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I did this in LR 6. Put the white balance on what seems to be bird poo and it came out 4700 and -66. Then just lowered the luminance of the reds until it looked better. IMHO the photo is ...

Besides immediate capacity, how long will a given UPS supply power? If the outages tend to be longer, it becomes more expensive and difficult to find an adequate one.

And for that, Focus Magic does a great job. It also claims to be able to recover blurry photos, to some degree, but I throw those out right away and have not tried. The fix on the anti-alias ...

Very interesting. There is indeed a lot of room in those RAW shots. Thanks for the posts. I enjoy post-processing RAW images. I've done it enough that I know what needs to be done and can do it in  ...

<<Then I'd recommend using a smart phone. Your expectations aren't realistic. Interesting. But murky. Do you mean: (1) my expectations can't be met so why not buy something that would also not be ...

Jon_T - nice Snowy Egret. The whites have good texture and nothing is blown out. The ZS50 looks better all the time.

It's a Canon SD1000 (2006 I think). It's a perfect casual camera because of its size and simplicity and its optical viewfinder. Something like the ZS50 would be a giant step up. No. We're more into ...

Yes, I'm not worried about a lack of JPG settings. I have PS and LR on my laptop for on the road post-processing, so working with RAW is not a problem. Also, I don't anticipate my wife using the ...

Absolutely, but they also take me out of my price range. This camera will only be used for blog shots and maybe small prints. I'll use *my* cameras for large prints.

Yes, it's very old. You can't set it manually. And I agree that underexposing is a good idea. However, with a jpeg you don't have nearly as much room to bring up the shadows and take down the ...

To Michael Meissner - thanks for the info about different EVFs. That will be useful. I can't take your other recommendations because this has to be a compact camera - fits in a normal purse.

Too expensive. For used/refurb I am shooting for $200 max, unless something truly wonderful comes along. Yes, it was used in the Rumpole stories, but it first appeared in a boy's adventure story by ...

To Rover220 - the Leica is way out of my price range and its Panasonic brother/clone is too ($400 is too much for this). I suspect the LF1 (?) carries a higher price tag than it should *because* ...

My wife takes well composed pictures but she uses a really old jpg-only low MP P&S because it has an optical viewfinder. We took a trip recently and a lot of her photos had exposure problems ...

Hate to say it, but if you google "photo ebook" you will get a lot of solutions.

I'm putting this here because I think Toolman said that you should wait to refill until the EMPTY warning appears. I have a Pixma ix6820. I refilled one cartridge without incident but yesterday I ...

Another possibility - if your laptop power connection is loose and is thus intermittently running on AC and then on battery, back and forth, the screen brightness settings might be different for ...

Well, I have spent time editing files in the high Andes and various tropical jungles. My laptop runs LR6.x and I don't get it out when it's raining. Now printing, that's a whole 'nother ballgame.

They should have been included with the printer driver. I can't tell you where to look on a Mac 'cause I have a PC. In case you really don't have the ICC profiles, here is one place to get them: ht ...

Indeed. It's a Eurasian Collared Dove. It's not native to North America, but like starlings, house sparrows and pigeons, it has become widespread.