Doug Pardee

My interest in lo-fi led me to get a Holga plastic-lens kit for my XT/350D. I'm planning to write up a more extensive review later, but here's a quick look at my findings. This review is based on...

I want to underscore something that ARShutterbug mentioned. With DSLRs, your initial cost is just your /initial/ cost. From surveys I've seen, the typical DSLR owner has spent between $5,000 and...

Are you talking about the EOS 300 (aka Rebel 2000), or the EOS 300D (aka Digital Rebel)? If it's the film camera, I don't see the point unless you want to shoot film. -- The LightZombie...

A polarizer doesn't work on reflections from metal. Underwater makes no difference. -- The LightZombie Project: volunteers providing support for LightZone. http://lightzombie.org/

My guess is that they'll continue to go down. The supply is almost constant, since they're pretty durable and not getting much use. Demand is disappearing. That said, if you have a use for one,...

As Yogi Berra said about a once-favorite restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Once /hoi polloi/ move in, things get run over by /hoi polloi/. It's not kewl any more when...

Thanks for dropping by! *This posting doesn't address the original question*, nor much of significance for that matter. Photographic terminology has gone all Humpty-Dumpty over the past...

Lens cleaning solutions are generally alcohol: methanol or similar. (Methanol has a characteristic sweet smell). Most any alcohol will do, but be very careful if you get denatured alcohol that it...

That's one form of what's generally called "lo-fi" (low-fidelity) style. *The following is personal opinion.* A lot of folks on DPR, maybe even the majority, look down their noses at lo-fi....

The CF cards you have should be fine. I don't think any were ever made that were slower than the DReb/300D. The "Class 2" is an SD designation, not a CF one. That comment was in reference to...

Not quality — speed. The DReb/300D is optimized for up to 2GB. Although it will handle cards up to 8GB, it writes to them quite a bit more slowly than to the 2GB cards. Which are already painfully...

I have that book, and I think it'd be a good start for sloopjohnb. It's very much about the fundamentals of imagery — something that gives a solid grounding in theory but tends to be short on...

Last November, Adobe announced that they were going to stop "version-skippers" by not providing upgrade discounts except from the immediately previous release. Unsurprisingly, this brought a howl...

As I noted in my original posting, the problem is that UPS doesn't deliver to APO/FPO/DPO. You can ship internationally with UPS (or DHL or FedEx or...), except not to US military stationed...

It isn't written very well, but the situation is straightforward. No lithium batteries of any kind are permitted for /international/ mail from the US starting May 16. What's confusing is that...

[US] The US Postal Service is bringing itself into alignment with international postal regulations by forbidding international mail (including APO/FPO/DPO) from containing lithium batteries of any...

Suggestion: word the name so that it doesn't sound like an official Canon operation. "Canon EOS Club" sounds like a club run by Canon. "Canon EOS Users Club" is a little better. "Portsmouth Canon...

It's not like we'd know, or that there's probably any one answer for all manufacturers. But here are some of my guesses: * Writing Raw files to the SD card has historically been painfully slow...

May I add that there should be a mark on the camera body that shows where the focal plane (sensor) is. It looks like a circle with a straight line drawn through it Φ. The line is the reference...

Most clubs have minimum standards. Don't shoot JPEG. Don't use anything less than a DSLR, preferably no more than a couple of years old. Post-processing should avoid any kind of style. About half...