Outside Resources
Learnphoto.ca - View Photography Courses with Noel Chenier
CanonUSA posted a set of quick tips videos on YouTube. Each video lasts between 1 and 2 minutes. Enjoy!
Is Your Tripod Sturdy Enough? Let’s Test It
A good article on testing your tripod to see if it is suitable for your photography.
Monitor Calibration
The club has a Spyder monitor and screen calibrator that can be borrowed by club members. Please contact the Secretary to make arrangements.
The following are sites where you can get information about calibrating your monitor using the web and free utilities.
Photo Friday’s monitor calibration tool is a webpage which help you adjust the brightness and contrast of your screen.
DisplayCalibration.com is not a great looking site but it is more than a useful one. The site is not updated but you can use the online screen calibration tools placed in three pages ““ Brightness and Contrast, Color Depth, and Screen Resolution.
The Lagom LCD Monitor Test Pages The site includes a series of test images that start from checking contrast to checking for response times of your monitor. It is recommended to go through the tests in the order they are placed.
Online Monitor Test This website has a range of interactive tests to fix your screen colors.
DryCreekPhoto.com This site features a simple test to check to see if your monitor's black point is set correctly and to also find the minimum shadow level it can display.
w4zt.com This site features several quick checks that you can perform with the images provided. This includes colour, greyscale and gamma adjustments.
There is also good information at http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/index.html
You can find a free utility called "Calibrize" at How To Color Calibrate Your Monitor with Calibrize (Windows)
Anyone who knows of a valuable outside resource, please send the details to kvcc.wm@gmail.com.