PHOTOi - Issue 13 (December 2004) by Scott Poh

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Issue 13 / December 2004

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See you all at Sitex.

Mark Aviles

wins the PHOTOi / Nikon Best Photographer in Singapore Competition for 2004

The X factor with Nikon s new D2X See Seepage10 page10

Just who went to meet Greg Gorman?

See Seepage7 page7

Mr Teo Bee Yen talks about his photography MITA permit Number (P) 033/10/2004

(See page 20)

Were you at the sevens?

(See page 8)

An introduction to scrap booking (See page 16)

Inside News

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First Look Through Kath s lens

page 12 page 14 page 16

Reader s Galeria

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Competition

page 18

Master of the Craft

page 20

Lessons

page 21

Happenings

page 23

Yian on the Move

Cover photo taken by John Cosgrove using a D2X

See Seepage page66

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Editorial / News

Congratulations

EDITORIAL editor@photoi.com.sg

Editor

and thanks to you all

John Cosgrove (john@photoi.com.sg) Deputy Editor Kath Cosgrove (kath@photoi.com.sg) Contributions this month from

body art to stuffed toys having fun.

The my life as a photographer is fun award goes to Yain who showed us that Paris and Europe are a hotbed of photography and intimate relationships.

Yain, Danny Toh, Teo Bee Heng,

Creative

The Hardest worker on the planet award goes to my wife and PHOTOi Deputy Editor, Kath, who juggled family duties with the magazine and always found the most items for the happenings column each month. The biggest show award goes to Adobe for their PHOTOSHOP CS learning workshop at Raffles Conference centre (1600 participants).

Tan Li Yong Designer Cally Han

Advertising Sales Jereme Wong Media Manager Hazel Lee

Congratulations to an extremely talented photographer, Mark Aviles, for winning the inaugural PHOTOI /NIKON /Cathay Photo Best Photographer in Singapore competition and many thanks to both the sponsors and the hundreds of photographers who took the time to contribute to the success of this our first ever competition. Look out in the upcoming issues of PHOTOi for an even bigger and better competition with monthly prizes. Well 2004 is nearly at an end and if you remember last December I came up with a set of ideas and concepts that I thought might happen in 04. Some did, others where too far fetched and some are still on the back burner but wasn t it a boomer year for photography in Singapore. If we were in a position to give out awards for effort or innovation in the past 12 months my award wish list would look something like this. The Hardest working photo printer man award would go to Chris Yap, for being everybody s ace exhibition printer. The Tireless supporter of young photographers award goes to Tay Kay Chin, for pushing many young Singaporean photographers to look closer at the world around them. The Innovative exhibitor award goes to Tan Ngiap Heng, for shooting and showing off everything from army guards to nude

Media Executives Irene Tan Chua Ying Kai Kwan Chung Howe

The awards for innovation might go to:

Media Planner

i: Nikon for the D70 s ability to shoot continuously until your card is full.

Dana Lim

ii: Canon for the Pixma inkjet printer range with the ability to produce double-sided images without you having to manually re-insert the paper.

Germaine Lee

iii: Epson for the RD-1 retro styled digital camera that everyone wants to touch.

Marketing Circulation

Events Manager Events Assistant Marilyn Koo

iv: To all the cell phone manufacturers for their extensive work in building 200 million digital cell phone cameras.

Circulation Director

Now lets look long and hard at the office crystal ball(my new G5 iMac) and see what might come up next year.

Marketing Executive

Ah... i see it now... PHOTOi magazine goes regional, Nikon releases the D2H Series II an eight frames a sec @ eight megapixel model, Canon heats up the entry level DSLR range with an updated EOS300D called the REBAL XT, a Chinese built medium format CCD back sparks a price war in that marketplace, CF cards come down massively in price and go up in size beyond 15 gigabytes and finally lens image stabilisation capabilities become standard on all cameras.

Circulation Assistant

marcom@photoi.com.sg

Poh Swee Hong Ismet Bachtiar Wendy Lim

HARDWARE ZONE PTE LTD Z

well received and it was good to note that many of the entrants from our regular Singapore only competition have migrated over and are now happily entering each month.

sales@photoi.com.sg

Media Director

The hardest working non-professional photographer award could defiantly go to Liew Tong Leng, who worked long and hard in his spare time to enter so many different photo competitions and yes! that hard work did pay off too.

Our online competition at www.photoi.org has been very

creative@photoi.com.sg

Senior Designer

The emerging talent award should go to Bob Lee of the SPH Lianhe ZaoBao Newspaper, he once again showed us that he is fast becoming one of Singapore s most talented photojournalists.

A reader seen at the scc sevens.

CEO/Publisher Dr. Jackie Lee Managing Director

These are just some fanciful musings on what may or may not happen next year, so check out PHOTOi to find out if they do.

Eugene Low Product Manager

See you all at Sitex.

Joe Ang

Merry Christmas , Mr John the PHOTOi man. Printed by Fontcraft Printings(S) Pte Ltd

Hasselblad launches H1D full digital system

Cover Photo By: John Cosgrove taken with a Nikon D2X

PHOTOi A Hardware Zone Magazine published monthly by Hardware Zone Pte Ltd 20, Ayer Rajah Crescent, #09-04/05/11/12 Singapore 139964 Tel: (65) 68722-725 Fax: (65) 68722-724 URL: www.hwzcorp.com

With the capacity to store up to 850 full resolution images on the Hasselblad Ixpress hard drive. On show were a new line-up of 3 more autofocus HC lenses to support the H1D. Also unveiled were various versions of the Hasselblad Ixpress digital backs designed to suit a number of requirements, including an adapter that allows owners of the legendary Hasselblad V System to go fully digital.

MITA permit Number (P) 033/10/2004 All content copyright © 2004 PHOTOi Copyright © 2004, Hardware Zone Pte Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine shall be reproduced in any form without the written consent from the Publisher. Comments, opinions and views of individual contributors expressed in the magazine do not necessarily represent those of the Publisher. Under no circumstances whatsoever shall the magazine/publisher be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages that may arise out of or in connection with the use of the information made in the magazine.

For more info log on to www.hasselbladsingapore.com.

All views, opinions used in this publication are based on the prerogative and expertise of the writer(s) serving the respective market and readership of which the publication and products are marketed in.

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At the very impressive all new SAFRA Mount Faber Clubhouse, Shriro Singapore recently unveiled a host of new Hasselblad products that highlighted their commitment to digital technologies and their recent acquisition of Imacon. In a special presentation with other leading partners such as Apple, Adobe and Epson, Hasselblad showcased the new H1D camera digital system. The H1D is a fully integrated autofocus medium format DSLR digital camera system with a 22 Megapixel sensor system designed for a 6x4.5 format.

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PhotoAid 3D at TPG A number of local photographers recently contributed to the Photographers Gallery s latest innovative exhibition, PhotoAid: Perspective in 3D. Using both 3D hardware and software Jeff Loo and this team there constructed a number of images from photographers who had the common goal of wanting to do their part for local charities. Selected photography works where exhibited in 3D and viewers needed special 3D glasses to experience the images. The sales and proceeds from this exhibition are going towards the Straits Times Pocket Money fund to benefit needy children. Support for the project also came from Michelangelo s Restaurant. Photographers who took part are John Cosgrove, Lance Lee, Charles Lim, Ernest Goh, Low Soon Leong, Jeff Loo, Fabian So and Kian Peng.

BUD exhibition

Students from the various photography short courses conducted at Objectifs during the past six months held their Bud exhibition recently. On show were works covering many different genres of photography and for most students this was their first ever public showing of their works.

While you were Sleeping PHOTOi contributor and talented young photographer Darren Soh proudly showed off his latest book project to friends and fellow photographers at a Hasselblad event recently. Only 500 copies of the large square formatted coffee table photo book titled While you were sleeping are being printed and all of the landscape images were shot late at night in Singapore during the past several years. Readers saw some examples of these excellent photos in the recent October issue of PHOTOi where Darren produced a lesson feature on the art of landscape photography. Darren meanwhile has opened the inaugural exhibition at the new Sail Art Gallery, a pioneering initiative by City Developments Ltd, that aims to contribute to the development of local art by providing a free platform for artists to showcase their talents.

Sign of the times If a young photographer approaches you in the street and asks you to hold a sign with your name and dreams on it and stand for a photo, don t scold him or tell him to leave just smile and pose for this unique social documentary photo project. Charles Lim Thow Teck, a DTP artist, has been spending his free time during the past year walking all over Singapore getting passer-by s to write their dreams on a chalkboard and pose for his camera. Some people have scolded me, others tell me to leave but many more do pose for me, said Charles. When I get 1000 images I will have a mini exhibition but I plan to keep on doing this for the rest of my life.

Darren s photographs capture the transformation of Singapore's landscape and skyline into extraordinary scenes, exposes the philosophy that behind simple ordinary day-to-day activities and places are untold stories. They are portrayed in a creative manner through unique photographic angles and treatments. The Sail Art Gallery is located within the show suites for The Sail @ Marina Bay. Access can be gained by the slip road between NTUC Centre and Neptune Theatre (Overseas Union House) or walking from Clifford Pier behind Overseas Union House. Visitors using the MRT can stop at Raffles Place and cross over the Change Alley Bridge to Clifford Pier. Parking is also available at Overseas Union House (accessible from Esplanade Drive only).

Planet Games For all those out there who can remember time spent in their youth at arcades playing space invaders and Atari then head off down to the Singapore Science Center for the Planet Games interactive exhibition. In amongst all the old and new video gaming machines PHOTOi s sister publication Game Axis, Singapore s premier gaming magazine, is proudly hosting a display with the latest online LAN gaming facilities. Plant Games will be on show till February 2005, so check it out. There are old video games, PC and current Xbox games and some very advanced 3D future gaming machines all on show and yes you can sit there and play to your hearts content, no tokens required.

Stick No Bill! A Chief Purser with Air France, Herve Conil recently opened his very imaginative and colourful Stick No Bill! photography exhibition at the SG Private Banking Gallery in the Alliance Francaise building. Images of wall graffiti and ripped signs, faded picture boards and hoardings where taken on a Minolta X700 in many different locations around the world. I usually work with a macro lens and I don t alter anything, I just shoot what takes my eye said Herve. Herve s work has been seen in many places both here in Singapore and worldwide including department stores and galleries.

