadgets such as scrapbooking papers, and punches

3.Focus on pictures – you can adjust the size of pictures with many free tools online, also, you can make your pictures more delicate

4.Share conveniently with others – digital scrapbooking helps you share scrapbooks in most popular ways, such as in DVD, video, or through email

Okay, then, let’s discuss how to make a digital scrapbook in details. For doing this, you will need a digital scrapbooking software. If you’re a beginner and you have PowerPoint, you can easily create digital scrapbook based on digital photos and video footages with it.

A family reunion or any other holidays for that matter can be recorded with such a digital scrapbook. Below are the main steps of how to create one with PowerPoint.

1. Choose a Great PowerPoint Template for Digital Scrapbooking
There are many free templates resources for us to choose. However, it is worth customizing our own PowerPoint template.
You can shot a picture of your house and make it as the background. Here below is a sample screenshot.

Here are the steps of how to make a PowerPoint template yourself: Open PowerPoint -> View -> Slide Master -> in the center of the first slide, paste the picture you want to set as the main background and adjust the size of it to make it look suitable. Design the inner slides using the same way. After that, click Close Master View.

2. Insert Photos and Easily Edit the Frame of them
Insert photos you want to put onto a slide as the follow: Insert -> Images -> Choose the photo. You can adjust the size of a photo by dragging it. By double clicking it, you can see the Picture Tools options in the tool bar. In it, you can set the picture style and picture shape (frame). There are more than a hundred shapes for you to choose. Compared with other photo editing tools, I think it is the easiest. Here is a sample I made:

3. Add Video Clips into your Digital Scrapbook
To animate your scrapbook, you can insert any funny or meaningful video clips took at your special event. Do it simply by clicking Insert and then Movies.

4. Add Text
To some pictures, you may want to add your own descriptions. Just Insert a Text Box under the picture, and then input the words you want to say. After that, you can adjust the word font by double clicking on it.

5. Put Decorative Items on your Digital Scrapbook
You can scan various decorative items and add them to your page using Insert > Picture. Anything you think that is worth adding in can be considered.

6. Bring More Life by Adding Music
With a pleasure music playing through your digital scrapbook, that’s enjoyable. According to the theme of your scrapbook, you can add different kinds of music into it by clicking Insert -> Sound -> Sound from file

6. Bring More Life by Adding Music
With a pleasure music playing through your digital scrapbook, that’s enjoyable. According to the theme of your scrapbook, you can add different kinds of music into it by clicking Insert -> Sound -> Sound from file

1. Personalized Car Window Sun Shades and Promotional Auto Sunshades.
Logo printed car and auto sun shades are sure to get a lot of passer by traffic as well as keep the heat down in the car. These promotional product car sun shades are printable. Custom printed auto sun shades are a good fund raising item.

2. Promotional CD Holders.
Looking for a great tradeshow giveaway with lasting appeal? Promotional car visor cd holders are just the thing. Imprinted auto cd holders include your imprinted message. The recipient can move their custom sun visor cd holder from car to car.

3. Promotional Cell Phone Accessories Custom Printed Cell Phone Chargers and Holders.
Logo printed and promotional car cell phone accessories and custom printed cell phone car chargers and holders can be custom imprinted with your logo from the Atlanta-based promotional items company, Promo Shop’s promotional items selection.

4. Promotional Emergency Kits and Automotive Promotional Products.
The recipient of your logo printed promotional roadside emergency kits will thank you when their car breaks down, knowing they have just the right car repair tools to correct the problem from your roadside emergency kit. You never know when a car glass break tool  promotional roadside tool set or promotional booster cables will come in handy. These custom printed emergency kits have your logo on them. Custom road safe emergency kits are great promotional Christmas gifts.

5. Custom Printed and Promotional Tire Pressure Gauges.
Promotional logo printed tire pressure gauges and other promotional auto accessories are a great way to help the longevity of tires and the car. Proper use of an imprinted tire inflators helps the tires last for years. It is inexpensive car maintenance to check the promotional tire air pressure a custom printed tire gauge.

6. Promotional and Custom Printed Travel First Aid Kits.
Custom printable and promotional travel first aid kits are a very practical item for the car, especially on trips and vacations. These promotional emergency first aid kits should be packed into the auto. Your logo should get a lot of mileage from an imprinted emergency first aid kits. There are many different types of first aid kits from camping, emergency, travel or business first aid kits. Mini first aid kits can be taken on business trips.

