Fun with Canon's Color Accent

I recently got addicted to the Color Accent feature of the Semi-automated Scenes Setup of my Canon S3IS Powershot.

What it does is it lets you choose a color you want to capture in the photo besides the black and white. To briefly explain it all, just watch the effects made in the movie "300". The movie is black and white with red being the dominant color.

How to use the Color Accent feature:
1) Go to the SCN feature of the knob of your Canon camera.
2) Press the left or right arrows to navigate until you have activated the Color Accent option. Other options aside from Color Accent include Color Swap and Fireworks.
3) Press the SET button, this will allow you to choose the color you want to be dominating in your photo. Press the left arrow to choose in the color set with the small square at the center of your screen as your guide with picking the color you want. Press the SET button again to accept the changes.

Notice that in the LCD screen, you will be automatically see the difference. Here are a few photos I've captured using Color Accent. Have fun with it!

How to display TV-out in Creative Zen Vision M

Creative Zen's dock with AV-out cable connected

AV cable connected to the Sanyo TV

Entire set-up with the movie "21" being played from the Creative Zen Vision: M 60GB to the video out of the 19" Sanyo TV

While fiddling with my Creative Zen Vision M, I tried connecting the AV cable which comes from my Canon Powershot S3 IS.

I tried connecting the AV cable to the dock of my Creative Zen Vision M. At first, it didn't really work even when I already plugged the cable to the Sanyo TV. Anyways, I was amazed when I adjusted the cable to be about a couple of centimeters away from the dock and it worked.

Just when I was about to buy a separate AV cable for the Zen, the AV cable coming from my camera worked wonders for me, saving at least a thousand pesos just like the direct charger in which I found out that the Sony PSP Slim charger would also work for the Zen.

Bottom line is, if you have other gadgets with accessories, go and figure out if these accessories may actually work for your gadget. It's a lot cheaper experimenting this way rather than buying the accessory specific for that product.