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Year after year, from one season to the next, it amazes how pipedreams manage to survive. Hope is eternal. :-)

In a sense, the sensor of my D600 is quite contaminated, but it hasn't stopped me from going out and taking shots. Under most conditions it is rarely an issue for me, but if I do landscape it can...

Second that as a quick solution...

Nice idea, to use the Walt Disney Concert Hall as your backdrop. There are quite a few cool spots upstairs as well.

I'll be following the developments closely. You never know what kind issues a "new" model release might have. The Pentax K-5 had the "string of pearls", i.e., residue between the sensor and low...

I have never shot with a manual lens on my D600. The first two images on your post show 50mm as the focal length. Is that just a mistake in registering a focal length in the camera for a given...

When you mentioned "intermittent", it reminded me of my old Sigma 10-20mm lens. When new, it was sharp across the frame, and with such a wide angle, DOF wasn't much of an issue @ f/8. After some...

I used to use Flickr, but it never satisfied my needs. The main issues were: 1. Site customization: Flickr has more or less one template and it will change as the developers see fit. SmugMug, (at...

I live in California. Yesterday I contemplated the feasibility of buying a flight to HK, just so that I could take some dramatic shots of big waves slamming into some piers or shore walls, with the...

Part of the problem is running AV software in parallel. I use MSE and clamwin, which appears to work very well. But using AV software is only part of keeping your machine secure. Consider the...

You may give this a try http://lightzoneproject.org/ There is also RawTherapee and Gimp. I believe all three are cross platform. Lightzone is quite interesting. All of them have a certain learning...

I like your series.  :-) Not sure how your PP workflow is set up, but you could benefit from using some lens correction in regards to chromatic aberration in some of your images.

Make sure that your server firewall (if enabled) allows ports 20 & 21, and the ftp service (daemon) is running.

I started with the K-x in 2009, had the K-7, then added a K-5. Sold the K-x and K-7, kept the K-5 and the best lenses. But now I shoot FF for close to a year, 'cause after a three year waiting...

Have you read this post in the snitch forum. It might help. Although I don't own or do wireless transfer; your symptoms read like a mismatch in network settings. If you manually assign an IP...

It wouldn't be a rumor to me. I still own a Pentax K-5, and it is fairly obvious to me that the K-5's sensor clean function works to some degree, as I can see dust particles either disappear or at...

Wow, that was a wild ride. Great work and presentation, with lots of humor to boot. Thanks... :-)

I really like this shot, but if you have access to the location, it might be worth a try to get more angles and perspectives. What I would like to see is a more tightly cropped version of the...

I suspect that you have already tried a wet cleaning without good results. Time to contact Nikon Service Center... :-)

Interesting read, and some validation on my decision to opt for the 18-35mm. This lens is fairly sharp at the wider apertures, which is nice when you need them. The 18-35mm always gets taken along...