7. Promotional and Custom Printed License Frames.
Many car dealerships use promotional and custom printed frame license frames to advertise. Let us imprint a custom license frame for your church group or non-profit organization. See our custom logo printed promotional license frame from the Promo Shop. We can imprint in full color on promotional license plate frames. A personalized license frame helps to identify a car in the parking lot.

8. Promotional and Custom Printed Full Color License Plates.
Looking for a promotional item for fundraising? Consider a custom printed license plates. Associations, church groups and subdivisions, use promotional license plates because of the large imprint area on these personalized license plates.

Countless angles and settings are used to capture the magnificence of the day. Photographers and videographers are almost intrusive with their lenses and recorders as they work endlessly to preserve the wedding experience in images. As a result, floods of images are glanced over and then placed in a book or on a cd and forgotten about for years.

In the past, images that were “blown up” to be utilized for displaying were available as posters that lacked a professional element. Today’s technology overcomes those rudimentary images by producing crisp, clean, colorful images that resemble works of art worthy of a position in a prominent area in the home.

The process is highly affordable and most images can be converted into a canvas print and shipped to the buyer in 3-4 business days. Imagine the look on the new couples’ faces when they return from their honeymoon and see a canvas print of them from their wedding day as your gift to them.

Photos to canvas service providers have the ability to custom frame your selection. Canvas prints can also be wrapped around a wooden frame which results in the look of a work of art from a gallery. Search the web to locate a photo to canvas provider, and make a fantastic memory last forever for that special couple.

Warning: the LCD screen can be easily damaged if you open it up. If you do something wrong the screen might become completely unusable and you’ll have to buy a new screen. It’s very expensive. Think twice before you decide opening the screen. Continue at your own risk.

On this model the inverter board is attached to the screen with two screws. Remove both screws, disconnect the screen cable and remove the inverter board.

Carefully peel off sticky tape and foil and put it aside. You’ll have to put it back in place during the screen reassembly.

Remove two screws from both sides of the screen.

Lift up rubber screw seals and remove all screws.

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Carefully separate the screen bezel from the LCD cover and remove the bezel.

Remove two screws from the front and two screws from both sides.

Carefully remove the LCD screen from the cover and place it on the notebook base. Disconnect the video cable and the inverter board cable.

Carefully place the screen upside down on a flat surface. Carefully unglue the film that covers the circuit board and remove two screws from the board (top circles). I wasn’t really sure if I have to remove screws on the bottom, so I removed them just in case. Do not touch the circuit board with fingers.

After both screws are removed you should be able to lift up the circuit board. Be careful, it’s still attached to the LCD.

Start unsnapping the metal frame from the screen. There are a lot of latches on all sides of the screen. You can unlock them with nails or a small flathead screwdriver.

After all latches are opened you should be able to separate the screen into three pieces: metal frame, LCD and background (not sure about correct technical name).

If you have lint or dust inside the screen, probably you’ll find it between the LCD and the background. Do not touch LCD or background with your fingers. I was able to remove dust and lint up with a very soft cloth, barely touching the LCD and background surfaces.

After I split the screen I found that the background has a few some kind of optical layers (three transparent sheets) and in my case they were damaged by water. The water dried out and left stains between these optical layers.

In my case removing dust and lint wasn’t enough and I had to go further.

Very carefully separate the LCD with attached circuit board from the background.

To remove damaged optical layers it’s necessary to remove metal locks on both sides of the screen. It’s like a small clip that keeps layers in place.

After I removed both clips, I was able to look between the layers. At first I tried to clean up the dried water marks with a soft cloth but it didn’t help. The stains were still visible and didn’t want to go away.

Fortunately I had another similar screen laying around, it had a cracked LCD. I decided to borrow the optical layers from the cracked screen and transfer them to my screen. I wasn’t sure if it’s going to work, but as I mentioned before I didn’t really care if I break the screen. It was just an experiment.

So I disassembled the cracked screen and carefully transfered the white background and all transparent layers to my screen.

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After that I assembled my screen back removing dust and lint with a very soft cloth. Breathlessly connected my new screen to the notebook. Turned it on and…

That’s a miracle, it works!

Although there are a lot of lenders in the market, getting cheap loans depends to a large extent on your credit health and homeowner status. If your credit file is decent enough with a good debt to income ratio (DTI), then lenders will be more willing to provide you with competitive quotes.

