frank-in-toronto

a quick search for some images tagged with "photoshop" and "collage", produced results that look like they could be done with Picasa easily.  is there something photoshop will do with a collage...

Your only mistake was thinking the shutter replacement was THE solution.  It appears to be a critical part of the solution.  then followup cleaning for a few thousand shots may (seems to) do the...

this is the answer.  if the viewfinder gets you going, there's no other option.  if the fixed lens matches what you like to take pics of, there u go.  if it doesn't, just get a plain-jane dslr. not...

the idea of making any piece of software your "lifetime" solution sounds bad to me.  i use LR4 also but i use directory structure to organize too.  if LR were to disappear, i am hopeful another s/w...

so to summarize, if you shoot below f5.6, don't have sky in your landscape shots, only get dust, no oil, "can deal with it" and finally, the best solution, don't look for it...you'll be ok.  if...

i have no idea what will happen to lightroom in the future.  probably nobody does.  but i'm not betting my pics that i'll be using it forever.  there are people who lump all their photos together...

oh oh.

of course they are lying.  they are salesmen.  they're not your friend.  if they said 'we have some come back for cleaning and we've replaced a few", it would be believable.  but NONE! big fat...

the first time i adjust the saturation in a sky on a jpg, i saw banding.  this tells me the jpg is really not as good as it looks.  now, depending on your methods, none of this may matter.  or one...

on a quick read of the thread, i saw that one poster was discussing scratches on the shutter with nikon.  to me, that's a losing argument.  the point is dust/oil created in the camera.  not what...

a lot of advice from people who have no horse in this race.  if you end up with a dud camera, you will basically throw away every pic. "stay below f11"! really? that won't help and it may be bright...

given that it's your money and your budget, it'll be fine.  be sure to set the d800 up so the dx crop is automatic and the viewfinder greys out the parts that are outside the crop.  you will love...

if you want correct wb, you have to measure something, as someone already said. so get a grey card, get a color-checker and take a pic of it/them in the scene.  when you change scenes, take...

i have the previous generation sony with OVF (a550).  i have tried several old minolta lenses only to find their quality is much below what i expected.  now granted, i'm comparing $1000 lenses to...

i don't get how your question relates to ETTR but anyway.  i would take 3 pictures quickly. so with the spot meter on the subject, click, spin the ec dial a couple of stops to darken the scene,...

that's the proper analogy.  when your car windshield can be replaced by an evf and you couldn't tell the difference, then we're talking! until then, the mirror is our best solution. and when i see...

i use that effect to my advantage sometimes.  when i want people in my shot, i use my p&s held out in front of me. like some of the neophytes use their u43 models.  normal people view dslr users as...

isn't that what everybody tries to do? i've never heard a photographer say he's underexposing to leave lots of room at the right side of the histogram.  some might "underexpose" a half-stop or even...

i was hoping for better humour.  good try.

that's a great design.  i have the phottix and it doesn't offer that option.