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The power to perform Silicon Power of Taiwan have released in Singapore a new range of very attractively priced flash data storage devices that include CF, SD, MMC and SMC Cards. Top of their line are the new 45x speed Ultima 1 Gigabyte Compact Flash (CF) and Secure Data (SD) cards. The Ultima CF cards range in size from 128 Mgb all the way up to 2 GB while the Ultima SD card series starts at 64Mgb and tops out at 1 GB. On a recent test with a Nikon D2X it showed that for users of the latest crop of high performance digital cameras you really do need safe and fast, large capacity storage devices that offer fast snapshot and recovery times. At 45x these new cards are usable on all the top models including the new Canon EOS1DMkII which allows you to use both CF and SD type cards simultaneous. The new Ultima SD and CF cards are now available in Singapore.

Pre-Order the E300 at Sitex The highly affordable Olympus E-300 Digital SLR will be available for pre-orders at SITEX 2004 at the recommended retail price of S$1,699 (inclusive of GST). Unveiled at the recent Photokina show held in Germany, the new Olympus E-300 redefines digital SLRs and rides on the success of the multi-award winning FourThirds System developed for the E1. The E300 kit packs dust protection and an 8megapixel imaging sensor into an innovative compact, low-profile "flat-top" body for world-class image quality. The new body shape which is a much leaner and more unconventional shape than when compared to other SLRs. Its reduced dimensions are the result of replacing the penta prism with a TTL Optical Porro Finder. With a full combination of photographic functions available from its user-friendly menu and controls, the Olympus E-300 allows serious amateurs to fully exercise their creative expressions in their photography. It is also compatible with a vast range of system accessories, including all Olympus E-System high-precision lenses. There are currently nine interchangeable lenses available for this model, and all are based on the FourThirds Standard and feature the nearly telecentric construction required by digital image sensors for perfect colour, clarity and brightness. Such lens draws maximum performance from the cameraÂ&#x2019;s Full Frame Transfer CCD (FFT CCD) and ensures the maximum amount of image data is recorded. It is expected to be commercially available here in Singapore in the second-half of December 2004. The E300 kit includes: E-300 Body, USB Cable, Video Cable, Li-Ion Battery Pack (BLM-1), Li-Ion Battery Charger (BCM-2), Shoulder Strap, OLYMPUS Master Editing Software, CD-ROM, Manuals, Warranty card, and System chart.

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Best Photographer of Singapore winners presentation

Winners One and All The winners from each of the eleven monthly themes of the NIKON/Cathay Photo Store/PHOTOi Best Photographer in Singapore competition 2004 were awarded their prizes at a recent function held at The Photographer s Gallery. Mr Marc Fung, Sales and Marketing Assistant Manager from Nikon Singapore joined PHOTOi Product Manager, Joe Ang, and the PHOTOi Editor, John Cosgrove, in presenting the prizes to all the winners. Mark Aviles took home the grand prize of a NIKON D70 with Hui Man Yan and Lee Hin Man, second and third place winners respectively. More than 2000 entries were received over the 11 months of the competition from nearly 300 Singapore based photographers. Our warmest thanks go to NIKON Singapore, Cathay Photo Stores and Epson for sponsoring this great competition and to all participants many thanks for your kind support and help. Now watch out for next year s contest

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Faces of Fame A perspective by Greg Gorman

Words and photos by John Cosgrove Courtesy of EPSON Singapore. Nearly 600 people packed into the Suntec City Convention Centre Theatre to listen to one of the world s most famous portrait photographers. American celebrity photographer and Epson Stylus Pro Greg Gorman kept the large crowd entertained with whimsical observations on his colourful life as a photographer, witty anecdotes on shooting stars and starlets, in-depth technical tips and tricks on how to make your digital images really stand out and then kept up a seemingly endless procession of really stunning black and white and colour portraits. Greg showcased his unique and much sought after photographic style with three live shoots using local fashion models and personalities. Then he walked us through his digital workflow to its conclusion with large 16 x20 images output on an Epson Stylus Pro 4000. Some tips from Greg for photographers: Talk to your models. Gain their trust. Treat them with respect but don t let them walk all over you Be positive but not pushy. Have good music and good food on hand. Always work in RAW mode to gain full control of your images. For guys light them more dramatically. For girls think either colour or B&W. Have a vision about what you want to achieve and be vocal about it.

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Photo Events

Action Asia Words and photos by John Cosgrove

The recent Action Asia Challenge Singapore provided us with a variety of action

sports to photograph, all within the confines of the city. You have to take your hat off to Michael Maddess and his team for providing us with the opportunity to see so many top multi-sport athletes competing in an event with very good public access to the various disciplines. For nearly five hours top teams ran, cycled, swam, rock climbed, rappelled and kayaked nearly 60 km before spectacularly zip lining down from the top of the Esplanade in front of hundreds of onlookers and tourists. The trick to getting great pictures at this sort of event is to plan your coverage well and take time to study what is happening, donÂ&#x2019;t race from event to event chasing leaders but set yourself up to maximize a particular location with good shutter speeds and clean back grounds e.g.: at the Bukit Timah nature reserve you could photograph, MTB racing, rock climbing, abseiling, swimming, cargo net scaling and running all within a couple of hundred metres, while at the Esplanade there was kayaking, running, mtb, abseiling, swimming and zip lining.

Sevens galore Words and photos by John Cosgrove

The recent 57th annual Singapore Cricket ClubÂ&#x2019;s International Rugby Sevens was a real bonus for photographers. This event is always very well organised with great rugby action in short seven minute long halves. The organizing committee at SCC under Stephen McCullough has maintained the high standards of organization, entertainment and free public access that have become synonymous with this event in recent years. Teams of seven players race against the clock to score points in an abridged version of the international game of rugby. This year top club teams from ten countries attended making endless opportunities for high-class rugby action, speed and movement, expression and drama photographs. Not only were there good access points to shoot great pictures from, but behind the main field there was also a mini-rugby tournament being held for children, with many local schools taking part and this also gave us plenty of great photo ops. Mark your calendar/ diary for this event next year.

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Ulead launches PhotoImpact 10

A large crowd attended the recent launch of U l e a d s PhotoImpact 10 imaging sofware where they where shown a host of new features on this image management and manipulation software for digital i m a g e s . PhotoImpact 10 h a s e a s y m o v e m e n t between basic and advanced editing modes, new touch up tools, enhanced object extraction tools, new 3D text and graphics drawing tool and a Z-Merge to fuse them all together. A unique high dynamic range feature helps you combine same photos together that have different shadow, midtone and highlight settings. The price of all this is just SGD$190 and it s available now.

Wakeboarding Tommy Loh caught some good action at the recent Wake Board World Cup - Singapore Leg, held at the Bedok Reservoir. Shooting from the bank Tommy was using a Canon 10D with a Canon EF 100-400mm lens attached. Though the blazing sun was scorching down on many of the photo enthusiasts in attendance he said it was well worth it. I was standing close to the billboards at the reservoir. A good distance to get the action shots while the wake boarders rode past the crowd. You should've been there. Tommy Low, www.lobinhoot.com, tommy@lobinhoot.com

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The

Tried and Tested

factor

Words and photos by john Cosgrove

High or low speed? Six or Twelve megapixels? It s your choice, you choose with the new NIKON D2X. That a D2H mate? came the polite enquiry from an interested bystander, as I shot off another 8 frames in rapid succession. No I replied with a smile, It s an X. The heightened look of interest on his face was followed briefly by one of envy for in my hands was Nikons latest pro camera, the 12.4 megapixel D2X. A junior rugby match at the Padang was an excellent venue to test run the D2X. High-speed action with fast paced runners, flying tackles and a good mix of vertical and horizontal photo opportunities. Now that s where the D2X really shone. In the past vertical focus on some models had been okay, but with a minor tendency to sometimes hunt, now the autofocus is crisp and tight, right on the money in either vertical and horizontal shooting modes. Following a young winger up a side line on his try scoring break the D2X kept it all nice and sharp. Now comes the hard part - which speed do I choose? With the X you get the choice of five frames a second on the full 12.4 megapixels or a very rapid eight frames a second at 6.8 megapixels under the new high speedcropping mode. Selecting the high-speed cropping mode from the menu on the large and bright 2-inch LCD meant that I really had to concentrate through the viewfinder, as you have to keep the images within the edge-bounding box which highlights when you depress the shutter. Mind you there wasn t much loss of view space as the edges are pretty close to the full frame anyway. After cutting off a few heads I got the idea on how to use it properly, simply think of it as the X giving me a 600mm Field of View from my 300 mm lens. Ah ha no more lost heads. There is always the desire to shoot large when you own an X, after all, that s why you would invest in such an extremely capable pro level camera, and at five frames a second what more do you need? After all, are you a photographer who plans their pictures and captures peak action images or simply a shooter who is shot gunning the action in the faint hope that something usable is captured? (Think about it, which one should you be?) Nearby were several of the latter who, after many frustrating episodes of long image deletion exercises with their thumbs, started to follow my lead and plan their shots. But it s still kinda cool to be able to blast off eight frames a second occasionally. Inside the new lightweight and easy-to-handle body cast in the same mould as the D2H, things have started to really hum. The new Nikon DX-format image sensor delivers

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improved image quality, which is achieved with a new CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor hosting an effective pixel-count of 12.4 megapixels. A new 4-channel output method which speeds up the transferring image data from the image sensor to your memory card allows the D2X to capture 12.4 megapixel JPEG images or RAW image at a rate of 5 frames per second in continuous shooting mode or an even higher continuous shooting rate of up to 8 frames per second when using the new High Speed Cropped function which crops the centre of an image at a 6.8 megapixel resolution. In addition to the new dual-area image sensor, all image-processing functions have been either newly developed or refined. Image tone characteristics have been further improved with both analog and digital processing for optimum colour distribution. Moreover, the enhanced accuracy of digital processing in the ASIC provides for much smoother shading in gradual colour changes. The D2X also supports the sYCC colour profile found in many of the latest ink jet printers. This allows the X to reproduce a wider range of colours when printing JPEG data than the conventional colour profile. The colour modes have been further tweaked to give you a total of five selections. In Nikon s traditional colour space Modes 1 (bright and punchy images) and 3 (enhanced landscape) you now have the choice of selecting either sRGB or Adobe RGB colour spaces. The combination of image-processing technologies and 3D-Color Matrix Metering II with improved new algorithms found in the D2X makes it possible to capture great 12.4megapixel images that will give you such great BIG files, with more than enough detail, colour and smooth tonal ranges to wet the appetite of the hardiest digital shooter, but it also means you have to invest in larger faster cards. Time to buy shares in Sandisk. The Nikon Multi-CAM2000 11-area AF sensor easily handles all the focusing duties while the ambient light sensor does a great job of improving the white-balance precision. On the back you will notice that when you are reviewing the images on that very large and bright LCD screen you can now check out the RGB Histogram.Ê It is also possible to display channel-specific ([R] red, [G] green or [B] blue) histograms for immediate and detailed image verification. Look closer and now you have the ability to create multiple exposures composed of two to ten images. Creative in-camera effects such as Image Overlay and Multiple Exposure are part of a new drive by Nikon to promote creativity from users. The new Multiple Exposure function creates a single image from up to 10 exposures.