In case you are a homeowner and thinking of gong in for secured credit then there are good chances that you will get low APRs against a personal loan of your choice. But, there is a small drawback to this plan. You might lose the possession to your property in case you can’t fulfil your repayment clauses during the stipulated time frame.

Make it a point to always apply with lenders who are approved by the FSA (Financial Services Authority). This way you have recourse to legal remedy in case of any trouble. You can report any problem you face to the credit reporting bureau.

Insurance is also another factor that you need to know about. A buyer protection policy saves you from penalties and other risks in case you are sick or face sudden layoffs and are unable to pay the monthly remuneration to your lender. If you take a Payment Protection Plan or a PPI then you will be paying a higher TRA or total repayable amount. There are many lenders who reimburse you with the insurance fees at the end of the loan tenure. Even then, it is advisable to only take insurance plans against secured personal loan only because here your home is at risk.

Doing a comparison search will also go a long way in getting you cheap loans. Not only can you compare, you can also choose the desired personal loans deal that suits you the best.

Are you aware of fine art photography? Well, then here is a complete low-down about what is it all about?

Fine art photography owes its familiarity to the Victorian Period.

It entirely focuses on the beauty of nature, landscape images including waterfalls, seascapes, mountains flowers etc

From time to time fine art photography is described as art photography. As well, it even refers to premium variety of archival photographic prints of pictures. You perchance may wonder why those pictures should be converted to photographic prints. That is because to fulfill the artistic vision of an individual expert.

Usually the prints of art photographs are produced in limited editions so as to sell to the trader or to Curators. Rather it is not reproduced in bulk to use in the field of advertising or to publish in the magazines. Occasionally but not always the prints will be displayed in the art gallery.

It is quite normal about human beings that they wish to express or imitate whatever things had touched their heart. You might have greatly attracted by the beautiful natural scenery and exquisite sights that come across your daily life. And suppose if you try to reproduce those touching moments through paintings and drawings, they may not come out with exact likeness. Where as art photography is not anything else like paintings or drawings, but it brings out the veracity in front of your eyes.

Fine art photography has excellent scope for business. As you know already, there are Masterpiece paintings of Great Painters like Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci and lots more. It is highly impossible to buy the original paintings of those great Painters as they cost hundreds of dollars. Photographs taken through this technique will be a bit cheaper when compared to the price but not to its quality.

Virtually it does not matter that anything you wish to capture in a photograph should be good-looking. It depends upon how and what way does the photographer captures the images using his camera. The amazing point to note in fine art photography is, even the photograph of a simple kitchen fork attracts you.
Fine art photography cannot be a successful one without a perfect camera. Indeed a digital camera suits well here. You need not have to be a professional photographer for; instead, you can easily shoot it through a good digital camera.

All that you need for fine art photography is to be creative! What is more then? Just click the shots; you can create your way of worthy frame art prints. Make different attempts to picture! Not like the traditional subjects like flower, fruits or any scenery, instead buildings, stuffed toys or any interesting figures make grand subjects. As said Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder one must have an innovative eye to really appreciate fine art photography.

I started out in photography using a canon powershot A50. I had bought the camera in 2000 because that is when my first son was born. I did not want to miss anything as  he grew up and I had never owned a camera before. I had heard of digital cameras but had not really ever used one. This canon powershot A50 was a 1 mega pixel camera  that had some neat features for the cameras at this time. No video or anything like that but I learned to use some of the features of the camera fairly easily. It was  quite expensive for my wife and I to buy this camera as it was around $250 and when you have just been married a few years and have a new baby that is a lot of money.

This camera lasted until my son was about 5 years old. I had began taking him fishing and hiking places with me and we took pictures along the way when we would go  hiking. So we decided one fall in 2005 to go hiking and exploring in the mountains of West Virginia, when I say mountains I mean the Monongahela forest. There were so  many areas to see and I was not sure really where to begin so we started at the falls of hills creek and immediately I knew that I was in love with nature photography  and particularly waterfall nature photography. We eventually made our way up to the Seneca rock area of the northern Monongahela forest and took a tour of Seneca  caverns, which was a great place to visit and a got a few pictures inside the caverns of bats and various rock formations. However, when we left I set my camera on top  of the car and was getting our things arranged in the car preparing for our drive and inadvertently left the camera on top of the care. We started down the road and  after about half of a mile I heard something go tumbling down the back of the car window. I looked in my rearview mirror and saw my $250 camera bouncing up and down on  the road and pieces fly all over. This was very disheartening as we had planned to continue to spruce knob West Virginia which is the highest point in the state.

