Iggy1965

See the thread written by 'Canadian club' a few minutes ago -- \Iggy

Excalibur???? New made classic but modern built???? -- \Iggy

Sony is big, even huge. they have the people, material and money to reinvent themselves. My worries would go to Nikon. a lot smaller. no marketleader in Chip development/production machines. No...

+1 on the lighting -- \Iggy

I own a a700 and never used the internal flash. Don't miss it on my a850 either. Thats the way to go Sony to decrease unused funtionality ifo real used functions just like scenics on a dial. never...

Damn I do painting as well, If I see an oil painting I want to make an oil painting If I see a charcoal drawing, I want to make a charcoal drawing I think I better take photos ;0) -- \Iggy

+1 -- \Iggy

Oh yea, I forgot. You get feedback from some agencies when your picture is rejected. Like: OoF Out of focus... CA..... Bad composition.... No customer value... Just a snapshot.... too...

I don't do any competitions. I just try to sell my pictures via stock agencies like Fotolia, Dreamstime, Alamy, Shutterstock and iStockphoto. The first hurdle you have to take is their team of...

there is a lens database on www.dyxum.com where you can search on FF, APS-C, zoom, adi or not, in production or not and the various brands, and fixed/macro/zoom -- \Iggy

bought a new laptop today (actually it was my wife who bought it. She was tired of all my shouting and cursing) It is an i7 sandy bridge based notebook with 8 GB RAM and a 7200rpm 750GB HD. Nvidia...

+1 322rc2 -- \Iggy

I use MS Windows 7 64bit on my dual core pentium with 4 GB RAM and a 5400rpm disk. The software I use is LR3.4 and CS5. It takes about 11 seconds to load an a850 RAW file. Thes 11 seconds are...

Yes, you can decrease power consumption by firmware upgrade. One example is: Decrease the clock speed of the cpu when the cpu is inactive ( and I don't mean inactive = sleep mode, but just...

My advise would be: leave the R1 at home and go with a slt/dslr with a WA (for single shot coverage) or 35/50mm (for a panorama or stitched shot. remember the nodal point methed) Leave the...

Free after Scott Kelby: There are good tripods and there are light tripods........... Would the same apply for monopods???? I think so. -- \Iggy

Did you mean the under her 'back' stage?????? -- \Iggy

More detail in the right one (see bricks with the white spots), The left one is sharper.....(or should I say more contrast..... see corner of the corner brick in the top row of the...

Hard to tell which one is best or bad... When you look at the length of the shade on the red wall, I can tell you it took a long time to change the lenses. therefor a change in light quality is...

You (and the A-mode) did exactly the right thing. In these circumstances (and almost allways), it is better to get your 'mountain'of the histogram placed towards the right side = the light side....