Humboldt Jim

The comet will be brightest on March 11, 2013 and its tail will be directly behind the crescent moon on the 13th.  This is not your far off need to look in the right place faint object but may be...

Going to a 1/1.7 sensor would require a 25% increase in camera size to maintain other things equal.HJ

I try to keep my camera warm by keeping it inside my parka when not shooting.A warm camera taken out in the cold will not fog up or freeze up.  I cant imagine anyplace at 14,000 feet with snow...

Nice shots, goldberry,Messing about in little boats in backwaters is one of my favorite ways to photograph.  Connecting anything, even a monopod, to the boat is problematic as it is bound to...

It's all about Me. Instead of boring others about what you are doing by talking and texting, now you can bore people with "Me videos" It's the Me generation, look at Me, look where Me is, look...

Brighter is almost always better but the design of the lens (ocular) and eyecup seem to have more effect on eyeglass friendliness than the LCD.

Nice work Hans,To put it academically, your images are sure to enhance the 7th phase of the recreational experience; recollection.  IMHO this is 99% of photography.Processing the image to conform...

Forget about the haze filter.  It will provide no optical benefits and little if any real protection and add a lot of fiddling.I do not recall reading or hearing of any instance where a filter as...

Practice and patience!  I like birds with a bit of habitat while others prefer filling the frame and blurring the environment.  I often set my FZ 150 to shoot at 5 FPS because birds movements are...

"Pampers" is a poor word choice.  "Caters to" might be better.  Such is the translation from Bahasa Malaysia to English after being corrupted by British English.Poor wording aside, would it not be...

It has the old fashioned IS: Fairly wide angle lens, fast shutter speed capability due to fast lens, large photoreceptor sites. The other IS is called technique.

HJ

I'll second that!  The ability to name more custom settings would make abigdifference to me.HJ

I tend to think of it as the "guideline" of thirds.HJ

Interesting subject well captured.Your panorama demonstrates that nodal point pivot is not essential, even for indoor and close up panoramas.  I do wonder, however, what the difference might be....

Camera manufacturers probably don't put the shutter button in the front of the camera because it is awkward.  The real problem is the operator. If releasing the shutter causes too much camera...

I like the effect in "Pigeons-Weathering Out".  Great use of light and dark backgrounds to emphasize subjects of pigeons and snow using the tile roof.  shutter speed shows snow as somewhat sleety...

I recently consigned my old Power PC iMac to lesser tasks and got a basic i5 21.5" iMac and installed Aperture.  After importing all my images from iPhoto I found many thumbnails with no referenced...

This is absolutely precious.  Too infrequently I see a photo that makes me smile all over.  This one has it all.Thanks for postingHJ

Well said; and sad but true that anything more mathematically complex that simple numbers is lost by most people.  Ratios?  Rule of squares?  Forget it!  Its absolute numbers of pixels of the...

Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Apple Aperture all use non-destructive editing.  Original file is kept original no matter what format.HJ