I managed to gather the pieces of my canon powershot A50 from off the road and made up my mind that we were not going to get any more pictures on our trip. This was  pretty disappointing but I convinced myself that the trip was not about pictures but rather about my boy and his daddy spending time together. So we continued on to  Spruce Knob and while up there I decided to look at the camera and see if it could be used even though it was in a bunch of pieces. I began getting the pieces together  and believe it or not managed to get the camera to turn on by rigging the switch for the flash card door. Even though the LCD was cracked in many places it actually  came on and I actually was able to take pictures with this camera that was stuck together literally with a couple small sticks and some tape. From this point forward  not only did I realize that I loved nature photography but that Canon was the best camera I could have.

Once I began too look at other waterfall nature photos on the internet, I began to hunger for a new camera. I thought that I must be able to figure out how they made  the waterfalls look so smooth and silky. This gave me the unction to save up and buy a new Canon Rebel 350D in early 2006. This camera was in my opinion the best camera  I could have, although many others were much more expensive and had many more features, this was the first SLR I had ever held in my hand. I learned the different  settings and was amazed at what aperture and exposure time could do to the look of a waterfall or stream. This is when Forestwander Free Nature Picture Photography was  inspired one day walking home from work singing the gospel song “How Great Thou Art”.

After I had obtained a better camera I realized that the look and sharpness of a digital image did not depend solely on the body of a camera but largely depended on the  quality of the lens. This is when I became determined to get a better fixed focal length lens and realized the difference in a quality lens and a cheaper zoom lens. I  wondered can photography get any better and if so what would it take to make the very best images. Although I lacked the funding to obtain a high quality professional  full frame digital camera I had the passion to still explore and take more and more pictures refining my skills and beginning to document each expedition in greater  detail. I knew that I needed to begin capturing our hiking adventures on video but did not want to lug around a camcorder.

In 2007 we obtained a new Canon G9 which combined a high quality point and shoot lens with the latest technology video and audio capture built right into a very small  camera. This camera had the best of both worlds and allowed us to hike and take great wildlife shots and even great macro floral photography. This is when I learned  that RAW image format was the best way to shoot so that I could manipulate the exposure and color in post processing. Wow! I had thought jpeg was great until I  experienced the benefits of salvaging typically unusable images by processing them with Canon photo professional. The Canon G9 really is a great little camera but it  lacked the super sharp detail and range that my Digital Rebel 350D could attain. For the next two years I imagined how convenient it would be to be able to hike and  take great quality SLR images as well as take nature adventure video at the same time with the same camera.

One day in late 2008 I read about new model Canon that was going to be released and that this camera would combine super quality 21 mega pixel full frame Canon  technology with not only high resolution video, but HD 1080p quality video. I said to myself no doubt this camera would be far beyond my reach and must certainly cost  $5,000 or more. However, I learned that this new camera could be purchased for a little under $3,500 with a high quality low aperture f4 zoom lens that also sports  moisture resistant weather seals. This was without a doubt the answer to all of my needs and wants as a novice adventure nature photographer. After several months of  saving a planning I was blessed with a new Canon 5D Mark II and accompanying 24-105mm F4 zoom lens.

I have now been the proud owner of this wonderful camera for almost a year now and am convinced that this camera is all that I will ever need. Even though there may be  newer technologies that come out such as 3 dimensional holographic photography (think I am kidding, watch and see). The Canon 5D Mark II will always be my favorite  camera. This camera marked the camera that brought me into the full frame professional market. This camera takes amazing low light photography at higher ISO settings,  I often take low light photography in the forest and even take some night landscape shots from lofty mountain heights, it is imperative that the noise of these images  is kept to a minimum.

Recently I have learned that I can connect my Canon 5D Mark II to my laptop and store images directly from the camera to my 500 GB hard drive. This gives me hours and  hours of high quality video recording and thousands of 21 MP images. No doubt I have a lot to share with this new camera and I have only began to experience the  wonderful quality this camera provides. So far I have posted at least 100 new 21 MP images on ForestWander and I have to say that they are some of the best images I  have ever taken and they only keep getting better as I learn more about the 5D. The automatic bracketing features are really great and are helping me to experience the  wide range resolution possible with HDR.

