Jim Cassatt

Over Christmas my four and a half year old beloved SONY RX100 VI failed me while on vacation in Cuba.  The problem, the curtain in front of the lens was jammed shut. I did a Google search on SONY ...

If you live in the Washington DC Area, I recommend Framemasters. Also make sure you get acid free mat board and acid free backer. for the latter I use acid free foam core.

My late wife suffered from dementia. In the four months before I placed her in a memory care facility, I could only go out for short periods of time to do errands.  During that period, I decided ...

I have used Wasabi and other brands for years. For the most part, they have worked well. However, I have had some issues. The batteries I used for my X-E2 and X-Pro2 swelled after a few years ...

I bought that charger along with two batteries. I loved that charger (as well as other Wasabi chargers). However, recently it has been giving me problems. Also during my recent trip to Cuba, I had ...

I have never been one for charging batteries in the camera. In fact I have an external charger for the X-T5 battery. However, I am trying to reduce baggage when I travel. I note that the X-T5 ...

Thanks for your help. I bought the camera 4.5 years ago. It has been all over the world with me. A real workhorse. However, it is long since been out of warranty.

The metal curtain that protects the  lens on my RX100-VI has jammed so that it only opens part way, thus rendering  the camera useless. Has anyone else had this problem? If so is there a fix, or do ...

I have had problems with my card in a  card reader showing up on my desktop or finder on my MAC mini. I can locate using disk utility. As noted you should turn the camera on.

Taking way too many pictures.

For some uses involving flash, I would love to to have a between the tense shutter.

I have been very happy with this lens on my XT-4. Some pictures from this afternoon.

I few months ago I purchased the Tamron 18- 300 lens since there were times when I did not want to carry around a lot of equipment while just out walking around. So far I have been quite happy ...

In Screen Setup set Preview EXP /WB IN MANUAL MODE  to off. Very useful when using flash to light the subject.

For long term storage I would suggest removing the batteries. I have had some Wasabe swell to the point that it was hard to remove them from the camera.

TMHO the equipment you need depends in part on what kind of portraits you want to take and the setting. Are you talking about natural light outdoors, available light indoors, portraits taken in a ...

Thank yo for the suggestion. I actually tried that. "External Drives" were checked, but did not show up in the Finder Sidebar.

Many thanks. Worked like a charm

I have a Mac mini running Monterey. My two external hard drives, connected via a hub, have disappeared from the side bar of Finder. They are mounted and I can access them in Lightroom. The ...

I don't know whether this will cause problems or not. By default the two systems use different file formats, Windows NTFS and MAC HFS. They are not compatible. Thus any formatting of an external ...