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Nice! Jan

I am disappointed with the Leica brand lenses on the Panasonic. My FZ1000 is also soft.
My son's RX100 with the Zeiss brand lens is much sharper.
The real Leica lens on my M3 is wonderful.
I think...

'57 Chev in a back alley. It is sad to see it like this but I have talked to the owner and he hopes to fix it up. There is a Corvan a few blocks away in equally bad shape. Jan

A few years ago I asked this forum if there was an easy way in SPP to preserve maximum data when developing a X3F if you intended to finish with another program.  Kendall suggested that I just use ...

Now THAT is texture! Jan

Thanks Scott.  That's really informative.  That is the look I want, maintaining a bright sunlit look while controlling the sky. Jan

Hi everybody, Pictures with foreground objects in bright sun, but also with a bright sky never seem to come out right for me. I bring down the exposure in SPP to bring back the colour in the sky, ...

Paint Shop Pro is full featured and will open psd files. It is also very inexpensive. I use it but I am terrible at post so any recommendation would be pretty well useless. https://www.paintshoppro ...

As kids in the back seat, we all crowded behind my Dad to watch the odometer turn over at the 99,999 mark. I'm looking forward to your next post Larry!  They are always good but this one will be ...

In DC these days, that's all they talk about. Jan

The full expression is "Is the Pope Catholic, does the bear sh*t in the woods?" It just means that something is obvious. It's slang from the early '70's.  Us old farts knew exactly what he meant. Jan

Sigma USA advised the op that he needed to replace the internal battery, yet the manual states there is no internal battery.  Hopefully the op will show this page to Sigma USA.  Perhaps he can get ...

A warm spring day in Victoria BC. This was from a DP2M taken last Sunday.  6.3 @320, iso 100. Jan

You could try using Adobe's free DNG converter to convert the file to an earlier DNG format. I haven't used DNG for a few years now but I think I had to convert it to version 4.1 before it would ...

A little investigation is in order. Take off the lens. Look through the viewfinder at a white wall.  Is there still a yellow cast in the viewfinder?  If there is, your pictures should be unaffected ...

Do you mean "put an H on the tripod"? Of course you also need to move the camera forward to get the same image. Jan

After all the work you did creating software for their cameras, they should just give you one! Jan

I'm not speaking from a position of knowledge, but maybe that is the secret.  To get a sharp focus, choose either the visible spectrum or the ir spectrum. Jan

Interview with Kazuto Yamaki. Jan