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Take note measurebators and arm-chair critiques! These photos are a fantastic example of what cameras can do when people get out and USE them!

Take note measurebators and arm-chair critiques! These photos are a fantastic example of what people can do when they get out and USE their cameras!

Agreed...

Except that Ansel, throughout his books repeatedly admits he made many mistakes and a lot of his techniques were borne out of the desire to salvage poor negatives. His earliest...

I still have a Casio QV-10A and the proprietary cable and even the power-cube so you could use it without batteries. I remember when the music store I hung out at bought it - $800 Canadian dollars...

I still have a Casio QV-10A and the proprietary cable and even the power-cube so you could use it without batteries. I remember when the music store I hung out at bought it - $800 Canadian dollars...

Hah! Magazines? I remember most magazines at one point or another butchered images by using poor offset registration and lousy quality control at the presses. Bring on digital, you can always...

He doesn't say he's a successful pro photographer. He does however, run casual photo outings with a few local camera clubs. It's a different environment. Camera clubs don't tend to be places...

Find me an engineer who is good at writing for anything other than engineering papers and I'll find you a writer who is good at developing digital audio ICs.Remember HDCD?  The consumer-facing...

Funny, I've been reading his articles for years for enjoyment and some of the little tips and essays he writes. He's definitely got a style. But I don't recall him EVER saying he's a professional...

Hehehe... when I showed a Leica/Billingham toting friend of mine this little tid-bit about the company origins as makers of fishing bags he nearly went ballistic.

Those lenses are making up the bulk of your weight problem.  Swam them out for a couple of small primes or small zooms and walk more.  The exercise alone from walking up to objects to take their...

I don't see the point if you're shooting RAW.  All of the sensor data is loaded into the file.  You can do essentially everything those functions do using the curves and shadow-highlight adjusters...

I use a Domke F-5XC. It holds my 7D with a lens and I can carry two more lenses and a flash if I want.Right now in the bag:Canon 7d with 10-22 EF-S on the bodySigma 30mm 1.4Canon 17-40 F4Charger in...

It depends on the circumstance.  If you have many objects in the same plane of focus, multiple focus points can trigger.  The system will average out some of the subtle differences to a greater or...

I shoot entirely in RAW... it's a "bad" (read: HD Filling) habit I acquired back when I used to shoot with a Nikon D100, which had horrible JPEG output.   Anyway, on my 7D I have boosted the...

Also, don't get lured into the idea that "full frame" is an upgrade.  It's not really an upgrade.  It's a format change.  I've been using APS-C for years, since the Nikon D1 and D100 and I find no...

What's a "Linux engineer"?  I've never heard that one before...  Is that like "sanitation engineer"?I use Linux extensively at work for our firewalls, servers, and data storage, but I happily use...

That actually makes sense.  If I remember correctly, they have to take the entire board and sensor out of the camera to replace the shutter.  When you do that, you de-calibrate the factory...

Also, it seems early complaints of extremely soft/miscalebrated Sigma 30s seem to have died down.  I bought mine about a year ago and it's pretty sharp.  The corners at large apertures are not so...

Can you post a photo to show an example? In P mode the camera will tend to set a small aperture to favour lighting the subject you focused on, leaving the rest of the scene to yawn into darkness.