Ben_Egbert

This is not an IR camera, it is specifically modified for astro work so that it can get the frequencies of astro objects. In the process, they remove the IR filter so you need to add one to get...

If 18-23MP is enough, I already have enough with 21. If more pixels does not make better large prints, (an argument I don't buy) then I have as much as Canon offers now. But what I have...

This also replaces the IR filter and for daylight you need to put an IR filter on the lens and do a custom WB. But the improvement of astro shots is incredible. Canon was not stupid, they have...

Yep, and the diminishing returns argument is a variant of the "good enough" argument. You could regress backward to a cell phone. Tight wads always trot out these arguments in the face of high...

I suppose you still need to jump through the deactivation hoop and if you have two computers, a phone call is usually required when you get lost in the upgrade maze. Try to remember your log in...

John Bean (UK) wrote: No, not worth it now. Cards are cheap and this one was old. I am glad I know what happened now. Before I retired, I was an engineer for 45 years and I fought these...

I was never aware of this lock. On mine there is no lock, but now that I look closely, I see the word lock printed on the side. Maybe the lock fell off. Still, I could not find any mechanism...

No tab on my card. Its a 4 year old SanDisk. I do see a notch, but its empty and there is nothing inside that moves. -- What I see when I open the image and view it at 100% is very...

After uploading my images via a card reader and Breeze uploader pro, I tried to erase the images in my 1DS-mk3 and it says write protected. I have been doing this with this hardware and software...

Or just leave out the video and build us a great still camera. They already have a bazillion video models. -- What I see when I open the image and view it at 100% is very important to my...

I am uncomfortable with making creative decisions, I am more of a recorder. But I am getting more comfortable with it. That happens a lot, I still have trouble deleting stuff and keeping and...

-- There is that. But sitting at a computer doing Photoshop is a whole different thing from working with chemicals. Chemistry was like Greek to me, and smelly and messy to boot. I enjoy the...

The analogy of jpig (spelling on purpose) works with regard to slide film but not so much for negatives. An awful lot of the post processing we do today was inspired by darkroom tricks developed...

And this post was a question that was not intended to place any value on the change, but simply to ask what they might be. Which is of course speculative. I may or may not like them but by the...

Nice details reply. The added complexity is for the user. More to learn more buttons that need to be avoided in the predawn dark. I see shallow DOF on TV, (have not been to a movie...

I only carry one at a time based on purpose. They fit easily into the back of my full size pick-up which is my main mode of travel. The bags are both backpack style so I can hike with them. They...

Me too. But the focus of photography seems to be shifting away from the old paradigm. This may be just another of a passing deal. When I started, I did slide only and slides are very difficult...

I have noticed in camera clubs (2) first the death of slide presentation in favor of displaying electronic images at the ridiculous size of 1024 max wide and 768 max high. I also see that prints...

You are correct, but maybe this goes back to wide screen movies. I have always preferred landscape to portrait, even before I started photography in 1980. I think part of this is that my eyes are...

I am 90% manual focus now and if I had better live view, this would be 100%. At least for landscapes. Not sure I will continue bird photography at all and if I do, it will be frozen with my 50D...