The live view function is truly amazing as it allows me to set up my 5D on a tripod close to the ground for a macro shot of a mushroom for instance. It would otherwise  be impossible to focus on a small mushroom very close to the ground while looking through a view finder. Then I can press a button and focus and see the real results  directly on the 3 inch screen. This is not only great for live real-time viewing but it is great for post image viewing, as I can literally zoom in on a particular area  of a high resolution image and verify that it is in perfect focus before I even transfer and process the image on my local laptop. also, the automatic sensor cleaning  system is great for a nature photographer who frequently changes lenses in the field where dust and contaminants are inevitable.

Below I have listed some of the features of the Canon 5d Mark II but do not compare only the specifications to other cameras keep in mind that Canon makes a great  product and that their cameras are rugged, long lasting and even if other specifications on other Cameras that start with an N are slightly higher I will always be a  die hard Canon fan from the real world experiences I have lived through over the past 6 years as an adventure nature photographer.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II specifications

List price
(body only)     
US: $ 2,699
EU: € 2,499
UK: £ 2,299

List price
(EF 24-105 L kit)     
US: $ 3,499
EU: € 3,299
UK: £ 3,049

Body material     
Magnesium alloy

Sensor      
36 x 24 mm CMOS sensor
Full 35 mm size frame
RGB Color Filter Array
Built-in fixed low-pass filter (with self-cleaning unit)
22.0 million total pixels
21.1 million effective pixels
3:2 aspect ratio

Lenses     
Canon EF lens mount (does not support EF-S lenses)
No field of view crop (1.0x)

Dust reduction
“EOS Integrated Cleaning System”
Self-cleaning sensor unit (filter in front of sensor vibrates at high frequency at start-up and shutdown – can be disabled)
Dust Delete Data – Data from a test shot is used to ‘map’ dust spots and can be later removed using Canon DPP Software

Image processor
DIGIC 4
A/D conversion     14 bit

Image sizes (JPEG)      
5616 x 3744 (21.0 MP)
4080 x 2720 (11.1 MP)
2784 x 1856 (5.2 MP)

Image sizes (RAW)     
5616 x 3744 (21.0 MP)
3861 x 2574 (10.0 MP)
2784 x 1856 (5.2 MP)

File formats     
RAW (.CR2; 14-bit)
JPEG (EXIF 2.21) – Fine / Normal
RAW + JPEG (separate files)
sRAW1, sRAW2 (see above)

Auto focus     
9-point TTL CMOS sensor
6 “Invisible Assist AF points”
Centre point cross type F5.6 or faster
Center point additionally sensitive with lenses of F2.8 or faster
AF working range: -0.5 – 18 EV (at 23°C, ISO 100)

Focus modes     
One shot AF
AI Servo AF
AI Focus AF
Manual focus

AF micro adjustment
Adjust all lenses by same amount (effectively body adjustment)
Adjust up to 20 lenses individually

AF point selection     
Auto
Manual

Predictive AF     
As close as 8 m (with 300 mm F2.8L lens at 50 kph)
AF assist     No (only with external flash)

Metering     
TTL full aperture metering 35 zone SPC
Metering range: 1.0 – 20 EV

Metering modes     
Evaluative 35 zone (linked to any AF point)
Partial (8% at center)
Spot metering (approx. 3.5% at center)
Center-weighted average

AE lock     
Auto: One Shot AF with evaluative metering
Manual: AE lock button

Exposure compensation     
+/-2.0 EV
0.3 or 0.5 EV increments

Exposure bracketing     
+/- 2.0 EV
0.3 or 0.5 EV increments

Sensitivity      
ISO 100 – 6400
0.3 or 1.0 EV increments
Auto ISO (100-3200)
Expansion options:
ISO 50 (L1)
ISO 12800 (H1)
ISO 25600 (H2)

Shutter     
Focal-plane shutter
150,000 exposure durability
30 – 1/8000 sec
0.3 or 0.5 EV increments
Flash X-Sync: 1/200 sec
Bulb

Aperture values     
F1.0 – F91
0.3 or 0.5 EV increments
Actual aperture range depends on lens used

White balance
Auto
Daylight
Shade
Cloudy
Tungsten
Fluorescent
Flash
Custom
Kelvin (2500 – 10000 K in 100 K steps)

