Wally626

There is no correct Ratio. What did you do with the images, I do not think any of my photo programs can do that to a photo outside of applying some sort of distortion in photoshop. Edit: I guess...

You can get some good results with a DSRL but the budget is going to be higher than you have listed. A basic DSLR and kit lens is in budget, but to film in low light you are going to want a f/2.8...

I would agree that Canon or Nikon has a better set of lenses for tilt-shift but they do exist for Sony cameras and are of high quality. Of course a Sony A99 with a Schneider TS is around $6000.

There is a subset of P&S cameras that are ruggedized. These generally are very drop resistant, water and dust proof. Downside is a limited zoom range like the advanced compact cameras but a sensor...

For short distances, the 5m range, you should have lots of choice as there are numerous crop sensor cameras with fast lenses that can shoot this type of image. The NEX or m4/3 ones being the...

Good point, on fully naming lenses at least at the beginning of a discusion. SAL of course stands for Sony Alpha-mount Lens, the SEL lenses are the Sony E-mount (NEX) Lens. Also if checking for...

They might be sharper, your lens and photographic technique needs to be good enough to take advantage of the extra pixels. 14 MP is still pretty low in MP for a modern sensor but each increase in...

The D7100 is magnified twice as much at 100% as the KM7D so it is likely to look a bit worse at the pixel level. To get a true comparison you need to look at them at the same actual magnification...

Depends on the lens, most of the sharpness lose in corners is farther out than the 1/3 points. See the Zeiss 135 f/1.4 MTF...

Using iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom it is certainly no drawback to use RAW. Everything is done automatically in the background and if you want to change something you can with much more leverage than...

Besides the m4/3s many of which will come with a kit lens for less than $600 you can also get the NEX 3N with the 16-50 kit lens for $450, which is even smaller than most m4/3 cameras.

You may be able to find a old film camera but most have at least the aperture or shutter speed setting displayed. Sony's SLTs do have a low information display option, but there is still some stuff...

Got a nice medium format system this way. Boyfriend went to NY and got a Mamiya TLR with three lenses. GF not impressed, I bought it off her for $400. You should know her better than us, but my...

I am not much of a studio shooter. However, I do have one piece of advise, get a realistic doll about the same size as your kid. Use the doll to figure out the lighting. Using flash without...

I will add to my post. I would certainly not buy all that at one time. I would get the body with the normal zoom lens and one nice portrait prime plus a nice travel tripod and bounce flash. If...

The field of view of the two images will be very close. The Nikon has a minimum field of view of 8.2 degrees and the NEX 55-210 has a 7.7 degree minimum field of view. Both lenses are f/5.6 at the...

The 6D is a budget FF, I would certainly recommend the 5DmIII over it if money is not an object and you wanted to go Canon, it is certainly better in all aspects. The Nikon D800 is also a great...

The main advantage of refurbished is to get a better price but keep the new factory warrantee, since you will not get that the used KEH lens may be a better deal. I have bought a few lenses from...

The Sony's have a multi-exposure mode that can work really well for shots of still objects in low light. The NEX line will do better than the RX100, but the RX100 is a very portable camera. The NEX...

Aperture is Apple's competitor to Lightroom. I would choose it first on the Mac. Elements is a consumer version of Photoshop and may be worth purchasing if you want to do more elaborate...