Wally626

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...

My son is heading that way next week, but he is not a photographer, so I will have to enjoy your pics.

If the photographers are competent it will take a bit of study to replace them. There is a lot to taking good photographs besides just knowing how to operate the camera. The OM5 is a weather...

Minolta 28 f/2.8 in MD mount are pretty cheap and the Minolta MC 28mm f/2.5. There is also a 24mm f/2.8 but it is several hundred dollars. In addition there is the Minolta AF 28mm f/2.8 which gives...

A65 best camera on the list, If I read it right you would have to add in the battery and charger which adds about $30 for the battery charger another $40. The A57 is comparable to the Nikon D5100...

If your camera has a light meter it will choose a good exposure for average conditions and subject when in one of the auto modes, Auto,  A, S, P. If your subject matter is non standard or the...

There are adaptors that only have around 10% enlargement but are not of high quality and require stopping down a bit, f/8, to get reasonable images. Better solution, unless the cost is too high,...

There are a few new Zeiss in M42 mount, but in that case you may as well buy a Zeiss in A-mount. If you do a search on Zeiss Jena M42 on eBay you should turn up a reasonable number of older used...

Using f/16 defeats the purpose of using a fast lens for low light shooting. Yes, the option is there but not useful for shooting the moving kids.

Just replace "supposed" with "rumored." It looked like Sony was updating the camera line both NEX and SLT with the new hot shoes and adding in some other improvements at the same time. There were...

Using the standard formulas for DoF and the correct F/11 which is f/11.3137 the answers should be Near 5.45' Far 60.53' DoF 55.09' and Hyperfocal distance 11.96'. These numbers are very close to...

In macro normally you focus by moving the camera. This is because you want to maintain a certain enlargement ratio. That being said I do both. If I am not trying to maintain a constant...

The budget and how much weight you want to lug around come into play when answering this question. The next issue is what you want to shoot. The larger sensor P&S do a good job in good light but...

In once sense a DSRL is capable of taking better pictures but it also has some drawbacks. One advantage of the DSLR is to put a fast lens on it, say a 35mm f/1.8 or a 50mm f/1.4. This allows for...

135mm is also a very popular FF portrait lens length. Lens such as the Minolta STF are 135mm.

The Voightlander mount has a registration distance of 44.7mm versus the 44.6 of the Alpha mount, so just no room to fit a converter in without using optics. You can adapt M42 mount lenses to the...

The serial numbers may also not be product specific, in that say 1800900 through 1800950 might be assigned to the 50mm lens and 1800951 to 1800999 to the 100mm lens etc. Some numbers may never get...

Canon and Sony have come closest to this with adaptors to their mirrorless bodies that allow for fully automatic operation of the DSLR lenses. The NEX system even includes a PDF focusing unit with...

Is this an oral agreement or a contract? I would just tell them they will get the pictures when they finish paying the bill, unless your contract, if you have one, states otherwise.

Apple iPhoto and Aperture as well as Adobe Lightroom all provide automatic RAW conversion. Aperture and Lightroom have RAW conversion presets that can be adjusted and used for all future images....