Al Pacheco

Hello all- long time dpreviewer, first time in this forum. There was a time when I shot used black & white, more or less abandoning it when I migrated to digital. Thousands of color images are on...

Actually, it's my daughter's camera-she bought the 7D as an upgrade from the 450D. It is a great camera and produces fantastic images. I've been using Canon since the original D30-10D and so on...

Just a general question about the proper or improper use of CF cards in a Canon camera. Has anybody managed to actually put a card in backwards, upside down, or wrong -way forward? I didn't...

First, you have the right attitude in that you want to shoot raw. Buying an expensive camera and treating it like a point-n-shoot by using the out-of-camera jpegs is sinful. Silkypix is free and...

The average scene rarely exceeds 6 stops so 8 is plenty.

I use a wrist strap from an older Sony I had plus a good neck strap with quick disconnects.

Agree. And the apples can be processed rawwith great results, with the zebra you get what nature intends and nothing else.

I second that.

Thanks.You are probably correct. I didn't use my trusty Whi-Bal to get the correct color temp. Just put the camera on auto white balance. The sky opened up a bit directly overhead and the blue...

jpeg is good hamburger...raw is sirloin.

After a recent thread concerning the exposure idiosyncrasies of some Panasonic models (GF-1/GH2 and maaybe others), I looked deeper into what each -Film Mode- in my GF-1 did and now I don't even...

I think you have a faulty copy of the M9. Don't get me wrong , I use the GF-1 almost exclusively now, but as good as an M9? Hardly. True, even the M9 is not really a Leica, just some clone...