David Franklin

Finally, if you believe that the people pictured in this essay are representative in any way of the average Trump voter, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that I'd like to sell you at an amazingly...

The pictures are all OK. They are, of course, highly derivative, and perhaps a conscious or unconscious paean to Diane Arbus. The obvious political slant and clearly ignorant definition of her...

DPR, located in Seattle and London, and ultimately funded by Silicon Valley, could not be immune from the currents of the culture in which it floats. It has been apparent for some time, but, as a...

It's hard to know where to start in reacting to this "photo essay." I've been a fairly active member of this forum for 15 years. At first, the content here was almost exclusively about gear and the...

Fuji is a fine company that makes sometimes trailblazing photo gear that always seem to punch a little over their weight and deliver fine image quality. If I were inclined to change my whole ...

As a very hardworking professional, using 5D4's as my primary camera, I have no hesitation in singing a song you've heard before - but the lyrics, no matter how often repeated, are still true: ...

Correction: that should read: ...At 24mm the Canon-rated Guide Number of the 600EX-RT is something like 85, and...; the 118 guide number is for the 600EX-RT zoomed to the 35mm beam spread, not the ...

Brad, Thank you very much for that information. I'll try it. That sounds awesome, in that my Einstein accessories, especially softboxes, can work on the Orlit. After looking at the output from the ...

When a tree falls with a crash in the forest, but no one is around to hear it, did it really make a sound? When a husband does anything on his own, but his wife isn't around to correct him, did he ...

Most people considering the "range" are thinking about how far-away objects can be seen in your pictures. Usually they are asking because they want to understand long lens focal lengths; they want ...

Well, today is a cloudy and lazy day without a shoot or meeting on my schedule. So, I decided to see for myself what is the answer to your question about the relative power of the Orlit as ...

Well, I've had so many different film and digital camera that a recitation of them would be far too boring and long-winded for anyone to tolerate. Let's just say that I now have one 5D3 and one ...

I've never seen, touched, or, more importantly, heard an Xplor 600, nor do I know what you consider "loud." Nevertheless, I'll give you my impression. The 610 fan ONLY runs when the LED model light ...

That's a good question. If you mean being able to adapt Paul Buff branded Einstein (Balcar) accessories, like softboxes, to the Bowens mount for the Orlit 610, the answer is no, but I haven't as ...

If you're addressing that question to me, yes I've had many very expensive "studio-type" flash systems before. I'm a very experienced (read "old guy" here) photographer. First - crank up the way ...

If you want to keep the 70-300L (I think it's a good choice), I'd definitely go for the 16-35 f/4.0, but I'd switch the 50 Sigma for the Canon 40 f/2.8; it's cheap, sharp and, most important, ...

I hope that the otherwise innocuous bullet point near the end of the list - fixing the "memory leak" - is really the important fix I hope it is. Using Lightroom on my very, very highly specified...

I already started a new thread with my promised review of the Orlit 610 RT for Canon. See: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/59212206 You'll find my preliminary short review based on using the ...

Well, sorry to say I didn't do any further testing as yet. I've been too busy lately and too happy with the unit so far to further experiment right now. However, I'd be surprised if it turns out ...

I didn't read all the replies here, but there is one way in which using a short telephoto f/1.4 lens wide open, compared to, let's say, a wider lens at f/4.0 could actually appear more noisy; it's ...