Live From The ZNA NorCal Show!

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The earlier pictures of the winners in smaller sizes did not come out very well, Nathan's Young Champion in particular. Here are some better pictures that we took on Sunday.

Young Champion - Nathan Truong


Baby Champion - Dai Ngo


Best in Size 1 - Dai Ngo

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Nice pictures Dan.

Cheers,
Todd

By the way I was thinking of getting a new camera, what brand is your camera?

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Quote: Originally Posted by Redfrick Nice pictures Dan. Cheers, Todd By the way I was thinking of getting a new camera, what brand is your camera?

Todd,

I have the older, Canon Digital Rebel XT. The current version of the camera is XTi which has higher resolution and some more features. Mine camera ran out of batteries pretty quickly on Sunday and Larry Gill was nice enough to lend me his Nikon D40. Thanks Larry. I'm not trying to be politically correct but I like both cameras. The biggest difference to me was that the Nikon seemed more solid than the Canon. It was a little bit heavier and it seemed a little bit more "put together".

Personally, I think the controls on the Canon are a bit more intuitive. I remember when I first bought it I was able to use it right away and never really had to figure anything out or read the manual. I'm lazy like that so that was really nice. There were a couple of controls on the Nikon that I couldn't figure out and I was left with the impression that the Nikon seemed a little harder to operate.

I've heard that the Nikon has more features than the Canon but that's not a big concern of mine because I don't know how to use the features I have on the Canon yet. I leave it in default autofocus setting 95% of the time. I'm sure not sure if any of that is a big deal because you would probably get use to the camera and it's setting after using it for a short period of time.

One thing I noticed is that I didn't have to use the flash on the Nikon while I did for my Canon, hence draining my battery. It could be that the Nikon is better at letting in? It could be that Larry had set up his camera properly while I didn't? I don't know. Both cameras were using the default autofocus. Nathan's kohaku was taken with my Canon (with flash). Dai's kohaku and showa was taken with Larry's Nikon (without flash).

-Dan

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At the show this past weekend, I was talking to Dai about his little showa that won Best in Size 1. He mentioned that he had brought it to the Sakura Young koi show we had at the end of April. I think I remembered it because of it's distinctive panda face pattern. Anyway I thought it would be fun to see the progress of a few fish that were at both shows. I went back thru the old Sakura thread and thought it would be fin to see the development of some of these fish over the last 6 months.

Dai Ngo

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Khoung Doan

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Emilo Bautista

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Ed Thomas

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Nathan Trung

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Don Dang

Don's sanke wasn't part of the Sakura young koi show but it was part of the Matsunosuke event we had in late February. The time span between these photo is 8 months.

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Larry Gill