BartyLobethal

About half the time I shoot for fun, I start with no clear idea in mind of what I want to produce. It's the act of trying something, then trying something else that can lead you to good...

I've had Quantas refuse to allow me on with 1kg of excess baggage. Wouldn't even allow me to pay for extra freight (checked baggage). I ended up having to lug a single item back to my car and very...

Lowepro Flipside 400AW, D300s, 24-70, 80-200, 14, 105, SB700, chargers, batteries.

There again, I'd rather not pay for any software. Will I? Probably, at some point in the future.

Try it again with your flash on 1/2 power. If you can find a spot without that bush in the background, that would be better too. Try to isolate the flowers and stalks against the sky without other...

Ian, that concerns me too. I have family in far north western NSW. I don't visit often or for long, but like to review images and perform basic PP there when I do. I can't remember where I read it,...

The whole Creative Suite will be available to teachers / students for AU$15 per month. $180 per year. So pricing for your son is still steeper than buying it outright under the previous pricing...

You download the software, install and operate it locally. The 'cloud' part is a monthly internet handshake to verify your licence validity.

It will be US/AU$19 per month, or $240 per year. The asking price for PS CS6 here was AU$1100. I can now amortise that over 4.5 years. Even for the whole suite, AU$600 per year beats the AU$2500...

I went and looked at the US, then the Australian prices for subscription to Photoshop alone, and they are both $19 / month, or AU$240 for Photoshop for a year. You could subscribe for 4 years and...

Also less destructive than attempting to replace one lot of counter-productive dogma with another.

It will require a generational leap (perhaps more than one) in the resolution and response-time of EVFs. I'm unaware of any fundamental obstacle which could prevent such a leap. No matter how good...

From the review, "...the lens isn't quite as contrasty as manufacturer's own lenses." I read that as a statement that the contrast on the Samyang wasn't quite as good as that of the equivalent...

I understand from first-hand experience how painstaking preparation for scanning has to be. You can spot dust off a piece of film, and effectively 'restore' the resolution to full in doing so. You...

...you downsample the images to 12MP? I ask, because I wonder if, in some instances, the increased resolution is showing up particles that might have afflicted previous generations of camera, but...

You will be able to use them in DX crop mode, but this will only produce 16MP images - so you are 'throwing away' 20MP. You will also be able to use them in full-frame mode, but will experience...

...will, in part, determine whether or not the current mainstream manufacturers transition to being niche manufacturers. It's possible to be both - consider that compact sales have been, in recent...

...with everything you wrote. Thom wrote that, "There are only a few established ways out of a declining market problem:.." Of the listed ways, I think only the last is sustainable, because the...

... and, almost unbelievably to me, the 1/4" cassette, I think it's possible that DSLRs will enjoy a long, but niche, future.

...seems to sum up your approach. Tom's article was about the decline in three camera groups - compact (non-interchangeable-lens mirrorless), DSLRs, and interchangeble-lens mirrorless cameras. Thom...