As exposure for each image can be adjusted to prevent over-exposure, exposure for the final multiple-exposure image will be optimum. The Image Overlay function merges selected RAW (NEF) files already stored on the CF card to create a new image file within the camera. Overall: With the new D2X, Nikon is setting very high standards of colour and functionality for users wanting something special like the X factor from their pro level cameras and after a long wait I m sure they will find a very appreciative market eagerly awaiting its imminent release. Many thanks to Nikon for letting me sample a true beauty of a camera and to the SCC for the great rugby action and Willy Foo for the food and water.

D2X a Lens-interchangeable digital SLR camera EFFECTIVE PIXELS:12.4 million IMAGE SENSOR: CMOS sensor, 23.7 x 15.7mm size, 12.84 million total pixels SENSITIVITY: ISO equivalency 100 to 800 STORAGE SYSTEM: NEF (12-bit RAW uncompressed or compression), Exif 2.21,compliant DCF 2.0 and DPOF (uncompressed TIFF-RGB or compressed JPEG) STORAGE MEDIA : CompactFlash (CF) Card (Type I / II) and Microdrive WHITE BALANCE: Auto (hybrid with 1,005-pixel RGB sensor, CMOS image sensor and external Ambience Light Sensor), Manual (6 steps with fine tuning) , Preset (5 settings) , Colour temperature setting in Kelvin (select from 31steps) ,White Balance Bracketing (2 to 9 frames adjustable in 10, 20, 30 MIRED steps) LCD MONITOR: 2.5-in., 235,000-dot, low temp. polysilicon TFT LCD with white LCD backlight Backlight/brightness adjustment available FTP file transfer available with optional Wireless Transmitter WT-1/1A (IEEE 802.11b) and WT-2/2A (IEEE 802.11b/g) USABLE LENSES: AF Nikkor (including AF-S, DX, VR and D-/G-type) : All functions possible PICTURE ANGLE: Full Image: Approx. 1.5x focal length in 35mm [135] format equivalent, High Speed Cropped Image: Approx. 2x focal length in 35mm [135] format equivalent VIEWFINDER: Optical-type fixed eye-level pentaprism; Built-in diopter adjustment (-3 to +1m-1), Eyepiece shutter provided. AUTOFOCUS: TTL phase detection, Nikon Multi-CAM2000 autofocus module; Detection range: EV -1 to +19 [Right edge and Left edge AF range: EV0 to +19] [at normal temperature (20°C/68°F), ISO 100 equivalent] AF AREA MODES: 1) Single Area AF, 2) Dynamic AF with Focus Tracking and Lock-on , 3) Closest Subject Priority Dynamic AF, 4) Group Dynamic AF EXPOSURE METERING RANGE: 3D-Color Matrix Metering II: EV 0 to 20 SHUTTER: Electromagnetically controlled vertical-travel focal-plane shutter, 30 to 1/8,000 second and bulb SYNC CONTACT: X-contact only: flash synchronization up to 1/250 second DIMENSIONS (W X H X D): Approx. 157.5 x 149.5 x 85.5mm (6.2 x 5.9 x 3.4 in.) WEIGHT (WITHOUT BATTERY): Approx. 1,070g (2.4 lbs)

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First Look

Digi Cabi Dry cases

CONTAX i4R

Singapore is often wet and humid so protect your precious cameras and lenses by investing in a decent dry cabinet. The DigiCabi DHC Professional series precise digital h u m i d i t y controlled dry cabinets fit the bill perfectly. DHC-

Digital

Humidity Controlled cabinets offer a noiseless operation, tempered glass doors, use high quality rubber seals to maintain their air-tightness and employ a digital hygrometer to monitor levels of moisture. They start from 60 litres and go up to 100 litres in size. Prices of the Professional DHC series start at $360 for the 60 lt case while the 30 lt i-Cabi is available for only $99 until Feb 2005, for more info www.digihub.com.sg

ATP RS-MMC

Cell phone cameras are all the rage today and to help you record those precious moments ATP have released a wide range of RS-MMC (Reduced Size MMC) multi-media cards specially designed for those devices that need small cards. RS-MMC are smaller versions of a MMC card and their small ultra compact size makes them ideal for cell phone cameras and PDAs. ATP offer a range of these lightweight cards from 32Mgb up to 512 Mgb and users can download to a normal MMC slot using an adapter. ATP RS-MMC can be read/written over 100,000 times without any quality loss.

The world s smallest 4 Mega pixel digital camera is less than 94mm long and 21mm thin and comes equipped with a Carl Zeiss Tessar T* 6.5mm F/2.8 Lens (equivalent to approx 39mm in 35mm film format). The i4R has the ability to focus down to an amazing 5cm (2 inches) in macro and also incorporates a 6x digital zoom and up to 8x digital zoom in playback mode. The RTUNE s High Speed Image Processing System enables high speed continuous shooting at 3 frames per second up to the full capacity of your memory card at the highest resolution, thanks to Kyocera s RTUNE image processing system. Even during continuous shooting, the LCD monitor displays in real time. The Contax i4R starts up in less than 1 second and features a shutter lag time of approx. 0.07 seconds. Its CCD has 4,190,000 gross pixels (1/2.5 square pixels, using an original colour filter) and by adjusting the RGB colour balance of the signals from the CCD at the analog front end, colour noise is minimized. The Contax i4R incorporates a 9-point Multi AF function13 and is also Pictbridge Compatible.

Pentax *istDS

ColorVision Spyder2 The Spyder2 color meter is the latest addition to the PANTONE COLORVISION product line and it delivers a new level of on-screen colour accuracy for digital photographers. The sleek, redesigned, dual-phase hardware features precise calibration and highly accurate ICC profiles for CRT, LCD and laptop displays. The all-new PrintFIX Suite ensures accurate colour output though an integrated hardware/software solution which calibrates monitors and creates accurate inkjet printer profiles and comes bundled with a unique patchreader and software. The all-new totally re-engineered Spyder2 color meter and Spyder2PRO monitor calibration software completes the package creating a new standard for on-screen colour accuracy. The updated PrintFIX v1.2 software now supports over 50 popular photo printers with new models being added regularly. PrintFIX is a user-friendly solution for photographers and artists as it builds profiles for a wide range of inkjet printers to be produced on just about any paper heavy weight, matte, lustre, high quality glossy, fine art and even watercolour papers. Available now from Cathay Photo stores.

Imation s New Disc Stakka

Available now.

ATP 60X HighSpeed SD cards

It s small, compact, packs in a whopping 6.1 megapixels and yet it is very simple to use and also very affordable, say hello to the new Pentax *istDS.

Offering an amazing 60x write speed the new range of ATP 60X High Speed SD cards are very attractively priced and promise high 9 MB/s for faster downloading and copying. With a range of cards on offer from 32 Mgb all the way up to 1 gigabyte these new SD cards from ATP Flash Products are fully compatible with all modern digital cameras, MP3, PDA, mobile phones and other devices. Their low power consumption aids maximum battery life while the selectable write protect switch will make them very popular with users.

A high quality Digital SLR that offers the advantage of lens interchangeability to photographers of all levels at a very acceptable price. Packaged in a stainless steel chassis weighing just a mere 505 grams without batteries, the highly acclaimed *istDS is small and lightweight and yet offers a high performance 6.1 megapixel CCD coupled to Pentax s original image processing technology. A large 2 inch LCD monitor offers quick review times and access to the very user friendly control. A very accurate 11-point autofocus system working through many of the Pentax K series interchangeable lenses allows for tight accurate focusing. Capturing 2.8 frames per second for 8 frames the *istDS offers very professional standards in its compact frame. The innovative use of high capacity SD cards further reduces the weight.

Available now.

The *istDS is available now.

Microsoft Fingerprint Reader Keyboard Now there s a convenient way to manage all your passwords without having to remember them. The Microsoft Fingerprint Reader lets you log on to your PC or favourite Web site and switch users with the touch of a finger. Simply place your finger on the receiver whenever a password or username is required. To help reduce password fatigue, Microsoft has introduced two new products that conveniently replace user names and passwords with easy-to-use fingerprint recognition technology. Now, a touch of a finger enables people to easily log on to the PC. The fingerprint reader, designed specifically to be intuitive and reliable, is available in two products: Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader, and the stand-alone Microsoft Fingerprint Reader. The Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader: S$169.00 and the Fingerprint Reader: S$99.00 are available now.

