Orange Shabu Shabu 橘色涮涮屋

Orange Shabu Shabu is a Japanese restaurant in Taipei. As the name of the restaurant suggests, they specializes in shabu-shabu, a Japanese variety of hotpot, using thinly sliced meat and vegetables, and usually served with dipping sauces. Shabu-shabu style restaurants are very popular in Taipei. Orange Shabu Shabu is probably and arguably the best shabu-shabu [...]

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HKCCF 2007 Showgirls Gallery with Canon EOS 40D & Adobe Lightroom

I shot these pics on the first day I bought my Canon EOS 40D at the Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2007(HKCCF 2007). Now that Adobe has released the updated version of my preferred RAW conversion application, Lightroom 1.2. I have processed the pics from that day and put together a gallery here. All [...]

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Adobe Lightroom 1.2 and Camera Raw 4.2 Updates Available Now!

Good news for Canon EOS 40D users who have been waiting for Adobe to update Lightroom and Camera Raw to support the 40D. It is now available for download from Adobe’s update site: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ I am downloading it now and going to try it out tonight

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Canon EOS 40D High ISO Noise Reduction Test

The 40D has a new custom function that allows you to set noise reduction for high ISO. I have made some test shots comparing shots from ISO 800 to 3200 with noise reduction off and on. The following are 100% crops, the left side crops had noise reduction turned off and right side crops had [...]

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Nikon vs Canon 3″ LCD Monitor Resolution Controversy

There have been a lot of controversy and heated debate recently on the 3″ LCD monitors on the new DSLR from both Canon and Nikon. Nikon quoted a resolution of 922,000 pixels on their new D300 and D3 and Canon quoted a resolution of 230,000 pixels for their new 40D and 1Ds Mark III. Some [...]

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Canon EOS 40D Image Gallery

This an image gallery for my 40D review. All the photos were shot in RAW and converted to jpeg with Canon Digital Photo Professional. The jpeg files were then resized and sharpened in Photoshop CS3. You can see the full review of the Canon EOS 40D here.

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Fotki Traffic Limit

I have used Fotki for almost 2 years now as my photo gallery site and photo hosting to link to forums and blogs. In these 2 years, I have been mostly happy with Fotki. I thought their service was good, the site has been quite stable and the price for unlimited storage premium account is [...]

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My Canon 40D Review is getting too much traffic!

It seems that my new 40D review is too popular and getting too much traffic. My photo hosting site has temporily block my account because I have reached over limit today! “Your account has limited functionality now Your account has been blocked due to exceeding its traffic limit. Your account hard daily limit: 4900.0 Mbytes [...]

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