WB bracketing     
+/-3 levels
3 images
Blue / Amber or Magenta / Green bias

WB shift     
Blue (-9) To Amber (+9)
Magenta (-9) to Green (+9)

Picture style     
Standard
Portrait
Landscape
Neutral
Faithful
Monochrome
User def. 1
User def. 2
User def. 3

Custom image parameters     
Sharpness: 0 to 7
Contrast: -4 to +4
Saturation: -4 to +4
Color tone: -4 to +4
B&W filter: N, Ye, Or, R, G
B&W tone: N, S, B, P, G

Image processing options
Highlight tone priority
Auto lighting optimizer (4 settings)
Long exposure noise reduction
High ISO noise reduction (4 settings)
Auto correction of lens peripheral illumination (vignetting)

Color space     
sRGB
Adobe RGB

Viewfinder      
Eye-level pentaprism
98% frame coverage
Magnification: 0.71x (-1 diopter with 50 mm lens at infinity)
Eyepoint: Approx. 21 mm
Interchangeable focusing screen (3 other types optional)
Dioptric adjustment: -3.0 to +1.0 diopter

Mirror     
Quick-return half mirror (transmission:reflection ratio 40:60)
Mirror lock-up (once or multiple exposures)

Viewfinder info
AF information:

AF points
Focus confirmation light

Exposure information
Shutter speed
Aperture value
ISO speed (always displayed)
AE lock
Exposure level/compensation
Spot metering circle
Exposure warning
AEB

Flash information
Flash ready
High-speed sync
FE lock
Flash exposure compensation
Image information:
White balance correction
CF card information
Monochrome shooting
Maximum burst (2 digit display)
Highlight tone priority (D+)

LCD monitor     
3.0 ” TFT LCD
920,000 pixels
Automatic 3 level brightness adjustment plus 7 manual levels
170 ° viewing angle
Dual anti-reflection (‘Clear View’)

LCD Live view      
Live TTL display of scene from CMOS image sensor
100% frame coverage
30 fps
Real-time evaluative metering using CMOS image sensor
Best view or exposure simulation
Silent mode
Grid optional (x2)
Magnify optional (5x or 10x at AF point)
Three AF modes – Live mode / Quick mode / Face Detection
Live histogram (Luminance or RGB)
Remote live view using EOS Utility 2.0 (via USB or WiFi/Ethernet using WFT)

Movie recording     
Available optionally during Live view mode
1920 x 1080 (16:9) up to 12 mins (Quicktime 1080p H.264; 38.6 Mbits/sec)
640 x 480 (4:3) up to 24 mins (Quicktime 480p H.264; 17.3 Mbits/sec)
Max file size 4 GB
Quicktime MOV format (H.264 video, PCM sound)
30 fps

Record review     
Off
On (histogram via INFO button)
Display mode same as last used Play mode
2 / 4 / 8 sec / Hold

Playback modes     
1. Single image with exposure, file number, storage slot
2. As 1 but also image count and quality
3. Detailed exposure information, thumbnail and luminance histogram
4. Less detailed exposure info., thumbnail, luminance and RGB histograms

Playback features     
Optional blinking highlight alert
Optional AF point display
Magnified view (up to 10x)
2×2 or 3×3 thumbnail index
Jump (by 1, 10, 100 images, screen, date, folder, movies, stills)*
Delete / Protect

Flash     
No built-in flash unit
E-TTL II auto flash / metered manual
Flash compensation +/-2.0 EV in 0.3 or 0.5 EV increments
X-Sync: 1/200 sec
Hot-shoe & PC Terminal

External flash     
E-TTL II auto flash with EX-series Speedlites
In-camera flash configuration (currently only 580 EX II)
Wireless multi-flash support
PC Sync

Shooting modes     
Auto
Creative Auto *
Program AE (P)
Shutter priority AE (Tv)
Aperture priority AE (Av)
Manual (M)
Custom 1
Custom 2 *
Custom 3 *

Drive modes     
Single
Continuous: 3.9 fps *
Self-timer: 2 or 10 sec (2 sec with mirror lock-up)

Burst buffer     
Large/Fine JPEG: 78 frames (310 with UDMA card)
RAW: 13 frames

Orientation sensor     
Yes

Auto rotation     
On (recorded and LCD display)
On (recorded only)
Off

Custom functions     
25 custom functions with 71 settings in 4 groups
Menu languages
25 Languages
English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese