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The compact Imation Disc Stakka is an automated carousel that stores, protects and retrieves discs, including data CDs, DVDs, music and game discs. The single unit holds up to one hundred 12 cm discs in one unit, and is linked to a PC or Mac computer via a single USB connection supplying both power and data. Up to 50 units can be stacked together to create a tower while more than 100 towers can be linked together to store, manage and protect over 50,000 discs, all controlled from the one computer. Disc Stakka is bundled with an intuitive disc management software, the Opditracker, which includes a database and a search engine. The Imation Disc Stakka is available now for S$239. For more information on Imation Disc Stakka, please visit www.imation-southasia.com/stakka

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Yain on the Move

Getting Mugged After The Toy Show Words and photos by Yian

went to the Great Toy Show in Germany. For those of you unfamiliar with my made-up term, this refers to the biennial Photokina convention the biggest in the world. Everything you could want in a photographer s toy show was there. Chimping on a Leica (RD), uber-fast glass to play with (Canon s entire range, including the 1200mm), Leica-a-la-carte (I m not making this term up). The latter refers to the customisable Leica, any colour, finish, winder, viewfinder, etc. you could want in your own personalised version. They had models galore, and fashion photographers showing us the latest in cameras and lighting systems to shoot them. There was a car run by two AA batteries (Panasonic), which went all of three meters on a stage with a small girl driving. There were motorcycles, mini s and F1 cars for you to get your picture taken in. (Add your own Photoshop motion blur). And they had many exhibitions, including the best exhibition of VII photographers I have ever seen. They built an entire black, dark maze of passageways with windows onto the photos, which were set back from the main passageway. This added very well to the eeriness of the subject matter. There were also an exhibition of Magnum s Elliot Erwitt s Hands , and his M3, well brassed, in a glass case. (Attached to a 50mm). Celebrity photographs by Anton Corbijn, fashion photographers, conceptual, and finally documentary photographers. Anyway, I should admit that there s a reason I mentioned the exhibitions last. That was the order I saw them in. Also, I can t fail to mention the German beer and hospitality. Wandering off by myself into the old town away from fellow

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camera geeks, I meet kind Germans who took me into their groups and introduced me to the local beers and foods. Drinking beer back in Paris has never been the same. The next week was spent with Gary Knight (VII) and his wife, Fiona Turner and their two kids, and Jerome Delay (AP) at Gary s house. The absolute best thing of the week was his wife s cooking. Now imagine my surprise when I found out that she has won five Emmy s (producing documentaries for NBC and ABC). The two of them met in Bosnia or somewhere. Classic war journalist love-story. To cut a long story short, Gary and Jerome tag-teamed me, and beat out of me any remaining desire to go to the Sudan. James Nachtwey (VII) had just spent three and a half weeks there, and came back with the best photos of any photographer so far of the refugees, but just about the worst in his career. (Very roughly paraphrasing Gary s opinion). I concur. It was suggested that as a young, beginning photographer, I go somewhere else where I could plant myself for six months, since my most valuable resource at this point is time. Somewhere that has the basic infrastructure to support a photographer without a big magazine s backing. Somewhere like. Oh. Say. Gaza. Jerome has been based in Jerusalem for quite a few years, and his girlfriend just completed a month-long reportage in Gaza. (Which was just exhibited in Paris, by the way). We ll see The next week of my adventure was spent in another workshop in Bilbao, this time organised loosely with

Magnum. It was supposed to be with Alex Majoli, but he was stuck in Latvia (good excuse for missing a workshop, I suppose), and filled in by Eli Reed instead. Best value workshop of all time. 70 Euros for a week. My first night there, the receptionist at my hotel gave me a map, crossed out a section of town and forbade me to go there, telling me about the dangers of drugs and pimps. Of course, the way I see it was that he has just given me a treasure map to the most interesting stories with which to impress Eli, and I fully intended to go there the next morning. That evening, while bar hopping with a girl from Barcelona, we inevitably, unintentionally wandered into that area, and witnessed a street fight . As we crossed the road to avoid it, a drunk youth came up to reassure us that everything was all right. Next thing I knew, my wallet had been picked as he accidentally jostled me, and as I was unwilling to leave the girl who was by my side to give chase (good reason, right?); I shouted loudly, but fairly impotently at him, cussing more at my own carelessness at being duped. Surprisingly, he droped my wallet and ran off. I found out soon enough that it was not because of my great (non-existent) Spanish cussing skills, but that four policemen appeared out of nowhere and jumped on him. Declining to press charges, we move on for the evening. Two days later, I finally pick up the courage to confront my fears, and against everybody s advice, head back to the area to document it. It was probably the scariest thing I have ever taken photos of, and the most fearful situation that I have ever put myself in.

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Through Kath s Lens

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Scrapbooking can be addictive! Words and photos by Kath Cosgrove

Here s an idea that will not only make a wonderful

Christmas present for someone special but will also turn a few good photographs into a precious piece of art that will be treasured for life! Scrapbooking is the art of combining photographs, words (journaling), memorabilia and souvenirs within an album to create a lasting visual memory that is so much more than just a photo album. It is a memory album, says Penny Lam, proprietor of Art Frenzy, Anchorpoint. It preserves your memories in the form of journaling and memorabilia. You can save those movie ticket stubs; love letters and your children s drawings right there on the same page as your photos, rather than tuck them away in a box inside the closet. Preserving these memories is perhaps the most important part of Scrapbooking and therefore only acid free and lignin free albums, glues, background papers and materials should be used. Acid and lignin cause photos to fade and deteriorate faster and paper to turn yellow and crumble. Good acid free Scrapbooking albums with plastic sleeve page protector s cost between $20 and $120 depending on the size and style and are well worth the investment. Store your precious album in an upright position so that the pages are not squashed together and keep it in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. The great thing about Scrapbooking is that anyone who is able to cut and paste can do it! Start With:

k An acid and lignin free album. k Refill pages for your album. k Coloured cardstock and decorative papers. k Photo adhesives. k Scissors. k A fine tip Scrapbooking Pen. k Photographs and related memorabilia. Pick a set of four or five photographs that revolve around a certain theme or topic such as a trip to Sentosa. Assemble any entry tickets or other associated

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memorabilia. Pick one photo to be the main focus of your page and without using any glue, arrange and rearrange your page until you are happy with your design. Cropping an occasional picture into a circle or oval can add interest to your page just as decorative papers can highlight certain areas and matting a photo can help draw your attention to it. Once you are happy with your design, glue everything into position. Hand write little notes on each page to help your photos tell the whole story and to remember any special moments or thoughts during the day. Above all, remember - this is your album express yourself!

IDEAS:

Get ideas from magazines, websites etc and then make yours uniquely you!

The possibilities are endless

Babies Birth: create a page or two that includes photos of your baby surrounded by babies hospital tag, measuring tape showing your babies length at birth, congratulation cards, babies first booties, mittens, babies hand and foot prints, your own personal sentiments etc. Why not create a new page each month to document babies first year! Travel Diary: combine photographs, boarding passes, receipts, luggage tags, name cards, maps, entrance tickets, personal notes etc to help you remember the best bits of your holiday.

Tips:

SCRAPBOOKING SUPPLIES:

Use coloured cardstock and decorative papers for: Background colour, mats around photos, borders around pages, for cutouts and to add interest to a page. If you wish to add newspaper clippings or other documents to the album either make copies onto acid free paper and use these instead or spray the originals with a special archival spray such as Krylon Make it Acid Free Spray $39.90 from Tango Mango Bookshop.

Tango Mango Bookshop

See through memorabilia pockets can be attached to album pages to add items such as hair, dried flowers etc so that they don t damage the album but still look great.

163 Tanglin Road, #03-11A, Tanglin Mall. Phone: 6835 3895 Spotlight 68 Orchard Road, Level 5, Plaza Singapura. Phone: 6733 9808 Artfrenzy 370 Alexandra Road, #B1-29, Anchorpoint Phone: 6471 3655 Made With Love 177 River Valley Road, Liang Court Phone: 6837 3464

Later You Will Crave:

COURSES:

k A paper guillotine. k Decorative craft scissors. k Templates and Stencils. k Various craft Punches. k Coloured craft pencils and pens. k Embellishments such as decorative brads, acid

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free stickers, eyelet charms, fancy photo corners, page pebbles, pewter label holders, rub on words, handmade decorations, etc, etc, etc . k More photos!

Phone: 6471 3655 Email: artfrenzy@gmail.com Learn all the basic techniques in a 3-4 hour Scrapbooking Basics workshop for only $35 including materials. Then why not enroll the kids in a 2-3 hour Scrappin Kids workshop for $30 and get them started too.

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ReaderÂ&#x2019;s Galeria

Life can be beautiful

About the photographer:

Danny Toh I was fascinated by the lights when I happened to be in Little India the other night, not so much from the normal point of view but on how these lights affect the surfaces of the environment that surrounds us. The masterful and abstract paintings created by human activities within our community are all spontaneously and dynamically executed, almost as if by some unseen forces. Life can be beautiful if we are able to look beyond the superficial aspects of our materialistic society at large. All the pictures in this series were taken within the vicinity of Farrer park MRT Station exit G. dannytoh@acs.sch.edu.sg

Whether it be nature, kids, sports or whatever, please send us a selection of your best images of subjects based around a common theme so that we can show off your work to the world. Send prints or email your best images to editor@photoi.com.sg or mail them to Hardware Zone Pte Ltd 20, Ayer Rajah Crescent, #09-04/05/11/12 Singapore 139964, attention to PHOTOi.

To support all our readers who are out there shooting up a storm each month for the readers galleria section, PHOTOi with the kind support of THE CAMERA WORKSHOP at 3 Coleman Street, #01-31, Peninsula Hotel Shopping Centre, Singapore, are giving away the latest SAFROTTO backpack camera bag worth $240.00 each month to the photographer whose work makes the grade for Readers Galleria, so keep those submissions rolling in.

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Some recent winners

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The Best Photographer in Singapore

The Winners in the final round of the

PHOTOi Best Photographer in Singapore competition 2004 Theme Reflections

1st

2nd

Foo Tseh Seng

Jayne Tan

A nice fly on the wall approach to photography.

4th

Warabrook was taken beside a train as passengers were alighting at Warabrook Station in Australia, well seen, well-captured and a very interesting photograph.

Lee Hin Mun

Soft and moody with just the right amount of colour well done.

3rd

Julian Li

Ha this photo rocks because you want to look closer into it.

4th

Felimon Sanchez

Funny, quirky but very well executed.

The Grand Prize Nikon D70 The overall points standing for round eleven of the top 15 placegetters. Total plus 20 for the top 15 entries.

Names

Overall Scores

Foo Tseh Seng Jayne Tan Julian Li Lee Hin Mun Felimon Sanchez Marc Aviles Damien Heng David Ng Stefan Gisin Hui Man Yan Tan Kwang Meng Liew Tong Leng Sahari Sariman Chen Zhizhong Bee Lim

98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 87 86 84 82 81

The Grand Prize, for the Best Photographer in Singapore Competition is the Nikon D70, kindly sponsored by Nikon Singapore Pte. Ltd. Other prizes kindly sponsored by Cathay Photo Store (PTE) LTD

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The Final overall points standing after Eleven Rounds of the PHOTOi Best Photographer in Singapore competition 2004.

