William Woodruff

This is either one of the smartest moves any mainstream software provider ever made, or it is one of the dumbest.  Which it is, will be made clear by comparing Adobe's present market share now,...

While it is likely that the camera used in the movie was just a prop chosen by the producers, it would be good to realize that SpecOps forces use what works without regard to what other...

It sounds like the effect should kind of like black lung, only prettier.  Ask a coal miner if he would feel better knowing the inside of his lungs looked red, yellow, and blue, instead of just...

Geekmom, When you read these responses, it would be good to understand that the DP forums draw a lot of responses for hard-core gearheads.  That's not a really bad thing if you are looking for the...

I think that it would be interesting to see a challenge (necessarily a fairly small one) that included one or more of the following elements: (1) A brief (one sentence) submitting photographer's...

Lots of good advice above, some that you appreciated, some that you didn't.  I have a couple of thoughts. (1) My general thought is that you are not ready to really jump into this in a very...

It appears to me that the simplified system proposed by OP would make things worse.  By simply counting the positive stars/points, it would allow sandbaggers to simply vote 3 stars for their chose...

You can get a refurbished non-IS 70-200 f4 from Canon for under $600.  If you stretch you upper limit just a bit, you can get the f4 IS version for just over $1000.  Either way you end up with one...

Quitting submissions to challenges, quitting hosting challenges, or both? If you are quitting hosting, I don't get it.  The only thing that gives any promise for the future here is that at least a...

I think that we may have skipped something really important here.  The question was what exposure to use for sunsets.  I think that the first answer (alluded to, but not actually stated in some...

Placed 37^th in the challenge.

Da-a-a-a-a-mn, I leave for a couple of days, come back, and you guys are still at it.  This really is amazing.

Ansel Adams wrote a three book series on creating photographic images.  One of those books is entitled "The Camera."  This will tell you everything that you would ever want to know about why tilt...

If you need to get faster than 2.8, you're going to be shooting primes; as far as I know, there are no zooms faster than 2.8 for APS-C.  If you need it badly enough, you could go full frame; 2.8 is...

+1 . . . and thanks for using the word "thieves" in your description.  Bernie Madoff (sp?) ran a giant Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of billions of dollars.  He was a thief.  The guy who...

+1 . . . thanks especially for pointing out that backing up is not the same as zooming out.  Zooming just changes framing, while backing up (or going forward) changes perspective.

"with LR4 lens correction, it is the difference between having 4 stop IS and very good 24 and 28 at the wide end on crop -- and not buying 3 stop 24 f2.8 IS or 28 f2.8 IS for FF" Huh?  MAC, I know...

I suspect you are right.  Given the apparent difficulty of getting edge-to-edge sharpness in shorter lenses anyway, it seems that adding an IS group would be more of a problem there.  That,...

Keith, hard to imagine giving up the 70-200.  Great lens, and it appears to handle FF pretty well (Photozone only measures about 1 stop center to corner).  It'll feel a lot shorter on the...

If I understand OP's question, he has gotten a lot of really good answers to questions he didn't ask.  My understanding of the question (which tracks with bhollis' response) is whether the absolute...