Firmware     
User upgradable
Portrait grip     
Optional WFT-E4 (WiFi / LAN / USB mass storage)
Optional BG-E6 battery grip

Connectivity     
USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
AV out (video & audio *)
HDMI connector
Microphone input
PC Sync flash terminal
Communication terminal on base for WFT-E4
InfraRed

Storage     
Compact Flash Type I or II (inc. FAT32)
Supports UDMA cards
Copyright metatag support
Canon Original Data Security Kit supported (“Original Image Data”)

Power     
Lithium-Ion LP-E6 rechargeable battery (supplied & charger)
CR1616 for date & settings
Approx. 850 shots at 20°C
Battery indication 6 levels & percentage (memorized)

Dimensions     
152 x 114 x 75 mm (6.0 x 4.5 x 2.9 in)

Weight     
No battery: 810 g (1.8 lb)

Accessories     
Viewfinder: Eyecup Eb, E-series Dioptric Adjustment Lens with Rubber Frame Eb, Eyepiece Extender EP-EX15, Focusing Screens Eg, Angle Finder C
Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E4
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If you are stuck in the midst of a dilemma as to what to give your friends on their wedding, and how to find a gift that would stand out from the crowd in the whole gamut of gifts that your friends are going to be receiving on the big day, don’t panic.  Think of some useful stuff. After their marriage, the couple will definitely move in to a new home where they will need household items of different sorts.  Why not save their money and effort and buy all those items for them? You can also share the expense with some other friends of yours since buying a number of household appliances can be a costly deal.  You can also consider giving a gift basket filled with small but useful stuff that they are going to need in the new home.

Another idea that can be an instant hit is the vouchers of a honeymoon package sponsored by you in a resort at a romantic destination. You can also think of something to create a romantic atmosphere, like aromatic candles that fill the air with sweet, soothing and very invigorating fragrances as they burn.

Some safe Wedding gifts ideas are always there in case you can’t make up your mind. One of them is photo frame. Wedding is a milestone event in one’s life and therefore, pictures are bound to be taken to cherish the moments forever.  Find some beautiful photo frames to enhance the appeal of those pictures that’ll also augment the décor of the newlywed’s home.  In the market, you’ll find thousands of designs, shapes, sizes and colors of picture frames made of varied materials.

In this dim and distant past,there was a popular music rock band called Queen. This short article is dedicated to all who played those fantastic Queen Songs. Freddie Mercury, Brain May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, which if I remember correctly was the bands line up in 1971.

While doing a little research on the internet, I discovered they had a grand total of 39 songs on the original vinyl records. Of course the one that anyone worth their salt knows is Queen Bohemian Rhapsody. Others which stand out are, We Will Rock You, Killer Queen and Dont Stop Me Now.

With the band starting out at the end of the 1960\\\’s, they seemed to find their legs when Freddie Mercury started to front the band and sang lead. The album which seem to bring Queen recognition,was the album \\\’Sheer Heart Attack\\\’,released in 1974 and in 1975 the album \\\’A Night at The Opera\\\’.

A little history on the band. 1968/9 -1973. Brian May,Tim Staffell joined up with drummer Roger Taylor to form a band called \\\’Smile\\\’ while at London\\\’s Imperial Collage and singed to Mercury Records that year. Tim Staffell was a student at Ealing Art Collage with Farrokh Bulsara. Tim introduced Farrohk to the band and he became a great fan. Tim left to join another band called Humpy Bong,with Farrohk – later changing his name to Freddie Mercury – joined the band as the vocalist. They changed the bands name to \”Queen\”. The band did not really settle, until John Deacon joined as bass player in February 1971. There was then a period of time while the band gelled together and not until 1974 that the band hit mainstream success. The Queen 2 album witch reach number 5 in the album charts and had the lead single \\\’Seven Sea\\\’s of Rye\\\’ with reached number 10 in the UK singles chart.

Big Time.

The band third album \\\’Sheer Heart Attack\\\’ reach number 2 in the UK and sold well in Europe,going gold in US. Then the forth album \\\’A Night at The Opera\\\’ really put the band on the map. Queen songs from the album were of course the now legendary Bohemian Rhapsody and the amazing video which at the time was ground breaking visual effects. The rest as they say, is history.

Sadly Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991 and another band member John Deacon retired in 1997.