The overall score sheet Rank

Names

Overall Scores

1st

Mark Aviles

1434

2nd

Hui Man Yan

1182

3rd

Lee Hin Mun

1061

4th

Sahari Sariman

678

5th

Felimon Sanchez

676

6th

Ivan Yeo

626

7th

Liew Tong Leng

611

8th

Woong Huat Hui

549

9th

Stefan Gisin

548

10th

Julian Li

527

11th

David Ng

468

12th

Santiago D. Luib

467

13th

Wu Swee Ong

424

14th

Wong Chek Poh

404

15th

Kenneth Leong

390

16th

Maniya Ongpauco

355

17th

Li Shi Wei

346

18th

Jericho Jensen

262

19th

George Hitchins

226

20th

Tan Wee Sim

225

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Roy Sim

209

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Quek Chiau Liong

209

23th

Joshua Chai

200

24th

Chng Peng Eik

193

25th

Lim Choon Thin

188

26th

Lionel Lin

187

27th

Chau Feng Hao

175

28th

Koh Kok Peng

174

If you want to view the best 10 entrants overall and see your own overall points total please check for them on the www.photoi.com.sg web site. Please check the website to also update yourself on the rules and regulations. The Points system explained. 1: All registered entrant s gain for themselves 20 points by simply entering in each theme competition regardless of the number of prints/images entered. 2: Only entries scoring over 80% will be awarded points. 3: Each entry judged suitable for the top 10 will be awarded points individually which are then accumulated to that entrants overall score. 4: All points are then accumulated over the entire 11 themes for the grand prize. 5: Points can be awarded for such topics as the use of colour, impact, theme relevance and content. 6: The judging is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Send all entries to editor@photoi.com.sg or mail your prints to Hardware Zone Pte Ltd 20, Ayer Rajah Crescent, #09-04/05/11/12 Singapore 139964, attention to PHOTOi.

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Master of their Craft

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Lets get creative with PhotoShop Elements 3.0 Printing a combined photo package

To many of us our inkjet printer just prints images out in one or two sizes, either A4 or A5 (half an A4). But when used in conjunction with an image management / manipulation program like PhotoShop Elements 3.0 you can print your images out in many different options. If you are a Windows user then this picture package under the heading of Creativity extends to many other components including calendars, books and photo albums. For Mac users we have to be contented with only a couple of options.

In Photoshop Elements 3.0 for Mac we can choose to print single or multiple copies of an image on a page or print multiple copies of several images on the same page when using a template. There are templates with options for two 5 x7 images on a page all the way up to twenty 2 x2 images. Each image can be the one you have already worked on or you can modify the template to handle multiple images. This is a much better option than constructing a new document and positioning the images on a page manually. Step one

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Decide which photos you want to include on the page then under file go all the way down to Picture Package.

To add other pictures to the layout you have chosen, simply click on the box where you want them to go and source the images from your files. Step six Editing the template is just as easy, should you decide not to use the supplied template just select the Edit Layout button (lower right) and then by selecting each box you can construct your own template, with say extra space between images or different combinations.

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a: Choose the source file (if you have one opened already PSE will select the top most image) then b: choose the layout options. Make sure you have the right resolution. a:

Decide here if you want to add content in the form of File Names, Copyright, Descriptions and Credits etc. This content is found on your orginal document under file>fileinfo.

Step seven Select file>print with preview and print in your usual manner, making sure that you select the correct media and colour management options.

Step five The next step is very simple - select OK then PSE will start to build your template as a Photoshop document.

Points to note: if you crop the image before selecting it to be included in the picture package then it may not fit in the way you want it to go, if printing multiple images on one page organise them first into a work folder.

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Special Features

That s right - not a single CPU processor plugged in anywhere Don t need it - for the EPSON Stylus Photo RX630 is your own personal mini-photo lab. Standing proud and alone on any desktop it will perform superbly as your own personal in-house creative team. The software contained within that encompasses the amazing EPSON Print Image Matching II Technology works either automatically behind the scenes or can be fully controllable, as it scans multiple images, or negatives, resizes them, crops, straightens, corrects the colour and then outputs them, all without being connected to a PC or Mac.

don t have to be connected. You can simply scan your negatives or slides directly to any of the seven types of memory cards recognised or output them speedily as BorderFree photo prints up to A4 in size using Epson s next generation long lasting HQ3 dye inks, which are both water, ozone and light resistant. With its six-colour ink set and built-in TPU the EPSON Stylus Photo RX630 is the world s first MFP capable of producing prints directly from film without a PC. Other PC-free options include direct printing using an optional Bluetooth pack for remote printing from compatible cameras and mobile phones.

Copying of 2 x 4R photo into 2 x 4R photo

PC-less Color restoration for both photo and film Handling the onboard colour is EPSON s new colour restoration technology Easy Photo Fix that can now restore Black and White films or photos to their former glory. Dust removal and grain reduction are standard with this very innovative and intuitive software. The super high 5760 x1440 optimised dpi print quality is available through EPSON s use of six individual colour photo inks working on EPSON Micro Piezo Print Heads. It offers innovative variable sized droplets technology for high speed, high quality, grain free images. The RX630 works very well as a high end photo printer offering great colour reproduction and wide colour gamut printing.

New! Photo proof printing

PC-less film scanning and printing

High end negative scanning on any flat bed scanner or MFP is a real bonus these days as many photographers are digitising their old stock film images. The EPSON Stylus Photo RX630 offers a built-in Transparency Unit (TPU) facility that handles both 35mm negatives and slides. A high definition 2400x4800dpi matrix CCD 48bit colour depth scanner allows for PC-free scanning. That s right! You

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Taking the innovative Auto Skew function to its logical next phase the EPSON Stylus Photo RX630 is again the worlds first MFP capable of producing prints from two different 4R scans at the same time. The in-built EPSON Auto Skew function quickly processes each scan as an individual image, allowing you to output them as two new pictures instead of having to scan one at a time. This is only the start: Scan in a 4R and select a one-to-one sized 4R copy or an enlargement copy that can be easily printed out as a new A4 glossy print.

Extending the plug and play capabilities of the new EPSON Stylus Photo RX630, users can now index or catalogue the entire contents of their memory cards as photo collections and print out up to 80 high quality thumbnails on a single A4. Think of the EPSON Stylus Photo RX630 as the grand central station for your home or office digital workflow. You can plug in a memory card or attach a USB enabled camera, scan in either negatives or prints and output them all quickly and effortlessly on border free high quality A4 prints or simply pass them onto other USB storage devices, all without being tethered to a PC.

Photo Society DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2005

Closing Date: 30th of each month. Organised By: PHOTOi and NIKON Entry Forms and Rules: www.photoi.org/contest Subject: A series of monthly themes where prizes and points are awarded each month. The photographer with the most points at the end of the competition wins the title of Digital Photographer of the year 2005. Open to: All except those working or residing in Europe, North America and South America. Prizes: Grand Prizes: 1st prize- latest top of the line Nikon Professional DSLR with AFS1870mm lens. 2nd prize D2H DSLR the AFS 18-70mm lens. 3rd prize D70 DSLR with AFS18-70mm lens. Plus monthly prizes of Nikon Coolpix cameras.

7TH SAFRA PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Closing Date: 31 December 2004. (Submit entries after 15 December) Organised By: SAFRA Photographic Club Entry Forms and Rules: www.safra.org.sg Subject: Eight Themes: *Architecture *Culture & Tradition *Digital Imaging *Macro & Closeup *Nature *Night Scene *People *Sports. Open to: All citizens and PR s of Singapore. Prizes: Champion: $1,000 cash voucher, Nikon D2H DSLR camera, Epson Stylus Photo RX510 printer and a Challenge trophy. Plus five Merit Awards of $200 cash voucher and Nikon Coolpix 4200 and five consolation prizes of $200 cash voucher and Epson Stylus CX 3100 printer.

eXpansys USER PHOTO COMPETITION

Closing Date: weekly. Organised By: eXpansys Entry Forms and Rules: www.expansys.com.sg/photos.asp?code =NONE Subject: Upload pictures of you or your friends using products available from eXpansys, or pictures taken with the products. All contributors will be entered into a weekly hardware prize draw. Open to: All photographers. Prizes: a weekly prize of 150.

CAPTURE THEM! 4TH SEC-WE PHOTO CONTEST

Closing Date: 30 December 2004. Organised By: Singapore Environment Council and World Environment Magazine. Entry Forms and Rules: www.aboutwe.com Subject: Wildlife habitat in Asia. It is clear that the survival of many wildlife species is closely tied to the existence of unused or undisturbed spaces. This is an opportunity to celebrate wildlife in wetlands, marine and land habitats to remind others about the delightful role they play in our environment. Open to: All photographers worldwide. Two categories: Professional and Amateur. Prizes: Professional 1st Prize: S$1000. 2nd Prize: S$800. 3rd Prize: S$600. Amateur 1st Prize: S$500. 2nd Prize: S$400. 3rd Prize: S$300.

TO SINGAPORE WITH LOVE PHOTO PROJECT

Closing Date: 30 November 2004 and 20 February 2005. Organised By: Mr Kwek Leng Joo, Managing Director of City Developments Ltd. Supported By: MICA, NAC, SPH, The Photographic Society of Singapore, Singapore Colour Photographic Society, PhotoArt Association of Singapore, SAFRA Photography Club and Boon Lay CC Photography Club. Entry Forms and Rules: www.tswl.org.sg/ Subject: Be part of a photo project in celebration of Singapore s 40th Birthday in 2005. Submit images for any or all of the three categories: 1. Love for Nature landscape, elements of Nature, human interaction with Nature. 2. Love for Arts & Culture Places or activities pertaining to performing and visual arts. 3. Love for the People People of all races, professions and ages. Unique Singaporean hobbies, lifestyle and hangouts. In line with the theme, images should illustrate sentiments of warmth and possess a personal touch. Open to: All Singapore citizens, PR s, ST, EP/WP holders residing in Singapore. Prizes: Selected images will be published in a memorable pictorial book entitled To Singapore with Love which will be distributed both locally and abroad.

