Friday 6 September 2013

Maybank interbank fund transfer

There are at least two methods to do interbank transfer to CIMB (or other participating banks) using Maybank2u. IC number can be provided to Maybank2u to verify the recipient.

1) Method: Instant Interbank Transfer
    Charge: RM2 per transaction
    Duration: Instant ( literally only took second. By the time I login into CIMBclicks to check for the balance, the fund was already there.
 

2) Method: GIRO Interbank Fund Transfer (Interbank GIRO or IBG)
    Charge: 10sen (New Bank Negara Ruling)
    Duration: Only works on business days. Any transfer before noon will be completed on the same day (mine arrived at 7pm on the same day). After 12, the fund will be transferred on the next business day.
 

Wednesday 13 March 2013

Waxing Crescent Moon with EOS 60D


Top: 2 days old. 4.0% visibility. 18:22 March 13, 2013
Bottom: 3 days old. 8.9% visibiliyy. 18:28 March 14, 2013

Magic Lantern Stack Focus on Canon EOS 60D

In Camera
1. Go to Live View Mode. Compose the image in the viewfinder. The camera is set to be in auto focus (AF) mode.
2. Press the Delete button to activate Magic Lantern (ML) menu. Go to Focus tab and enable the Follow Focus by setting it to Arrow. Exit the ML menu by pressing the Delete button. Follow Focus (FF) indicator will appear on the LCD Viewfinder.
3. Using the MultiController buttons, adjust the focus to point at one end of the object of of interest. Go to ML menu and Focus tab. At the Focus End Point menu, press Set button once to reset it to 0. Press Set button again and then use the MultiController buttons to set the focus point to the other end of the object. Once the end point has been set, press the Set button again.
4. Go to Stack focus menu, press Q button to open the submenu. Set the Step Size and Trigger mode. Press the Q button to exit the submenu.
5. Press the Trigger mode button as set in the previous mode. The images at different focus point as set will be captured automatically.

In Photoshop CS5
6. Launch the Bridge (Br).Browse to the folder with the images as captured in Step 5 and select all of the images. Go to Tools > Photoshop > Load Files into Photoshop Layers. All the images will be opened as Layers in Photoshop.
7. In Photoshop, select all the Layers. Go to  Edit > Auto-Align Layers. Choose Auto and press OK. Go to Edit > Auto-Blend Layers. Choose Stack Images and press OK.
8. Done. Crop and Save image as needed.


(Top: Regular image with focus point at the center of the object. Bottom : Stack focus final image.)

Friday 22 February 2013

Boot Samsung Galaxy S2 into Recovery or Download Mode

Recovery Mode:
Switch off the phone. Hold Volume Up + Home + Power all at the same time until the recovery mode screen is reached. The phone might restart a few times before the recovery mode screen is reached.

Download mode:
Switch off the phone. Hold Volume Down + Power buttons at the same time until download screen is reached.