Moors Golf Course, Milton Florida. This was taken during Roy Jones, Jr. Golf Tournament May 2006.
06 May 2006
How to unlock a Cingular Treo 650
This subject is not directly related to photography, but important enough for those of you that do any international travel and have a tri or quad band GSM phone. GSM is used extensively throughout the world, both in Asia and Europe. In order to use your phone over there you have two options. Connecting to local services using your current SIM card - VERY Expensive. Or, you can buy a prepaid SIM card in the country you're visiting. You will then become a local user and pay local rates.
In order to do the latter, your phone has to be unlocked. To prevent customers from switching providers by changing SIM cards, all cell phone companies lock their phone so only their card can be used. To unlock the phone, call Cingular a couple weeks before you go on an overseas trip and tell them you would like to unlocked your phone. They should give you an eight digit code; anything else is confusion or slowdown tactics. Once you receive the code, do the following key sequence to unlock the phone.
Press call button, (green phone), then
*#*#eight digit code#
press call button again.
You should get a message noting that your phone is now unlocked.
Now the phone is capable of using any SIM card including prepaid ones. Once you get back to the US you just plug in your regular Cingular SIM card and you're in business.
This subject is not directly related to photography, but important enough for those of you that do any international travel and have a tri or quad band GSM phone. GSM is used extensively throughout the world, both in Asia and Europe. In order to use your phone over there you have two options. Connecting to local services using your current SIM card - VERY Expensive. Or, you can buy a prepaid SIM card in the country you're visiting. You will then become a local user and pay local rates.
In order to do the latter, your phone has to be unlocked. To prevent customers from switching providers by changing SIM cards, all cell phone companies lock their phone so only their card can be used. To unlock the phone, call Cingular a couple weeks before you go on an overseas trip and tell them you would like to unlocked your phone. They should give you an eight digit code; anything else is confusion or slowdown tactics. Once you receive the code, do the following key sequence to unlock the phone.
Press call button, (green phone), then
*#*#eight digit code#
press call button again.
You should get a message noting that your phone is now unlocked.
Now the phone is capable of using any SIM card including prepaid ones. Once you get back to the US you just plug in your regular Cingular SIM card and you're in business.
White Balance. This picture was taken in RAW mode. The camera was set to Auto White Balance. When shooting in Raw the White Balance is not applied to the photo, it just shows how it would look using the current White Balance setting. To get an accurate reading for the current light, we use a Neutral Grey/White card as reference.
In shooting RAW, this can be done before or after the current photo as long as the light has not changed appreciably. The next image shows the Grey card photo, and the current photo with corrected White Balance. It is important to note that this card is different from the 18% grey Kodak card. It was designed for Exposure correction, but it is not color neutral, so it is not recommended as a White Balance reference card.
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