48TH ANNUAL WORLD PRESS PHOTO CONTEST

Closing Date: 13 January 2005. Organised By: World Press Photo Entry Forms and Rules: www.worldpressphoto.nl/contest/new/ind ex.jsp Subject: Photographs taken during the year 2004 and intended for publication. Single pictures and stories or portfolios can be entered in the following categories: *Spot News *General News *People in the

News *Sports Action *Sports Feature *Contemporary Issues *Daily Life *Portraits *Arts and Entertainment *Nature. Open to: Press Photographers and Photojournalists throughout the world. Prizes: Winning images will appear in the World Press Photo Yearbook and Exhibition. World Press Photo of the Year 2004 Award winner will receive a cash prize of EUR 10,000 and an invitation to Amsterdam to attend the Awards Ceremony in April 2005 (including one return air fare and hotel accommodation) and the latest Canon professional digital camera. Top winners in each category will receive a Golden Eye Award, a cash prize of EUR 1,500 and an invitation to Amsterdam to attend the Awards Ceremony in April 2005 (including one return air fare and hotel accommodation).

SHOOT FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

Closing Date: 31 December Organised By: Singapore Polytechnic Language and Communications Dept. Entry Forms and Rules: www.sp.edu.sg/departments/lc/french/ind ex.htm Subject: French influences in Singapore. Open to: All Singapore Polytechnic students and staff. Prizes: 1st prize: PD7x with 40GB hard drive (worth $400). 2nd prize: $100 cash and $100 Eastgear voucher. 3rd prize: $100 cash.

Workshop and Courses THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY - COURSES

MICA Building, 140 Hill Street #01-02.

Basic Practical Photography

Commencing: 13 December Hours: Mondays 7.30pm 9.30pm. Featuring: 8 Lessons / 2 hours per class Course Fee: $180

Outdoor Portraiture Course

Commencing: 16 December Hours First theory lesson on Thu 7.30pm - 10pm. Subsequent lessons on Sundays 8.30am 11am Featuring: 7 lessons/2.5 hours each Course Fee: $240

Nature Macro Photography Course

Commencing: 9 December Hours: First theory lesson on Wed 7.30pm 10pm. Subsequent lessons on Sundays 8.30am - 11am Featuring: 7 lessons/2.5 hours each Course Fee: $240 ENQUIRIES FOR ALL TPG COURSES: Tel: 68373886. Email: info@tpgallery.com.sg

OBJECTIFS CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM MAKING PHOTOGRAPHIC COURSES: 12A Liang Seah Street A Personal Photo Project: A PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP BY CHIEN-CHI CHANG When: April 14 17, 2005 Featuring: A four-day workshop with ChienChi Chang, renowned Taiwanese photographer and member of Magnum Photos. Learn to find story ideas, develop personal visions and create images that communicate with emotional resonance. Only 12 students will be selected for this workshop. Each participant will work on a project in 35mm B+W film during the workshop. To Apply: submit a portfolio of images and a written statement before January 31. 2005. Course Fee: $800 plus Lab/Material Fees $150. Enquiries for all Objectifs courses: email info@objectifs.com.sg or phone 6339 3068

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SINGAPORE COURSES:

30 Selegie Road, Selegie Arts Centre Building.

Admission: Free Enquiries: Tel 6736 4986.

Commencing: 21 December Hours: 7.30 9.30pm. Featuring: 5 sessions Course Fee: $120 member / $220 nonmember.

When: 1 November 31 December 2004 Hours: Monday 1pm 7pm, Tuesday to Sunday 9am-7pm. Where: Singapore History Museum, 30 Merchant Road, #03-09/17, Riverside Point. Featuring: In conjunction with International Friendship Day, the Singapore History Museum sent eight young Singaporeans to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during the June holidays. There were no five-star hotels, no fast food, and no aircon cars. No life? Far from it, as you will see from their pictures and stories. They stayed with local families, slept in a backpacker s hostel, an orphanage and even in a school hall under mosquito nets. Besides documenting their experience, they brought home a little of the local language and culture, along with their fond memories and stories. Admission: $3 Adults, $1.50 students and senior citizens. Free entry on Fridays from 7pm-9pm. Enquiries: Tel 6332 3659

THE CAMBODIA EXPERIENCE

Wedding Photography

Black and White Printing Photography

Commencing: 7 December Hours: 7.30 9.30pm. Featuring: 4 sessions / 2 hours per class Course Fee: $150 member / $250 nonmember.

Flashlight Photography

Commencing: 10 December Hours: 7.30 9.30pm. Featuring: 4 sessions Course Fee: $160 member / $260 nonmember.

Digital Darkroom

Commencing: 7 December Hours: 7.30pm 9.30pm. Featuring: 6 sessions Course Fee: $200 member / $300 nonmember.

ONE ROOM FLAT

When: 21 December 2004 4 January 2005 Where: Tampines Regional Library Featuring: An intimate look at the lives of elderly one-room flat dwellers in Singapore. A selection of Black and White and Colour images taken by Lianhe Zaobao photographer Bob Lee and Chief Photographer Lee Tiah Khee who ventured into the homes and lives of some elderly one room flat dwellers in Hougang 3 to capture these thought provoking images. Admission: Free

Nature Photography

Commencing: 9 December Hours: 7.30pm 9.30pm. Featuring: 8 sessions Course Fee: $160 member / $260 nonmember. Enquiries for all PSS courses: email pss1950@singnet.com.sg or phone 6334 3361.

NATURE @ WORK WEEKEND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

THE ADVENTURES OF ELLA AND ZUL

When: 11 December 2004 4 January 2005 Where: The Arts House Featuring: A series of photographs by Tan Ngiap Heng depicting two stuffed toys, Ella the Ellephant and Zul the Zebra and their adventures in distant lands and local places of interest. A photographic exhibition cum auction to create awareness and raise funds for the Rainbow Center, a school for children with special needs. As Barang Barang no longer stock this line of toys, the artist is seeking any owners of this range of toys that would be kind enough to loan them to the Art House for a physical display to run during the exhibition. Admission: Free Enquiries: christine@thepond.com.sg

The workshops are designed for photographers with SLR or digital cameras who want to sharpen their skill and vision. Personalized and practical weekend outdoor workshops, conducted in a small group. Workshop leader, John Arifin Msc.ARPS. Basic Photography: 4,5,6 December Intermediate Photography: 11,12,13 December Photographing Fungi and Wildflower of Singapore: A few days after heavy rain in December. Venue: 5 minutes walk from Somerset MRT (Orchard Road). Workshop Fees: $240 or $210 for 3 sessions, a total of 12 hours. (Register early and enjoy early bird discount.) Enquiries: www.natureatwork.net or by phone: 6235 0021 for latest workshop schedule.

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS

When: 12 November 4 December Where: Front Room Gallery, Orita.Sinclair, 13A Pahang Street. Featuring: 36 prints by three contemporary American multimedia artists Christine Dolinich a great adventurer of photographic potential, Donald Lokuta whose world is double captured and Victor Macarol who explores cities in a different way. This event marks the beginning of the INSERTS project that will run a series of photography exhibitions. Admission: Free Enquiries: info@frontroom.com.sg

PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES BY FRANCIS LEE

Press Photographer, Francis Lee conducts photography courses at various community clubs in the East. Foundation Photography: Course comprises of 10 sessions with 2 field trips. Course Fee: $100 per participant BASIC STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY: Course comprises of 2 sessions (Sat/Sun) for 3 hours. Limited to 6 participants. Course Fee: $150 per participant Enquires: Francis Lee at 947 96311 or email huhututu@hotmail.com

CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Hours: Tuesdays 7.00pm 10.00pm or Saturdays 2.00pm 5.00pm Where: Block 43 Studio Gallery, Work Loft Spaces, Chip Bee Gardens, #03-80, Jalan Merah Saga, Holland Village. Featuring: 8 week course / 3 hours per week Course Fee: $400 Enquires: Tel 647 11359 or Hp 9684 8215 or email studio@block43.com or www.block43.com

PHOTOi PRESENTS PICTURE THIS FUN AT McDONALD S

Event Date: 5 December 2004. Organised By: PHOTOi Registration Forms and Rules: www.photoi.org Subject: Come along to West Coast McDonalds on Sunday December 5 and snap pictures that show Fun At McDonalds . All entries must contain the McDonalds logo somewhere in the picture. Pick your best picture, upload it at the PHOTOi counter in the McDonalds function room and collect a desert voucher. Open to: all who register as a PHOTOi.org member.

Conventional Basic Photography

Commencing: 13 December Hours: 7.30 9.30pm. Featuring: 12 sessions Course Fee: $144 member / $244 nonmember.

Glamour and Nude Photography

Commencing: 14 December Hours: 7.30 9.30pm. Featuring: 3 sessions Course Fee: $200 member / $300 nonmember.

Digital Basic Photography

Commencing: 22 December Hours: 7.30 9.30pm. Featuring: 12 sessions Course Fee: $144 member / $244 nonmember.

Travel and Creative Photography

Commencing: 7 December Hours: 9.30pm 11.30am. Featuring: 7 sessions Course Fee: $120 member / $220 nonmember.

Fashion Photography

Commencing: 5 December Hours: 9.30 11.30am.

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Featuring: 6 sessions Course Fee: $150 member / $250 nonmember.

Exhibitions ARCHIPELAGO

When: 19 November 16 December 2004 Hours: 12 p.m. - 7 pm daily. Closed on Tuesdays and Sundays. Where: The Photographers Gallery at MICA, 140 Hill Street, #01-02. Featuring: The photographic works of Gregorius and Theresia Suharsono, which depict the beauty of Indonesia through their eyes. Admission: Free Enquiries: Tel 68373886, info@tpgallery.com.sg

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FACES OF FAME A PERSPECTIVE BY GREG GORMAN

When: 18 November end of December 2004 Hours: 11am 9pm daily. Where: epSITE, Epson Imaging Gallery, Level Three, Wheelock Place, Orchard Road. Featuring: Experience the exciting world of Hollywood through American Photographer, Greg Gorman s artistic lens. One of Gorman s strengths has been photographing motion picture and music personalities in many unique portrait styles.

