John Koch

The fund was established to enable Kodak employess to retire at the company's expense.  The company was to set aside funds to buy assets that would cover the eventual benefits.  Trouble is, the...

Hogan understands the camera industry, money, cameras, and photography. Whether he is also a "great photographer" hardly matters.  He does it for fun and enjoys it.  That's a great perk of having...

The HC X920 will offer the best stabilizer, slightly better low light performance, and the option to control and monitor your camera by WiFi. The following comparisons involve shots of stationary...

Yeah. Don't bother with "corrections." Why have any doubts? Why think? Who needs brains? Just look. What a doozey!
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The article says that you need FXPX or Media Composer. But "to get the best" probably entails having a wonderful screenplay, great actors, exotic location, exquisite music, and a substantial crew...

Oh, yes, foreigners know all about Spanish politics and history! Oh, yes, by way of old novels and movies. And Americans were "brainwashed" to prefer a Spain that was neutral in WWII and pro-West...

...until the person who took the pictures is gone, and no one remembers the people or scenes in the pictures, or whether there were any pictures on the HDD of a junked PC or some sack of discs.

Capa, not Capra. No connection to the Holloywood director.

Capa, not Capra. No connection to the Hollywood director.

"The Spanish Civil War is well-known around the world..."

Humbug. Poorly understood at the time, and even worse now. Exactly what is "progressive"? Spanish Republicans were quite divided and...

What camera, please? What film and lens specs?
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Ah, so many eager to hurl the first stone! America admits immigants (legal or not) because it likes cheap labor. Michelle Malkin, the author of the cited article, is the daughter of Philippine...

Very interesting, until the Globe site forced one to state how much one ought to pay for "carbon footprint," without giving any consumption parameters. This ruins, unfortunately, the ability to...

The nesting raptors are ospreys, I presume.  Soon they may have little ones to feed.  Then you may have some extraordinary video challenge too. Those same birds hover over water, then dive and...

"Why intrigued?" asks Mr. Elephant-in-the-Room. Why need any more than 20 megapixels?  Why need more than 10?  Unless on crops a LOT, a mere 5 should be plenty.  A good picture might use only 2MP. ...

Windows XP or Vista systems may not support AVCHD clips unless you download updated players.  The older XP or Vista Windows Movie Maker is not suitable for editing AVCHD either.If your machine is...

Perhaps too good to be true, but seems...

It is probably true that one can take very good pictures without spending lots of money.  The instances where a big sensor and high-ISO performance matter are only a subset of photographic...

Check the catalogues for FF or ASP-C lenses.  The ones with f/2.8 aperture and focal length over 200mm cost a fortune.  Perhaps there are custom-made F/1.8 500mm lenses somewhere, about whose price...

Occasionally, some stores offer starter Nikon kits with TWO lenses for barely more than the competing Canon models with one lens.The Panasonic DMC-FZ200 is good for shy critters, since you can zoom...