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1st Choice Colour Centre, .....................Blk 418 Yishun Ave 11 #01-397 ACC Color Centre Pte Ltd, ..................Blk 683 Hougang Ave 8 #01-915 Asia Pacific Colour, .......................Blk 728 Ang Mo Kio Ave 6 #01-4228 Candid Photo, .............................................Hougang Point St.91 #01-K8 Digital Universe Pte Ltd, .................Blk 548 Woodlands Drive 44 #02-09 Express Photo Services, .......................Blk 41 Cambridge Road #01-24 Photopress, ........................................................Causeway Point #B1-39 Standard Photo Pte Ltd.......................................Causeway Point #01-13 Standard Photo Pte Ltd, .......................................Compass Point #B1-21 Standard Photo Pte Ltd,...............................................Junction 8 #B1-03 CENTRAL

35MM Colour Lab Pte Ltd, .......................Second Ave Junction #01-06 Beautiful Memories Pte Ltd, ..............................Stamford House #01-02 Colour Junction, .................................Tanglin Shopping Centre #01-11 Colourlab Photofinishing, .........................................The Adelphi #01-04 Ee Ming Photo Co, .........................................International Plaza #01-07 Fancy Photo, .........................................Bukit Timah Plaza #01-K32 Kim Tian Colour Centre, ...............................Hong Lim Complex #01-06 Konota Department Store, .................................Peninsula Plaza #01-26 LC Plaza Photo Store,....................................................City Plaza #01-48 Mach Photo,.................................Blk 87 Marine Parade Central #01-501 Meidi-Ya Photo & Camera Department, ......Liang Court, Basement 1 Photo Finish, ......................................................Funan The IT Mall #01-K7 Professional Art Colour Centre, ..........Blk 22 Havelock Rd #01-685 Shalom Colorlab, .......................................Bras Basah Complex #01-27 Soo Kee, ............................................................Blk 166 Bukit Merah Central Soo Kee, ................................................................Clifford Centre #01-02 Soo Kee, ..................................................................Far East Plaza #03-64 Soo Kee, ..............................................Far East Shopping Centre #01-18 Soo Kee, ............................................................Suntec City Mall #01-177A Triple D Minilab Centre, ............................ Burlington Square #01-07 EAST

1st Image Colour Centre & Trading, .......Blk 198 Punggol Field #02-04 Chop Lian Moh Colour Service, Blk 57A New Upper Changi Rd #01-1384 Digipro Imaging, .......................................Blk 58 Marine Terrace #01-45 Digital Advance Imaging Pte Ltd, .............Blk 440 Pasir Ris Dr.4 #01-17 Friendly Color Centre, ........................Blk 828A Tampines St. 81#01-156 Photo Finish, ...........................................................Tampines Mall #B1-24 Sincere Photo Studio, .......................Blk 201A Tampines St. 21 #01-1059 Standard Photo Pte Ltd, .........................................White Sands #B1-04/05 T&L Photo Service, ..........................................Blk 248 Simei St. 3 #01-126 WEST

A1 Best Digital Imaging Centre, ........Blk 501 Jurong West St. 51#01-261 Astro Imaging Centre Pte Ltd, ..................Lakeside MRT Station #01-02 Candid Photo, ..............................................Lot 1 Shoppers Mall #B1-08 D Classique Colour Centre & Trading, ...............Blk 624 Choa Chu Kang St. 62 #01-244 Grace Optical & Contact Lens Centre,Blk 105 Clementi Street 12 #01-04 Hui Yi Collection & Colour Lab,........Blk 280 Bukit Batok Ave 3 #01-327 I Photo Studio, ...................................Blk 399 Yung Sheng Road #01-57 Impress Color Centre, .....................Blk 960 Jurong West St. 92 #01-180 Mach Photo, ..............................................................Jurong Point #B1-29 Miao Laan Colour Centre, ................Blk 154 Bukit Batok St. 11 #01-302 Paradise Colour Centre, .................Gek Poh Shopping Centre #01-318 Photo Bugs, ...............................Blk 253 Jurong East St. 24 Ave 1 #01-217 Photopress, .................................................Blk 57 Dawson Place, #01-08 Standard Photo Pte Ltd,...................................Tiong Bahru Plaza #B1-04 Teck Whye Color Centre, ...................Blk 144 Teck Whye Lane #01-213 Zoom Elite, ..........................................Blk 492 Jurong West St. 41 #01-30 Zoom Photo, .................................Greenridge Shopping Centre #03-08

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AMK Colour Centre Pte Ltd, ......................................HDB Centre #01-30 AMK Colour Centre Pte Ltd, .......Blk 253 Serangoon Central Drive #01-241 AV Colour Lab, ................................Blk 683 Hougang Avenue 8 #01-941 CitiPhoto, ......................................................Blk 101 Yishun Ave 5 #01-73 Color Zone Photo Finishing, ......................Blk 292 Yishun St. 22 #01-263 CPL Foto Services Pte Ltd, ...........Blk 152 Serangoon North Ave 1 #01-336 CPL Foto Services Pte Ltd, ..............Blk 180 Toa Payoh Central #01-576 CZ Colour Lab, ...............................................................Sun Plaza #B1-19 Ed's Copying Lamination, .....................Blk 208 Hougang St. 21 #01-201 Exquisite Colour Centre, ............................NTUC Hougang Mall #B1-04 Exquisite Colour Centre, ....................................Revenue House #02-04 Focus Photo Enterprise, ....................Blk 166 Woodlands St. 13 #01-543 Lively Color Centre , ....................Blk 532 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 #01-2459 Paintbrush Colour Centre, .................Blk 303 Woodlands St. 31#01-203 Photo Finish, .................................................Blk 513 Bishan St. 13 #01-504 Photo Finish, .................................................Causeway Point #B1-27/30 Photo Finish, .........................................................Hougang Point #02-07 Photo Finish, ..................................Northpoint Shopping Centre #B1-14 Photo Finish, ........................................................Novena Square #01-32 Photo Finish, ................................................................Shaw Plaza #01-09 Photo Finish, .....................................................United Square #B1-41/52 PP Color Service, ...............................................Sin Ming Tower 1 #01-09 Printstar Photo Specialists Pte Ltd, ..............Khatib MRT Station #01-01 Top 28 Photo Colour Centre, .........Blk 447 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 #01-1681 Whampoa Color Centre, ................................................272 Balestier Rd Silver Photo Studio & Wedding Gowns, .......Blk 181 Ang Mo Kio Ave 5 .......................................................................................................#01-2932 Spot Color, ............................................................Thomson Plaza #01-11

Fotohub.com Pte Ltd, ....................................Suntec City Mall #02-050 Good Eastmen Photo Finishing, .........................Orchard Plaza #01-39 Ideamark,................................................Golden Mile Complex #01-46 Instant Digital Services, ..........................................OUB Building #01-00 King's Express, ....................................................Sim Lim Square #01-33 Kingsley Colour Centre, .................................Fook Hai Building #01-08 KJ Colourlab, ..........................................................................8 Sixth Ave Max Photo Pte Ltd, ............................................................72 Pagoda St. MS Photo King, ................146 Market St, Multi-Storey Carpark #01-15 Photo Finish, .........................................................Bugis Junction #B1-16 Photo Finish, .............................................................Centrepoint #B1-13 Photo Finish, ...................................................................City Link #B1-67 Photo Finish, .............................................Forum Shopping Mall #B1-22 Photo Finish, ........................................................Ngee Ann City #B2-01 Photo Friend, ...................................................Peninsula Plaza #01-46A Photo Genie, ...................................................Great World City #B1-13 PP Digital Imaging, ..............................................Far East Plaza #03-69 Printstar Photo Specialists Pte Ltd, .....................Capital Tower #01-03 Rich Photo Gallery, ..................................Tanjong Pagar Plaza #01-36 Spot Color, ..............................................Little India MRT Station #B1-02 Spot Color, ........................................................Plaza Singapura #B2-12 That's Photo, ..................................................Midpoint Orchard #01-03 True Colors Photo & Services, ......................... .The Concourse #01-40 EAST

3 Up Photo, ...........................................................Rivervale Mall #01-13 88 Fastspeed Photo Svc, ................................Blk 301 Ubi Ave 1#01-235 Apex Photo, .............................................Blk 735 Pasir Ris St. 72 #01-312 Bedok Photo Studio, ...........................Blk 89 Bedok North St. 4 #01-101 Boon & Co Pte Ltd, ....................Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2 Exquisite Colour Centre, ........................8 Tampines Central 1 #01-02 Foto Imperial, ..................................Blk 148 Potong Pasir Ave 1 #01-65 Foto Station, .............................................Blk 58 Marine Terrace #01-57 New Hua Pin Color Centre, ....................Blk 632 Bedok Reservoir Rd #01-874 Outstanding Color Centre, ................Blk 201C Tampines St. 21#01-17 Photo Finish, .................Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 1#B1-43B Photo Finish, .......................................................Compass Point #B1-32 Photo Finish, ............................................DBS Tampines Centre #01-05 Photo Finish, ........................................Siglap Shopping Centre #01-13 Photo Finish, ..................................................Tampines Mart #01-11/12 PicturePerfect Digital Lab, ..........................................East Point #01-10 Plus One Colour Centre, ............Blk 741 Bedok Reservoir Rd #01-3079 Printstar Photo Specialists Pte Ltd, .....................Tampines Mall #B1-31 Sin Soonly Photo Express Trading, ...Blk 95 Aljunied Crescent #01-493 Siren Photos, ..........................................Blk 68 Geylang Bahru #01-3217 Teng Fei Color Centre, .................Blk 208 New Upper Changi Rd #01-659 WEST

1st Lot Express, ...........................................Lot 1 Shopper's Mall #B1-06 3TK Smart Color, .....................................Blk 18 Jalan Membina #02-06 ABS Photo Centre, ..........................Blk 501 Jurong West St. 51 #01-265 ACC Colour Centre Pte Ltd,..................Blk 826 Tampines St. 81 #01-80 Brilliant Color Centre & Trading, .................Blk 78 Redhill Lane #01-07 Charming Colour Photo Lab, Taman Jurong Shopping Centre #01-09 Choice Photo & Gifts, ..................Blk 283 Bukit Batok East Ave 3 #01-275 Colour Collections, ..................Blk 253 Chua Chu Kang Ave 1 #B1-18 Double One Colour Centre, ..Blk 442A Clementi Town Centre #01-47 Double One Colour Centre, ........................Blk 328 Clementi Ave 2 #01-208 Filmmen, ......................................Blk 164 Bukit Merah Central #01-3629 GS Studio & Photo Lab, ...................Blk 491 Jurong West Ave1 #01-159 Hui Yi Collection & Colour Lab, ....Gek Poh Shopping Centre #01-268 Ideamark, .................................Singapore Polytechnic FC5 Co-operative KC Ginza Lab & Studio, ...........................................Ginza Plaza #01-58 Le Bans (S) Pte Ltd, ..............................Bukit Batok MRT Station #01-07 Nets Imaging Pte Ltd, ............................................Ikea Building #01-05 Photo Finish, ............................................................Anchorpoint #01-09 Photo Finish, ..........................................Bukit Panjang Plaza #01-01/02 Photo Finish, .................................................Cold Storage Jelita #G-07 Photo Finish, .....................................Holland Shopping Centre #01-05 Photo Finish, .........................................................IMM Building #01-100 Photo Finish, ......................................................King Albert Park #01-06 Photo Finish, ............................................................Jurong Point #B1-27 Photo Finish, .................................................Tiong Bahru Plaza #B1-01/02 Photo Genie, .............................................Harbourfront Centre #02-114 Photo Hut, ...............................................Blk 109 Clementi St. 11 #01-09 Premium Image, ..........................................The Village Centre #03-09 Siren Colour Lab, ............................Blk 961 Jurong West St. 91 #01-204 Speed Graphic Colour Lab, ............Blk 253 Jurong East St 24 #01-225 Style Photo, .....................................................2 Pandan Valley #01-207 Tong Heng Color Lab & Mini-Mart, Blk 46-3 Commonwealth Drive ..............................................................................................#01-398 Vivid Photo Productions Centre, ................Blk 18 Toh Yi Drive #01-111

Konica Photo Express Chinatown Colour Centre, ....................People's Park Centre #01-05 Foto Fast Digital Centre Pte Ltd, ...........................Midlink Plaza #01-10 Good View Photo Studio, ...............Blk 106 Jalan Bukit Merah #01-1870 GP2 Colour Lab, ....................................Blk 63B Lengkok Bahru #01-360 GP2 Colour Lab, ..................................................Tampines Mart #01-21 Kim Sheng Photo Express, ..................Thomson Imperial Court #B1-02 Kirei Colour Centre, ..................Blk 25 New Upper Changi Rd #01-624 Mega Fotofinish Digital Zone, ..............Crosby House #01-00 M.S. Colour, ............................................Blk 102 Yishun Ring Rd #01-129 Zest Photo & Trading, ...........................................Eastpoint Mall #01-04 Zodiac Color Finishing, .....................Blk 305 Woodlands St. 31 #01-79

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Albert Photo, .......................................................Orchard Towers #01-16 AMK Colour Centre Pte Ltd, ........................................Valley Point #0-13 Best Photocopy Photo Lab Service, ...............Coronation Plaza #02-41 Cherry Colour Lab Pte Ltd, .....................................Shaw Centre #03-16 Class Photo, ............................................................Apollo Centre #01-01 Colour Junction, ........................................................Tanglin Mall #B1-05 Fotohub.com Pte Ltd, ..............................................OUB Centre #03-01

Anderson Junior College,................................4500 Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 Anglican High Photographic Society,.................600 Upper Changi Rd Anglo-Chinese Junior College Photographic Society,25 Dover Close East Catholic Junior College,...................................................129 Whitley Rd Contax Club Singapore, ....66 Tannery Lane #04-01 Sindo Industrial Bldg Chua Chu Kang Primary School, ...............20 Chua Chu Kang Ave 2 Damai Secondary School,...............................4800 Bedok Reservior Rd Hai Sing Catholic School,....................................9 Pasir Ris Drive 6

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Hwa Chong Junior College Photographic Society,....661 Bukit Timah Rd ITE Bukit Batok Photographic Club..............................20 Bukit Batok St.21 ITE Dover Photographic Club..................................................20 Dover Drive ITE Yishun Photographic Club............................................20 Yishun Ave 9 Konica Photographic Club, ....................Haw Par Technocentre #01-04 Objectifs-Centre for Photography and Filmmaking,..12A Liang Seah St. LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, ....................................90 Goodman Rd National Junior College Photographic Society,..................37 Hillcrest Rd Nature Photographic Society (Singapore), ..........................1 Preston Rd Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (HQ / Visual Arts), ......80 Bencoolen St. Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Performing Arts), ....151 Bencoolen St. Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Fashion Studies), .....38 Bencoolen St. Nanyang Junior College Photographic Society, 128 Serangoon Ave 3 Nanyang Polytechnic, School of Design, ............180 Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 NTU Photo-Videographic Society, Students Affair Office, Nanyang Ave NUS Photographic Society, .............Yusof Ishak House, 31 Kent Ridge Rd Raffles Junior College, ..................................................53 Mount Sinai Rd Republic Polytechnic, .............................Tanglin Campus 1 Kay Siang Rd SAFRA Photographic Club, ...................................5200 Jalan Bukit Merah Singapore Polytechnic Photographers, ..............................500 Dover Rd St Andrew s Junior College Photographic Society, ..............2 Malan Rd St Andrew s Secondary School, ...........................2 Geylang Bahru Lane Swiss Cottage Secondary School.................................3 Bukit Batok St.43 Tampines Junior College Photography Club, .........2 Tampines Ave9 Temasek Junior College Photography Society, .........22 Bedok South Rd Temasek Polytechnic, Visual Central, .......................21 Tampines Ave 1 The Photographic Society of Singapore,30 Selegie Rd Selegie Arts Centre The Photographers Gallery, ....................................MITA Building #01-02 Victoria School Photographic Society,..................................2 Siglap Link

Superstores CK Tangs,.................................................. Tangs Technobay Level 3 Courts (Singapore) Limited,............. Blk 730 Ang Mo Kio Ave 6 #01-4272 Courts (Singapore) Limited,................................. Causeway Point #04-31 Courts (Singapore) Limited,........................................Centrepoint #03-43 Courts (Singapore) Limited,.................................. Compass Point #03-26 Courts (Singapore) Limited,.......................... Funan The IT Mall #05-38/39 Courts (Singapore) Limited,.................................. Jurong Point #02-05/10 Courts (Singapore) Limited,.................................Parkway Parade #B1-84 Courts (Singapore) Limited,.........................Suntec City Mall #03-005/023 Courts (Singapore) Limited,.......................Tampines Mall #02-26/#03-25 Courts (Singapore) Limited,................................Tiong Bahru Plaza #03-19 Courts (Singapore) Limited,...................................... 460 Toa Payoh Lor 6 Courts (Singapore) Limited,........................... 205 Upper Bukit Timah Road Courts (Singapore) LImited,................................... White Sands #01-20/21

Cafe / Restaurant McCafe,.............................................................................Changi Airport T1 McCafe,..........................................................Great World City #01-25/26 McCafe,...............................................Marine Cove, East Coast Parkway McCafe,........................................................................Jurong Point #01-31 McCafe,..............................................................................Parkway Centre McCafe,...................................................(Terrace Plaza) Shaw House #B1 McCafe,..............................................................United Square #B1-11/12 McCafe,.............................................................................West Coast Park

Retailers / Others Alan Photo Trading, ................................................Sim Lim Square #01-38 Active Foto, .............................................................Sim Lim Square #02-77 Active Foto, .............................................................Sim Lim Square #04-74 BestCam Electronics Pte Ltd, .............................Funan The IT Mall #05-19 BestCam Photo Pte Ltd, ..........................................#01-41 Peninsula Plaza Camera Hospital,.....................................................Sunshine Plaza #01-67 Cathay Photo Store (Pte) Ltd, ..........................Peninsula Plaza #01-11/14 Cathay Photo Store (Pte) Ltd, ...............................Marina Square #02-219 Chan Brothers Travel Pte Ltd, .............................Fook Hai Building #07-01 Charlie Lim Photography, .....................Blk 2 Alexandra Distripark #03-09 Convergent Systems (S) Pte Ltd, ...........................Sim Lim Square #06-12 Divemasters Pratama Pte Ltd,....................Tan Boon Liat Building #09-07 EastGear.com, .......................................................Peninsula Plaza #02-02 Elais Mart, ................................................................Sim Lim Square #01-09 Francis Studio Classic, ......................Peninsula Shopping Centre #01-20 George Photo,........................................Blk1 Changi Village Rd #01-2000 Hasselblad Customer Service Centre, 11 Chang Charn Rd #06-01 Shriro House Hotprint Pte Ltd, ............................................China Square Centre #01-38 In House Studio Professional Photo Service, ............................30 Bali Lane Jason Photo Studio, ...........................................Blk19 Toh Yi Drive #01-123 John 3:16 Photo Supplies, ..................................Funan The IT Mall #03-37 Magnificient Snap,.................................................Marina Square #02-246 Memory World (S) Pte Ltd, .....................................Sim Lim Square #04-12 Memory World (S) Pte Ltd, .................................Funan The IT Mall #05-17 M S Color Service, .........................Blk 711 Ang Mo Kio Central #01-3501C NextByte, .........................................................Lucky Plaza #02-95 New Experience, ............................................Blk 80 Lorong Limau #02-195 NTUC Testing Services, .....................................International Plaza #34-14 Out of the Box Design & Photography,..................Millenia Walk #01-103 Parisilk Electronics & Computers Pte Ltd, 15A Lorong Liput ( Holland Village) Pic And Pixel Singapore Pte Ltd, .................Funan The IT Mall #04-12/13 Picture Me Digital Technology, ......................Suntec City Mall #03-47/49 Photo Wonder Colour Centre, .............................The Woodgrove #01-09 Pro-M Photo, ...........................................................Peninsula Plaza #02-62 Pro Photo,...............................................................Plaza Singapura #04-13 RGB Color Pte Ltd,...................................................Premier Centre #01-01 Ruby Photo,.........................................Peninsula Shopping Centre #01-01 Sinvision Pte Ltd,......................................................Sim Lim Square #05-06 SingPost Post Office-Bedok Central,...................Blk 218 Bedok North St.11 SingPost Post Office-Kent Ridge,.........................Yusof Ishak House (NUS) SingPost Post Office-Killiney Rd,...............................................1 Killiney Rd SingPost Post Office-Robinson Rd,.....................................71 Robinson Rd SingPost Post Office-Singapore Post Centre,......................10 Eunos Rd 8 Standard Photo Pte Ltd, ..........................................Millenia Walk #02-25B Tan Union Pte Ltd, ....................................People s Park Complex #02-111 The Camera Workshop,..........Peninsula Hotel Shopping Centre #01-31 The Reel Thing Pte Ltd,..........................................................71 Bussorah St. T.K.Fototechnic,...........................................................Shaw Towers #02-45 Wow Studio Pte Ltd,.....................................Tan Boon Liat Building #04-06

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